Education excellence awards and grants

Education Research Grant Recipients

We had an outstanding range of innovative proposals, with submissions being highly collaborative (across departments, the faculty, wider university and external organisations), reflecting partnership, a key element of the SPAHC strategic plan. The submissions also focussed on lived experience and co-design, and included client/patient/consumer participation and also student and academic co-design elements. Congratulations to the recipients of the grants.

Education innovation seed grant ($20,000)

Ellie Fossey, Dr Darshini Ayton, Associate Professor Gabrielle Brand, Dr Sze-Ee Soh, Associate Professor Basia Diug, Associate Professor Melissa Petrakis, Professor Niels Buus, Janeane Dart

Study aims: aims to map and understand Consumer and Community Involvement content in the curricula of health-related degrees across FMNHS, by addressing

1. How consumers are involved in the design, delivery and evaluation
2. What the barriers and enablers are to involving consumers in these health-related curricula?
3. What the current capabilities, opportunities and motivations are of FMNHS academics to deliver CCI content in health-related degrees?
4. How the capacity to teach CCI and involve consumers in FMNHS health-related curricula can be strengthened?

Early career academic grants ($10,000)

John McInerney, Imalda Devaparanam, Leah Grinsted, Kylie Auld,  Dr Daniel Sapkaroski - The project aims to develop and evaluate the efficacy of an ePortfolio database for students in capturing patient lived experiences of their healthcare journeys, critically reflect on these lived experiences, and link them to the requirements for registration to practice.

Dr. Natalie Fonda - Interprofessional immersive simulation between Paramedic students and Midwifery students.