The Qld CDAA Division is pleased to announce that our annual Good Theory Good Practice professional development day is on Saturday 16th September 9am – 2pm. It will be once again an online event and open to attendees from across Australia and overseas.
This year’s program will focus on employability, lifelong career leaning, community building, and digital careers!
As in previous years, we have put together a high quality program which will appeal to Career Practitioners from all sectors, including those working in private practice, universities, vocational education colleges and secondary schools.
Keynotes:
Title: How to “do” employability: careers and the need to learn a living
Session Info: This keynote will challenge the dominant thinking about employability by positioning it as a process of discovery and learning across the lifespan. The presenter will explore career touchpoints across the lifespan and attempt to bust some of the common myths. A key focus for the session will be strengths-based, social cognitive approaches to working with learners and clients.
Bio: Dawn is Assistant Provost and Director of the Transformation CoLab with Bond University. She is an experienced senior leader, an educational reformist and a passionate educator. Dawn’s expertise is the enhancement of student success and graduate employability through data-driven approaches to student retention and engagement, teaching, curricular reform and work integrated learning.
Title: Breaking Down the Silos: the integration of media studies and industry.
Session info: Over decades the academy has provided predominately theoretically based studies in media and media production. The industry has provided much of its own education and training. In recent time these two approaches have become increasingly irrelevant. Presentation will address how through a contemporary model, these two disconnected spaces have found common ground and relevance for students and industry alike.
Bio: Dr. Ashley Jones is the Senior Lecture of Radio and Television Broadcast at the University of Southern Queensland and co-ordinator of USQ’s Phoenix Radio. He has over 40 years of broadcast media industry experience He is also a current radio broadcaster across inland Queensland each Saturday with Talking Queensland, on the Resonate Radio Network.
Panel Event:
Digital Careers Panel guests:
Carly Shearman - Account Manager, Technology at Hunt & co. + Community Manager at Women in Digital. Carly Shearman is the Account Manager for Technology & Product at Hunt & Co., a boutique digital recruitment agency, and Community Manager for Women in Digital. It’s through combining her communications & marketing skills, experience in industry, passion for businesses and a pure love for helping people bridge the gap between where they are and where they want to be, that has made her a go-to voice in careers and future of work.
Cristey Gudgeon - Group Manager, Creative Arts & Digital Design at TAFE Queensland. Cristey has been an educator in IT programs at TAFE for 25 years, involved in tutoring, teaching, leading the teaching team, coordinating the state-wide delivery across TAFE regions and now managing the IT Delivery area in Brisbane Region. Passionate about training our young people with IT skills and knowledge for the jobs needed in the expanding market of our IT industry in Brisbane, Cristey keeps connected to industry as a member of the Australian Computer Society (ACS), through industry contacts for our graduates, and through Industry Engagement events that TAFE host each year. Cristey and her team recently partnered with the Digital Skills Organisation (DSO) to deliver the innovative Train 100 Data Analysts pilot project.
Lachlan Young - Software Developer at TANDA, graduate of a Bachelor of Games & Interactive Design from University of Canberra. When he’s not attending a Meetup or working on a ridiculous side-project, you can find Lachlan working at a locally founded ScaleUp called Tanda. Splitting his time between the mobile and web domains, Lachlan is experienced in a variety of tech from React, React-Native and GraphQL, to NodeJS, Serverless, Ruby on Rails, AWS and PSQL to name a few. Passionate about empowering the next superstars of code, Lachlan can’t wait to see what the next few years of Brisbane’s tech growth bring and who will be apart of it.
Luiz Perez, Senior Service Desk Analyst at Feros Care. Luiz worked in a few different industries before moving into the digital industry. When he moved to Australia, he pursued further studies in the field on the Gold Coast before landing his current role at Feros Care.
CPD Points: 5 hours
CPD Competency: Professional Practice Application
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