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EMERGE 2007 Conference - 'Valuing and Investing in People' - FRESH, PRAGMATIC, EVIDENCED BASED IDEAS AND PROPOSALS

EMERGE 2007 BENEFITS
EMERGE 2007 KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
EMERGE 2007 PRESENTATIONS
EMERGE 2007 FACILITATORS
EMERGE 2007 INVITED REVIEWERS

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Welcome

Eidos Institute, the universities in Queensland and the Queensland Government wish you a warm welcome to Eidos EMERGE 2007, a conference for early career researchers. Eidos EMERGE 2007 provides an exceptional opportunity to combine high quality learning with unforgettable networking experiences in Brisbane, the Capital of Queensland.

To make sure Eidos EMERGE 2007 conference would be a memorable one, we asked the Queensland university leaders to nominate their best two researchers in the field. They have become our reviewers for the Emerge conference paper refereeing process. Then we invited submissions from early career researchers and policy-makers for a peer reviewed conference to profile some of he the thinking taking place in 2007. We then brought together facilitators who have experience in politics, policy and research - people with an ability to hear through the noise and pick out ideas that just may be timely. We thought we would start small and build the conference each year. In 2007 we have closed numbers to 100 participants to trial new processes for presenting and Q&A sessions. Finally, and most importantly, we seeking to contribute to the national discussion by building these ideas into our ever growing programs: Progress Towards Queensland Human Capital Indicators Project and our ongoing work in Datasharing, Open Source and Social Innovation.

When: Monday 10 September, 2007

Time: 9.00pm-4.00pm

Where: Power House, New Farm, Queensland, AUSTRALIA

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Costs:Students/Policy-makers $100/Non-students/policy-makers $160

EMERGE 2007 BENEFITS

For early career researchers, policy-makers and thinkers:

Publication of your paper in peer reviewed EMERGE proceedings.

Presenting your research and policy findings to a diverse audience including students, academics, thinkers, policy makers and practitioners.

Opportunity to meet prospective employers from the government, university, non-government and private sectors.

Networking with other early career researchers and policy-makers from a wide range of disciplines.

Learning more about the broader context of education, social and human capital research, policy and practice.

For policy makers, service providers and practitioners:

Hearing first hand the latest emerging people (human capital) and social policy research.

Meeting the best new research and policy talent and observing them in action.

Networking with other professionals and colleagues within the human capital and social policy research areas.

Discussing critical and emerging trends related to human capital and social policy.

EMERGE 2007 KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Professor Jennelle Kyd, Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research and Innovation), Central Queensland University, AUSTRALIA

Professor Lesley Johnson, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research), Griffith University, AUSTRALIA

Ken Smith, Queensland Co-ordinator General and Director General, Department of Infrastructure, AUSTRALIA

The Eidos EMERGE Leadership Team, Ms Jan Massey and Emeritus Professor Colin Power , are acknowledged as international leaders in the fields of education, social and human capital research, policy, management and practice.

EMERGE CHIEF STATISTICIAN

Eidos Chief Statistician, WALTER ROBB, will provide a brief presentation on the Human Capital Indicators Project in the lunch break. He will be available throughout the lunch break to advise on developments in data availability and handle questions on the measurement of human capital.

EMERGE FACILITATORS

Tim Eltham TIM ELTHAM, Director Communitas, was recently the Queensland Manager for Community and Education Services for Delfin Lend Lease, Australia's largest developer of master planned communities. He has been a practicing social planner for the past 30 years, working in all three levels of government, in the not-for-profit sector and now in the private sector including practicing social planner with the City of Berwick Melbourne; the former Commonwealth Bureau of Roads; Queensland Health; Lecturer in Social Planning and Community Work, University of Queensland; Social Researcher, Queensland Department of Social Services; Greater London Council Housing Department; University of Queensland.

Scott Prasser DR SCOTT PRASSER is Senior Lecturer in Management in the Faculty of Business at the University of Sunshine Coast. Scott has worked in senior policy and research positions in federal and state governments including departments such as Tourism, Small Business and Industry, State Development and Premier and Cabinet. Scott has published widely on public policy and public adminstration and in 2006 his book, Royal Commissions and Public Inquiries in Australia was released. Scott is presently working on a Best Practice Advice to Ministers Project with Professor Andrew Hede.

EMERGE 2007 PRESENTATIONS

To continue our goal of building a body of knowledge, the presentations have been broken into three of Eidos' five Research and Policy Cooperatives - Life, Community and Wired.

LIFE: This Eidos Research and Policy Cooperative aims to investigate large-scale diagnostic research, evaluation and policy program focusing on lifecourse transitions. Lifecourse transitions are between school and work, and with the increasing emphasis on life-long learning, between work and education. More here...

New forms of workplace-based learning

Enhancing research performance in the Australian University sector

Indigenous literacy policy implementation

Queensland's future: parenting the young people of today

Drop out and attrition impacts on human capital

Workplace environment and worker burnout

Three imperatives: Valuing an anti-bias curriculum, promoting collaborative research and investing in early childhood education

Valuing the minds of the young: the emergence of young children's aesthetic understanding of pictures in art

Investing in health and well-being: Holistic view of self-concepts in Australia's young people

Trying out ideas, taking risks, tackling and puzzling over problems

Curriculum with a conscience: Advancing adult education through educational gerontology

WIRED:This Eidos Research and Policy Cooperative seeks to examine how new technologies are changing Australia and the implications of this change for government-provided education and social policy. More here...

Cyber crime: the threat to public safety?

Changing Places

Human capital predictors of career success in the Creative Industries

Digital innovations in mainstream schooling: creative human capital in the conceptual age

COMMUNITY: This Eidos Research and Policy Cooperative examines the relationships between education, community and sustainability (social, cultural and environmental). In particular, this co-operative examines ways in which partnerships between schools, communities and universities can contribute to positive social and community outcomes. More here...

Skilled Migration, recruitment and retention, who is responsible?

The growing value of values

Engaging students and communities

Birth, School, Work, Death: an alternative view

LIFE

New forms of workplace-based learning [Download Abstract][Download Powerpoint]

How do we address social justice through workplace-based learning? How do we go a step further and create new civil society networks that may increase opportunities for improved social justice?

Enhancing research performance in the Australian University sector [Download Abstract][Download Powerpoint]

Who forms the invisible army of research-intensive staff in every university? Why should universities and governments have greater visibility of, and engagement with, this invisible army?

Indigenous literacy policy implementation [Download Abstract][Download Powerpoint]

Indigenous literacy policies in Queensland schools. What are the processes and barriers which contribute to or detract from improved literacy outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students who have English as a second or subsequent language. How will understanding the interrelatedness and interdependence of nations, economies, ecologies, trade, marketing and cultures have fore-grounded the development of social capital as the bedrock of economic development. In this globalizing climate, what's the nexus between education, literacy, economic competitiveness and building social and human capital? Could literacy be regarded as a key capability crucial for participation in, and the shaping of, social, economic and political structure of contemporary Australian society? When it comes to policy development and implementation processes - public dialogic spaces are a necessary element in addressing issues of literacy, equity and social justice in education.

Queensland's future: parenting the young people of today [Download Abstract][Download Powerpoint]

Investing in Queensland's children and adolescents is the source of the State's future human capital. What changes to the current educational policy would impact on improved teaching programs at preschool and secondary school levels?

Drop out and attrition impacts on human capital [Download Abstract][Download Powerpoint]

Why are first year university students in some courses comparatively more likely to drop out? What do we need to know about student's knowledge, thinking skills, and quality of learning strategies that are critical factors for influencing attrition of human capital?

Workplace environment and worker burnout [Download Abstract][Download Powerpoint]

Why is worker burnout and engagement are more associated with the work environment than individual characteristics of employees? Five hundred and sixty one respondent perspectives tell us that we may be able to predict burnout by understanding perceptions of work environments.

Three imperatives: Valuing an anti-bias curriculum, promoting collaborative research and investing in early childhood education. [Download Abstract]

Do you think children's literature can assist teachers with an anti-bias multicultural curriculum and teaching for social justice in preschool settings with a homogeneous group of preschool children?

Valuing the minds of the young: the emergence of young children's aesthetic understanding of pictures in art [Download Abstract] [Download Powerpoint]

Children's aesthetic judgements of pictures in art during middle childhood are critically important. For too long, in the absence of an account of children's intuitive beliefs about meaning in art, art educators have imposed universal aesthetic theories on the mind of the child. It may be time to pull apart the theoretical constraints of children's own beliefs about pictorial meaning and value.

Investing in health and well-being: Holistic view of self-concepts in Australia's young people. [Download Abstract] [Download Powerpoint]

Physical activity is important for young people. Whats the actual impact on a young person's self-concept and how do we know that we can reduce the decline of self-concepts in adolescence and young adulthood?

Trying out ideas, taking risks, tackling and puzzling over problems [Download Abstract] [Download Powerpoint]

In Queensland, more and more researchers and practitioners are investigating the understandings and dispositions of developing and enhancing professional identity. Capacity building and the privileging of critical reflection in-action and on-action seems to be re-emerging as a useful way forward. How do we legitimately create formal opportunities for trying out ideas, taking risks, tackling and puzzling over problems, thinking, reflecting, listening, discussing, asking questions, surprising themselves and each other.

Curriculum with a conscience: Advancing adult education through educational gerontology [Download Abstract][Download Powerpoint]

At the intersection of social gerontology, educational psychology and adult and lifelong learning, educational gerontology seeks to improve the lives of older people by counteracting educational practices where ageism and erosion of self-worth has prevailed. A revision of established adult education principles to include biopsychosocial issues is required to improve workplace training, human resource development and adult education as older learners return to work to offset skill shortages and superannuation shortfalls. Could we miss a unique opportunity here because of a paucity of knowledge about this emerging specialist field, a dominance of biomedical approaches to ageing, and organisational obstacles in the path of innovative University curriculum development?

WIRED

Cyber crime: the threat to public safety?[Download Abstract][Download Powerpoint]

What are the current trends regarding computer crime and how does this impact on people, information and communication technology and the new economy?

Changing Places [Download Abstract] [Download Powerpoint]

How is the current transition into teaching for career-change professionals empower and challenge teachers in relating to students in their digital world?

Human capital predictors of career success in the Creative Industrie[Download Abstract][Download Powerpoint]

In this era of the post-industrial creative economy, artists have been argued to possess unique attributes and capabilities that are of great economic and social benefit both within and outside their core arts practices. However, labour force and economic modelling studies show that artists experience the highest levels of unemployment and part-time / casual employment, and the lowest earnings levels, of any occupational grouping. This paper explores issues surrounding artists career success, via a survey-based study of 310 Australian professional creative, performing, and digital / technical arts workers.

Digital innovations in mainstream schooling: creative human capital in the conceptual age. [Download Abstract]

There's a paradox emerging that schools are becoming more important yet less relevant than ever in the development of creative human capital in this conceptual age. Why the growing concern that schools are not keeping pace with the social and learning needs of todays young people? What's the key to developinghigh levels of specialist knowledge...[in] creativity and innovation particularly in the uses of new technologies; (Robinson, 2004, p. 5).

COMMUNITY

Skilled Migration, recruitment and retention, who is responsible? [Download Abstract]

Rapid changes have occurred in rural and regional demographics in the last 5 years. Recent strategic skilled migration programs that encourage migration to areas in rural and regional Australia have accelerated this change. The growing number of skilled migrants migrating to rural and regional areas is a direct result of federal government migration policies. Skilled migration currently represents 60% of Australia's migration intake (see DIAC Population Flows 2006). Are skilled migrants who arrive in Australia supported and equipped to make a positive contribution to Australian society both economically and socially? Does Australia make the right investments in human capital needs to produce dividends and this can be achieved through a settlement program that ensures the retention of skilled migrants particularly in regional areas? How do we better work with the needs of skilled migrants cut across a range of areas including language proficiency, social networks, cultural differences, food choices, employer-employee relations, acceptance by host community and.

The growing value of values [Download Abstract][Download Powerpoint]

How do the interactions of corporate values with personal values play out? What does the empirical evidence from research of over 1000 Queensland individuals and five well-known companies tell us about the potential upside for firms and companies that engage with their customers and stakeholders in discussions of the future we may share? Can we value business in human term?

Engaging students and communities [Download Abstract]

The service learning pedagogy has been found to have many positive outcomes. Moral development, personal growth and cross cultural understanding are outcomes well documented in the literature. Is there an increasing need for university students to move out of the formal education comfort zone and allow themselves to think freely, challenge their learned and cultural beliefs, and understand their changing environments?

Birth, School, Work, Death: an alternative view [Download Abstract]

Political processes address contentious issues. Education is one such contemporary issue. Education is presently being reduce from a liberal education in the humanities and sciences to training in the basics, numeracy and literacy and for work. A number of potentially unintended risks may flow from reducing education to training for work: namely, reducing understanding of the political process and skills for engaging in resolution of contentious issues; resorting to alternative and potentially harmful solutions to issues that require ameliorating and punitive institutions to control but not resolve harm, institutions such as health, incarceration, and defence; and education becoming residual and remedial. What if we drew more on the disciplines of philosophy, politics, and history and on the field of education. By doing so, should we now being running counter to the prevailing political and ahistorical worldviews of work to the exclusion of education, pragmatism to the exclusion of idealism, and the present to the exclusion of the past. What would it look like if we sought to recover models of political education from the past for reflection and potential policy adaptation?

EMERGE 2007 INVITED REVIEWERS

University of the Sunshine Coast
Dr. Scott Prasser ( Senior Lecturer Management, Faculty of Business)
Prof. David Gadenne (Head, School of Commerce)
Prof. Steve Garlick, Regional Engagement

James Cook University
Prof. Edward Helmes, Professor & Director of Professional Programs, Department of Psychology
Dr Wendy Earles, Senior Lecturer, Department of Social Work & Community Welfare
Ms Robyn Lynn, Lecturer, Department of Social Work & Community Welfare

Queensland University of Technology
Professor Tim Robinson (Head of the School of Economics and Finance)
Sandra Haukka Queensland University of Technology

Central Queensland University
Prof. Paul Hyland (Professor of Management, Faculty of Business and Informatics)
Prof. Robert (Bob) Miles, (Executive Director, Institute for Sustainable Regional Development (ISRD))

University of Southern Queensland
Dr Aniko Hatoss, Senior Lecturer Faculty of Education
Dr Dennis Rose, Lecturer (Management), Faculty of Business, School of Management & Marketing
Dr Taiji Watanabe, Senior Lecturer (Finance & Banking), Faculty of Business, School of Accounting, Economics & Finance
Dr Sara Hammer, School of Accounting, Economics & Finance, Faculty of Business

Eidos Institute
Professor Bruce Muirhead, CEO
Walter Robb, Eidos Chief Statistician

Skilled Migration, recruitment and retention,
who is responsible? Mitra Khakbaz, USC, EMERGE 2007

OPEN INVITATION TO THE EMERGE 2007 INVITED RESEARCH CENTRES AND INSTITUTES

Eidos Network Participant Universities

QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation
Institute of Creative Industries and Innovation
Institute for Sustainable Resources
Information Security Institute
ARC Centre of Excellence in Creative Industries and Innovation
CRC for Construction Innovation
CRC for Interaction Design
Centre for Learning Innovation

GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY
Key Centre for Ethics, Law, Justice and Governance
Urban Research Program
Griffith Psychological Health Research Centre
Centre for Work, Leisure and Community Research
Socio-Legal Research Centre
Centre for Learning Research
Centre for Public Culture and Ideas
Centre for Applied Languages, Literacy and Communication Studies
Australian Centre for Intellectual Property in Agriculture
Centre for Applied Language, Literacy & Communication Studies
Centre for Learning Research
Centre for Public Culture and Ideas
Institute for Ethics, Governance and Law
Key Centre for Ethics, Law, Justice and Governance
Queensland Conservatorium Research Centre
Socio-Legal Research Centre

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN QUEENSLAND
Centre for Research in Transformative Pedagogies (CRTP)
Public Memory Research Centre (PMRC)
Australian Centre for Sustainable Catchments (ACSC)
Centre for Rural and Remote Area Health (CRRAH)
Australian Centre for Sustainable Catchments (ACSC)
Centre of Excellence in Engineering Fibre Composites (CEEFC)
Centre for Systems Biology (CSBi)
Computational Engineering and Science Research Centre (CESRC)

UNIVERSITY OF THE SUNSHINE COAST
Centre for Healthy Activities, Sport and Exercise
National Seniors Productive Ageing Centre
Centre for Multicultural and Community Development
Innovation Centre

CENTRAL QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY
Centre for Environmental Management
Centre for Social Science Research
Primary Industries Research Centre
Institute for Sustainable Regional Development

AUSTRALIAN CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY
Cardinal Clancy Centre for Research in the Spiritual, Moral, Religious and Pastoral Dimensions of Education
Centre for Lifelong Learning
Centre for Research into Ethics and Decision-making in Organisations (CREDO)
Centre for Social Emotional Cognitive and Behavioural Development
Centre of Physical Activity Across the Lifespan (CoPAAL)
Golding Centre for Women's History, Theology and Spirituality
Plunkett Centre for Ethics in Health Care
The Flagship for Creative and Authentic Leadership
The Mathematics and Literacy Education Research Flagship
The Quality of Life and Social Justice Flagship
Institute of Child Protection Studies

JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY
Australian Biosecurity CRC
Desert Knowledge CRC
Sustainable Tourism CRC
Tropical Savannas CRC
Australian Institute for Tropical Medicine
People, Identity and Place - intellectual, social, economic and cultural dynamics:
Centre for Disaster Studies
Native Title Centre
Center for Business and Economic Research

QUEENSLAND GOVERNMENT
Government Research Offices and Units

PLUS each of the seven network participant universities have invited six active interdisciplinary/interfaculty researchers committed to both practical, applied, policy relevant research and research cooperation and collaboration opportunities.

Drop out and attrition impacts on human capital. Why are first year university students in some courses comparatively more likely to drop out? What do we need to know about student's knowledge, thinking skills, and quality of learning strategies that are critical factors for influencing attrition of human capital?

Trang Nguyen (Lecturer), JCU, EMERGE 2007