Event Description
Join us in Toowoomba for the 2024 QLD State Conference. This years theme is Together Towards Tomorrow and will be featuring keynote speakers, Dr Hazel Keedle and Dr Nigel Lee.
Program Outline
Keynote Speakers
More Keynotes to be announced soon.
Dr Hazel Keedle
Dr Hazel Keedle, PhD, is a Senior Lecturer of Midwifery at The School of Nursing and Midwifery, Western Sydney University. Hazel has more than two decades of experience as a clinician in nursing and midwifery, educator and researcher. Hazel’s research interests are vaginal birth after caesarean, birth trauma and maternity experiences explored primarily using feminist mixed methodologies. Hazel's work is recognised nationally and internationally, with many invited conference and seminar presentations including academic publications and a book for women based on her PhD findings ‘Birth after Caesarean: Your Journey to a Better Birth’. Hazel is the lead researcher on the largest maternity experiences survey, The Birth Experience Study. Hazel is also the Co-Editor in Chief of The Practising Midwife Australia from All4Maternity which was launched in September 2022.
Dr Nigel Lee
Dr Nigel Lee is a midwife and senior research fellow at the University of Queensland. His passion for research is underpinned by many years of clinical experience, predominantly in labour and birth care. He has led several multicentre randomised trials and the first qualitative studies into the use of water injections for pain relief during labour. These studies have established the efficacy, safety and most effective techniques of the procedure contributing to the implementation across Australia and internationally. He has also undertaken and published research in areas such as first and second stage labour management, and strategies for reducing perineal trauma. He is the recipient of a number of research awards and grants, most recently being a NHMRC Investigator Fellowship (EL1).
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Ticket Information
Earlybird Registration closes 16th February 2024.
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Earlybird Price |
Full Price |
| ACM Member |
$350.00 |
$385.00 |
| Non Member |
$495.00 |
$550.00 |
| ACM Affiliate Member |
$350.00 |
$385.00 |
| ACM Graduate Member |
$290.00 |
$320.00 |
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| ACM Student Member |
$250.00 |
$275.00 |
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Conference Dinner
We'd love to see you at the 'Roaring 20’s' themed Conference Dinner on Friday 3rd May! Dust off your best flapper fashion (sequins, beads, fringing, feathers!) and get ready to Charleston the night away in recognition of this incredible generation of women who pushed barriers to economic, political and sexual freedom.
Tickets are $65 per person for a two course meal. Tickets can be purchased by adding the Conference Dinner Program Item to your registration.
Accommodation Information
Attendees can benefit from a conference specific room rate at the Burke & Wills Hotel. Use discount code ACM2024.
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