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Children’s Allied Health Research MESSAGE FROM GROUP LEADER During 2012 a number of new allied health research initiatives have occurred focusing on current service provisions within Children’s Health Queensland Hospital and Health Service. Many of these have been small scale project with individual disciplines others have been on a larger scale and involved cross disciplinary and external partners. As well Established research groups have continued to flourish with the support of grant funding. Fundamental to these activities has been the support received from numerous organisations particularly Queensland Health and the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences at The University of Queensland. The activities represented in this report reflect those directly associated with the Professor of Children’s Allied Health Research. There are numerous other achievements by individuals and groups across both Children’s Health Queensland Hospital and Health Service which are not recorded here. Professor Jenny Ziviani Summary of Research Activities and Achievements ‣ Allied health practitioners were successful in receiving 2 of the Queensland Health HP Research Grants and additional support was secured from QCMRI for seeding funds for 2 additional applications which were judged to be near misses. ‣ Professor Ziviani was awarded a University of Queensland Excellence in Research Higher Degree Supervision Award. ‣ Doctoral awardee Margaret Wallen was nominated for the highly competitive Pursuit Award in Childhood Disability Research for her thesis “Modified constraint induced movement therapy for children with CP hemiplegia”. She presented this work to a panel at Bloorview Children’s Hospital in Toronto. ‣ Doctoral awardee Craig Greber was awarded a Dean’s Commendation for his thesis “The four quadrant model of facilitated learning”. ‣ Doctoral awardee Fiona Jones has had resources developed from her thesis “Transition to high school for children with cerebral palsy” made available on the CanChild website. ‣ Four honours students completed projects in Children’s Health Queensland all with First Class honours. ‣ Dr Peter Steer launched the book “The art and science of motivation: a therapist guide to working with children” edited by Jenny Ziviani, Anne Poulsen and Monica Cuskelly at the Riverbend Bookshop, Bulimba QCMRI Scientific Report 2012 92
‣ Twenty two international conference papers have been presented with one (Wallen et al) being awarded both best intervention and best paper at the Biennial Conference of the Australasian Academy of Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine. Research Grants and Contracts Years Grant Agency Chief Investigators Titles Amount 2012 Learning and Enhancement Grant UQ J Ziviani S Schabrun P Hodges D Copland Fostering and Inspiring Research Engagement (FIRE): an incubator scheme for undergraduate students $19,475 2012 HP Research Grants (Qld Health) M Simons Z Tyack J Ziviani R Plaza R Kimble L Cuttle Brisbane Scar Rating Scale: Improving the evidence base for burns management $30,764 2012- 2014 HWA – Qld Health Simulated Learning Environment Project Funding M Moller J Ziviani D Best G Jull E Ward S Bennett S Morris N Low Choy Simulated Learning in Paediatrics for Allied Health Practitioners $750,790 2012- 2014 Smart Future Fund Qld R Boyd P Colditz S Rose A Smith T Scuffham L McKinlay Neurorestorative Rehabilitation for Queensland Children $1,000,000 2012 Perpetual Trusts R Boyd J Ziviani Mitii: A novel virtual reality intervention for children with acquired brain injury $79,910 2012 HP Research Grants (Qld Health) R Boyd J Ziviani Move it to improve it (Mitii) Australia: Efficacy of a web based multimodal intervention for children with cerebral palsy $39,487 QCMRI Scientific Report 2012 93
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