Join us for AuScope Convergence 2022!

Join us for a bite-sized virtual gathering from Wednesday 2 - Thursday 3 November 2022 to explore different approaches to innovation in Australian geoscience. Image: AuScope

Join us online for a special, bite-sized virtual gathering over two days (Wednesday 2 - Thursday 3 November 2022) to discover different approaches to, and tools and mindsets for, inclusive geoscientific collaboration and innovation.

We invite you to connect with your peers across AuScope and the extended national geoscience community. Ponder new ideas, gain new skills, and help us to strengthen and enrich our diverse and dispersed community!

Wednesday 2 November 2022

Agenda

  • Event Welcome: Dr Tim Rawling, AuScope (Starting @ 12 PM AEDT, 15 minutes)

  • Keynote Presentation (+ Q&A): A/Prof Leah Heiss (Monash University) (45 minutes)

  • Lunch Break (30 minutes)

  • Workshop: Designerly Approaches To Collaboration, A/Prof. Leah Heiss (Monash University) & Jo Condon(AuScope) (75 minutes)

  • Day 1 Reflection: Dr Tim Rawling, AuScope (Finishing @ 3 PM AEDT 15 minutes)

Details

To kick things off on Wednesday, 2 November, we are excited to welcome Associate Professor Leah Heiss from Monash University to the Zoom ‘stage’ to make a presentation on her award-winning experiences as a human-centred designer in co-creating MedTech solutions with interdisciplinary teams.

Introducing AuScope Convergence 2022 keynote speaker, A/Prof Leah Heiss (Monash University). Image: supplied

Leah Heiss is the Eva and Marc Besen International Research Chair in Design at Monash University and the recipient of the 2022 Australian Women in Design Award. Through collaborative projects, Leah has brought humanity-centred design to solutions for hearing loss, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, mental health and loneliness. Her design work has been recognised with six Australian Good Design Awards, including the 2018 Australian Good Design Award of the Year and the CSIRO Design Innovation Award.

Leah’s design work is part of Australia’s heritage collections at Museums Victoria and the Powerhouse and has been exhibited internationally to audiences exceeding 700,000 people. Her Tactile Tools co-design method has been used to evolve new systems of care for low birth weight, cancer care, eating disorders, aged care, voluntary assisted dying and acquired brain injury. Leah is currently working with the World Health Organisation, using design strategies to improve the uptake and implementation of WHO guidelines.

Needless to say, we are excited to learn from Leah as an innovator in another science field.

Next, we will embark on a workshop, co-facilitated by Leah and Jo Condon (AuScope), inviting you to explore and identify the barriers to collaboration (and innovation) across AuScope and geoscience. In preparation for this, please let us know your top five barriers to collaboration via this short survey. We would appreciate your input into this survey, even if you cannot attend the workshop. Thank you!

Thursday 3 November 2022

Agenda

Details

On the second day of the AuScope Convergence 2022, we will learn about examples of geoscientific innovation and explore how we might collaborate differently across and beyond AuScope.

First up, AuScope CEO Dr Tim Rawling will facilitate a panel discussion with geoscience innovators, including A/Prof Steve Micklethwaite (University of Queensland), Dr Sara Palenco (University of Sydney), Dr Fabian Kohlman (Lithodat) and A/Prof Maria Seton (University of Sydney). This stellar lineup of AuScope innovators will explore what AuScope and the Australian geosciences can do with our current capacity – tools, data, analytics and skills to break new ground. This will be followed by an audience Q&A.

Then, after a lunch break, Dr Tim Rawling (AuScope) and Dr Rebecca Farrington (AuScope) will co-facilitate a workshop that invites you to distil ideas with your peers in small groups, drawing on insights from Convergence 2022. To close, we invite each group to pitch their best idea. There will be prizes for the group with the best actionable idea!

 
 
 

Questions? Please let us know.

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