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Research Assistant needed to help organize ISSBD AHDA Workshop
The Australasian Human Development Association (AHDA) is a multidisciplinary, non-profit association formed in the early 1980s. The goals of the Association are to foster and promote research on human development at all stages of the lifespan, including prenatal development, infancy and childhood, adolescence and adulthood. The International Society for the Study of Behavioural Development (ISSBD) promotes scientific research of human development throughout the life span. The two organisations are collaborating to bring about a workshop on human development in the context of movement within and across national boundaries, taking place in Adelaide on 4-5 July 2009.
The goals of the workshop are to:
• Draw together established and early-career researchers from across the region with an interest in the developmental implications of the different types of movement;
• provide opportunities for learning about theoretical, empirical and
methodological issues relating to this topic, through presentations from experts in the field;
• provide opportunities for early career researchers to present their
research and receive feedback and guidance on it, through interactive poster sessions;
• provide opportunities for researchers to consider the
implications of the research literature for policy and practice, and to learn techniques
of knowledge exchange and knowledge brokering to help ensure research 'makes a difference' in the real world;
• provide a stimulus for researchers with common interests in population movement to consider how their research can be presented most effectively to the broader research community at the ISSBD conference in 2010.The organisers are seeking a research assistant/workshop organiser to spend approximately 160 hours over the next 2 months conducting the following tasks:
• Setting up the advisory committee
• Preparing a program outline• Preparing the call for applications
• Identifying potential speakers and inviting them
• Identifying people and institutions in the Asia-Pacific region to publicise the workshop
If you are interested in this position, please email your expression of interest and CV to Professor Ann Sanson annvs@unimelb.edu.au.
