PhD, Early & Mid Career Researcher Network

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EMCR of the Month!

Who's in our network?

What is an EMCR?

EMCRs are usually those who are working in or seeking PhD or Post-Doctoral positions or experienced clinicians who may be earlier in their research career. As a guide, EMCRs are typically researchers who have been awarded their PhD in the past ten years (considering career disruptions) and/or are employed at levels A or B in universities.

Find, discuss, learn, share, collaborate and network with the community's EMCRs over on the EMCR Forum page....

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Why we support our EMCRs

Fostering the careers of our early-mid career researchers (EMCR) who find themselves in the thick of academic pressures like grants, papers, and participant recruitment is critical for retaining talent and ensuring that we maintain excellence in implementation science. In Australia, the average age of health science and medical grant recipients is rising. If it is the experienced, renowned, and widely respected researchers who are receiving the grants, then where does this leave the researchers just entering the sector who are trying to make a name for themselves?

Our aim

The aim of the EMCR Network is to provide an environment where researchers from various disciplines, with a common interest in implementation science, can share knowledge and experiences in both research and practice. The EMCR Network will provide a platform for early to mid career researchers to connect and collaborate, promoting cross-discipline dialogue. Events will be held for the EMCR network to workshop ideas and learn from experts in implementation science.

EMCR of the Moment

Congratulations Kelly Elsner
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​Senior Radiation Therapist and a Master of Philosophy (Research) student at the University of Sydney’s School of Medicine.

Kelly won the Best Presentation scholarship prize at our Implementation Science Rapid fire presentation round at the recent Cancer Institute NSW Innovations Conference!

​Read her winning abstract ​"Piloting an international survey investigating Radiation Therapists’ knowledge and management of patients with anxiety"  here

About Kelly 

Kelly has worked as a Radiation Therapist and Proton Dosimetrist in Canada, the USA, and England. She has published two original research papers on student simulations in radiotherapy, and reproducibility of pelvic radiotherapy. A third manuscript has recently been accepted for publication in the Journal of Medical Radiation Science. Kelly is continually inspired by people affected by cancer and their insight into the health system. Kelly also loves mangoes and gardening!

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Previous EMCR events

 

WATCH NOW | Rapid fire Implementation Research Presentations by selected EMCRs

Cancer Institute NSW Innovations Conference 2016

• Development and evaluation of patient resources to explain screening for anxiety and depression in cancer care external by Karen Allison, University of Sydney

• PROMPT Care An ehealth system utilising patient reported outcomes to support patient centred care and self-management by Prof Afar Girgis

• Don't let me be misunderstood! Improving the chemotherapy experience for CALD patients through enhanced communication external by Deirdre D'Souza, Crown Princess Mary Cancer Centre

• A qualitative interview study of lung cancer patients and their caregivers external byDr Nicole Rankin, Sydney Catalyst

• Piloting an international survey investigating radiation therapists' knowledge and management of patients with anxiety external by Kelly Elsner, University of Sydney 

• Risky business: Streamlining chemotherapy referral external Lisa Cook, Illawarra Shoalhaven LHD

• Obesity, physical inactivity and quality of life after ovarian cancer treatment. external by Kate Webber, National Centre for Cancer Survivorship, University of NSW

• There's always a reason: Using theory to define barriers to clinician's practice change external by Dr Janet Long, Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Macquarie University

• Maintaining cancer site subspecialty clinical quality in regional centres through formal manpower linkages with metropolitan centres external by A/Prof Michael Back, Sydney Vital

• Shared Care-no longer the road less travelled. Low risk endometrial cancer shared care pathway external by Anne Mellon, Hunter New England Health

 

Hitchhikers Guide to Reviews in Implementation Science - with Professor Jane Phillips and Dr Tim Luckett

18 May 2016

Professor Jane Phillips is a professor of nursing with experience in delivering evidenced-based palliative care across diverse settings, including rural and regional Australia. She is currently evaluating non-pharmacological interventions to improve pain, breathlessness and delirium; looking at health services that can improve care for older people with cancer, and; undertaking translational research in the areas of pain 

Dr Tim Luckett, a senior lecturer in the Faculty of Health at UTS, is interested in developing and evaluating complex interventions for people with life-limiting illnesses and their families. Originally a speech and language pathologist, Tim has experience in both quantitative and qualitative research methods, especially outcome measurement and systematic reviews.

This event aimed to help participants:

• be aware of how to organise and manage the review process
• be confident of the question your review is addressing 
• understand the scope of your review
• have a basic understanding of search methods 
• understand the rationale and basic methods of meta-analysis
• understand potential sources of heterogeneity 
• understand the methods for assessing and dealing with heterogeneity

EMCR Network lunch
with Professor Tom Hack 

Professor Tom Hack, Professor in the Faculty of Nursing and Medicine at the University of Manitoba and has worked extensively in the transfer of existing knowledge into policy and practice to reduce the burden of cancer. Click here to read more about Prof. Hack’s work in implementation science.

Professor Hack was the key note speaker for the Community of Practice half-day workshop ‘The diffusion of empirically valid interventions into clinical practice’  where he shared a lunch with our EMCRs following the workshop. There were also 2 facilitated breakout groups which discussed Palliative care “dignity therapy” and the National nursing program for distress screening and management

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