Australian Association of Family Therapy Conference, in-person, Melbourne, July 2025
After a pause in its regular annual conferences, AAFT is inviting submissions for its 2025 conference.
When: Thursday 3 July and Friday 4 July 2025
Where: LaTrobe University, Bundoora, Victoria, Australia
Conference theme: Healing and reconnecting
The theme of the Australian Association of Family Therapy 2025 Conference highlights the profound importance of reconnecting as individuals, as a community, and as a profession.
Over the past few years, each of us has navigated a unique path in growth and resilience. This conference provides a space to honour the challenges faced and strengths discovered along the way and, together, we will share how these themes might inform the future of systemic and family therapy in Australia. We will celebrate the resilience of our profession as we strive toward a future of continued progress and deeper connection.
AAFT extends a warm welcome to practitioners in complementary fields, and all those who work with families.
- Explore innovative approaches that foster healing within families and communities
- Leading keynote speakers, hands-on workshops and interactive panel discussions
- Engaging networking events to build connections with like-minded professionals
- Opportunities to earn professional development credits.
Submissions are now open (Deadline 10 January 2025)
Queries: Kristen@kecreative.com.au
The Qualitative Report 16th Annual Conference, online and in-person, March 2025
The Qualitative Report warmly invites submissions from narrative practitioners and researchers for its 16th annual conference to be held in-person in Florida, USA, on 5–6 March 2025 and online on 27–28 March 2025.
Conference theme
What if we took the notion of co-research seriously and invited people in the communities in which we hope to produce significant social change to help co-create the research questions, co-design the studies, co-analyze the data, co-discuss the impact, and co-author the reports? What if they identified their needs, what if they helped to define the gaps in knowledge, and what if they helped us via their calls to action?
The theme of the 16th Annual Conference of The Qualitative Report is “Co-creating our impact: Invitations to change.” With this call, we are asking those among us who have already taken this collaborative turn to share their wisdom and experiences so we can accelerate this “difference that makes a difference” (thanks, Gregory Bateson) in all the communities in which we live and for which we care.
Co-creating means that we do not act alone or in isolation and the most productive impacts come from collaborative efforts. Change is not imposed, it is invited and welcomed. We invite you to join us under this “big tent” as we encourage all qualitative researchers to conceptualize and conduct their work by stretching method as well as the content areas, using democratic processes to uplift people in their lives.
In these invitations to change, can we also consider other ways we can share the reports of our collaborative inquiries beyond the traditional media of scholarly journals, books, chapters, and conferences? How can we utilize alternative means such as blogs, podcasts, and other social media channels to invite collaboration and communicate these tales of change and justice?
At TQR2025, we invite you to come share your impactful collaborations as researchers, teachers, and communicators and contribute to our vibrant qualitative research community. Maybe we can help change the world in the process!
Submissions deadline: 2 August 2024
Queries: tqr@nova.edu or via Facebook or Twitter/X
NPRN's inaugural research symposium, 30 November 2023
We are excited to invite you to our first ever event – a narrative practice and research symposium to develop papers for a special issue of The Qualitative Report.
Kaurna Country (Adelaide, Australia)
30 November 2023.
Conference theme: Narrative practice and research
The symposium will bring the spirit of collective narrative practice to developing papers for the special issue. It will be open to people working on a paper for the special issue, and to volunteer session facilitators and respondents.
Submissions deadline: 22 September 2024
Download call for submissions (pdf)
Queries: convenor@narrativepracticeresearch.org
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