Dialogue and Debate

Internship program summer 2002

2002 Summer Internship

Topics from some of 2002 dialogue and debate sessions:

Setting the stage

• Judith Shamian - Setting nursing policy
• Judy Mill - Globalization, global heath and Equity
• Susan Mowers - Tapping into Population Health Data Sources
• Raisa Deber - The Public Private Debate in Current Health Care Reform
• Denise Alcock - Opportunities for building capacity for nursing research

Multiple intervention design

• Nancy Edwards - Key methodological issues in multiple intervention research - qualitative and quantitative perspectives
• Alette Willis, Liz Diem, Nancy Edwards - Innovations in focus group design - photonovella, focus groups as interventions
• Nancy Edwards - Standardized design for multiple interventions
• Alma Estable and Mechthild Meyer - Research with multicultural groups
• Sharmila Mhatre - Blending qualitative and quantitative research methods
• Donna Lockett - Factor analysis and instrument development
• Anita Kothari - Multi-level analysis: the fundamentals
• Lynne MacLean - Workshop: Working with a collaborative qualitative analysis team

Grantsmanship

• Lucille Auffrey - Strategic Directions of the Canadian Nurses Association and Opportunities for Research Linkages
• Nancy Edwards, Anita Kothari and Pat Griffin - Partnerships with Decision-makers
• Nancy Edwards, Pat Griffin - Aligning your research project with a funding agency - lessons learned from the trenches
• Nancy Edwards, Ingrid Sketris, Barbara Helliwell - So now you've got the money - Project Management Strategies
• Anita Kothari - So you always wanted to be a grant reviewer? Here's your chance.
• Barb Davies and Nancy Edwards - Successful research add-ons to and research spin-offs from funded projects
• Barb Davies, Jenny Medves and Nancy Edwards - Developing programs of research, distinguishing between research projects and research programs
• Nancy Edwards - Pilot and feasibility studies - Preparing letters of intent
• Nancy Edwards - Contracts, grants, contribution agreements and program funds. Identifying and successfully competing for contracts

Collaborative research teams

• Nancy Edwards, Ginette Roberge, Elaine Gallagher - Working with community partners, role of advisory committees for research projects and programs. Enticing decision-makers to be involved in your project
• Nancy Edwards, Louise Lemyre - Assembling and working with a multi-disciplinary research team
• Nancy Edwards, Donna Lockett - Intervention development: working with a multi-disciplinary design team
• Nancy Edwards, Pat Griffin - Assembling a multi-agency and multi-site collaborative research team

Dissemination and uptake

• Kerrie Pain - Supporting Research Transfer - The Alberta Community Health Research Network
• Bob LeDrew - Working with the media
• Pat Houston - Getting published and writing publications for the Canadian Journal of Public Health
• Dawn Smith - Writing policy briefs
• Marilynn Kuhn and Nancy Edwards - Technical Report Writing
• Kathleen Holdway, Nancy Edwards, Betty Cragg - Collaborative writing teams: negotiating authorship