Networking Breakfasts will run simultaneously, and are an additional opportunity to the conference. Numbers are limited. Bookings can be made at the same time as registering for the main conference days, or separately.
Annabel Astbury
Thinking about the news. In 2018, the ABC launched a media literacy literacy initiative “Navigating the News” in response to the need of teachers, students (and indeed, the general public) for tools to help sort fact from fake and to understand how technology has an impact on the way news and information is consumed and understood. Annabel will discuss the tools and research around news literacy that the ABC has produced and the impact that these could have upon cultures of thinking in schools around Australia.
Annabel is Head of ABC Education and a leader and a voice for clients and audiences in schools education in Australia. She continues to lead and transform educational professional development, publishing, not for profit and broadcasting industries as they relate to Australian education. Specialties: Leadership and Management, project direction and strategy, digital production, content strategy and management, social media strategy, writing and leading projects that have high social impact.
Prof Karin Leder
Karin is a medical doctor who has undertaken specialist training in infectious diseases and in public health. She has worked in Australia and in the USA. She has a clinical role working as an infectious disease physician at the Royal Melbourne Hospital, and also works as an academic researcher at Monash University.
Her research spans a range of topics, but she has two main areas of interest: i) firstly, she performs studies to determine the health impacts of introducing interventions to improve water-and-sanitation management in resource poor settings; ii) secondly, she is a leading international researcher examining spread of infections across international borders by travellers, immigrants and refugees. Karin teaches and mentors undergraduate and postgraduate students, writes for textbooks and journals, applies for and reviews research grants, and has national and international advisory roles.