1A: Health Promotion / Allied Health / Behavioural
Tracks
Track 1
Friday, November 15, 2019 |
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM |
Chancellor 1 |
Speaker
Mrs Lief Pearson
Resource and Liaison Lead
The Light Project
Porn and Young People – What do we know? NZ Youth Stakeholders responding to a changing youth culture
1:00 PM - 1:15 PMBiography
Lief has a 15 year sexual health background, she spent 10 years as a senior sexual health and sexual assault
nurse for the Auckland sexual health service. She has worked closely with government and non-government
sexual violence prevention organisations. She has been working in the area of youth and porn for 2 1/2 years
and authored The Light Project report Porn and young people - What do we know?.
Ms Tracy Clelland
Lecturer
University of Canterbury
ARE WE SCARED TO TALK ABOUT SEX? MAYBE IT’S THE OTHER QUESTION, WE’RE SCARED TO TELL OUR CHILDREN THAT IT’S PLEASURABLE, WHAT ARE WE SCARED OF?” (MEL, FG 1)
1:15 PM - 1:30 PMBiography
Tracy Clelland is a lecturer in the School of Health Sciences at the University of Canterbury. She is currently completing her doctoral studies focusing on parental engagement in sexuality education. She has been a Health Education teacher in secondary schools and a Family Planning Educator.
Ms Abby Knight
Health Promoter
Family Planning NZ
SEXUALITY & DISABILITY: REALISING SEXUAL AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH AND RIGHTS
1:30 PM - 1:45 PMBiography
Holly Coulter and Abby Knight are health promoters with Family Planning. Their work involves delivering relationships and sexuality education and training to promote supportive environments and empower all New Zealanders to realise their sexual and reproductive health rights.
Dr John P Egan
Director
University of Auckland
Mrs Abby Leota
Positive Speakers' Bureau Coordinator
Positive Women Inc.
TRIANGULATION – AN AGILE METHOD FOR EVALUATING EFFECTIVE HEALTH PROMOTION IN AOTEAROA
2:00 PM - 2:15 PMBiography
Abby has worked in and around the health sector including Family Planning International where she ran projects in the Pacific for sexual and reproductive health and rights. More recently she took up a role with Positive Women as the Positive Speakers Bureau Coordinator.
As the coordinator for the NZ Positive Speakers’ Bureau, Abby is responsible for managing and delivering the programme and the day to day operating of this unique health promotion service. With over 85 events already this year, Abby has first-hand understanding of how evaluation can be a tipping point for health promotion services. She is here today to explain an agile evaluation method – Triangulation, and how it can be much more than just “ticking the box”.
Mr Evan Hastings
Artistic Director
THETA
Adolescent Masculinities and the Drama of Sexual Health Promotion
2:15 PM - 2:30 PMBiography
Artistic Director of THETA, Evan is a Drama Therapist, Theatre Artist, and Scholar. Evan has taught at Project Zero in the Harvard Graduate School of Education, Lesley University, and The Evergreen State College in the USA and Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology and Saint Xaviers College in India.
Mr Evan Hastings
Artistic Director
THETA
Dr Analosa Veukiso-Ulugia
Lecturer
The University of Auckland
COLLABORATIVE PARTNERSHIPS BETWEEN HEALTH PROMOTERS AND ACADEMIA: METHODOLOGICAL CONSIDERATIONS WHEN PARTNERING WITH PACIFIC COMMUNITIES.
2:45 PM - 3:00 PMBiography
Analosa Veukiso-Ulugia is a Sāmoan lecturer in the School of Counselling, Human Services and Social Work at the University of Auckland. A health professional specialising in Pacific youth health, Analosa is committed to the empowerment of Pacific communities, specifically in the area of sexual health.