Melbourne, Thursday 30th & Friday 31st May 2024
The Convention Centre, Melbourne

Start and Finish Times:

• Thursday: 9am - 4.30pm (registration from 8am)
• Friday: 9am - 3.45pm

*Please note, the program is almost complete but some updates are to come

• Conference Opening & Welcome
• Opening Keynote Address: Unsiloing the Self: Understanding the Relationship between Connection and Autonomy
  Professor Bill von Hippel, Professor of Social Psychology

• Keynote Presentation: Elements of Affirming School Cultures for Gender and Sexuality Diverse Young People
  Dr Victoria Rawlings
• Presentation: School Belonging and School Costs for Families in Specialist Homelessness Services
  Suzannah Willis

• Presentation: Developing a National Voluntary Mental Health and Wellbeing Check-in for Australian School Student
  Dr Lauren McLellan
• Presentation: Developing a framework and decision aid for school-based interventions
  Dr Belinda Poole

• Keynote Presentation: It’s all about the Flex: Breaking the Hex of School Refusal
  Dr Shannon Morton

• Keynote Presentation: TikTok: Everything you wanted to know, including how to make it safer for students
  Dr Scott Griffiths
• Presentation: ‘Miss, what do you think of Andrew Tate?’: Teachers’ accounts of a resurgent masculinist supremacy in Australian schools
  Dr Stephanie Wescott

• Presentation: Breaking Boundaries: Rethinking Gender Roles for Mental Health in Schools
  Ryder Jack & Anita Zusak
• Keynote Presentation: Mindfulness in education: A critical examination of recent findings
  Associate Professor Nicholas Van Dam

• Presentation: Strong and Deadly Futures
  Dr Lexine Stapinski, Matilda Centre
• Keynote Presentation: Scaffolding for Co-regulation: Why Connectedness is Key!
  Dr Madeline Wishart