Presenters:

Assc Prof Kate Seear – Australian Research Centre for Sex, Health and Society, Latrobe University

Sione Crawford – Harm Reduction Victoria

Stephanie Tzanetis – Australian Injecting and Illicit Drug Users League (AIVL)

Attendees will gain an understanding of:

• The importance and value of including affected communities and research (for the project, the researchers and the communities in question);
• What being inclusive actually looks like;
• The difference between technical and meaningful inclusion;
• The importance of planning for inclusion;
• Inclusion as an ongoing process;
• Resources, strategies and methods for achieving and maintaining meaningful inclusion of affected communities in your research.