Submission are now closed.

The 2024 Lessons Management Forum will be focused on the future of lessons management – embedding and expanding lessons management as a key component of developing a learning culture in the emergency management sector. The committee is seeking abstracts that respond to one or more the questions below, providing case studies detailing how organisations are tackling these challenges.

• What can we do to embed lessons management in our practices and our “business as usual” rather than a niche part of an agency’s operations?
• How are agencies building their lessons capacity to deal with increased levels of operational activity and the push for learning from these?
• With busy operational activity resulting in more reviews, how do we keep lessons management front of mind and avoid lessons fatigue?
• How can the practice of lessons management be improved by embracing new technology?

The Call for Abstracts has now ended.

The 2024 Lessons Management Forum will be delivered as a hybrid event, and presentations should be able to be delivered in person or virtually.

Abstract submissions will close at 5.00pm (AEDT) Tuesday 20 February 2024.

NOTE: Abstracts and supporting documentation not received by the due date will NOT be considered for presentation at the forum. Presenters will need to pay their own registration and travel costs for the forum.

Speakers are encouraged to consider developing their presentations into a short ‘news and views’ article or a longer peer reviewed research article for the Australian Journal of Emergency Management (AJEM). Contributors guidelines can be found here. 

Selection process

Abstract submissions for the Lessons Management Forum 2024 are open to all, including career staff, researchers and academics, industry, community and all levels of government.

The submission and selection process is as follows:

Stage 1: Authors are invited to submit a personal abstract, an abstract on behalf of a colleague, or an abstract on behalf of their organisation, addressing the relevant theme and topics. An author may submit multiple abstracts for consideration by the Program Committee.

Submissions must be lodged by 5.00pm (AEDT) Tuesday 20 February 2024.

Stage 2: Abstract submissions will be reviewed by the Program Committee, who will score each abstract based on its relevance to the overall forum theme and the topic being addressed.

Stage 3: Abstract authors who have been accepted to the forum program will be notified by Wednesday 20 March 2024.

Stage 4: Successful abstract authors must accept their offer by Friday 5 April 2024.

Following the acceptance of the offer to present, speakers must register and pay to attend the forum, and provide the following by Friday 5 April 2024:

• short biography, no more than 150 words
• high-res colour head shot
• brief summary of the presentation for inclusion in the forum program, no more than 100 words.

Stage 5: Final presentations are due by Monday 6 May 2024, to be uploaded and tested with the venue IT systems.

Enquiries

Please contact the AFAC and AIDR Events Team

Email: events@aidr.org.au

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