Workshop Format. The workshop followed the format originally devised in the 2012 SWIRL meeting. On the first evening, a reception was held, and answers from the homework assignments were summarized and discussed. A bus then took all of the participants from Melbourne to Lorne the next morning. Af- ter lunch, six seed talks were given, and summarized below. On the second day of the workshop, the morning sessions were composed of six groups of ten participants breaking out and brain- storming about the future of IR based on the initial seed discussions. Each group then voted, and pitched three ideas that they thought were the most important. These 18 ideas were then grouped by similarity, and participants voted on the topics they were most interested in exploring further. The afternoon session then contained the breakout focus groups. A total of eight focus groups formed, and these make up the main sections of this report. Other topics that were proposed but that did not progress to the focus group stage are included at the end of the report as “Minor Topics”. The final day of the workshop was a continuation of the focus groups. All participants finished up discussions on the topics, and worked together to produce a summary report of these discussions. 1xxxxx://xxx.xxx/10.1145/1113343.1113344 2xxxxx://xxx.xxx/10.1145/2215676.2215678
Workshop Format. The workshop was held on November 7, 2004, in conjunction with the International Fisheries Observer Conference, November 8-11, 2004, in Sydney, Australia (xxx.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx). The workshop had a combined presentation and discussion format. During the first half of the workshop, the conveners outlined the objectives of the workshop and provided brief overviews of bycatch reduction research and data collection recommendations relevant to protected species (marine mammals, sea turtles, and seabirds). This was followed by a presentation of the primary results of the pre-workshop surveys. Following a discussion period, the workshop participants broke into smaller working groups to discuss the results of the survey and validate the results against their own experiences. The group then reassembled to review the work of the break-out groups and develop an overall set of recommendations on best practices for data collection. There were 42 workshop participants, including observer program staff, fishing industry representatives, data users, resource managers, and observers, representing a broad diversity of programs from around the world (the list of workshop participants is provided in Appendix A, and the workshop agenda is provided in Appendix B).
Workshop Format. A workshop planning meeting was held in May 2016. It was agreed that an active making workshop engaging the participants in a design challenge would be an appropriate research tool and that workshops, ideally, should have enough participants for two teams to work in parallel. The workshops were designed to last for two hours in order to give participants enough time to be fully engaged in the design task. It was felt that under 18s were more likely to be readily receptive to creativity with digital technologies and, after some discussion, it was decided to specifically target the more challenging group, and make the workshops open to over 18s only. It was agreed that two workshops in three public libraries would be organized, making a total of six workshops. Workshops were planned as advertised and ticketed events, and it was agreed that the ideal number of participants would be 8-10, with a ratio of facilitators to participants of at least 1 to 5. It was decided to make the workshops free to participants. A consent form and a questionnaire for participants was developed. Data collection was carried out through audio recording and photography and via a questionnaire completed by each participant at the end of their workshop.
