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Lilia Mantai

Sep 17, 2026

4:41
Lilia, what about where do you come into this conversation? Tell us about you.
4:47
Hi, hi, Sharon and Ben, and thanks so much for having us.
4:50
So I'm a senior lecturer at the University of Sydney Business School, but in this context, I'm the vice chair for ACRE, the Australasian Council for Undergraduate Research.
5:00
And we've been doing this work since, well, even before 2010, but in 2010, we really began a really strategic program.
5:10
At that time, there was very little acknowledgement that undergraduate students could do research and do great research.
5:17
And there was no organization or government agency that advocated for and supported undergraduate research.
5:25
So we decided to establish opportunities for undergraduates to share their research by setting up the annual ACO conference, which has now been going for 14 years strong.

9 MINS LATER

15:01
So just interested.

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