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Early bird price: $650 per person (excl GST) + Eventbrite fees | available until 5pm Sunday, 2 April. Student and group (6+) price: $650 per person (excl GST) + Eventbrite fees. Standard price: $750 per person (excl GST) + Eventbrite fees
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Research conducted with policy partners can have a greater chance of impacting policies, programs and services.
But how do early career researchers build these partnerships? How do they manage and sustain them? And how do they get their research findings known and used?
Our skills-based training course has been developed to address these questions. It draws on the expertise of senior policy makers and researchers to help early career researchers build the skills required to initiate and sustain research partnerships with policy makers.
It will teach practical skills such as:
- How to understand policy priorities, policy realities and the policy environment
- How to embark on a new policy relationship, get new policy partners on board, and build your partnership skills
- How to frame your research idea for a policy audience
- How to lay the foundations for co-production
- How to establish the right governance framework for your collaborative project
- How to engage policy makers with your research findings.
Who should attend?
Early career researchers with significant research expertise, typically at post-doctorate level or with equivalent experience. Suited to applicants who are interested in influencing health or social policy by working in partnership with decision makers.
This online version of the course will run over three sessions and will focus on most popular course highlights that target particular areas of interest to early career researchers.
The course will include small group work plus individual pre- and post-course assessment with the course facilitator.
Module 1 – Wednesday 19 April 2023, 12-2pm
“The Policy Environment”
Module 2 – Wednesday 26 April 2023, 12-2pm
“Framing research for the policy environment”
Module 3 – Wednesday 3 May 2023, 12-2pm
“Communication – fundamental principles”
The course is facilitated by Sian Rudge.
Presenter/s
Sian Rudge
Sian Rudge
Sian Rudge works in the nexus between research and decision making, and in connecting decision makers with research and researchers. She leads the Sax Institute’s Evidence for Action Division, including the Evaluate, Evidence Connect and Decision Analytics programs, which support the use of decision making in health and social services. This support takes a number of forms, including facilitating tailored evidence reviews and policy impact workshops, evaluation of policies and programs, and development of decision-support tools using dynamic simulation modelling. Before joining the Institute in 2011, Sian worked with the Centre for Aboriginal Health in the NSW Ministry of Health. She was previously a paediatric physiotherapist (B App Sc (Physio)) and holds a Master of International Public Health.
Associate Professor Sarah Thackway
Associate Professor Sarah Thackway
Associate Professor Sarah Thackway is a population and public health expert with over 30 years’ experience in the policy, front-line and research sectors. She has a deep understanding of the public health system and the complexities involved in using administrative and other data to monitor the impact of policies and interventions. As a recent, former Executive Director for the Centre for Epidemiology and Evidence, NSW Ministry of Health, Sarah has successfully led strategies that developed and strengthened the public health workforce. She also led the evaluation function for Population Health, enhanced statewide data linkage; developed the NSW Data Literacy Capability Framework, and led the strategic population health research agenda.
Associate Professor Carmen Huckel Schneider
Associate Professor Carmen Huckel Schneider
Associate Professor Carmen Huckel Schneider is Senior Advisor, Evidence Connect at the Sax Institute; Senior Lecturer and Director, Master of Health Policy at the Sydney School of Public Health, University of Sydney; and co-leader of the Health Governance and Financing Group at the Menzies Centre for Health Policy. She is a health systems and governance researcher with over 10 years’ experience in knowledge exchange, transitional health and health policy education.
Adam Cresswell
Adam Cresswell
Adam Cresswell heads the Institute’s Communications and Engagement Division and plays a key role in managing its strategic public affairs. He joined the Sax Institute in March 2018 after more than five years leading communications teams in two Australian Government health agencies. Before that, Adam spent many years as a health journalist in the UK and Australia, culminating in an eight-year stint as Health Editor of The Australian newspaper, reporting on the key health policy developments over that time. Adam has a Master of Health Policy from the University of Sydney, a Graduate Certificate in reporter journalism and a BA (Hons) in English and Related Literature.