2022 School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences Research Conference
The School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences (SHRS) at the University of Queensland (UQ) is hosting our annual Research Conference.
The Conference is a free event designed to showcase the recent research undertaken by Early Career Researchers, Higher Degree Research and Honours students in four allied health disciplines: Audiology, Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy, Speech Pathology, and Public Health.
Co-Create Change – Establishing and maintaining effective clinical, consumer and industry partnerships in health research
This year, the theme of the conference is to Co-Create Change – Establishing and maintaining effective clinical, consumer and industry partnerships in health research. We aim to encourage researchers to consider the impact of partnerships with different stakeholders to co-create new knowledge that benefits clinicians, consumers, communities, health services, and research.
Our program has been developed using an interdisciplinary model under the SHRS key research themes:
- Communication
- Paediatrics: Healthy Start to Life
- Musculoskeletal: Movement in Health
- Neurorehabilitation and Ageing
- Professional Education
- Telerehabilitation
- Knowledge Translation and Impact
The 2022 SHRS Research Conference “Co-Create Change” will be held on Thursday 1 December 2022 from 8.30am-4.30pm, at the UQ Oral Health Centre (School of Dentistry), on the Herston campus.
This year’s conference will feature:
- Oral presentations
- Poster presentations
- Keynote-speakers (see below)
- Expert discussion panel (see below)
- Mentoring lunch (see below)
- SHRS Early Career Rising Star Plenary (information to come)
There will be several awards for outstanding posters and presentations, as well as door prizes for the members of the audience.
Come join us for this wonderful opportunity to gain advanced insights into the SHRS research. Meet researchers, clinicians, and industry partners from various disciplines as we discover how partnerships can enhance your research and make meaningful change.
Keynote speakers
Peter Buttrum
Peter is currently the Executive Director, Allied Health Professions at The Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital (RBWH). He spent 12 months as ED Critical Care and Clinical Support Services and has covered various other executive roles in Metro North Health. He is an Adjunct Professor at The University of Queensland, and currently sits on several professional advisory groups. He has either developed some successful leadership strategies, or the general acceptance of leadership mediocrity hasn’t exposed him yet. He hopes the former. Whilst only an aspiring academic in current research pursuits, he has worked hard over many years attempting to find an irresistible force that can integrate the often-immovable objects that are Health Services and Universities. In many ways, he is still looking.
Professor James Ward
Professor James Ward is a Pitjantjatjara and Nukunu man, an infectious diseases epidemiologist and a national leader in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander research, with over 25 years of experience in Aboriginal public health policy and research. In his current role as Director of the UQ Poche Centre for Indigenous Health he leads research aimed at impacting health and wellbeing outcomes for First Nations peoples, including a program of research to reduce incidence and prevalence of infectious diseases in Indigenous communities; a program of urban Indigenous health research and a global Indigenous health research program. James’ involvement in the COVID-19 pandemic has been integral to Australia’s efforts, including as a member of the Communicable Diseases Network of Australia (CDNA), the CDNA COVID-19 Working Group, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Advisory Group on COVID-19 and the Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation COVID-19 Vaccine Prioritisation Group.
Katrina Cutler
Katrina manages Communications and Engagement for Health Translation Queensland – an NHMRC accredited Advanced Health Research Translation Centre. Health Translation Queensland helps to solve some of Queensland’s most pressing health challenges by supporting well-evidenced research to be more quickly and efficiently translated into clinical practice. Her role at Health Translation Queensland includes the program’s Consumer and Community Involvement (CCI) program. HTQ’s CCI program includes a range of activities aimed at increasing Queensland’s translational research capability and grant competitiveness, by uplifting the standard and standing of CCI in Queensland’s translational research. Katrina has more than 20 years of experience as a communications and stakeholder engagement specialist in health in the government, not-for-profit and private sectors. In her immediate past role at Queensland Genomics, Katrina established the Queensland Genomics Community Advisory Group to ensure a diversity of voices were brought to genomics and precision health policy in Queensland and she supported that group to identify and lead a series of projects of their own.
Expert Discussion Panel: Impact of Partnerships in Research, Healthcare & Industry
| Senior Scientist/Lecturer in Audiology Sonova AQ & The University of Queensland |
| Communications and Engagement Manager Health Translation Queensland |
 | Director of STARS Education and Research Alliance The University of Queensland & Metro North Health |
| Executive Director Allied Health Professions, Queensland Health Metro North |
 | Director Health Practitioner Research Office of the Chief Allied Health Officer, Clinical Excellence Queensland |
Mentor lunch
Join us for lunch where three prominent early-career academics from different backgrounds will be on hand over lunch for a candid Q&A about career pathways in academia and beyond.
Food and refreshments will be provided, please indicate whether you are attending on your registration form and note any dietary requirements.
Registration
All attendees and presenters are required to register for the conference. Registration opens on 15 August and will close on Thursday 24 November 11.59pm. Please register for the conference via the link below. We look forward to seeing you on 1 December 2022.
Conference program
Abstract submission
Abstract submissions have now closed.
Social media
You are encouraged to promote, share and engage with conference activities via social media.
On Twitter and all other platforms, please tag #SHRSRC2022.
Get in touch
To contact a member of the PGRC Committee, please email SHRS-RC@uq.edu.au
Venue
UQ Oral Health Centre
288 Herston Rd, Herston