Implementation Research for Impact: Consumer and Community Involvement to deliver value and improved outcomes in health and medical research- Domestic students only

Active involvement of people with lived experience or patients (consumers) to improve healthcare services and health and medical research is fundamental to systemwide healthcare change. Known as Consumer and Community Involvement (CCI), this space is a rapidly advancing field and we are undertaking significant work to embed genuine, best practice CCI in research and health services to deliver value and improved outcomes to our community. To deliver on our innovative research program, we have partnered with the National Health and Medical Research Centres (NHMRC) accredited Research Translation Centres, large scale partnerships of research, teaching and health service organisations, to embed CCI in the culture, processes and operations of all centres. We have also partnered with the Consumer Health Forum (CHF) Australia, as well as consumers, researchers, and healthcare providers to deliver sustainable impact and meaningful, empowered CCI. We are offering a PhD opportunity for a domestic student to join our team and help conduct important consumer engagement, research, and translation in the CCI field. Our major projects include 5 streams: 1) build consumer and community networks; 2) build an innovative digital CCI Knowledge Hub for tools and resources; 3) undertake behavioural research to drive acceptance and uptake of genuine CCI; 4) codesign and deliver research case studies in healthcare areas by integrating knowledge from earlier streams, and 5) undertake implementation research to take the knowledge and outputs of streams 1-4 into implementation resources for scale-up within and across NHMRC accredited Centres in Australia. The research will include working with consumers, community partners and the Monash Partners Community Advisory Committee, undertaking scoping reviews, surveys, semi-structured interviews, focus groups, codesign workshops and coproduction of resources across Australia. This evaluation and implementation research will drive acceptance and uptake of CCI at the individual and systems level as well as generate evidence and resources based on core components of successful implementation to guide national scale-up and enhance impact. Skills in mixed methods and qualitative, evaluation and implementation research will be acquired as well as participatory research knowledge for planning, doing, and evaluating CCI. The successful applicant will join a nationally leading multidisciplinary team with over 45 PhD students embedded in clinical care. Additional professional development is provided, along with strong collegiality and support.