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Research Forum 8th March 2023: Connecting with our Research Community

13/01/2023

To kick off 2023, we are hosting our first Research Forum of the year in March. This will be a forum exploring research priorities in the realms of lived experience of disability along with health, wellbeing and rehabilitation and how to bring them to bear in our workplaces and community.

Recruiting Now!

06/10/2022

We are seeking participants for a study on what makes for positive relationships between Disabled People and Community Disability Support Workers in Canterbury.

Announcing Burwood Academy’s new General Manager

14/09/2022

Peer Group 15 July 2021: Catherine Vingerhoets

05/08/2021

This presentation shares insights from Catherine’s most recent research exploring how health professionals come to know their patients and what is important to them during inpatient neurological rehabilitation. The focus is on what clinicians understood about the terms patient values, preferences, and circumstances, as well as the strategies and approaches used in current practice to elicit and share this information within interprofessional teams. Clinical implications within the New Zealand context will be shared.

Peer Group 17 June 2021: Fi Graham

21/06/2021

This presentation walks through our journey so far on a randomised controlled trial funded by the Health Research Council, examining the effectiveness of OPC when its implemented in the current service delivery context. The focus is on the ‘lived experience’ as a researcher of undertaking complex intervention research in the complex system that is the NZ rehabilitation environment. Strategy, lessons learnt and the opportunity to eat cake were emphasised.

Rachelle Martin receives Emerging Reseacher First Grant

01/06/2021

Dr Rachelle Martin is one of nine recipients of this year’s Emerging Researcher First Grant offered by the Health Research Council (HRC). Rachelle will receive $249,000 over three years to fund her project, Flourishing together: including tāngata whaikaha in health policy development. The research project emerged from Burwood Academy’s Flourishing scoping study she conducted with Cate Grace, in which they interviewed 40 people living with the experience of illness, injury, or long-term health conditions.