Short Term Exchange and Facilities and Equipment Access Programs

The Short Term Exchange and Facilities and Equipment and Access programs provides individuals with the opportunity to grow and strengthen their career development opportunities in the health research field and their relationships with other Universities and collaborators.

Read more about the researchers who have completed one of these programs and the benefits these programs offer.

Dr Delwar Akbar (d.akbar@cqu.edu.au) – Research Expertise:  Centre for Environmental Management; Resource Economics and Urban and Regional Planning - View Presentation

Dr Matthew Browne (m.browne@cqu.edu.au) – Lecturer in Psychology.  Dr Browne used his Short Term Exchange visit to link up with eingineering and computer science researchers at The University of Queensland.  Dr Browne's background in statistical pattern recogntion was complemented well by UQ researcher Yaniv Gal's expertise in signal and image processing.  Together, they have conceived a project for 'data-mining' high-dimensional bio-signals, and identifying those components of experimental or practical interest.  This approach to big-data combined 'Random Forest' regression models with a range of feature extraction methods, and for big-data, is akin to'finding the needle in the haystack'.  It is perfectly suited for analysing large EEG datasets, including one just collected by Dr Tim Cutmore at Griffith University's experimental psychophysiology laboratory, who is also contributing to the project.  This dataset will provide the first application of the algorithm.  The collaborators have just engaged a research assistant to continue developing the toolbox, and look forward to publishing their initial results shortly. - View presentation

Dr Hani Al-Salami, Curtin University (Hani-Al-Salami@curtin.edu.au).  The Health CRN funding is an elegantly simple but strategically ambitious scheme to bring researchers together.  That was the reason for my great interest and eagerness to apply and participate.  With my phamacist background and research interests in diabetes, I found Professor Ysanne Chapman a perfect research-partner at CQUniversity.  Professor Chapman has a smart and innovative approach to studying diabetes in qualitative manner.  I found that fascinating and decided to build a bridge and joined hands to build a wider diabetes-based research team that is not only eager to pursue research excellence, but also respect, appreciate and support each other's contribution and progression.  In addition to the anticipated outome of building a bridge with other academics, my CRN trip has achieved more than anticipated, through formulating a joined grant application, a long-term adjunct position and future goals of joined publications. 

Ms Tina Tinkara Peternelj (PhD Student), The University of Queensland (t.peternelj@uq.edu.au) visited and worked at CQUniversity with Dr Vincent Dalbo and Dr Andrew Fenning using a laboratory to measure mRNA for skeletal muscle cell samples using reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction, with a specific interest in the molecular mechanisms explaiing the health benefits of exercise.  View presentation