The Allied Health Research Committee formally launched the Allied Health Research Strategic Plan at the Employee Forum last week. If you couldn’t make it, check out the recording here.
The launch was an opportunity to celebrate our allied health research strengths and to focus on moving forward, expanding, extending, and enriching our research culture and capability. The strategic planning process included the development of our evidence-based key strategic themes. These are the vital components essential to fostering, enabling, and embedding research culture and capability for all allied health professionals.
Allied Health Jump Start Research Grant
One of the key strategic themes highlighted in the Allied Health Research Strategic Plan focuses on building a solid funding base to champion promising research. The Allied Health Research Committee would like to invite all allied health clinician researchers to apply for a one-off grant opportunity to progress their project.
The Jump Start Research Grant is a research grant of up to $10,000 is specifically for Monash Health allied health clinician researchers conducting a translational research project that aligns with the Allied Health Research Strategic Plan.
The purpose of the Allied Health Jump Start Research Grant is to backfill clinical time for a clinician researcher in 2023.The successful applicant will use the time to progress the translational research project outlined in their application. The project can be at any stage of development, from design to write-up.
To qualify for the Allied Health Jumpstart Research Grant the applicant must:
Conduct a translational research project that aligns with the Allied Health Research Strategic Plan. You must be able to explicitly demonstrate how your research project aligns with one or more Research Focus Area;
- Improving the lives of people experiencing vulnerability;
- Disrupting the trajectory of health conditions;
- Optimising access, outcomes, and experiences;
- Building a strong workforce; and/or
- Enhancing healthcare outcomes.
This program is open to interested allied health clinicians undertaking a translational research project.
Further information can be found here.
Complete an online application form and manager endorsement.
Applications close 15 December 2022
Stepping into Research mentoring program
Stepping into Research is a training opportunity for allied health clinicians and medical imaging technologists. The program is open to all who want to learn more about research, contribute to the development of our professions and make a difference to clinical outcomes for patients. This training program will introduce participants to research, beginning with the opportunity to learn how to conduct and write up a systematic review. A systematic review of the literature is a systematic search, appraisal, and summary of the available literature on a clinical question that you may have. Systematic reviews are an important step in making evidence-based changes in clinical practice.
No previous research experience is required, just a demonstrated interest and enthusiasm for finding the answers to an important clinical question. Participants will have the opportunity to share their findings with their colleagues, by presenting at a suitable Monash Health forum, and/or submitting their work to a peer reviewed journal.
The training will run from February through to June 2023. Participants need to dedicate up to four hours per week during this period.
A mentor will provide research support throughout the training. Mentors are from a range of disciplines within Monash Health and have the competencies required to facilitate learning and conduct systematic or scoping reviews.
Further information can be found here or contact Glenda McLean with queries.
Complete an online application form and manager endorsement.
Applications close 13 January 2023 (Spaces are limited)
Researcher in Residence program
Keen for a ‘research intensive’ in your own setting? The Allied Health Researcher in Residence program provides direct, in-person support to an allied health team to build research culture and capability. The program will see an experienced researcher co-located with your team for a period of up to a month during the first half of 2023, delivering a program tailored to meet your research learning and development needs. The specific targets and nature of the Researcher in Residence program will be established by the successful team and can focus on any aspect of research. Want support to move from an idea to a research question? Let’s do it! Want to learn about literature searching? Sure thing! Keen to develop a grant application? We can do that! Itching to finally write that manuscript? Put in an application! The choice is yours. To qualify for the Allied Health Researcher in Residence program, the team applying for the program must:
- Include Monash Health allied health clinicians (but may also include other health professionals in multi-or trans-disciplinary team models)
- Have specific learning goals they wish to achieve by taking part in the program
- Provide a workstation from which the researcher can work whilst on site
- Be willing to take part in a pre-and post-program evaluation
- Have the support from their operational manager
Further information can be found here.
Complete an online application form and manager endorsement.
Applications close 13 January 2023
Approved by Danielle Ryan