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About Us

Establishment

The HEALTH CRN was established in 2011 after a successful funding application secured $5.53 million in Commonwealth funding to develop partnerships between the regionally-based CQUniversity and our city cousins.

The HEALTH CRN is designed to help CQUniversity academics develop health-related research projects alongside larger, more mature research teams, and to harness CQUniversity's 'power of place', giving metropolitan researchers better access to health networks on the ground in rural and regional communities.

The HEALTH CRN works to enhance CQUniversity's research, leading to delivery of better health outcomes for rural and regional areas. It does this by:

  • Encouraging collaborative relationships leading to quality successful grant applications and publications;
  • Encouraging staff exchanges and secondments between the partner Universities;
  • Providing quality mentoring and support for early- and mid- career researchers;
  • Enrolling and successfully graduating more Research Higher Degree students by providing training and co-supervision opportunities.

Our Partners

The HEALTH CRN is supported by Coordinators at each partner University. Each Coordinator is a renowned research academic and is responsible for providing research development leadership and engaging staff and students on behalf of the HEALTH CRN within their University.

The Coordinators are:

Professor Desley Hegney at Curtin University

Professor Adrian Herington at Queensland University of Technology

Professor Stewart Trost at The University of Queensland

Supported by

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This project is supported through the Australian Government's Collaborative Research Networks (CRN) program.