As in previous years, the UTS Centre for Health Communication experienced an extraordinary year of academic and practical successes. These successes included integration of our work into State and National policy and training, invitations to present at national and international forums, uptake of our research methods across the globe, high levels of research income, and a high level of publication output. 2011
Professor Rick Iedema, Director of CHC, was awarded an ARC Discovery Grant ($170,000 over three years) to examine and strengthen communication in disclosure of health care incidents. The project has the acronym SCHID, and will interview patients, relatives and clinicians about communication following a health care incident. Anyone interested in participating can visit “Participating in [...]
Professor Rick Iedema and Verena Thomas has been awarded an international collaboration grant from the Australian Technology Network of Universities’ Germany Joint Research Co-operation Scheme 2010-2011. Their project is titled: ‘Mobile IT? Solutions for Health Care Processes’. The project will enable the UTS Centre for Health Communication to collaborate with the Osnabruck-based Institut für Informationsmanagement [...]
In 2009, the centre for health communication experienced again an extraordinary year of academic and practical successes. These success included invitations to present at national and international forums, uptake of our work across the globe, visiting scholars interested in our work from the netherlands, the uk, png and the us, high levels of research income, [...]
May 27th, 2012