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The SAGE Awards: Monday 25 August

Join us before the Conference for a night of celebration.

6pm: Welcome
7pm: Dinner and Awards presentation

Day 1: Tuesday 26 August

8.30am: Registration opens

9.00am: Welcome

9.30am: Keynote speaker—Professor Sandy O’Sullivan, Professor, Critical Indigenous Studies, Macquarie University

10.15am: Break

11.00am: Concurrent Sessions (multiple presentations in each session)

  1. Advancing gender equality and leadership in health and medical sciences
  2. Embracing cultural diversity
  3. Applying an intersectional lens

12.00pm: Workshops

1.00pm: Lunch, with optional Lunch-and-Learn session

2.00pm: Keynote speaker- Professor Chelsea Watego
Director, Carumba Institute, Queensland

3.00pm: Concurrent Sessions (multiple presentations in each session)

  1. Leadership for change
  2. Lived experiences of marginalisation
  3. Progressing careers and bridging gaps

4.10pm: Keynote speaker—Professor Mustafa Özbilgin, Professor of Organisational Behaviour,  Brunel Business School, Brunel University, London

5.00pm: Networking drinks and nibbles [In-person only]

Day 2: Wednesday 27 August

8.30am: Registration opens

9.00am: Welcome/Setting the scene

9.15am: Keynote speaker—Mr Giridharan Sivaraman, Race Discrimination Commissioner, Australian Human Rights Commission

10.00am: Concurrent Sessions (multiple presentations in each session)

  1. Panel discussion—Unblocking the STEMM pipeline
  2. Co-design, co-production
  3. First Nations Leadership

11.00am: Break

11.30am: Concurrent Sessions and Workshops

  1. Presentations—The long view: Are we slowly moving the dial on gender equity?
  2. Workshop
  3. Workshop

12.40pm: Academies 

1.00pm: Lunch, with optional Lunch-and-Learn session

2.00pm: Concurrent Sessions (multiple presentations in each session)

  1. EDI in the public sector
  2. Preventing and responding to Gender Based Violence
  3. Workshop

3.15pm: Keynote speaker—Professor Michelle Ryan, Professor of Social and Organisational Psychology, Director of the Global Institute for Women’s Leadership, ANU

4.00pm: Conference wrap-up

4.15pm: Networking afternoon tea (Optional, in person only)

Poster hall

In addition to our program of speakers and workshops, we will present a hall of poster presentations exploring research and case studies.

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