Hello All, I have bee accepted to present a session at the 2nd Annual Shared Decision Making Conference in Swansea, Wales in September of this year. My session concerns findings from my research regarding the awareness and use of power by staff working with clients with acquired brain injury. My problem is I have no funds to get to this conference. Due to a restructure, my uni is only able to consider contributing "top up" funds after I have exhausted other resources to locate some fundings to help cover airfair from Sydney, Australia to the UK, accommodations and registration fees. I have been scouring the net looking for potential sponsors and I am following some leads. In an effort to "exhaust all resources" before begging the head of my school again, I thought I'd ask here if anyone has any suggestions for potential sponsors - ABI agencies, advocacy groups, medical centres, corporations....anyone you know who will consider alloting funds to an individual for the purpose of conference attendance. Web sites of organizations would be helpful. Thanks in advance! Feel free to email me direct. -Suzanne *************************************** Suzanne Leigh Snead, M.S. Ph.D. Candidate School of Social Sciences GP Building, Third Level University of Newcastle Callaghan, NSW 2308 AUSTRALIA 61-2-4961-4650 [log in to unmask] If we only know how to communicate with violence, Then it is time to learn a new language. ________________End of message______________________ Archives and tools for the Disability-Research Discussion List are now located at: www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/disability-research.html You can JOIN or LEAVE the list from this web page.