CALL FOR PAPERS
Deadline: MIDNIGHT Monday 8th December 2025
Notification of acceptance: End of January 2026
Founded in 1986, Brain Injury Australia is the nation’s peak advocacy organisation representing the over 700,000 Australians living with a brain injury. Brain Injury Australia’s National Brain Injury Conference has become one of the premier learning and development events on the disability calendar – driving improvements in services and supports for people living with a brain injury, their families and carers.
Share your knowledge with a large national and international audience (over 400 delegates attended the 9th National Brain Injury Conference, held at Adelaide Oval in September 2024). Connect with people with lived experience of brain injury as well as colleagues from the healthcare and disability sectors, research and government. Network with potential collaborators, and funders. Gain recognition as an expert in your chosen field.
The Conference program will feature a variety of presentation formats including panel discussions, single speaker sessions and workshops. Your proposal can be: an oral presentation; a “snapshot” (a 10-15 minute overview of an underacknowledged topic, or a research finding, in brain injury); the “Consumer Opening Address” to the Conference (by a presenter with lived experience of brain injury); or a topic for a day-long or half-day workshop or a panel discussion.
Please feel free to submit multiple presentation proposals.
The Conference organisers would especially welcome presentations by people with a brain injury.
The Conference organisers would especially welcome presentation proposals in the following subject areas:
- The lived experience of brain injury – people with a brain injury, significant others, family members, carers;
- Innovations, including the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI), in evidence-based approaches to the treatment, rehabilitation and overall care of people with a brain injury;
- "Best practice" communication, rapport-building with people with a brain injury;
- Concussion, "mild" Traumatic Brain Injury, Persistent Post-Concussion Symptoms/ Post-Concussion Syndrome;
- Family, Domestic and Sexual Violence and brain injury/ inflicted Traumatic Brain Injury in children;
- Peer supports, mentoring of people with a brain injury;
- Brain injury in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) communities;
- Acute care of Traumatic Brain Injury;
- Brain injury and employment;
- The management of “challenging behaviours”;
- Alcohol and other drug-related brain injury;
- The prevention of brain injury;
- Brain injury and sexuality;
- "Long COVID" and brain injury;
- Brain injury in the military;
- The National Disability Insurance Scheme; and
- Traumatic Brain Injury in older Australians.
The Conference looks forward to seeing what you propose!
Nick Rushworth
Executive Officer, Brain Injury Australia
Conference Chair
Contact Us
National Brain Injury Conference Secretariat