2016 SRA-ANZ Annual meeting in Adelaide Australia: Engaging Risk
From November 22 to 25, SRA-ANZ members and risk aficionados were “Engaging Risk” at the 2016 annual meeting at Central Queensland University’s Appleton Institute in Adelaide, Australia.
Prior to the conference Anca Hanea ran a workshop exploring some of the ways to quantify uncertainty when using expert opinion. The day concluded with welcome drinks and the launch of Robert Sams’ book, Social Sensemaking. The event provided an opportunity for members to discuss their research and ideas while enjoying some very nice Australian and New Zealand wine.
Our first keynote speaker, David Swain, asked us to consider the growing social divide between farmers and consumers and the role this is playing in the maintenance of food security. We then moved onto a series of talks in the area of environmental risk, covering issues associated with the regulation of GM modified plants, governance and public engagement and confirmation bias in conservation decision-making. After a short break for lunch we were back with a focus on disease.
From November 22 to 25, SRA-ANZ members and risk aficionados were “Engaging Risk” at the 2016 annual meeting at Central Queensland University’s Appleton Institute in Adelaide, Australia.
Prior to the conference Anca Hanea ran a workshop exploring some of the ways to quantify uncertainty when using expert opinion. The day concluded with welcome drinks and the launch of Robert Sams’ book, Social Sensemaking. The event provided an opportunity for members to discuss their research and ideas while enjoying some very nice Australian and New Zealand wine.
Our first keynote speaker, David Swain, asked us to consider the growing social divide between farmers and consumers and the role this is playing in the maintenance of food security. We then moved onto a series of talks in the area of environmental risk, covering issues associated with the regulation of GM modified plants, governance and public engagement and confirmation bias in conservation decision-making. After a short break for lunch we were back with a focus on disease.
The session began with our second keynote by Nick Golding who explained how risk mapping could be used to highlight risk from emerging pathogens such as avian influenza, Ebola and Zika. We then moved onto animal disease, beginning with an assessment of avian influenza risk for Australian commercial chicken producers and concluding with a talk about horses owners’ attitudes and practises in response to the zoonotic Hendra virus.
The final session of the day moved the focus to workplace and occupational risk. We covered a diverse range of topics including the rich decision-making context surrounding high-risk professions, risk associated with equine-assisted psychotherapy and risk profiling in small to medium sized businesses. The presentations finished with a talk from SRA president James Lambert on resilience analytics. After a quick freshen up it was off to the conference dinner and more opportunity to socialise and share ideas.
Day two of the meeting began with a Stewart Lockie’s keynote address “Thinking the Unthinkable: Alien Invasion and Time Travel”. The talk challenged us to consider whether we had reached a state of organised ignorance on matters such as climate change. After a quick break to sip coffee and ponder the question we were back to hear about how people make sense of risk. The session covered why parents are choosing not to vaccinate their children, the risks people take while evacuating animals, what to do when communities don’t believe your risk assessment and integrated research around disaster risk.
After a lunch break we continued on the theme of people. First we heard preliminary results from a study exploring sleep restriction impairs glucose metabolism. Next, we learnt that when it comes to how well we self-rate driving ability, sleep duration and time of day matter. This was followed by a talk presenting results of a qualitative research exploring how nurses make decisions around safety and patient care and the final talk for the session discussed the role of the look-out during repairs to railway tracks. The final session for the conference was a risk potpourri which included what owners are willing to sacrifice for the safety of their animals in disasters, how to manage dingo-human interaction on Fraser Island and food security in an interconnected world. We then closed the day with an award to Angela Scott for the best student presentation.
However, the fun was not over with people staying on to attend post-conference workshops. The morning session was on risk psychology and social sensemaking with Robert Sams. In the afternoon we focused on career development with Kate Ames’ “Putting on your Public Face: Social Media for early and mid-career researchers” and Lynette Browning’s “Research careers and track records: Success factors for building your research career.”
2016 SRA-ANZ Annual meeting in Adelaide Australia: Engaging Risk
From November 22 to 25, SRA-ANZ members and risk aficionados were “Engaging Risk” at the 2016 annual meeting at Central Queensland University’s Appleton Institute in Adelaide, Australia.
Prior to the conference Anca Hanea ran a workshop exploring some of the ways to quantify uncertainty when using expert opinion. The day concluded with welcome drinks and the launch of Robert Sams’ book, Social Sensemaking. The event provided an opportunity for members to discuss their research and ideas while enjoying some very nice Australian and New Zealand wine.
Our first keynote speaker, David Swain, asked us to consider the growing social divide between farmers and consumers and the role this is playing in the maintenance of food security. We then moved onto a series of talks in the area of environmental risk, covering issues associated with the regulation of GM modified plants, governance and public engagement and confirmation bias in conservation decision-making. After a short break for lunch we were back with a focus on disease.
The session began with our second keynote by Nick Golding who explained how risk mapping could be used to highlight risk from emerging pathogens such as avian influenza, Ebola and Zika. We then moved onto animal disease, beginning with an assessment of avian influenza risk for Australian commercial chicken producers and concluding with a talk about horses owners’ attitudes and practises in response to the zoonotic Hendra virus.
The final session of the day moved the focus to workplace and occupational risk. We covered a diverse range of topics including the rich decision-making context surrounding high-risk professions, risk associated with equine-assisted psychotherapy and risk profiling in small to medium sized businesses. The presentations finished with a talk from SRA president James Lambert on resilience analytics. After a quick freshen up it was off to the conference dinner and more opportunity to socialise and share ideas.
Day two of the meeting began with a Stewart Lockie’s keynote address “Thinking the Unthinkable: Alien Invasion and Time Travel”. The talk challenged us to consider whether we had reached a state of organised ignorance on matters such as climate change. After a quick break to sip coffee and ponder the question we were back to hear about how people make sense of risk. The session covered why parents are choosing not to vaccinate their children, the risks people take while evacuating animals, what to do when communities don’t believe your risk assessment and integrated research around disaster risk.
After a lunch break we continued on the theme of people. First we heard preliminary results from a study exploring sleep restriction impairs glucose metabolism. Next, we learnt that when it comes to how well we self-rate driving ability, sleep duration and time of day matter. This was followed by a talk presenting results of a qualitative research exploring how nurses make decisions around safety and patient care and the final talk for the session discussed the role of the look-out during repairs to railway tracks. The final session for the conference was a risk potpourri which included what owners are willing to sacrifice for the safety of their animals in disasters, how to manage dingo-human interaction on Fraser Island and food security in an interconnected world. We then closed the day with an award to Angela Scott for the best student presentation.
However, the fun was not over with people staying on to attend post-conference workshops. The morning session was on risk psychology and social sensemaking with Robert Sams. In the afternoon we focused on career development with Kate Ames’ “Putting on your Public Face: Social Media for early and mid-career researchers” and Lynette Browning’s “Research careers and track records: Success factors for building your research career.”
The final session of the day moved the focus to workplace and occupational risk. We covered a diverse range of topics including the rich decision-making context surrounding high-risk professions, risk associated with equine-assisted psychotherapy and risk profiling in small to medium sized businesses. The presentations finished with a talk from SRA president James Lambert on resilience analytics. After a quick freshen up it was off to the conference dinner and more opportunity to socialise and share ideas.
Day two of the meeting began with a Stewart Lockie’s keynote address “Thinking the Unthinkable: Alien Invasion and Time Travel”. The talk challenged us to consider whether we had reached a state of organised ignorance on matters such as climate change. After a quick break to sip coffee and ponder the question we were back to hear about how people make sense of risk. The session covered why parents are choosing not to vaccinate their children, the risks people take while evacuating animals, what to do when communities don’t believe your risk assessment and integrated research around disaster risk.
After a lunch break we continued on the theme of people. First we heard preliminary results from a study exploring sleep restriction impairs glucose metabolism. Next, we learnt that when it comes to how well we self-rate driving ability, sleep duration and time of day matter. This was followed by a talk presenting results of a qualitative research exploring how nurses make decisions around safety and patient care and the final talk for the session discussed the role of the look-out during repairs to railway tracks. The final session for the conference was a risk potpourri which included what owners are willing to sacrifice for the safety of their animals in disasters, how to manage dingo-human interaction on Fraser Island and food security in an interconnected world. We then closed the day with an award to Angela Scott for the best student presentation.
However, the fun was not over with people staying on to attend post-conference workshops. The morning session was on risk psychology and social sensemaking with Robert Sams. In the afternoon we focused on career development with Kate Ames’ “Putting on your Public Face: Social Media for early and mid-career researchers” and Lynette Browning’s “Research careers and track records: Success factors for building your research career.”
2016 SRA-ANZ Annual meeting in Adelaide Australia: Engaging Risk
From November 22 to 25, SRA-ANZ members and risk aficionados were “Engaging Risk” at the 2016 annual meeting at Central Queensland University’s Appleton Institute in Adelaide, Australia.
Prior to the conference Anca Hanea ran a workshop exploring some of the ways to quantify uncertainty when using expert opinion. The day concluded with welcome drinks and the launch of Robert Sams’ book, Social Sensemaking. The event provided an opportunity for members to discuss their research and ideas while enjoying some very nice Australian and New Zealand wine.
Our first keynote speaker, David Swain, asked us to consider the growing social divide between farmers and consumers and the role this is playing in the maintenance of food security. We then moved onto a series of talks in the area of environmental risk, covering issues associated with the regulation of GM modified plants, governance and public engagement and confirmation bias in conservation decision-making. After a short break for lunch we were back with a focus on disease.
The session began with our second keynote by Nick Golding who explained how risk mapping could be used to highlight risk from emerging pathogens such as avian influenza, Ebola and Zika. We then moved onto animal disease, beginning with an assessment of avian influenza risk for Australian commercial chicken producers and concluding with a talk about horses owners’ attitudes and practises in response to the zoonotic Hendra virus.
The final session of the day moved the focus to workplace and occupational risk. We covered a diverse range of topics including the rich decision-making context surrounding high-risk professions, risk associated with equine-assisted psychotherapy and risk profiling in small to medium sized businesses. The presentations finished with a talk from SRA president James Lambert on resilience analytics. After a quick freshen up it was off to the conference dinner and more opportunity to socialise and share ideas.
Day two of the meeting began with a Stewart Lockie’s keynote address “Thinking the Unthinkable: Alien Invasion and Time Travel”. The talk challenged us to consider whether we had reached a state of organised ignorance on matters such as climate change. After a quick break to sip coffee and ponder the question we were back to hear about how people make sense of risk. The session covered why parents are choosing not to vaccinate their children, the risks people take while evacuating animals, what to do when communities don’t believe your risk assessment and integrated research around disaster risk.
After a lunch break we continued on the theme of people. First we heard preliminary results from a study exploring sleep restriction impairs glucose metabolism. Next, we learnt that when it comes to how well we self-rate driving ability, sleep duration and time of day matter. This was followed by a talk presenting results of a qualitative research exploring how nurses make decisions around safety and patient care and the final talk for the session discussed the role of the look-out during repairs to railway tracks. The final session for the conference was a risk potpourri which included what owners are willing to sacrifice for the safety of their animals in disasters, how to manage dingo-human interaction on Fraser Island and food security in an interconnected world. We then closed the day with an award to Angela Scott for the best student presentation.
However, the fun was not over with people staying on to attend post-conference workshops. The morning session was on risk psychology and social sensemaking with Robert Sams. In the afternoon we focused on career development with Kate Ames’ “Putting on your Public Face: Social Media for early and mid-career researchers” and Lynette Browning’s “Research careers and track records: Success factors for building your research career.”
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