Pre-Conference Workshops
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Pre-Conference Workshop 1
‘Our journey to date… Conducting Research with Indigenous Australians’
Tuesday 7 May 2013, 2.00 pm - 5.00 pm (with afternoon tea)
Crowne Plaza, Adelaide
Moderator: Associate Professor Gail Garvey, Menzies School of Health Research
Cost: $80 (places are limited)
This workshop will draw on our team’s research experience in cancer with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians.
We will discuss the challenges of conducting psychosocial and behavioural research with under-researched groups, as well as the associated ethical issues. We will share our stories and our results to date on the unmet supportive care needs and health behaviours of Indigenous Australians with cancer.
This workshop will be beneficial for beginning researchers and investigators currently engaged in psychosocial and behavioural research, as well as clinicians who are interested in being involved in research with Indigenous cancer survivors. Participants will be encouraged to share their insights and strategies related to their experiences, their research ideas/developments/challenges researching psychosocial and behavioural issues with Indigenous Australians.
Other issues to be discussed:
- Recruiting Indigenous cancer patients into studies
- Non-Indigenous study staff working with Indigenous patients
- Training of community interviewers to collect data
For further information please visit the online registration or download the workshop flyer.
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Pre-Conference Workshop 2
‘Implementing and Evaluating Cancer Prevention Mass Media Campaigns’
Tuesday 7 May 2013, 2.00 pm - 5.00 pm (with afternoon tea)
Crowne Plaza, Adelaide
Moderator: Professor Melanie Wakefield, Director, Centre for Behavioural Research in Cancer, Cancer Council Victoria
Cost: $80 (places are limited)
This workshop will consider two mass media campaign case studies in order to explore some of the opportunities and challenges in campaign implementation and evaluation. This is a “practical pants” session aimed at funders, practitioners and researchers, with plenty of opportunity for questions.
Representing a relatively new campaign, the first case study will present the development, implementation and evaluation of the “LiveLighter” obesity prevention campaign in Western Australia, which aims to inform adults about the need to maintain a healthy body weight and encourages them to take steps to do so. Campaign staff from the National Heart Foundation will describe careful pre-testing and stakeholder engagement work to develop the campaign and the campaign reaction and response to date. Dr Belinda Morley from Cancer Council Victoria will present data from evaluation surveys of how WA audiences responded to the campaign, compared with those in the comparison state of Victoria.
The second case study will present on a more mature and longer term mass media campaign. Campaign staff from the Cancer Institute NSW will provide an overview of the tobacco control mass media campaigns mounted over the past 6 years in NSW. They will then describe the use of weekly continuous tracking to provide a monitoring system for campaign response and how it has been used to assist with ongoing campaign planning. Dr Sally Dunlop will also describe how the tracking survey has been used to answer broader research questions about the impact of varying campaign investment and different message types, and selected findings from the survey will be presented. The workshop will end with a panel discussion, with plenty of time for workshop participant questions.
For further information please visit the online registration or download the workshop flyer.
Or
contact the Conference Coordinator by email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
or telephone: (08) 8177 2215