Women Researchers' Network Enabling Capability Platforms Symposium 27th October, 2016 Program and Abstracts rmit.edu.au/staff/research/women-researchers-network Made possible by Enabling Capability Platforms Funding Initiative The Women Researchers’ Network & Enabling Capability Platforms present A Symposium highlighting the research interests of recently recruited women researchers Thursday 27th October 2016 ~ 2 ~ Program 10:00 Welcome and introduction to the Enabling Dist. Professor Larissa Hjorth Capability Platforms 10:10 Introduction to the Women Researchers’ Dr Nicky Eshtiaghi Network 10:15-11: 00 Keynote presentation Professor Frances Separovic 11:00-11:30 Morning tea 11:30-13:00 Session 1 Chair: Professor Peter Design and creative practice Fairbrother Global business innovation Social change Urban futures 13:00-:14:00 Lunch 14:00-15:15 Session 2 Chair: A/Professor Samantha Advanced manufacturing and fabrication Richardson Advanced materials Biomedical and health innovation Information and systems (engineering) 15:15-15:30 Closing remarks A/Professor Samantha Richardson ~ 3 ~ Session 1 Speaker Presentation title 1. Pia Arenius Study of the entrepreneurial startup process: longitudinal study of active nascent entrepreneurs 2. Amanda Warmerdam Research translation: bridging the gap 3. Areli Avendano Franco Service design thinking for sustainable value propositions for online services. 4. Judith Glover Design and Sexual Health: confronting taboos and creating innovation 5. Ceridwen Spark Gender in the Urban Pacific 6. Lauren Gurrieri Exploring the role of social media in female body idealisation 7. Christina Scott-Young Transitioning into and out of university: the impact of resilience on students’ psychological distress and well-being 8. Priyadarsini Rajagopalan Building energy efficiency and environmental quality 9. Slobodanka Stojkovic Plastic pollution in our environment and the role of microbes 10. Wendy Steele Wild cities 11. Lisa Farrell Understanding the relationship between subjective wellbeing and gambling behavior Session 2 Speaker Presentation title 1. Tamar Greaves Role of the solvophobic effect in protein-ionic liquid interactions 2. Charlotte Conn Biomimetic lipidic nanostructured materials for encapsulation of therapeutic proteins 3. Jacqueline Flynn The uncharacteristic role of T memory stem cells in HIV-1 infection 4. Mary Tolcos A new therapy to promote myelination and improve neurological outcomes following fetal growth restriction. 5. Sara Baratchi Mechanism of TRPV4 channel activation in response to shear stress 6. Michelle Rank Using patch-clamp electrophysiology to explore mechanisms of plasticity in spinal cord circuits after stroke 7. Tamara Paravicini Exploring new targets for the treatment of cardiovascular diseases 8. Lin Tian Bio-transport in human respiratory airways 9. Amy Reichelt Cognitive impact of high fat and high sugar diets 10. Ruwini Edirisinghe E-Textiles to improve construction work health 11. Amanda Berry Investigating teacher knowledge development in science education ~ 4 ~ Women Researchers’ Network The Women Researchers ’ Network (WRN) was established in 2013 to enable female academic staff and research fellows at all career stages to connect with one another. The Network’s purpose is to foster women researchers’ career advancement. WRN Objectives: • To advocate for change in gender equity policy, practice and behaviour • To foster a flourishing and supportive environment for women researchers • To connect the university to a wider community of practice in gender equity The WRN is open to all RMIT academic and research staff. More information about the WRN may be found on the web at: http://www1.rmit.edu.au/staff/research/women-researchers-network Enabling Capability Platforms RMIT University has established the Enabling Capability Platforms (ECPs) to build collaborative networks and communities of practice and nurture capability development. The ECPs will contribute to the delivery of RMIT’s research strategy and embed innovation in the research and innovation ecosystem. They are founded on large scale multi-disciplinary clusters of research excellence that can be deployed to address local, national, regional and global challenges and deliver significant economic, societal and environmental impact. The ECPs main roles are to: • build collaborative networks across the university and with key external partners; • build communities of practice within the university; • nurture and grow defined capability; • identify and support capability deployment through project development and delivery. The ECPs are inclusive and take a whole of university perspective. They provide a mechanism for the strategic allocation of research funding to build research excellence, innovation, translation and impact. They are structured to be flexible and responsive to changes in the internal and external environment. The ECPs are: Advanced manufacturing and fabrication Advanced manufacturing and fabrication is the transformation of materials into products. RMIT’s advanced manufacturing capabilities include design, additive manufacturing, micro-nano fabrication and automation; and the associated link with supply chain management and information systems. For further information contact: Professor Stuart Bateman Advanced materials Advanced materials refer to all new materials and modifications to existing materials to obtain superior performance in one or more characteristics that are critical for the application under consideration. Advanced materials can be both structural and functional. They can be inorganic, organic or inorganic-organic hybrids. They can be classified as soft matter or hard matter depending on their characteristics. For further information contact: Dist. Professor Mike Xie Biomedical and health innovation This Platform addresses international health challenges related to the rapidly-changing population demographics and the escalating burden of diseases through effective application of technology, therapeutic and diagnostic developments, patient education, nutrition, life-style modification and evidence-based clinical evaluation. This Platform incorporates theranostics, biomedical technology and health and lifestyle. For further information contact: Professor Peter McIntyre Design and creative practice This Platform brings together world leading expertise, infrastructure, partnerships and programs in design and creative practice. Focussed on critical and trans-disciplinary practice-based research in ~ 5 ~ architecture, art, design, digital media, fashion, and organisational contexts, researchers advance knowledge and practice through effective collaboration. RMIT’s design and creative practice research develops new techniques for imagining and acting that help create rich and adaptive responses in a changing world, addressing questions of form and meaning. For further information contact: Professor Swee Mak Global business innovation This Platform brings together inter-disciplinary and applied researchers to address themes connecting governance, networks, technologies, design, culture, people and performance. It includes a specific focus on innovation, value creation, and sustainability from both market and socio-political perspectives. The goal of Global Business Innovation is to promote excellence across the diverse fields of business research as well as to use this expertise in the process of knowledge transfer for the benefit of the economy, society, and the public sector. This Platform comprises global logistics and supply chain management; entrepreneurship and innovation; governance, accountability, and the law; markets, culture, and behaviour; and people, organisations, and performance. For further information contact: Professor Pia Arenius Information and systems (engineering) Using a whole-of-system approach to develop and securely deliver targeted information, services and products - anywhere, and from any source, this Platform brings together core capabilities in data analytics, complex cyber-physical systems, mobile and pervasive environments, automation, bioinformatics, bioengineering, information management and user-centric systems. For further information contact: Professor Mark Sanderson Social change This Platform focuses on understanding social change associated with human progress, from the global scale to the local. Social change brings together RMIT’s capabilities in sociology, digital ethnography, social policy and media studies. It engages with communities, governments, organisations and industries to make theoretically informed and evidence based contributions through engaged social research. For further information contact: Professor Peter Fairbrother Urban futures There is an urgent need for research to inform how cities can be more equitable, sustainable and accountable. This Platform harnesses interdisciplinary expertise across social science, humanities, creative arts and design, environmental and technological disciplines, to analyse and resolve urban challenges. Drawing on the cutting edge urban disciplines of architecture, urban planning and the built environment, and the urban-based post-industrial applied disciplines such as cultural studies, new media, urban sociology, fashion and creative arts this Platform engages with practical problems of urban change, including sustainability, resilience and inclusion, delivering real world impact. The Enabling Capability Platforms will be developed during 2016 and further information will be released as