Benefit of attending a conference

In this short blog post, I am going to briefly share some benefits that I derived from of attending an academic conference, which took place from 25 to 26 September this year in Hobart, Australia. This conference was one of the most important events for the researcher of Health Economics and Public Health from Australia and overseas to present their scholarly works. Although I was in the very initial stage of my PhD. candidature, my abstract of my research work got accepted, probably due to the reason that I could address some of the very important research problems in the context of Australia. The main objective of attending this conference was to get some early feedback, as suggested by my supervisor, which I could incorporate in my confirmation of candidature document, the most important assessment to fulfil in the first year of my PhD. journey. I was well benefited from the experts’ comments to drive my research work in the right direction. Apart from valuable comments from the experts, I found this event to update myself with the recent research undertaken in my filed of interest. Moreover, it provided me a platform to network with other researchers of similar interests which would turn very important in terms getting placement in the job market in future. The other important benefit that I can mention is that I could get over the fear of presenting to a large number of audiences as a result of coming closer to many of attendees of the conference in the previous day of my presentation. Lastly, it needs no telling the sightseeing of the beautiful Hobart came as a fringe benefit while I attended this conference.