Category: measurement
From evidence to practice: Exploring translation pathways for clinical medical science and public health research
Many health scientists enter their fields with the purpose of creating new knowledge that will make a positive difference. However, the vast majority of research findings lay dormant in published papers, and can never impact the health of patients or the wider community. This is not only inefficient, but also presents an ethical conundrum. Most […]
VIEW POSTI started writing this post to provoke a conversation and scratch the surface on an important issue. There are many differing points of view and most are valid, and less valid at the same time depending on the lens you are looking through. Measuring impact from research requires a more sophisticated or complex conversation than […]
VIEW POSTMaximising robustness and reproducibility in research
Written by Jenny Pyke Jenny is the R&D Program Advisor and Accreditation Manager with the National Association of Testing Authorities, Australia (NATA) There are ongoing discussions regarding the lack of reproducibility of research. This concern, expressed globally, has been fuelled by stakeholders’ failed attempts to reproduce key research outcomes and the retraction of some research papers, […]
VIEW POSTSupporting innovations: Prof Michael Good
Professor Michael Good AO talks about NFMRI funding and his research into a new Strep vaccine for rheumatic heart disease and deep tissue infections The ‘Valley of Death’ grant that we recently received from the National Foundation for Medical Research and Innovation (NFMRI) has been a Godsend to our streptococcal vaccine project. Whist there […]
VIEW POSTPhilanthropic giving: Exploring the balance between cause and effect.
Assuming both are important where do you think priority should lie?
VIEW POSTMedical Research: Seeking the Right Company
Australia excels in biomedical research but sucks at commercialisation. Professor Frank Gannon says that needs to change. This article, written by Graeme O’Neill, previously appeared in Lab + Life Scientist. Professor Gannon is director of the QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, formerly known as the Queensland Institute of Medical Research. The institute is dedicated to […]
VIEW POSTPhilanthropy: Benefiting from Constructive Failure
In our last post, we mentioned failure and how grant makers should not only have a way around measuring success for grants that worked to plan, but also for grants that haven’t. We thought this topic should be explored in a little more detail. Research by its nature has the ability to fail. Researchers take […]
VIEW POSTAdvancing biomedical innovations & enabling collaborations: “The long and the short of measuring success”
Measuring success when supporting biomedical research can be difficult. This is particularly relevant if there is no predetermined agreement of what success looks like or no strategy to guide how you contribute to the larger picture. Often governments, researchers and the community use terms such as ‘bench to bedside’ (beginning and end) when considering the […]
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