Category: Professional development

Incorporating statistics and evaluation into your safety campaigns.

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The importance of including evaluation as a part of your planning when undertaking a safety promotion or injury prevention campaign was one of the key points made by evaluation expert Anthony Morgan during a VSCN-hosted webinar.

Mr Morgan is the Australian Institute of Criminology’s Research Manager for the Crime Prevention and Evaluation Research program and joined Fiona Dowsley, the Victorian Crime Statistics Agency’s Chief Statistician on the hour-long webinar.

Places still available for today’s webinar at high noon

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You can still register to take part in today’s webinar on statistics and evaluation, to be held at noon with experts Anthony Morgan from the Australian Institute of Criminology and Fiona Dowsley from Crime Statistics Agency Victoria.

Just before noon, click on this link.

More time to enter injury prevention abstracts

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The deadline for abstract submission for 12th World Conference on Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion, Safety 2016 has been extended until 30th of November 2015. The conference offers a great opportunity for hundreds of researchers, specialists and agents to introduce their research and work.

Last chance to register for data and evaluation webinar

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Time is running out to register for tomorrow’s free webinar on how to incorporate data and evaluation into your safety promotion and injury prevention campaigns, utilising the experience and knowledge of experts Anthony Morgan and Fiona Dowsley. Anthony is the Australian Institute of Criminology’s Research Manager for the Crime Prevention and Evaluation Research program and his … Continued

UV and Skin Cancer Prevention

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Cancer Council Victoria will host the 3rd International UV and Skin Cancer Prevention Conference in Melbourne from December 7 to 11.

The conference will attract behavioural and epidemiological researchers, clinicians, health promotion and education professionals from around the world, all of whom will have a strong interest in population-based approaches to skin cancer prevention and vitamin D.

Intelligent transport systems coming to Melbourne

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Check out this YouTube video of ITA Australia’s 23rd World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems, which is to be held in Melbourne from 10 – 14 October 2016.

Australia is at the forefront of development and deployment of ITS technologies in many fields. Our population is clustered in big cities with large urban areas where ITS technology such as managed motorways and free flow tolling are being leveraged to maintain the mobility of our growing cities.

Long transport distances across our vast country encourage innovation and adoption of technology across our heavy vehicle fleet to enhance safety and efficiency. Australia has a strong and innovative mining sector that has embraced ITS technology such as driverless trains and driverless vehicles to improve efficiency and safety in tough economic conditions.

Creating impactful social media safety campaigns – the workshop

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VSCN’s Social Media workshop, held on October 1, was a resounding success with all attendees reporting they were ‘satisfied’ or ‘very satisfied’ with the content, presentation style and value for money it entailed.

The presentation, by social media expert Row Murray of Kenobi Digital, gave an overview of the social space in 2015 before launching into specifics, tailored to those working in injury prevention and safety promotion. Row talked attendees through setting up an Instagram account and got them posting straight away with a prize given to the best post of the morning.

Symposium to tackle challenges of keeping children safe

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The Centre for Excellence in Child and Family Welfare is holding its 5th Annual Sector Research Symposium with the key themes:
•Child Safety: Beyond Inquiry – How can we keep children and young people safe?
•Educational Outcomes for Vulnerable Children – Our challenges and opportunities for the next decade
•Research, Evidence and Practice of Working with Vulnerable Families in Australia
•The Voice of Young People, Children, Parents & Carers in Research, Policy and Service Delivery

Call for abstracts – Safety World Conference 2016

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Abstracts are now being called for presentations at the 2016 World Safety Conference, which will be held in Tampere, Finland, from 18 – 21 September 2016.

The 12th World Conference on Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion – Safety 2016 – will be held from 18-21 September 2016 in Tampere, Finland.

Hosted by the Finnish National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL) and co-sponsored by WHO, Safety 2016 addresses a broad range of violence and injury prevention topics, including emerging issues in the field.