Research

All the training, tools and resources you need to develop health services research skills at a time and pace to suit you.

@research can support you to develop a training pathway suited to your needs, no matter where you are or what health services research experience you have.

An introduction to the @research initiative, supporting Health Services Research in regional Victoria

Events

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AGM & Presentation

HSRAANZ 2025 AGM + End of Year Event

Webinar

Co-design of clinical trial resources with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in regional Victoria: the experience of Lotjpa Yapaneyepuk (Talk together) about cancer trials

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Cancer Consumer-led Research Program

Showcase

ACCN Showcase – @research/RRTH Presentation

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Unpacking Clinical Trials and Health Services Research

The PANConnect intervention: A centralised nurse-led telehealth service to increase equity of access to specialist cancer nurses for regional patients with pancreatic cancer

Are we making it up as we go along? Co-designing a model of early referral to palliative care for regional cancer patients.

Webinar

ReViTALISE and Barwon Health: improving cancer outcomes for regional patients

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Building research in regional health services: a South West Victorian perspective.

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Cancer Services redesign for patient and system levels benefit: Bendigo Regional Cancer Centre

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How to improve the health of rural, remote and regional communities with a MRFF grant

“Health services research is concerned with the quality, effectiveness, efficiency and outcome of health care services by examining access, provision, organisation, cost and distribution of heath care.”

Professor Meinir Krishnasamy

“@research is aiming to improve access to education, improve expertise and foster networks for regional nurses, allied health professionals and doctors, leading to greater engagement in research in the workplace. In turn this will mean better health outcomes for regional Victorians who are affected by cancer.”

Associate Professor Craig Underhill

“Nursing research is so broad ranging from formal thesis research to a quality improvement project in a clinical space. Both have the potential to change practice which makes it so empowering to be part of.”

Sue Bartlett
Oncology Nurse Practitioner, Grampians Health Ballarat

“With the expansion of health services research and clinical trials in regional Palliative and Supportive care services, we can provide our patients with excellent, quality and evidence-based care, that is equal to their metropolitan counterparts.”

Miriam Ferres
Palliative Care Doctor

“It is an exciting time to be a part of allied health oncology research, with allied health professionals playing an instrumental role in rapidly moving the needle in the delivery and evaluation of novel, impactful supportive and survivorship care research, improving the outcomes and day-to-day lives of those in our community affected by cancer.”

Catherine Williams
Senior Clinician Physiotherapist & Project Lead, Allied Health Clinical Trials Unit - Oncology (ACT-ONC), Barwon Health

Researcher Spotlight

Anna Griffith, Master of Information Management

About

Manager, Library, Research & Ethics at Albury Wodonga Health.

I’ve been managing the health library at Albury Wodonga Health since 2018 and established the Research Office in 2020. One of the first tasks was to constitute an AWH Human Research Ethics Committee, appoint a Research Governance Officer, and then develop the strategy, systems and processes for clinicians to get started in research.

Since then, the team has grown to six staff, including a Clinical Trials Coordinator, an Academic Conjoint Research Coordinator with UNSW, a dedicated Health Librarian and an Ethics Coordinator. Together, we form a small but dedicated Library & Research Department.

What drew you to research?

Research involves critical thinking and understanding information workflows from data generation, organisation, and access, through to information dissemination. I realised quickly in my undergraduate degree (in English Literature) that I wanted to work in libraries and research, and my postgraduate degree in Information Management meant I had transferable skills to work in many academic and professional settings. My first role in research was as a law librarian at a corporate law firm in Melbourne, where I supported professionals in legal research. The move across to health was fairly smooth, although I did attend some specialised short courses in health research (such as the Joanna Briggs Institute course on Systematic Reviews ). Information management and research workflows are at the core of all the work I do in both the Library and Research Office.