(2020) M. JI, keynote speech ‘Establishing best practice of mental health translation for effective psychosocial disability assessment’, at the 3rd Swiss Conference on Barrier-free Communication, Zurich, Switzerland, June 2020 

(2020) S Lin. Low carb diet for diabetes and obesity management? (plenary speaker) 8th Asia Pacific Congress on Controversies to Consensus in Diabetes, Obesity and Hypertension (CODHy AP). 10 June 2020. Online.

(2020) S Lin. Multidisciplinary approach for diabetes education – Australian perspective. (Invited foreign expert for the diabetes nurse educator specialist program, Shanxi). First Affiliated Hospital of Medical College of Xi’an Jiaotong University & Health Commission of Shanxi. July 2020. Online, Xi’an, China.

(2020) S Lin. Complex nutrition management in diabetes complications. (oral plenary presentation). The 4th Annual Chinese Diabetes Education Conference. Global Chinese Diabetes Association. June 2020. Beijing and Nanjing, China.

(2020) S Lin. Ketogenic diet for obesity? (debate) 8th Asia Pacific Congress on Controversies to Consensus in Diabetes, Obesity and Hypertension (CODHy AP).  9-10 May 2020. Shanghai, China

(2020) S Lin. Towards patient-centred healthcare translation. The 4th Sydney Chinese Studies Postgraduate Seminar. May 2020. Online, Sydney.

(2020) Mengdan Zhao Translating Health Knowledge to Plain Language: Framing the Readability of “Salt-intake and Health” Digital News in Australia. The 3rd Swiss Conference on Barrier-free Communication. Zurich, Swiss

(2020) Yanmeng, L. A Statistical Approach to Evaluate Acceptability in Chinese to English Translation by Students. In 5th Asia Pacific Corpus Linguistics Conference. 2020. Seoul, South Korea

(2020) Yanmeng, L. Meng, J. and Pierrette, B. Getting Across in Medical Communication: A Corpus-based Approach to Analyze and Improve Comprehensibility of Machine Translation. In 3rd Swiss Conference on Barrier-free Communication (Zurich, 2020)

(2019) JI, M. ‘Developing Shared Evaluation Frameworks for Digital Innovation in Culturally-Effective, Patient-Oriented Healthcare Translation and Communication: Australia and Switzerland’, the workshop of Cross-Modal Learning and Application, The Annual ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval. Ottawa

(2019) S Lin. Diabetes Education MasterClass – Two-day Advanced Workshop (Ran the two-day workshop as an invited foreign expert for the first advanced diabetes educator training program in China 第一届中国高级糖尿病专科护士及教育讲师培训). The Nursing Association of China & National Health Commission of China. 8-9 Nov 19. Beijing, China.

(2019) S Lin. Diabetes Nutrition Management (oral plenary presentation). The 1st International Conference of Functional Staple Food and the Nutritional Intervention for Chronic Diseases, the 2019 Annual Conference of National Strategic Alliance of Technology Innovation of Novel Food Health Industry. China National Research Institute of Food and Fermentation Industries Co., Ltd. 13-19 Sept 19. Beijing, China.

(2019) S Lin. Overview of Diabetes Education Program in Australia (oral plenary presentation). The 3rd Annual Chinese Diabetes Education Conference. Global Chinese Diabetes Association. 11-13 April 2019. Nanjing, China.

(2019) S Lin, Y Shi, M Tong. Coming Together: Diabetes Education Across Australasia (symposium chairing). Australasia Diabetes Congress (Australian Diabetes Educators Association and Australia Diabetes Society Annual Scientific Conference). 21 Aug 19. Sydney, Australia.

(2019) Mengdan Zhao. Strategies of Communicating the Behavioral Health Risks of Smoking: A Corpus-driven Multimodal Analysis of Smoking-control Video Advertisements in Australia and China. The 9th International Conference on Languages, Literature and Linguistics (ICLLL 2019). Barcelona, Spain  

(2019) Mengdan Zhao Strategies of Communicating the Behavioral Health Risks of Smoking: A Corpus-driven Multimodal Analysis of Smoking-control Video Advertisements in Australia and China. International Conference of Corpus Linguistic 2019. Shanghai, China  

(2019) Mengdan Zhao Strategies of Communicating the Behavioral Health Risks of Smoking: A Corpus-driven Multimodal Analysis of Smoking-control Video Advertisements in Australia and China. The 23rd New Zealand Asian Studies Society International Conference. Wellington, New Zealand

(2019) Ziqing Lyu World Literatures and the Global South Conference, The University of Sydney, Australia

(2018) S Lin. Readability of the national English-language templates used for multilingual diabetes education materials. (oral presentation). New Frontier in Health Literacy Research – Research Symposium. Charles Perkins Centre, University of Sydney. 4 Dec 2018. Sydney.

(2018) S Lin. Are the multilingual patient education materials really readable for non-English speaking patients? – the readability assessment of the printable Australian patient education materials on diabetes self-management (oral presentation accepted). The 6th International Health Literacy Conference: A Health Literate Asia and Beyond. 25th – 27th Oct 2018.  Taichung City, Taiwan.

(2018) S Lin. The health literacy education in diabetes carbohydrate counting (plenary speaker). The Annual Diabetes Education Conference, the Nursing Association, China. 13 Sept 18. Chengdu, China.

(2018) S Lin, T Choi, L Ji. You don’t have to speak Chinese to understand your Chinese patients (symposium speaker). Australasia Diabetes Congress (Australian Diabetes Educators Association and Australia Diabetes Society Annual Scientific Conference). 22 Aug 18. Adelaide, Australia.

(2018) S Lin & M. JI. An innovative contrastive linguistic translation case study: how does the diabetes education factsheet read from our Chinese patients’ eyes? (poster presentation). Accepted by The Academy of Communication in Healthcare ENRICH/FORUM 2018, 31 May – 3 June 2018. Tampa, U.S.A.

(2017) S Lin. Diabetes and nutrition management (keynote speaker). World Diabetes Day 2017. World Chinese Diabetes International Corporate & Australia Oriental Media Group. Sydney. 17th Nov 2017.

(2017) S. Lin. The carbohydrate counting and diabetes self-management in Australia (plenary session). Tongli Hospital Diabetes Summit 2017, Wuhan, China 3rd Aug 2017

(2017) S Lin. A review of the use of social media in Chinese diabetes programs in China (poster presentation, Education and Integrated Care category) was accepted by International Diabetes Federation Congress – Shape the future of diabetes 2017, Abu Dhabi

(2017) S Lin. & M. JI. A constructive linguistic translation case study: the readability of the diabetes physical activity factsheet for Chinese Australians (oral presentation). Accepted by the 4th Biennial Colloquium of the Languages and Cultures Network for Australian Universities 2017, Adelaide.

(2017) S Lin. The finding of social media usage amongst Chinese Australians with diabetes or at risk,  Australian Diabetes Educators Association NSW Branch Conference, Wollongong, 3rd June 2017 (also accepted as a poster under Diabetes in Society and Culture category by International Diabetes Federation Congress – Shape the future of diabetes 2017, Abu Dhabi)

(2017) S Lin. C Ji Establish a patient-orientated and culturally adapted nutrition translation model (poster presentation), Dietitians Association of Australia 33rd National Conference, Hobart, 18-20 May 2017. (This is also accepted as a poster under Diabetes in Society and Culture category by International Diabetes Federation Congress – Shape the future of diabetes 2017, Abu Dhabi)

(2017) Ziqing Lyu The 4th National Symposium on Corpus Translation Studies, Xi’an, China

(2017) Ziqing Lyu The Annual Symposium of Nanjing Translators Association, Nanjing, China

(2016) S Lin. Evaluation of an Arabic Diabetes Education Seminar (oral presentation), 12th Annual Disease Management Conference – Person Centred Healthcare: Achievement and Challenges, Melbourne, Oct 2016.

(2016) S Lin. Evaluation of the Pilot Chinese Gestational Diabetes Group Program (poster presentation), 12th Annual Disease Management Conference – Person Centred Healthcare: Achievement and Challenges, Melbourne, Oct 2016.

(2016) S Lin. Evaluation of the Pilot Chinese Gestational Diabetes Group Program (poster presentation), 17th International Congress of Endocrinology in collaboration with the 15th Annual Meeting of Chinese Society of Endocrinology, China 2016.

(2016) S Lin. Evaluation of a Chinese Diabetes Education Seminar (poster presentation), 17th International Congress of Endocrinology in collaboration with the 15th Annual Meeting of Chinese Society of Endocrinology, China 2016.

(2016) Mengdan Zhao. The Implementation and Response of Verbal Irony and the Cognition Modal Construction. The 3rd Contemporary Linguistic Theory and International Chinese Education Conference. Shanghai, China

(2016) Mengdan Zhao. A Study on the Asymmetry of “V de” and “V bu de”. The 2016 Graduate Academic Forum of Guangdong Province. Guangzhou, China

(2016) Mengdan Zhao. A Study on the Implementation and Response of Verbal Irony in Let’s Talk. The 6th East Asian Chinese Education Graduate Academic Forum. Beijing, China

(2016) Ziqing Lyu The 1st National Symposium on Multiculturalism and Comparative Literature, Shanghai, China

(2016) Ziqing Lyu The Symposium of Foreign Literature Society—British Literature and Eco-criticism, Guiyang, China

(2015) S Lin. Evaluation of a Chinese Diabetes Education Seminar (poster presentation), Australian Diabetes Society – Australian Diabetes Educators Association Annual Scientific Meeting, Adelaide, 2015.

(2015) S Lin. Evaluation of a Vietnamese Diabetes Education Seminar (poster presentation), Australian Diabetes Society – Australian Diabetes Educators Association Annual Scientific Meeting, Adelaide, 2015.

(2008) S Lin. Evaluation of a Vietnamese Diabetes Education Seminar (oral presentation), Australian Diabetes Educators Association NSW Branch Conference, Newcastle, 2015. Y Probst, S Lin, L Tapsell. Determining the accuracy of reporting using repeat automated dietary assessment methods. Dietitians Association of Australia 26th National Conference, Gold Coast, 2008