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The Australian Community Psychologist The Official Journal of the Australian Psychological Society College of Community Psychologists Special Issue: Conference Proceedings of the 8th International Conference of Community Psychology 2020, Melbourne Australia Volume 31 No. 1 2 National Committee of the APS College of Community Psychologists Chairperson Helen Killmier, Victoria Secretary Monika Naslund, Victoria Treasurer Renzo Vittorino, Victoria Web Editor Neil Drew, Western Australia Programme Accreditation Lynne Cohen, Western Australia Professional Development Helen Killmier, Victoria Membership Secretary Meg Smith, New South Wales State Chairs Neil Drew, Western Australia Meg Smith, New South Wales Peter Streker, Victoria Australian Community Psychologist (ACP) Editor Rachael Fox, New South Wales Australian Psychologist Omnibus Journal Editorial Board Member Dawn Darlaston-Jones, Western Australia Published by The College of Community Psychologists of the Australian Psychological Society Ltd ISSN 1835-7393 Disclaimer: “The publication of an advertisement by ACP is not an endorsement of the Advertiser nor of the products and services advertised. 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The Australian Community Psychologist Volume 31 No 1 © The Australian Psychological Society Ltd 3 General Information The Australian Community Psychologist is the Journal of the College of Community Psychologists of the Australian Psychological Society Editor Dr Rachael Fox, Charles Sturt University, NSW Editorial Board Professor Lynne Cohen, Edith Cowan University, WA Dr Leigh Coombes, Massey University, Aotearoa/New Zealand Dr Tanya Graham, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa Heather Gridley, Victoria University, Vic Professor Bernard Guerin, University of South Australia, SA Dr Meg Smith, Western Sydney University, NSW Dr Chris Sonn, Victoria University, Vic Dr Tahereh Ziaian, University of South Australia, SA Methodological Consultant Dr Jasmine MacDonald, RMIT University, VIC Associate Editors Dr Kelly-Ann Allen, University of Melbourne, Vic Dr Eddie Ng, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Dr Brona Nic Giolla Easpaig, Macquarie University, NSW Dr Harriet Radermacher, Monash University, Vic Dr Renzo Vittorino, Victoria University, Vic Production Editors Sam Keast, Victoria University, Vic Rama Agung-igusti, Victoria University, Vic ADVERTISING RATES Full page $100 1/2 page $50 1/4 page $25 All payments to be made out to: APS College of Community Psychologists The Australian Psychological Society PO Box 38 Flinders Lane Post Office Melbourne Vic 8009 Current and past issues of ACP can be accessed through Australia’s web archive system PANDORA (http://pandora.nla.gov.au/tep/84823) PANDORA is an initiative of the Australian National Library in conjunction with nine other collections. 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The Australian Community Psychologist Volume 31 No 1 © The Australian Psychological Society Ltd 4 Contents National Committee of the APS College of Community Psychologists .........................2 General Information ...............................................................................................................3 Editorial .....................................................................................................................................5 Conference Theme ...................................................................................................................8 Book Presentations ..................................................................................................................9 Creative and Artistic ............................................................................................................ 11 Symposia ................................................................................................................................. 42 Roundtable Presentations ................................................................................................... 93 Open Oral Presentations ................................................................................................... 124 Ignite Presentations ............................................................................................................ 297 Poster Presentations ........................................................................................................... 323 Acknowledgements ............................................................................................................. 357 Preparation, Submission and Publication of Manuscripts ......................................... 359 The Australian Community Psychologist Volume 31 No 1 © The Australian Psychological Society Ltd 5 Editorial We are delighted to present this Special Issue, which publishes the Conference Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Community Psychology, which was held virtually from Melbourne, Australia on the 11-13th November 2020. The theme of the conference was “Fostering and Sustaining Solidarities: Communities, Activism, Knowledges and Environments”. The conference sought to celebrate and interrogate the ways solidarities are fostered and sustained within community contexts, across borders and boundaries, digital and non-digital spaces, and through processes of knowledge production. It sought to give a critical platform to the ideas and work emerging from coalitions with practitioners, artists, educators, activists, and diverse communities. It was interested in exploring and showcasing scholarship, activism, practice, and critical scholarly engagement, from around the world that seeks to bring about sustainability, inclusivity, and wellbeing for all. The conference began forming three years ago, as we prepared to travel to the 7 th Conference in Chile, towards the end of 2018, and present our bid to host. Right after that time surges of political activism and protests swept through Chile and other South American countries, as at the same time government violence and injustice deepened, and events such as Brazil electing Bolsonaro occurred. American politics, Donald Trump, the insanity of Brexit continued through 2019, Amazon rainforest fires, protests in Hong Kong. For all the evidence that authoritarianism is rising, millions of people continued to risk their lives with the aim of making governments responsive to their wishes. In the middle of 2019, we had over 350 abstract submissions to the conference. What struck us most about the submissions are the extent to which they represent grassroots and activist works and promote passionate social justice work with peoples. They are very inspiring, very powerful examples of work which are undoubtedly finding ways to make a difference in the face of barriers and boundaries of governments, institutions and systems. Then of course 2020 happened. In January, in Australia the fires burnt an estimated 46 million acres. We grieved the loss of an estimated three billion animals and some endangered species were believed to be driven to extinction. The pandemic of course has since then dominated all our lives, creating a shared situation for humans of the entire planet, albeit one which has not been shared equally in any manner. The injustices, violences and inequalities were already being experienced unequally and so this pandemic deepened issues that were already present, caused a deepening of misery for many, and perhaps also made these issues more visible to privileged people than they were before. The uprisings relating to Black lives matter and other political movements also grew that year - that risking of lives to make governments responsive to wishes is still very much alive. We therefore had to cancel the face to face version of the conference which was due to take place June 2020. Many expressed to us how much they were looking forward to coming, and to visiting Australia. We moved ahead to hold the conference virtually instead – many of us meeting from our homes, surrounded by difficulties of many kinds. It felt very surreal and emotional to be meeting together but to be isolated at the same time. Having said that, the privilege that comes with being able to travel to a conference was thrown into question. We wanted, when we decided to move online, to create an opportunity for people to be able to attend that would not normally be able to attend, and we thought it was in some The Australian Community Psychologist Volume 31 No 1 © The Australian Psychological Society Ltd 6 small ways an opportunity to disrupt some of the problematic and excluding processes that come with holding a conference. The Conference Proceedings includes all the abstracts that were accepted to the face to face June 2020 conference that was unable to proceed – this is a greater number than were able to present at the virtual event, but does include all those virtual