Researchers retreat to find the 'write stuff' on tropical island
Published on 06 May, 2013
CQUniversity researchers have bottled themselves up on a tropical island to come up with treasured journal articles that are ready to publish.
Thanks to support from the Health Collaborative Research Network, academics from a range of health and health-related fields got together on North Keppel Island to focus on ‘writing up' their projects.
A key goal is to raise the quality of CQUniversity research publications to world standard or above for consideration by the Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) process.
One of the participants, Assoc Prof Trudy Dwyer said the fields represented included nursing, speech pathology, occupational therapy, sociology and psychology.
"We had great peer mentorship and cross-discipline collaboration. It was a very collegial event," she said.
Another participant, Assoc Prof Monica Moran said "the weekend was about having an opportunity to work in a supportive environment and within a genuine community of practice, allowing us to move beyond the isolation of academic writing".
One of the facilitators, CQUniversity's HEALTH CRN Professorial Research Fellow Lynne Parkinson said the event was an opportunity for "serious work in a seriously beautiful setting".
The participants could also draw on the wisdom of visiting facilitator Professor Desley Hegney (the HEALTHCRN Coordinator from Curtin University who is also Professor of Nursing, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Program Co-ordinator, Vulnerable Populations, Curtin Health Innovation Research Institute (CHIRI), and Professor of Nursing, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Perth).