Research Policy and Evaluation Group
ontrolled trials in clinical settings, neurophysiological assessments (including transcranial magnetic stimulation [TMS]]), qualitative research methods and mixed method designs. We are a dynamic and enthusiastic team of researchers, all with strong clinical backgrounds. We are passionate about promoting research and evidence generation in both stroke and rehabilitation more broadly, which is relevant and applied to the clinical setting.
People
Dr Erica Bell
Erica is a valued iCAHE collaborator from University of
Tasmania. She provides policy
advice to iCAHE researchers during the formulation and conduct of literature
reviews, and will be an integral member of iCAHE research on translating
evidence into clinical practice and policy. Erica
is
Deputy Director at the University Department of Rural Health, University of
Tasmania. She has 40 academic
journal and conference papers and presentations across diverse
sub-disciplines of health and allied social services: adolescent substance
abuse, domestic violence and child health, youth crime prevention, healthy
aging and falls prevention, chronic disease, hospital error and medical
education reform. See below for information about her book.
Prof Alan Crockett
Alan has recently taken the position of
Professor in Clinical Respiratory
Physiology at UniSA after a career in
Respiratory Medicine spaning 41 years.
Prof Karen Grimmer-Somers
Karen is the Professor of Allied
Health in the School of Health Sciences
and is the director of the International
Centre for Allied Health Evidence.
Dr Susan Hillier
Susan teaches and researches in the area of clinical neuroscience.
She also maintains a small clinical practice offering rehabilitation for
children and adults with sensory and motor disorders which informs her
academic work. He research interests are in exploring new areas of
rehabilitation that promote neuroplasticity and behavioural change. Such
interventions include sensory retraining, training intensity, or alternate
methods such as yoga or music therapy. She is also interested in service
delivery and uses her methodology skills to work with guideline production,
evidence reviews and implementation of best practice.
Dr Kylie Johnston
Kylie's roles at
iCAHE have included project
management and conduct of primary and secondary research. Kylie also
works in private physiotherapy practice, specialising in respiratory
conditions and pulmonary rehabilitation.
Dr Saravana Kumar
Saravana is a post doctoral fellow and is the deputy director of the
International Centre for Allied Health Evidence. Saravana is Janine's
associate supervisor.
Dr. Kobie Boshoff
Kobie has a broad range of clinical experience in paediatrics and
employment for people with disabilities, having worked in South
Africa, Canada and Australia. Her experiences have been gained in a
variety of service delivery settings: private practice, community
based, school based, case management settings and in management.
Kobie supervises honours and PhD students and works collaboratively
with SA Health and DECS in supporting the Allied Health Program in
Children's Centres in South Australia. Components of her involvement
include: the development of best practice guidelines for
occupational therapy service delivery in Children's Centres; the
Parks, Cowandilla and Ocean View OT in Children's Centres Project;
professional development of staff in the Allied Health Program and a
review of the evaluation of the Allied Health Program. Currently,
Kobie is involved in the Collaborative Planning stage of the
development of evaluation tools and protocols for the Allied Health
Program in Children's Centres, go
here to view more
information about that project.
Some of our key projects and interests include:
Allied Health in Children's Centres Project
Researchers: Kobie Boshoff and Michelle Clarke (SA Health).
Kobie is involved in the Collaborative Planning stage of the development of evaluation tools and protocols for the Allied Health Programs in Children's Centres, for more information visit the Allied Health in Children's Centres homepage.
Research from the Research Policy and Evaluation Group
Researchers: Erica Bell (University of Tasmania)
Research for Health Policy is an introduction to the emerging genre of applied research for policy decision-making, offering new research methods that go far beyond the traditional classical experimental techniques and standard qualitative methods. This highly practical and practice-based book is relevant to researchers in different disciplines and countries, and it will equip the reader with the knowledge, skills and attitudes needed to deliver policy-relevant research in the government, not-for-profit, and private sectors.
This book helps readers to develop the blend of strategic people skills, methodological inventiveness, research entrepreneurship, creative design, and policy writing know-how that is critical to delivering useful research evidence for policy, Research for Health Policy is essential reading for anyone doing, studying or teaching health policy advocacy and research. It also has much to offer postgraduate and professional development students and their educators who want to move beyond the common undergraduate focus on policy content areas and policy theory/process, to learn more advanced practical research skills for policy-making.
The book contains step-by-step advice on doing research for policy-makers. It ioncludes research evidence from many disciplines, from the language arts to sociology and political science to bio-medicine, never before combined in this way, and provides practical tools, hypotheticals, and case studies never before published, to offer readers many new and highly original practical approaches for doing better research for policy-makers. It provides extracts of advice from the author's interviews with 22 health policy-makers at the most senior level in the health systems of 11 countries. For people receiving rehabilitation after stroke, maximizing the amount of physical therapy they receive is vital to maximizing their functional outcomes. But the most effective and cost-effective way of organizing therapy services to maximize patient therapy inp
Copies available from
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ISBN13: 9780199549337ISBN10: 0199549338 Paperback, 224 pages; Price: $57.95
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