Research projects
Our supervisors can support a broad range of research projects. The department aims to cater to many specialized areas of interest to expand its scope of influence over evidence-based primary care in the medical community. Detailed overviews of our current research projects and supervisors can be found below.
There are a number of projects currently available for students supported by our supervisors listed below.
Current Projects
| The IMPRovE Partnership Trial - Implementing work-related Mental health guidelines in general PRacticE: A stepped-wedged cluster RCT. |
| SPHERE - NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in Sexual and Reproductive Health for Women in Primary Care |
| OPTIMISE - NHMRC Partnership Project grant to improve primary health care delivery to refugees living in Australia. |
| IMPACT - Health service broker intervention to help people to access primary care services through connection to a General Practitioner (GP). |
| Pop-up Project - Bringing care to those in need: Translating a 'Pop-Up' Primary Health Care Intervention to vulnerable communities in South-East Melbourne. |
 | REACH - A Victorian Health Promotion Foundation project aiming to support clinicians in providing interventions for alcohol. >> Find out more |
| ECLIPSe (Exploring Consultations with Low-Income Patients with Obesity). >> Find out more |
| The Change Program - a general practice-delivered weight management program for adults in primary care |
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| ENDURE GP: Establishing and normalising durable relationships with GPs. 2018 |
| ACCORD: The Australian Contraceptive ChOice pRoject |
| PREFER: Can the preference for and use of LARCs in young Australian women be increased using an online “LARC first” structured patient educational video? |
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Barriers and facilitators to the delivery and uptake of long-acting reversible contraception: What are the views of general practitioners? 2016 |
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GRIP: General Practitioners Prevention and Management of Road Traffic Crash Injuries. 2014 |
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Principles Unite Local Services Assisting Recovery (PULSAR). 2013-2016 |
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REDIRECT: Reducing older patients’ avoidable presentations for emergency care treatment. 2013-2015 |
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A process evaluation of the new certificate of capacity for compensation claims. 2013 |
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FIT to Work: Faciltating Injured Workers Return to Work in Victoria, Australia. 2012-2013 |
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Investigating Symptoms of Lung Cancer: A Guide for General Practitioners 2011-2013 |
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Touch screen computer health assessment in Australian general practice patients - a cross sectional study protocol. 2011-2013 |
 | Implementing guidelines to routinely prevent chronic disease in general practice (PEP) 2010-2013 |
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Researcher trauma and safety in sexual violence research. 2010-2013 |
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Which test is best? A randomised controlled trial to evaluate family history as a triage tool in screening for colorectal cancer. 2010-2014 |
| LEAD - Lung cancer diagnostic and treatment pathways: A comparison between Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) and Anglo-Australian patients |
