Growing Ideas & Growing Careers

Professor Inger Mewburn. @Thesiswhisperer
Director of Researcher Development, Australian National University
“The Distracted Academic”
Are you drowning in a sea of endless tasks, shiny new tools, and the constant pressure to be more productive? Join Professor Inger Mewburn as she challenges the myth of academic productivity and offers practical strategies to navigate the choppy waters of academia.

Research Presentations
Dr Brooke Nickel. NHMRC Emerging Leader Research Fellow, Sydney School of Public Health, University of Sydney. “Towards building breast cancer risk factors health literacy in Australia to inform prevention.”
Dr Chandrima Sengupta. Research Fellow, Image X Institute, University of Sydney. “The first implementation of AI-based real-time tumour motion tracking on a clinical system.”
Dr Sirisha Tadimalla. CINSW Early Career Fellow, Institute of Medical Physics, University of Sydney. “Spatial mapping of liver function using MRI for personalised radiation therapy of liver cancer.”
Dr Simon Cai. Senior Data Scientist, Children’s Medical Research Institute. “Synthetic augmentation of cancer cell line multi-omic datasets using unsupervised deep learning.”
Dr Tiffany Li. Postdoctoral Researcher, School of Medical Sciences, University of Sydney. “Chemotherapy-Induced Peripheral Neuropathy: The importance of an accurate assessment.”