Here at Metro North, we are committed to the importance of high quality research to enhance our patient care.
The quantum and quality of this year’s Metro North Research Excellence Award nominees is a testament to the effectiveness of the Metro North Research Strategy 2017-2022. Well done all. Allied Health Practitioners were well represented at the awards, demonstrating Allied Health’s drive to develop and translate research into practice, Priority 2 of our AH32: A vision for Allied Health.
CAHRLI is the Collaborative Allied Health Research, Learning and Innovation team that drives a lot of this work. I would like to announce, following a pilot last year, a new CAHRLI initiative to establish an Early Career Research Fellowship which signals the recognition for the need to provide support to our Clinician Researchers as they transition from PhD scholars to Early Career Researchers. The Fellowship scheme fits with other Metro North Allied Health initiatives including the pre-RHD scholarship scheme and the RHD Grant scheme. These schemes signal our commitment to a “whole of organisation” approach to building research capacity for our allied health workforce (Matus et al., 2018).
The new Fellowship scheme signals the need to provide support to our Clinician Researchers as they transition from PhD scholars to ECR clinicians.
The intent of the scheme, which is directed towards allied health clinicians up to 3 years post PhD, is to provide support as they establish themselves as independent, self-directed health researchers, and allow them to become competitive for external ECR schemes.
We see this Fellowship scheme dovetailing well with the prestigious Metro North Clinician Research Fellowship, that are targeted at more senior staff up to 10 years post-doc.
More information may be found at https://qheps.health.qld.gov.au/metronorth/allied-health/cahrli/pr-hd.
Matus, J., Walker, A., & Mickan, S. (2018). Research capacity building frameworks for allied health professionals – a systematic review, BMC Health Services Research, 18, 716.
Sincerely,
Mark