Applications are invited for a three-year PhD scholarship with the Centre for Health Communication, UTS. The NHMRC scholarship will fund research into the occurrence and spread of hospital-acquired infections across two hospitals, and the research will involve a mix of qualitative methodologies, including ethnography and interviews. Essential Criteria: Honours degree or Masters by Research degree [...]
November 15th, 2012
The Centre for Health Communication’s Dr Katherine Carroll, Chief Investigator of the ARC Discovery Project ‘Liquid Gold’: establishing the place of donated human milk in the tissue economy, has been awarded a UTS Early Career Researcher Grant for 2013. The grant, worth $24,953, will allow Dr Carroll to conduct research on Milk Donation After Neonatal Loss. Australian human [...]
May 27th, 2012
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
December 15th, 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 [...]
January 29th, 2013