We are pleased to announce the winners of the 2018 CHILD-BRIGHT Training Innovation Fund (TIF) competition, an initiative to facilitate the development of innovative training activities that will foster patient-oriented research training and mentoring within research projects focused on childhood brain-based developmental disabilities.
We received a number of strong proposals and following an in-depth review, the evaluation committee recommended two proposals for funding based on the impact that their proposed deliverables would have on increasing capacity for patient-oriented research within the CHILD-BRIGHT Network and beyond.
We congratulate the two following successful TIF winners:
Project:
Learning Together: the use of simulation to enhance and enable authentic and meaningful research partnerships
Kathryn Parker
Leads:
Kathryn Parker, Senior Director, Academic Affairs and Simulation Lead, Holland Bloorview & Nadia Tanel, Manager, Research Operations, Holland Bloorview
Funding amount granted:
$9,979
Project timeline:
Jan-Dec 2019
Nadia Tanel
Project summary:
The proposed project aims to develop a suite of five simulation-based learning modules designed for multi-stakeholder research teams that include patients/families as partners. Adopting a co-learning approach, these modules will be designed to address complex challenges experienced by patients and scientists while engaging in patient-oriented research.
Project:
Development of a partnership model for collaborative research with youth with disabilities
Gail Teachman
Lead:
Gail Teachman, Assistant Professor, Western University
Funding amount granted:
$10,000
Project timeline:
Jan 2019-Jan 2021
Project summary:
The project aims to pilot a model for meaningfully engaging youth with diverse disabilities as collaborators in an integrated knowledge translation (iKT) research project. This project will actively engage youth collaborators as well as other stakeholder groups in the creation of training modules that train health care providers to approach childhood disability as an interaction between physiological and social determinants of disability.
