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The 17th Australian Vocational Education and Training Research Association Conference (AVETRA) Conference was held on 22-24 April 2014 at the Outrigger Hotel, Surfers Paradise, Queensland. The theme was 'Informing changes in vocational education and training (VET) policy and practice: the central role of research'. The keynote sessions were as follows: Developments and anxieties and the completion agenda in American post-secondary education system / Thomas Bailey; Continuing education and training in Singapore: Skills, innovation and productivity / Soon Joo Gog; Apprenticeship: not just a learning experience / Erica Smith. The pre-conference workshops preceding the concurrent sessions were: Becoming a researcher through higher degree research studies: challenges and strategies / Sarojni Choy and Ros Kemmis Brennan; Writing and reviewing for the 'International Journal of Training Research' / Roger Harris, Berwyn Clayton and Steven Hodge; VOCEDplus: the resource of choice for VET researchers / Rose-Anne Polvere; Pedagogies that engage marginalised groups / Tony Dreise and Sally Thompson; The practitioner hub / Michele Simons, Linda Simon and Melinda Waters; Problem?: what problem?: refining your research question / John Stanwick and Michelle Circelli.

The presentations were: Learning a trade: apprentices' perspectives on workplace learning / Selena Chan; Sustainable employee driven innovation program in a VET workplace: a case example / Helen Gray; VET providers delivering associate and bachelor degrees: issues and impacts / Victor Callan; Work(er) driven innovation / Raymond Smith; Delineating personal and institutional facts to elaborate the goals and processes of vocational education / Stephen Billett; Rethinking innovation in VET practices: putting socio-material approaches to research to work / Melinda Waters; The ageing population: what are the implications for adult and community education (ACE) and VET? / Sally Thompson; Spaces for learning: restor(y)ing identities and perspectives through reflective autobiography / Jennifer Miles; Successes and stumbling-blocks: the role of research in informing changes to workforce development practices in industry / Roger Harris; Delivering higher education in VET: the experiences of VET teachers and managers / Rosalind Carter; Outcomes of incorporating e-learning in school VET delivery: how has Gen Y benefited from the 1:1 laptop program? / Catherine Ryan; When art becomes food: an application of Bourdieu's distinction to hospitality pedagogy / Andrew Dolphin; Historical influences on vocational education and training (VET) in Vietnam / Thi Hanh Ho; VET in Victoria: policies that abandon disadvantaged learners / Sally Brennan.

Learning pathways for economic enterprise in remote Aboriginal communities: are certificate IIIs the ticket? / Eva McRae-Williams; Measuring the cost and benefits of language, literacy and numeracy (LLN) training in the workplace / Justin Brown; Codes of conduct and its impact on ethical action in vocational education and training / Sonal Nakar; Safety beyond classroom training to workplace learning for workers in perilous work environments / Kristine Yap; A marriage prearranged: contextualised leadership training meets national training frameworks / Jill Hadley; Midlife blindness and employability: the correlation between societal perceptions of blind people and those who support their employment / Bruce Blackshaw; Footprints to pathways: reconciliation action planning in industry to sustain indigenous employment in Queensland (QLD) / Bronwyn Ewing; Distance-based learners navigating between remote and real-time learning contexts / Hilary Timma; Successful transitions into the labour market for equity groups / Linda Pfeiffer; Recognition of prior learning (RPL) 'traveling' to vocational education and training policy: RPL as an example of educational policy marketisation and Europeanisation / Marin Gross; Where are the female trades teachers?: a study of views on increasing the number of female trades teachers / Linda Simon.

Failure to launch: a case of career transition from trade to teacher terminated / William Blayney; Can creative thinking skills help adult migrants complete a community VET course? / Joanne Maxwell; An authentic approach to facilitate vocational and technical education students' transition from education to work / Adeline Goh; Efficiency of Australian TAFE providers / Peter Fieger; Pouring new VET into old academic bottles / Stuart Middleton; Informing VET policy and practice: what research tells us about how senior vocational teachers view change / Jennifer Davids; Financial literacy education in the vocational education and training sector / Levon Blue; Amplifying the voice of remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander VET stakeholders using research methodologies: volume 1 / John Guenther; A different journey: youth in learn locals / Louise Ellum; Co-creating innovation through shared expertise: principles underpinning the epistemology and scholarly contribution of a portfolio-based professional doctorate / Philip Thomas; The value of including languages other than English in vocational courses / Ivano Buoro; Working with cultural and linguistic diversity in manufacturing workplaces: a critical perspective / Keiko Yasukawa; Mimesis and vocational education / Stephen Billett; Guided learning: contemporary workers' experiences and benefits / Sarojni Choy; The Fulbright experience: a VET scholar's reflections / Damien Pearce; Where is the lifelong learning in Australian regional communities? / Rob Townsend.

Education for sustainability: an enabler of quality VET pedagogy? / Gitanjali Bedi; What do senior figures in Australian VET and industrial relations think about the concept of skill in work? / Erica Smith and Andy Smith; The role of vocational disciplinary knowledge in building VET teacher capabilities / Chris Corbel; New Zealand's first tertiary high school: student perceptions of their learning experiences in the first two years / Colleen Young; Expertise and the representation of knowledge in training packages / Steven Hodge; 'I don't just wear it... I live in it': pushing the boundaries: pedagogical practice in the hair and beauty industry / Roslin Brennan Kemmis; Adult community education and the older citizen / Ainslie Lamb and Ronald Browne; Workplace-based learning in Swedish upper secondary apprenticeship education / Ingrid Berglund; Assessment of unskilled adults' prior learning: fair to whom? / Vibe Aarkrog; Learning to integrate literature into essays: the challenge for new undergraduate VET trainers / Ann Kelly; Teacher professionalisation in relation to retention strategies / Bjarne Wahlgren; Challenges to the career development of socially disadvantaged young people not in education, employment and training: implications for vocational intervention / Patrick Danaher; Online learning communities: bridging the divide between theory and practice / Leo Gregorc.

A case of contemporary workplace learning: experiences of the teacher education practicum in vocational education and training in schools / Helen Keen-Dyer; Constituting VET professional development in contemporary times / Stephen Billett; Teaching fractions to indigenous adult learners enrolled in a civil construction course: knowledge and action in tandem / Bronwyn Ewing; Competencies for event planning and management: challenges to Thailand's vocational education sector / Apiramon Ourairat; Credit transfer rates at a regional university on the pathway towards dual sector status / Roslyn Cameron; Casual teacher perceptions of VET work / Katrina Kavanagh; Novice VET teacher learning through mentoring / Susanne Francisco; Competence-oriented curriculum reform in Austrian business schools and business academies / Christiane Schopf; Donor supported technical and vocational education and training (TVET) reforms in Bangladesh: perceptions, challenges and concerns from lived experiences of piloting teachers in transition / Tony Holland; Innovation: transgressive movements in working with knowledge in crossdisciplinary settings / Lorraine White-Hancock; National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER) funded research for the research theme 'Students and individuals' (1999-2012) / Roslyn Cameron; Staff perspectives about gamefully designing Charles Darwin University / Alicia Boyle; Justice, employment and vocational education in the aged care and disability services sector / Mary Leahy.

How does VET research make an impact?: paths across the rickety bridge / Llandis Barratt-Pugh; Learning on the margins: experiencing low level VET programmes in a UK context / Liz Atkins; Models of continuing education and training: VET practitioner perspectives / Darryl Dymock and Raymond Smith; Geographical dimensions of imagined futures: post school participation in education and work in peri-urban and regional Australia / Susan Webb; Does education and training for remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders lead to 'real' jobs?: evidence from the 2011 Census / John Guenther; Self-directed learning and apprenticeships: an emerging grounded study / Damien Pearce; Professional learning strategies which may have contributed to the improvement in VET lecturers' skills and their motivation for further learning / Anne Dening; Workplace change and learning: perceptions of workers / Mark Tyler and Darryl Dymock; VET practices and practice architectures / Stephen Kemmis; Practitioner research: do we value a culture of inquiry in VET? / Linda Simon 'Disadvantaged' older workers: exploring their experiences pursuing training opportunities to increase employability / Rebecca Meyers; Digital connectivity for networked learning: lessons of the learner experiences of farmers for the Australian vocational education and training system / Patrick Danaher; Deviating from the norm: promoting innovative student pathways / Helen Weadon.

Abstracts of all presentations are included in the conference program booklet. Available papers from the conference are in VOCEDplus from TD/TNC 116.1619 to TD/TNC 116.1623, TD/TNC 116.1625 to TD/TNC 116.1632, TD/TNC 116.1635, TD/TNC 116.1641 to TD/TNC 116.1650. Show less