About the Event

Join us for a joint PD session to kick start 2026. This PD presentation will feature the 2025 Ken Provins Award winner Amanda Dominello and the 2025 Ron Cumming Memorial Lecture Jodi Oakman.

Amanda Dominello - 2025 Ken Provins Award Winner

“Using patient / provider persona dyads in the co-design of healthcare”

Consumer involvement in healthcare co-design advances health services that better meet the needs of those individuals. Methods to facilitate involvement of consumers where they can most meaningfully impact service co-design are still developing. In health, personas are hypothetical representations of individuals that help to establish an understanding of the perspectives and experiences of a stakeholder group. These fictional profiles can be used as an innovative and creative participatory method. Our aim was to design patient/provider persona dyads as a tool to bring patients with lived experience of mental illness together with providers to create Emergency Department improvements in co-design workshops.

Jodi Oakman - 2025 Ron Cumming Memorial Lecture

“From research to workplace practice” What is the role of ergonomists?”

A large body of HE research evidence outlines what workplaces could do better. but the focus is more limited on how to achieve effective translation of this research into workplace practices. Workplaces are complex socio-technical systems so it is unsurprising that HE evidence-based interventions confront many barriers. This presentation examines requirements for effective implementation of such HE workplace interventions, highlighting systemic challenges including organisational inertia, limited stakeholder involvement, and misalignments between research outcomes and operational needs. Recent case studies and implementation science frameworks will support exploration of how HE principles can be better integrated into the design, implementation, and evaluation of workplace interventions. HE professionals are well placed to use research evidence in their practice. However, to achieve effective translation requires a commitment to knowledge and skills development to ensure the use of contemporary evidence across different areas of practice.

When: 6:30pm-8:30pm AEDT 5th February 2026

Where: via zoom

Cost: Members - free; non-members $30; MOU societies $15 (please email secretariat@ergonomics.org.au with your society and member number for your discount code)