Knowledge Transfer
The Centre for Health and Society has a fortnightly eBulletin and hold seminars on a regular basis, please click on the links for further information. You can also have a look at our News and Events sections to learn more about our recent and upcoming knowledge transfer activities.
The Centre for Health and Society staff have received five knowledge engagement awards since 2007. Please see below:
2011
Gemma Carey was awarded The 2011 University of Melbourne Vice-Chancellor’s Knowledge Transfer Award targeting research and social change.
The Centre for Excellence in Indigenous Tobacco Control team was awarded a 2011 MSPH Knowledge Transfer award.
The Leaders in Indigenous Medical Education (LIME) Project was awarded the Melbourne School of Population Health Award for Excellence in Knowledge Transfer. The award recognised the LIME Network’s ‘impacts on both health outcomes and health policy, in improving the efficacy of teaching and learning of Indigenous health in Australasian medical education’. The judging panel commended the project’s
| demonstrable national and international impacts on policy and practice in the present, and… potential to deliver on health impacts in the future – in particular in narrowing the disparities in health status between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians |
2008
John Fitzgerald received a Vice-Chancellor’s Knowledge Transfer Excellence Award for his work with the AFL and the AFL Players’ Association to develop a national AFL alcohol policy.
Dr Pippa Grange from the AFL Players’ Association, who worked with Associate Professor John Fitzgerald on the award-winning project ‘An AFL alcohol policy’, felt that the “standout difference” of working with the University of Melbourne was the teamwork approach. She said:
| "Lots of really decent pieces of robust research come to us each year, but they remain research, they remain quite esoteric, even when there’s an acknowledged way that that will inform our programs. But there hasn’t necessarily been the depth of teamwork in “how do we really make this happen for you?”… Melbourne University has been involved right the way through. |
2007
Marcia Langton and the Indigenous studies team on being awarded one of four Knowledge Transfer Excellence Awards given by the University of Melbourne for the Agreement Treaties and Negotiated Settlements project. (http://www.atns.net.au). This project links industry partners, government and Indigenous groups. The ATNS database is recognised as a crucial information resource in managing agreements and receives more than five million hits per year.