Workshop 1: Fostering a supportive and collaborative peer network for early career research: an eye to the future
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| Monday, November 11, 2024 |
| 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM |
| Heritage Collections Learning Room |
Details
We’re told academia and professional life is cutthroat and highly competitive, but what if we told you it didn’t need to be, and that building a successful career is really a team sport? If you are a young professional looking to build an inclusive peer network in your workplace or institute, or a senior leader looking to support early career researchers in your team – then this workshop is for you!
Delivered by the Emerging Leaders Network and Youth Advocates from the Centre for Adolescent Health in Melbourne, this workshop aims to help create connections for future leaders by working interactively to identify 3 key actions for supporting emerging leaders in your institution.
Learning Objectives:
1. To discuss the background and funding mechanism for our Emerging Leaders Network: a peer-led professional development network.
2. To identify the needs of young researchers’ professional development in participants’ home
institution for supporting emerging leaders in adolescent health.
3. To identify 3 actions for extending, improving, or creating peer-led or peer-to-peer professional development networks to support emerging leaders in your institution.
Speaker
Ms Karly Cini
Phd Candidate And Researcher
Centre For Adolescent Health
Fostering a supportive and collaborative peer network for early career researchers: an eye to the future
12:00 PM - 1:15 PMBiography
Karly is a PhD candidate at the University of Melbourne and Murdoch Children's Research Institute; supported by a National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) postgraduate scholarship and the Driving Global Investment in Adolescent Health CRE. Karly’s research focuses on the epidemiology of non-communicable diseases and their risk factors in adolescents worldwide.
Ms Chloe Hunter
Project Assistant
Murdoch Children's Research Institute
Fostering a supportive and collaborative peer network for early career researchers: an eye to the future
12:00 PM - 1:15 PMBiography
Chloe is a recent master's graduate of public health and a project assistant within the Centre for Adolescent Health.
Mr Jackson Newberry-dupe
Phd Candidate
University of Melbourne
Fostering a supportive and collaborative peer network for early career researchers: an eye to the future
12:00 PM - 1:15 PMBiography
Jackson is a PhD candidate at the University of Melbourne and Murdoch Children's Research Institute, supported by a National Suicide Prevention Fund postgraduate scholarship. His research examines the demographic, psychosocial and clinical profile of young Australians presenting to Australian Emergency Departments for self-harm, suicidal ideation, and mental health conditions.
Diandra Priambodo
Youth Advocate and Junior Doctor
Centre for Adolescent Health, The Royal Children’s Hospital and Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Melbourne
Fostering a supportive and collaborative peer network for early career researchers: an eye to the future
12:00 PM - 1:15 PMBiography
Diandra is a youth advocate from Indonesia with a major interest in adolescent health and wellbeing. She engages in multiple adolescent health advocacy roles, including at the Centre of Research Excellence (CRE) in Driving Global Investment in Adolescent Health where she is part of an expert team providing youth perspective to the CRE.
Dr Ellie Robson
Research Officer
Murdoch Childrens Research Institute
Fostering a supportive and collaborative peer network for early career researchers: an eye to the future
12:00 PM - 1:15 PMBiography
Ellie Robson is an early-career post-doctoral researcher from the United Kingdom (UK) working on the Child to Adult Transition Study (CATS) within the CAH at MCRI. Ellie’s research focuses on lifecourse epidemiology, specifically adolescent adolescent mental health and wellbeing.
Professor Susan Sawyer
Director
RCH Centre for Adolescent Healthh
Fostering a supportive and collaborative peer network for early career researchers: an eye to the future
12:00 PM - 1:15 PMBiography
Professor Susan Sawyer AM is Director of the Centre for Adolescent at the Royal Children’s Hospital. She holds the Geoff and Helen Handbury Chair of Adolescent Health within the Department of Paediatrics at the University of Melbourne and is a group leader for adolescent health research at MCRI.
