Student
The AIPN student representative is primarily responsible for representing all matters affecting or of concern to injury prevention students to the AIPN executive committee; for promoting the views of injury prevention students and encouraging students to become members and be actively involved in AIPN activities. For more information about the AIPN student representative, please see the Roles and responsibilities (pdf - 29 kb) document.
The current AIPN student representative is Michelle Fraser from Curtin University in WA.
Contact the AIPN Student Representative
Do you have any opinions, ideas, suggestions or any other student-related matters that you would like to raise in relation to injury prevention or safety promotion? If so, please email the current AIPN student representative at m.fraser@curtin.edu.au
The benefits of becoming a student member of AIPN include:
- Getting a discounted conference registration fee
- The ability to apply for any potential student bursaries at AIPN conferences
- Participating in any student-only meetings that may be held at AIPN conferences or events
- Meeting other injury prevention students around Australia through AIPN conferences, events or email lists
- Receiving the quarterly AIPN Injury Incidence newsletter
- Entering in student-only competitions
- Having the chance to make a contribution to injury prevention in Australia
- Learning about injury prevention research projects being conducted around Australia through the AIPN community
- Gaining knowledge and understanding of the processes of promoting an issue such as injury prevention to local and state governments (i.e. gaining advocacy experience)
- Gaining and improving networking and interpersonal skills with other Australian researchers through the AIPN community
The AIPN aims to hold student-only meetings at AIPN conferences. These meetings may be in the form of a presentation, discussion panel or even a careers forum.
If you have any feedback or suggestions for these student meetings, please contact the AIPN student representative.
Previous AIPN student meeting archive
The AIPN believes that student competitions are a great way for students to become involved in the AIPN community.
The AIPN is running an exciting new writing competition in 2011, open to postgraduate students in the injury prevention field. The winner will have the opportunity to gain important recognition in the injury field that will greatly assist in their career development through conference presentation and possible publication in Injury Prevention. Please see the following documents for further information about the competition.
2011 Writing Competition Details and Guidelines (pdf - 54 kb)
Page last updated: 1 June 2011