{"id":1138,"date":"2015-11-02T09:00:17","date_gmt":"2015-11-01T23:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/?p=1138"},"modified":"2015-10-29T08:22:48","modified_gmt":"2015-10-28T22:22:48","slug":"upcoming-symposium-the-prevention-of-violence-against-children-research-policy-and-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/2015\/11\/02\/upcoming-symposium-the-prevention-of-violence-against-children-research-policy-and-practice\/","title":{"rendered":"Reminder for Upcoming Symposium: &#8220;The Prevention of Violence Against Children: Research, Policy and Practice&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\">\u00a0 \u00a0 <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cyrc.qut.edu.au\/graphics\/symposium-banner.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"458\" height=\"261\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The Children and Youth Research Centre (CYRC) are hosting a symposium on <em>The Prevention of Violence Against Children: Research, Policy and Practice\u00a0<\/em>Symposium\u00a0from 17- 18 November, 2015.\u00a0The Symposium will be held\u00a0at QUT\u2019s Gardens Theatre Foyer, Gardens Point Campus, Brisbane, Australia.\u00a0<!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>About the Symposium<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The Symposium aims to promote and facilitate communication, discussion and collaboration in working towards effective change in the prevention of violence against children. It provides an opportunity for researchers, policy makers, professionals and community organisations from Australia and internationally to come together and capitalise on the benefits that can be gained from sharing diverse viewpoints and experiences.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The Symposium offers a three-pronged approach across <em>research, policy and practice<\/em> to examine and discuss critical issues concerned with<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\">Violence against children and its prevention, drawing on both global and local perspectives;<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\">Effective prevention systems and policies; and,<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\">Innovations in prevention and intervention from interdisciplinary and cross-sector standpoints.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Plenary speakers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ms Megan Mitchell &#8211; opening address<br \/>\n<em>National Children\u2019s Commissioner, Australian Human Rights Commission<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Professor Fiona Arney &#8211; plenary speaker<br \/>\n<em>Director, Australian Centre for Child Protection, University of South Australia<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Aunty Denise Proud &#8211; plenary speaker<br \/>\n<em>Indigenous Educator and Artist<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Additional speakers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Professor Michael Dunne &#8211; panel chair<br \/>\n<em>Queensland University of Technology<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Ms Jennifer Evans<br \/>\n<em>National Project Lead Child Protection, Australian and International Programs, Australian Red Cross<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Dr Katrina Lines<br \/>\n<em>Executive Director of Programs, Research and Education, Act for Kids<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Professor Ben Mathews<br \/>\n<em>Queensland University of Technology<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Dr Rosana Norman<br \/>\n<em>Queensland University of Technology<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Ms Jan Owen AM &#8211; panel chair<br \/>\n<em>Chief Executive Officer, Foundation for Young Australians<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Ms Lauren Rumble<br \/>\n<em>Chief, Child Protection, UNICEF Indonesia<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Ms Sonia Thompson<br \/>\n<em>BoysTown<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Dr Adam Tomison<br \/>\n<em>Former Director, Australian Institute of Criminology<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Associate Professor Kerryann Walsh &#8211; panel chair<br \/>\n<em>Queensland University of Technology<\/em><\/p>\n<p>For more information and to register for the event,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cyrc.qut.edu.au\/about\/symposium.jsp\" target=\"_blank\"> click here.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 The Children and Youth Research Centre (CYRC) are hosting a symposium on The Prevention of Violence Against Children: Research, Policy and Practice\u00a0Symposium\u00a0from 17- 18 November, 2015.\u00a0The Symposium will be held\u00a0at QUT\u2019s Gardens Theatre Foyer, Gardens Point Campus, Brisbane, Australia.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":372,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8465,11545,11547,11326,9769],"class_list":{"0":"post-1138","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"tag-children","8":"tag-cyrc","9":"tag-qutevents","10":"tag-symposium","11":"tag-violence"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/372"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1138"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1205,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138\/revisions\/1205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}