BIBS21 virtual – Webinar One - Bold ideas better solutions 2021

Posted on Friday 6th August 2021

We are excited for you to join us and the details below will provide helpful information to access the online event and learn more about the program and speakers.

Date: Wednesday 13 October 2021
Time: 11.00am - 1.00pm (AEST Brisbane Time)
Online: Zoom webinar
Click here for the program

Event description: In this first Bold ideas better solutions webinar for 2021, you will hear from hear from researchers, advocates, and people with lived experience about the latest research and personal insights that can inform us about ways to achieve dignified participation through policies and social systems that matter to major life domains. The program features prominent human rights activist, Mr Graeme Innes AM, research colleagues from University of Sydney and Griffith University, and people with lived experience, addressing the topic of participation with dignity in policy and social systems.
Click here for more information about event speakers

When to join: The event will start at 11.00am sharp AEST, so please jump online 10 minutes early to get yourself set up.

Joining Instructions: To get the most out of this event, we recommend using a computer, laptop, iPad or smartphone to join the meeting by clicking on the online event link below:

Online Zoom Webinar link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88473870375

This online event will be run through the zoom webinar platform. Please click on the online webinar link above and follow the prompts to join the event. You can access the event by clicking on the link and joining through your zoom app/account.
If you do not have a zoom account, you can access the webinar by following the instructions below:
Click on online zoom webinar link above or copy/paste the link into your internet browser
A pop-up box will appear trying to open your zoom account/app - press the blue 'cancel' button
Then select 'Join from Your Browser' link on the page (if this button does not appear, press the blue 'launch button', and then the 'blue cancel' button, and then it will appear)
Then follow the prompts to join the meeting, by entering your full name and then press the blue 'Join' button to join the meeting
You will then be in the zoom webinar event

Zoom event features:

We welcome everyone to post their questions in the Q&A function during the event. Please press the Q&A button on the bottom toolbar. A popup Q&A box will appear to view and post your questions to the speakers.
To enable closed captions, please press the 'CC live transcript' button on the bottom toolbar to start captions/subtitles. If you have any technical issues, please let the events support team know in the chat or email the Hopkins Centre at hopkinscentre@griffith.edu.au for assistant.

Zoom’s accessibility features including keyboard shortcuts Zoom are available at: https://zoom.us/accessibility

Event recording and accessible resources: A recording of the online event will be shared following the event on our website. Copies of all presentations and Q&A responses will also be available online shortly after the event.

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The annual Hopkins Centre event, ‘Bold Ideas Better Solutions 2021’ has gone virtual and will be presented as a live online seminar series, to be held on Wednesday 13 October 2021 and Wednesday 20 November 2021.

Our bold ideas and better solutions presentations and discussions this year will focus on ‘Participation with Dignity’. Each online session will feature the latest interdisciplinary research and emerging ideas informing and promoting participation and dignity in all life domains and disability and rehabilitation practices and services. The sessions will also showcase the value and importance of meaningful citizen and clinical engagement in research.

Session one, Participating with Dignity in Life Domains, Wednesday 13 October 2020, from 11.00am to 1.00pm AUS Eastern Time

Hear from researchers, advocates, and people with lived experience about the latest research and personal insights that can inform us about ways to achieve dignified participation through policies and social systems that matter to major life domains.

We are pleased to release our preliminary program, featuring prominent human rights activist, Dr Graeme Innes AM, research colleagues from University of Sydney and Griffith University, and people with lived experience, addressing the topic of participation with dignity in policy and social systems. See invited speaker below:

Mr Graeme Innes AM, Lawyer, Author, and Company Director
Professor James Middleton, MBBS, PhD, FAFRM(RACP), Clinical Director of the NSW State Spinal Cord Injury Service and Rehabilitation Medicine at the John Walsh Centre for Rehabilitation Research and the University of Sydney
Tim McCallum, Ambassador, The Hopkins Centre, Citizen Researcher and International Singer
Kevin Cocks, AM D.Univ, Patron of The Hopkins Centre and Human Rights Advocate
A/Professor Jennifer Smith-Merry, Director of the Centre for Disability Research and Policy (CDRP) University of Sydney
Dr Jessica Paynter, Senior Lecturer and Clinical Psychologist, Menzies Health Institute Queensland, Griffith University
A/Professor Jennifer Cartmel, Senior Lecturer in the School of Health Sciences and Social Work, Griffith University
Ms Laura Irvine-Brown, Associate Lecturer Occupational Therapy, Griffith University and registered Occupational Therapist
Kelsey Chapman, Diginity Project Lead, Researcher and PhD Candidate, The Hopkins Centre, MHIQ, Griffith University
Dr Grace Bitner, Research Fellow, The Hopkins Centre, MHIQ, Griffith University
Dr David Borg, Research Fellow, The Hopkins Centre, MHIQ, Griffith University
Gary Allen, Senior Policy Officer, Research Ethics and Interigity, Office for Research. Griffith University