It is a pleasure to invite you to this year’s hybrid AUSIT National Conference to be held in Brisbane on 25-26 November 2022. The conference will take place at the beautiful campus of the University of Queensland, as well as online.

The theme of this year’s conference is ‘Rebuild and Belong: Evolution, Transformation and Growth’. It aims to offer participants a forum to discuss practical and theoretical issues relating to the T&I profession across a variety of different areas, focusing on rebuilding and re-connecting after two long years of dealing with the disruption of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Organising Committee (OC) is calling for the submission of abstracts for papers from a wide variety of interdisciplinary theoretical and practical perspectives. Submissions are organised into the following sub-themes:

Submission Guidelines

• Abstracts are welcome from practitioners, academics, industry stakeholders and affiliated industries.
• We warmly invite abstracts from the AUSLAN practitioners and academics, and especially from ASLIA members, We are planning an ASLIA stream specific to sign language interpreting, communicating, and teaching. AUSIT considers this a great opportunity for members of both organisations to learn from each other’s experiences. 
• Authors must submit abstracts (maximum 250 words) before 31 July 2022.
• To make a submission, please visit EasyChair via (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ausit22), create an account, and submit abstract.
• All the submitted abstracts will undergo a blind peer review process. The Review Committee team members will be sourced from both AUSIT and ASLIA, as well as from independent academia. The results will be sent to the authors by 30 August 2022 via email.
• Authors whose abstracts are accepted to be presented at the conference need to register for the conference.
• Upon payment and registration, authors will receive a confirmation email, including the official invitation to present. 
• Accepted presenters will need to provide a pre-recorded presentation for the hybrid part of the event, even if they are presenting face-to-face (instructions to be provided once abstract is accepted).
• Each paper will be allocated 20 minutes for presentation at the conference plus 10 minutes for discussion. Presenting at the Conference entitles the presenter to additional CPD points. 

List of Topics

• Cultivating connections with colleagues – the power of comradery, and team building;
• Self-growth – issues affecting practitioners and their businesses (mental health, adapting, professional skills, ethics and values, new mindset and new focus);
• Joining forces with other professions – new opportunities, relationships between T&I practitioners and professional end-users;
• Engaging with the community – current issues affecting community translation and interpreting;
• Innovation in the world – the T&I industry in the post-pandemic world, accessibility, new technologies and new advances.

Venue

University of Queensland, St Lucia, Brisbane

Contact

qld@ausit.org