Events

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2025 International Social Marketing Conference

2025 International Social Marketing Conference: Social Marketing in the Age of Disruption. Brisbane, Australia. May 2025.
Submissions close 21 November 2025.

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Date:  13-15 May 2025
Venue:  Faculty of Business, Government and Law, University of Canberra

Critical Social Marketing Symposium 2024

The CSM Symposium takes place at the University of York, UK, on 12 June 2024. This is a free hybrid event. Confirmed keynote speakers include Professor Jeff French, Professor Ross Gordon, and Dr Nadia Zainuddin.

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8th World Social Marketing Conference

AASM members will receive an exclusive 10% discount on their registration. Please read for further information.

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Date:  1-3 November, 2023
Venue:  Cali, Colombia

1st Australian Customer Vulnerability Symposium

Challenging Assumptions of Customer Vulnerability: Rethinking and Reshaping

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Date:  April 28, 2023

Next steps – Coronavirus and Behaviour Change What it will take to be successful

In times of uncertainty having a solid understanding of consumer attitudes and behaviours is crucial for social marketers. People everywhere are learning to live with the reality of COVID-19 and settling into new normals. How will this affect your organisation and your work?

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Fostering Sustainable and Healthy Behaviour: Lessons from Psychology

Join Dr DOUG McKENZIE-MOHR to learn how psychology can play a central role in widespread behaviour change

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Date:  Monday, 2nd March 2020
Venue:  VicHealth, 15-31 Pelham Street, Carlton, Victoria

Outside-in thinking: sources of inspiration for behaviour change.

Outside-in thinking is a business strategy that focuses on customer value and customer experiences and starts from looking outside of the organisation.

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Insights from the World Social Marketing Conference

The conclusion of the most recent World Social Marketing Conference 2019 in Edinburgh, UK saw the emergence of a number of key trends in social and behaviour change research and practice. The NSW Hub of the Australian Association of Social Marketing would like to invite all change agents to a panel session to hear about these key trends from a selection of expert speakers working at the forefront of social and behaviour change, and who were invited speakers at the conference.

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Date:  Friday 25th October 2019
Venue:  Sydney Business School, University of Wollongong
Gateway Building
1 Macquarie Place, Circular Quay, NSW 2001
Boardroom 2, Level 10

Citizen Centric Social Marketing

In this session Professor Jeff French will cover the need for and how to develop and deliver a more citizen centric approach to social policy.

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10 Key Considerations for Social and Behaviour Change

Professor Jeff French will be joining us in Perth to share his top 10 key considerations that anyone working in contemporary social and behaviour change areas should consider.

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Date:  Tuesday 15th October 2019
Venue:  Murdoch University
South Street
The Loft, Level 3 above Sir Walters Restaurant
Murdoch WA 6150

Insights from the World Social Marketing Conference

Dial up your knowledge by hearing about the latest practices, trends and opportunities in behaviour and social change from the 2019 World Social Marketing Conference held in Edinburgh in early June.

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Examining value destruction and termination of support services and the impact on subjective wellbeing

The AASM NSW Hub is pleased to announce a Research Seminar by Dr Cheryl Leo from Murdoch University. Dr Leo will be presenting her latest research on support services and why people choose to terminate the use of these service that are designed to support our health and wellbeing and the implications of such decisions. This research was conducted in collaboration with Dr Nadia Zainuddin from the University of Wollongong.

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Adelaide Behaviour Change Hub Network

We need you to help shape the development of our Adelaide Behaviour Change Hub Network!

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The art and science of briefing an agency with Michael Daddo

Come along for an engaging and interactive session with one of Australia’s most dynamic thinkers on behaviour change social marketing campaigns. Michael will talk about how to effectively brief and get the best results from an agency.

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Date:  Tuesday 18 June 2019, 5:30 - 6:30 pm AEDT
Venue:  VicHealth, 15-31 Pelham Street, Carlton, Victoria

10 Key Considerations for Social and Behaviour Change

The AASM NSW Hub is delighted to announce a research seminar by Professor Jeff French, PhD, MBA, MSc, DipHE, BA, Cert.Ed. Professor French will be joining us in Sydney to share his top 10 key considerations that anyone working in contemporary social and behaviour change areas should consider.

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10 Key Considerations for Social and Behaviour Change

The AASM QLD Hub is delighted to announce a research seminar by Professor Jeff French, PhD, MBA, MSc, DipHE, BA, Cert.Ed. Professor French will be joining us in Brisbane to share his top 10 key considerations that anyone working in contemporary social and behaviour change areas should consider.

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Selecting and unpacking behaviours: A critical step in developing effective programs

The Victorian Hub of the Australian Association of Social Marketing is hosting its first event for 2019 with an international guest presenter Doug McKenzie Mohr. Doug will take you on a deep dive into thinking about what behaviours we should be targeting and how we can understand those behaviours in ways that facilitate better program development. This will then be followed by a Q&A session.

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Date:  Monday 4th March 2019
Venue:  Level 28, 50 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne VIC 3000

Expired: Change 2018

Change 2018 is a 2-day conference proudly brought to you by Social Marketing @ Griffith. We have put together this event to bring the best of what we know will help enhance your behaviour change programs through empowering, enabling, and enacting. All AASM members are eligible for a special discounted rate to attend Change 2018 of $990 + GST p/person.

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Women Leading Change Summit

Women rule when it comes to making decisions and making change.

For the first time, a full-day interactive seminar from AASM in conjunction with Deakin University Business School, showcases women as influencers, leaders and change agents – and shows you how to put that knowledge to work for social change.

To be held in Melbourne on Tuesday August 21, it features a top line up of speakers from organisations such as VicHealth, Victorian Women’s Trust, Our Watch and many more.

Be inspired by the best. Register now for a great day of learning and networking.

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Date:  Tuesday, 21st August, 2018
Venue:  Deakin Downtown at 2, 727 Collins St, Docklands, Melbourne Docklands

Expired: International Social Marketing Conference (ISMC)

The International Social Marketing Conference (ISMC) aims to bring together behaviour and social change agents from across the Asia-Pacific in a 2-day collaboration to share the latest tools & approaches to changing behaviours for societal wellbeing. Learn new insights from industry experts, grow your network & explore emerging technologies.

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Date:  July 15th to July 16th 2018 with doctoral colloquium on July 18th 2018.

About AASM’s Events

The AASM runs Hub events around Australia including research seminars, symposiums, and networking events relating to contemporary social marketing. AASM currently has Hubs in Western Australia, Victoria, New South Wales, and Queensland. The association also has a view to expanding our network of hubs (e.g. South Australia, New Zealand, Asia-Pacific regions) so if you are interested in setting up an AASM Hub or getting involved in running events please contact us.

The AASM also co-brands events with various partners and host institutions. If you would like to co-brand an event or series of events with AASM please get in touch.

AASM can provide social marketing experts to come and present, network, and meet with people at social marketing and social change events – please contact us to arrange.

Finally, the AASM sends regular email updates regarding hub events to our members as well as what is posted on the website – so please watch out for these.

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