Recording: Research capacity building for professional practice

By Suzana Sukovic

Earlier this week (Wednesday, 22 February) LARK hosted a webinar entitled Research capacity building for professional practice. It was announced here and here. This webinar was a milestone for LARK as this was the first time we targeted different professional groups. For me, it was a way to put my different worlds together. I am delighted to say "no collision", just good interprofessional learning.

I wish to thank the presenters and everyone who came to the webinar and contributed questions and comments. Many thanks to Alycia Bailey who looked after technology while I facilitated the meeting.

The whole webinar lasted just a bit over an hour. Recordings below are slightly shorter as discussions about technology and short periods of silence were cut.

Slides and a chat transcript are available from this link.

From experienced health clinician to novice researcher

Dr Kerith Duncanson

From library practitioner to library researcher: making research part of your professional practice 

Edward Luca

A blog post about the project presented in Edward's talk and a link to an academic article are available from this LARK blog post.

Unlearning with Snapchat

Kate Bunker and Dr Tatum McPherson-Crowie

The full peer-reviewed paper on which this talk was based is available from the Information Online website (see here).

What you hear after my introduction is Tatum's voice. The recording of the talk finishes at 12:30 and the rest are discussions with all the participants.

Update: Research capacity building for professional practice

By Suzana Sukovic

Our first webinar this year has shaped up into a very promising event. We now have a great line-up of presenters from health and libraries. They will consider research in professional practice from the perspective of a very successful capacity building program in health, developing research as part of daily library work and integrating research into fun and reflective practice aided by social media.

In the previous post, I announced two presenters. Now we have the whole program and UPDATED LINK.

When: Wednesday, 22 February 4-5pm AEDT (Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne)

How to join? Go to link
https://www.gotomeet.me/larkresearch/alia-lark-research-capacity-building-for-professional-practice

The presentations will be followed by discussions. 

From experienced health clinician to novice researcher

Kerith Duncanson

The NSW Health Education and Training Institute (HETI) Rural Research Capacity Building Program provides nurses, doctors and allied health professionals from across NSW to build their research skills in a two-year researcher development program. Facilitated by two clinician researchers with teaching supported by health research academics, the program is conducted through a combination of face-to-face workshops, mentor relationships and teleconferences. Candidates step through the research process from research question conception to ethics, study implementation, analysis and report in a supportive research environment and with designated research time.

From library practitioner to library researcher: making research part of your professional practice 

Edward Luca

It can be hard to start a conversation about research, particularly if you’ve never done it before or there’s no precedent at your workplace for such initiatives. Edward will talk about his personal journey in developing academic journal articles based on his work in libraries. In particular, he’ll discuss the value of evidence-based research in informing library practice, and why more library practitioners should become involved in this space.

Unlearning with Snapchat

Kate Bunker and Tatum McPherson-Crowie will share how we embrace risk, acknowledge failure and identify epic failures by a novel use of the social media network Snapchat to convene a reflective practitioner meshwork for capturing and sharing screenshots of experiences in the interest of reflecting on learning from unlearnings. Learning from our unlearnings, we propose a reflective, transformative, bottom-up problem-solving approach to workplace learning in the academic library context to bring about a change-ready library and information professional workforce. Resulting from our approach to an evolving workplace learning environment, colleagues have reported increased confidence in their use and application of emerging technologies for personal and professional purposes, motivation to return to formal tertiary study, benefits of multiple modes of mentoring, skills refresher opportunities, and the unifying affect of and effect on library staff as they up-skill and multi-skill together.

Research capacity building for professional practice

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By Suzana Sukovic

LARK's first event this year will be an opportunity for some interprofessional learning. In this webinar, our guests will share experiences from health and libraries about different approaches to research capacity building for practice.

Dr Kerith Duncanson will talk about a successful program offered to health professionals in rural and remote areas of New South Wales. The program supports participants to become independent practitioner-researchers. Librarian Edward Luca will reflect on his learning journey during the process of conducting a practice-based research project. Their talks will be followed by discussions and opportunities to share experiences about building research capacity for professional practice.

When: Wednesday, 22 February 4-5pm AEDT (Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne)
How to join? Go to this link to join the webinar
https://www.gotomeet.me/larkresearch/alia-lark-research-capacity-building-for-professional-practice 
NEW LINK UPDATED 19/2

Rural Research Capacity Building graduates 2015 (Kerith Duncanson - the first left)

From experienced health clinician to novice researcher
Dr Kerith Duncanson

The NSW Health Education and Training Institute's (HETI) Rural Research Capacity Building Program provides nurses, doctors and allied health professionals from across NSW with opportunity to build their research skills in a two-year researcher development program. Facilitated by two clinician researchers with teaching supported by health research academics, the program is conducted through a combination of face-to-face workshops, mentor relationships and teleconferences. Candidates step through the research process from research question conception to ethics, study implementation, analysis and report in a supportive research environment and with designated research time.

Dr Kerith Duncanson (BSc, Grad Dip N&D, PhD, APD) is  a Lecturer and Course Coordinator at the University of Newcastle and Rural Research Project Officer for NSW Health. In her diverse career Kerith has worked for 25 years across the public and private sectors in nutrition and dietetics, which led to an interest in child nutrition research and subsequent participation in the 2008 Rural Research Capacity Building Program. Kerith completed her PhD in 2014, and is now pursuing further research in the field of gastroenterology, while managing a novice researcher development program within NSW Health.

Kerith has twelve peer-reviewed publications and has presented her work on child nutrition and functional gastrointestinal nutrition nationally and internationally. She was the 2008 prize winner for best report in the Rural Research Capacity Building Program, and a finalist in the 2011 and 2014 University of Newcastle 3 minute thesis competitions.

From library practitioner to library researcher: making research part of your professional practice
Edward Luca

It can be hard to start a conversation about research, particularly if you’ve never done it before or there’s no precedent at your workplace for such initiatives. Edward will talk about his personal journey in writing academic journal articles based on his work in libraries. In particular, he’ll discuss the value of evidence-based research in informing library practice, and why more library practitioners should become involved in this space.

Edward is an Academic Liaison Librarian at the University of Sydney. @edwardluca