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The Best of Friends®: Industry Research
The Quirky Kid® Clinic’s collaboration with the University of Wollongong provided the evidence base to scale the innovative The Best of Friends® program
The Quirky Kid Team and The University of Wollongong’s Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research and Innovation), Professor Jennifer Martin would like to invite you to a presentation of the industry research collaboration between Quirky Kid® and the University of Wollongong (UOW) on The Best of Friends® program.
This event will provide you with an expanding small business's perspective on collaborating with a university as an effective innovation pathway. You will learn how Quirky Kid leveraged their innovation spend through various programs - including Tech Vouchers, Internships and UOW's incubator iAccelerate - to maximise impact.
The Best of Friends® program was developed in response to increasing demand from schools to address the social and emotional learning (SEL) challenges that children experience, and to offer them the academic and social benefits that SEL provides.
The research conducted by Quirky Kid® and the University of Wollongong added to the growing evidence of the efficacy of The Best of Friends® program, which Quirky Kid® was then able to use to scale their product so their expertise could benefit kids in schools not only across Australia but around the world.
Representatives from Quirky Kid, the University of Wollongong, and the NSW Government's Boosting Business Innovation Programs will be on hand to answer your questions and get you started on your own innovation journey.
9:30am-12:00pm
Level 49, MLC Centre; (19 Martin Place, Sydney)
9:30-10:00am Showcase demonstrations and networking
10:00-11:15am - Presentation and Q&;A:
- Innovation in Social Emotional Learning - Dr. Kimberley O’Brien (Quirky Kid)
- Collaborating with UOW - Zahra Shahbazian, Industry Research Manager (UOW)
- Leveraging your innovation spend - Leo Rocker (Quirky Kid)
- 11:15am-12:00pm: Networking and light refreshments
About Quirky Kid
We’re one of Australia’s leading Child, Adolescent and Family Psychology Clinics and passionately committed to providing clients with the highest standard of service delivery. Quirky Kid is a member of the University of Wollongong business incubator program, ‘iAccelerate’. We operate clinical spaces in Sydney and Austinmer with a new clinic opening soon in Canberra.
You may also know of Quirky Kid as an award-winning publisher of unique therapeutic resources for young people and families. These include Face it cards, Tell Me A Story cards and the popular programs, Power Up™, The Best of Friends® and BaseCamp which are used in schools around Australia and overseas.
