About the symposium

The combined ICAR/ISM 2012 event aims to bring together thoughts and actions from social marketers and anti-consumption researchers - together these disciplines may hold the key to enact social change.

The event is of particular relevance to the following people:

• Senior staff in social marketing, health prevention or environmental management areas.
• Project managers of social marketing projects.
• Marketing Officers in Government or nonprofit organisation.
• Health Promotion Officers.
• Academics and researchers (anti-consumption, marketing, health).

All members of the public, practitioners, and scholars are welcome to register and attend this event.

Registration

Details of how to register for the 2012 ICAR Symposium are available from our Registration page.

Submissions

For those wishing to submit and present their work, two special issues (Journal of Macro Marketing and Journal of Social Marketing) are being developed to coincide with the work presented at the 2012 Symposium.

For details about the special issues and the submission process, visit the ICAR Current research projects page.

We look forward to seeing everyone!

For more information about Griffith University, including how to get to South Bank Campus please visit the following Griffith University website pages:

• How to get to Griffith University
• Griffith University South Bank campus map

The host city Brisbane, Australia, has many outstanding attractions and is within close proximity to other international destinations like the Gold Coast.

Brisbane is Australia's third-biggest city and is one of the most popular holiday destinations in the entire country. Situated on the south-east coast of Queensland, this stylish and vibrant city has evolved around the large River Brisbane, which meanders through the centre, often attracting large black whaler and bull sharks.

The Queens Street Mall is where the Brisbane Tourism visitors centre is located and this should always be your first port of call for tourist information. Nearby and just across the river is the South Bank visitor’s centre, which is a convenient information point for those based within the city's South Bank Parklands area.

For more tourist information:

• Visit the Brisbane City Council website
• Visit the Brisbane Information and Tourism website
• Visit the Gold Coast Tourism website

For a map of the Brisbane CBD and South Brisbane link:

• Visit Google maps Australia

2012 Asia Pacific Association for Consumer Research Conference
ICAR/ISM 2012 has also been timed to coincide with the 2012 Asia Pacific Association for Consumer Research Conference which is to be held in Queenstown, New Zealand on 6 to 8 July, allowing visitors from the northern hemisphere to maximise their time down under.

For more information about the 2012 Asia-Pacific Association for Consumer Research Conference:

Visit the AP-ACR conference website