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Call for  Abstracts opens
Monday 25 July 2022

Registrations Open
Monday 22 August 2022

Call for Abstracts closes
Tuesday 6 September 2022

Notification of Acceptance
Tuesday 13 September 2022

Program 
Now Available

Early Bird Registration Closes
Tuesday 25 October 2022

26th ANZSSA Conference
Tuesday 6-Thursday 8 December 2022

 

Enquiries

Association Professionals
Conference Managers
PO Box 7345
Beaumaris VIC 3193
E: conference@anzssa 
T: 03 9586 6088

 

Program

 

The theme of this year's conference is: Student Engagements & Success – Towards 2030. 

At the 2021 conference, we focused on developing roadmaps to recovery and taking the learnings from the past two years to reshape the ways we deliver our services to students in the new environment. This year’s conference will continue the theme of looking forward and adapting ways of working, responding to and servicing the needs of our students to enable their ongoing engagement and success as we move through the next decade.

The sub-themes for the event are:

• Being Prepared – staying ready and prepared for any eventuality
• Focusing Further Forward – making lasting and sustainable impacts on students and our institutions
• Student and Staff Wellbeing – providing holistic practices and support to enable self-care and care for others.
• Together in a Good Way – fostering relationships, partnerships, and connections for impactful change
• Enabling Student Engagement and Connection – physical, digital and hybrid interactions

 

26th ANZSSA Conference Program
Program is subject to change. All times advertised are Australian Eastern Daylight Savings Time (AEDT)
Tuesday 6 December 2022
11.00am-11.15am		Conference Open and Acknowledgement of Country
		Michelle Rogers
		Director (Professional Development), Australian and New Zealand Student Services Association
11.15am-11.30am		President's Welcome
		Stephanie Taylor
		President, Australian and New Zealand Student Services Association
		Facilitator: Michelle Rogers, Director (Professional Development), Australian and New Zealand Student Services Association
11.30am-12.20pm		Opening Keynote
		Professor Braden Hill - Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Students, Equity and Indigenous) - Edith Cowan University
		“Just deliver education, not social justice”: Students and universities in the context of accelerating social change
		Facilitator: Michelle Rogers, Director (Professional Development), Australian and New Zealand Student Services Association
		Opening Keynote Presentation kindly sponsored by
12.20pm-12.30pm		Break
		Concurrent Session One
12.30pm-1.30pm		Stream 1 - Student and Staff Wellbeing – providing holistic practices and support to enable self-care and care for others Facilitator - Joanna Thyer			Stream 2 - Focusing Further Forward – making lasting and sustainable impacts on students and our institutions Facilitator - Joanne Wilkins			Stream 3 - Together in a Good Way – fostering relationships, partnerships, and connections for impactful change Facilitator - Paula Convery
12.30pm-1.00pm		Bright Side - Tupuranga Ake: fostering personal growth and connection for AUT students Rebecca Shrigley & Shaun Pulman Auckland University of Technology			SCANA: Supporting students’ academic language development at The University Of Sydney Alexandra Garcia The University Of Sydney
1.00pm-1.30pm		Use of a specialist case management service to provide support to students in a university setting Courtney Walshe & Talia Vescio La Trobe University			Designing a university counselling service that is fit for purpose for 2022 and beyond Jeremy Cass  & Laura Mulherin RMIT University			Tapalti Ningina Mapali Nayri (together in a good way) Relationships, Partnerships, Connections: collaborative, University-wide approach to supporting the transition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students at the University Of Tasmania Courtney Fechner University Of Tasmania
1.30pm-1.45pm		Break
		Concurrent Session Two
1.45pm-2.15pm		Stream 1 - Student and Staff Wellbeing – providing holistic practices and support to enable self-care and care for others Facilitator - Caroline Rueckert			Stream 2 - Focusing Further Forward – making lasting and sustainable impacts on students and our institutions Facilitator - Dene Cicci			Stream 3 - Together in a Good Way – fostering relationships, partnerships, and connections for impactful change Facilitator - Joanna Thyer
1.45pm-2.15pm		Reimagining the personalised student experience at Bond University Kerry Valentine & Louise Batchelor Bond University			ANZSSA Heads Of Counselling Services (HOCS) -  Benchmarking Survey Report Orania Tokatlidis & Jeremy Cass			First Year Students: Using human-centred design to understand engagement Anna Greenhow Victoria University of Wellington
2.15pm-2.50pm		Panel Discussion Topic: Towards 2030 - A Gobal Perspective
		Panel Facilitator: Stephanie Taylor President, Australian and New Zealand Student Services Association
		Lisa Bardill Moscaritolo Executive Director of Student Experience American University of Sharjah - United Arab Emirates Secretary-General -  International Association of Student Affairs & Services (IASAS)			Jennifer Hamilton Executive Director Canadian Association of College and University Student Services			Patty Hambler Director - Studen Affairs and Services Douglas College Vancouver Canada
2.50pm-3.00pm		End of Day One Summary and Close
		Stephanie Taylor
		President, Australian and New Zealand Student Services Association
		Facilitator: Michelle Rogers, Director (Professional Development), Australian and New Zealand Student Services Association
3.00pm-3.30pm		ANZSSA Strategy Launch
		Stephanie Taylor
		President, Australian and New Zealand Student Services Association
Wednesday 7 December 2022
11.00am-11.15am		Conference Welcome - Day Two
		Stuart Martin
		Conference Convenor, Australian and New Zealand Student Services Association
11.15am-12.00pm		Keynote Speaker
		Paora Ammunson - Deputy Chief Executive, Learner Success Ōritetanga Directorate - Tertiary Education Commission
		"A Whole of Organisation Approach to Equity"
		Facilitator: Stuart Martin, Conference Convenor, Australian and New Zealand Student Services Association
		Keynote Presentation kindly sponsored by
12.00pm-12.10pm		Break
		Concurrent Session Three
12.10pm-1.10pm		Stream 1 - Enabling Student Engagement and Connection – physical, digital and hybrid interactions Facilitator - Dene Cicci			Stream 2 - Student and Staff Wellbeing – providing holistic practices and support to enable self-care and care for others Facilitator - Kim Turudia			Stream 3 - Focusing Further Forward – making lasting and sustainable impacts on students and our institutions Facilitator - Paula Convery
12.10pm-12.40pm		Survive and Thrive: a peer mentoring scheme to enable students' engagement in their learning during the unprecedented times Of COVID19 Cindy Wee & Margi Grey Unitec Institute of Technology			How caring for our health services staff positively impacts the wellbeing of our students and the broader university community Susan Kotwas & Rosemary Bond Monash University			Responding to Demand: A case study of an innovative group therapy pilot program for LGBTIQ+ university students Rebecca Gomo & Raph J La Trobe University
12.40pm-1.10pm		Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths support for learning at the Queensland University of Technology: an integrated partnership approach Ian Lightbody Queensland University of Technology			Mindfulness-based group interventions in the university context: Considerations for digital delivery  Dr Kate Harman The University of Melbourne			Inclusion in Action: A whole-of-institution approach to student success Fiona Navin & Michelle Rogers Edith Cowan University
1.10pm-1.40pm		Break
		Concurrent Session Four
1.40pm-2.10pm		Stream 1 - Together in a Good Way – fostering relationships, partnerships, and connections for impactful change Facilitator - Joanne Wilkins			Stream 2 - Student and Staff Wellbeing – providing holistic practices and support to enable self-care and care for others Facilitator - Orania Tokatlidis			Stream 3 - Focusing Further Forward – making lasting and sustainable impacts on students and our institutions Facilitator - Paula Convery
1.40pm-2.10pm		Spaced Out: who's included and excluded from our student spaces Louis Ndagjimana & Jace Blunden University of Newcastle			The value of a university health service now and into the future: Looking towards 2030 Kim Turudia & Andrew Marks Monash University			What should we change when rethinking student support? Dr Khalid Bakhshov Massey Univserity
2.10pm-2.20pm		Break
		Concurrent Session Five
2.20pm-2.50pm		Stream 1 - Together in a Good Way – fostering relationships, partnerships, and connections for impactful change Facilitator - Orania Tokatlidis			Stream 2 - Student and Staff Wellbeing – providing holistic practices and support to enable self-care and care for others Facilitator - Caroline Rueckert			Stream 3 - Focusing Further Forward – making lasting and sustainable impacts on students and our institutions Facilitator - Dene Cicci
2.20pm-2.50pm		Re-imagining student support services in Higher Education: Partnering within an interconnected university ecology of learning Dr Jane Skalicky University of Tasmania			From awareness to action: Supporting trans, gender diverse and non-binary students and staff in the tertiary sector Stevie Lane Edith Cowan University			Preparing students for careers of the future: Embedding innovative and creative technologies into curriculum Dr Jesse Xu The University of Sydney Library
2.50pm-3.00pm		End of Day Two Summary and Close
		Stephanie Taylor
		President, Australian and New Zealand Student Services Association
		Facilitator: Stuart Martin, Conference Convenor, Australian and New Zealand Student Services Association
Thursday 8 December 2022
11.00am-11.15am		Conference Opening - Day Three
		Stuart Martin
		Conference Convenor, Australian and New Zealand Student Services Association
11.15am-12.00pm		Keynote Speaker
		Tai Peseta, Samuel Suresh, Shivani Suresh, Lilly-Rose Saliba, Tamima Rahman, Jen Alford, and Daisy Plzak - 21C Transforming Curriculum Student-Staff Partnership team - Western Sydney University
		"Student-Staff Partnership as a place of radical possibility: troubling the call for ‘impact and ‘success’ "
		Facilitator: Stuart Martin, Conference Convenor, Australian and New Zealand Student Services Association
12.00pm-12.10pm		Break
		Concurrent Session Six
12.10pm-1.10pm		Stream 1 - Focusing Further Forward – making lasting and sustainable impacts on students and our institutions Facilitator - Paula Convery			Stream 2 - Together in a Good Way – fostering relationships, partnerships, and connections for impactful change Facilitator - Joanne Wilkins			Stream 3 - Student and Staff Wellbeing – providing holistic practices and support to enable self-care and care for others Facilitator - Kim Turudia
12.10pm-12.40pm		Ka Mua, Ka Muri (looking back to move forward): Cultural support for kaimahi/tauira (teachers/students) as whole persons in the educational system Hua Dai Unitec Institute of Technology			The La Trobe University Neurodiversity Project: Towards a minority group model of neurodiversity Beth Radulski La Trobe University			Students as colleagues and other innovative ways to bring a student mental health plan to life Margaret Theologou Victoria University
12.40pm-1.10pm		Online mental health training program for student peer leaders Dr Bridget Moller and Orania Tokatlidis The University of Melbourne			Working with students as partners to reignite engagement and social connectedness Dr Lydia Dutcher, Nikita Papastamatis & Dr Chau Le The University of Sydney			An investigation into the sustainable wellbeing and performance changes students gain through a peer support interactive self-coaching program Dr Jena Buchan Griffith University
1.10pm-1.40pm		Break
		Concurrent Session Seven
1.40pm-2.10pm		Stream 1 - Focusing Further Forward – making lasting and sustainable impacts on students and our institutions Facilitator - Joanne Wilkins			Stream 2 - Together in a Good Way – fostering relationships, partnerships, and connections for impactful change Facilitator - Paula Convery			Stream 3 - Widening the impact and reach of your practice, JANZSSA Editiorial Board Facilitator - Caroline Rueckert
1.40pm-2.10pm		It takes a village (of people prepared to make a difference) Rose Molina, Janina Good & Emily Stankaitis University of Canterbury			The student voice guiding impactful change In Edith Cowan University's whole-of-institution approach to mental health Susan Edgar Edith Cowan University			This session will provide attendees with an opportunity to learn more about how they can grow the impact and reach of their practice through JANZSSA. Come and meet members of the JANZSSA Editorial Board and learn firsthand about some of the exciting plans for the journal moving into 2023. First time authors are especially welcome to attend!
2.10pm-2.50pm		Panel Discussion Topic: Students as Partners
		Panel Facilitator: Dr Jane Skalicky Director (Student Retention and Success), University of Tasmania
		Stacey Lowe and Sherry Sherry Queensland University of Technology			Christy Macnish and Natalie Lung University of Sunshine Coast			Janine Dean Massey University
2.50pm-3.00pm		26th ANZSSA Conference Close
		Stephanie Taylor
		President, Australian and New Zealand Student Services Association
		Facilitator: Stuart Martin, Conference Convenor, Australian and New Zealand Student Services Association
Poster Presentations
Back on academic track (BOAT) - All Aboard!  Nathan Seng & Heather Harmer Griffith University
New Resilience for the New Normal: online students’ early strategies for course persistence Kate Graham CQUniversity
Enabling student and staff engagement through purposeful communities Stephanie Taylor University of Tasmania
Providing effective written feedback on tertiary students’ academic writing to better engage and connect students Dr Huan Zhao Massey University
A difficult tightrope to walk: An exploration of therapists’ experiences of working with suicidal students In Higher Education Dr Sonia Kalsi Griffith University
The Experience of Students’, who do not hold an Undergraduate Degree, of Postgraduate Education Julie Edwards James Cook University
Surveying student and staff mental wellbeing at RMIT: Multi-level measures for longitudinal tracking Lachlan Kent RMIT University