NCETA Symposium 2025 - Presentations

Director’s Welcome - Professor Jacqueline Bowden, Director, National Centre for Education and Training on Addiction (NCETA)

Workforce development research - Chair: Dr Robert Stirling, Chair, NCETA Advisory Board and CEO, Network of Alcohol and other Drugs Agencies

• Showcasing NCETA’s updated website - Sarah Powell, Operations Manager
• Assisting NGOs with funding applications: An introduction to FundAssist - Dr Kirrilly Thompson, Senior Research Fellow
• Motivating Factors for Addiction Medicine Specialisation: Preliminary findings from interviews with trainees and fellows - Yusra Tawfic, MD3 Advanced Studies Student 
• Recommended content for Australia’s first National Harm Reduction Peer Workforce Framework: Findings from interviews with stakeholders – Ele Morrison, Deputy CEO, Australian Injecting and Illicit Drug Users League and Dr Kirrilly Thompson, Senior Research Fellow

Introduction to the Knowledge Centre website - Joanne Hoareau, Senior Research Coordinator, Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet Alcohol and other Drugs Knowledge Centre - online introduction video

PhD Showcase - Chair: Dr Ashlea Bartram, Senior Research Fellow

• Lung cancer screening, smoking and stigma - Nathan Harrison
• A systematic review of barriers to alcohol treatment engagement for women - Victoria Kostadinov
• Unsettling High-Risk Drinking Factors and Trajectories in Australian Midlife Men - Stefano Zaccagnini

Preventive Alcohol, Tobacco, E-cigarettes and Other Drugs (ATEOD) health - Chair: Mel Bradley, Executive Director, Preventive Health SA

• Partnering with Parents: Co-Creating messages to deter teen alcohol supply – Saran Chamberlain, Consumer and Prof Jacqueline Bowden, Director
• Evaluation of a residential managed alcohol program for Aboriginal people experiencing homelessness and alcohol dependence: Short-term impacts of an Australian trial – Blaire Brewerton, Addiction Medical Specialist, DASSA and Mark Thompson, Director, Aboriginal Clinical Services and Strategy
• Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drug Use by Australian Workers: Insights from a nationally representative survey - Dr Gianluca Di Censo, Research Fellow
• Feasibility and Acceptability of Screening, Brief Intervention (SBIRT) in Australian Workplaces - Tina Hart, Public Health Placement Student
• Work Hard… Drink Hard? Investigating occupational predictors of high-risk alcohol consumption - Dr Gianluca Di Censo, Research Fellow
• Vaping risk attitudes in social context: understanding how people think about vaping - Dr Joshua Trigg, Public Health Researcher
• Alcohol consumption across the lifespan: A longitudinal analysis unravelling generational cohort differences - Dr Gianluca Di Censo, Research Fellow

Quick fire presentations - Chair: Prof Jacqueline Bowden, Director

• Identifying predictors of Australian workers’ illicit substance use: A nationally representative study - Dr Gianluca Di Censo, Research Fellow
• Zero-alcohol beverages: alcohol adverts for adolescents - Dr Ashlea Bartram, Senior Research Fellow
• Identification of appropriate tools for measuring presenteeism linked to ATOD - Dr Md Abdul Ahad, Research Assistant
• Visibility of AOD subjects and careers provided by Australian social work programs - Dr Kirrilly Thompson, Senior Research Fellow