📣 Consumer and Community Involvement in health and medical research training

HMRI-affiliated researchers and consumer representatives who want to work well with each other, we have some excellent training for you.

We’re bringing Community and Consumer Involvement OG Anne McKenzie OAM back to the Hunter New England region for the first time since 2019! With HMRI’s Consumer and Community Involvement team, she will deliver her full-day (1.5h online + 5h in-person) course, developed together with Telethon Kids.

For this round only, this training will be free of charge (RRP $260) for HMRI affiliates and consumers who do already or want to work with HMRI-affiliated researchers on research projects. We will run this again later this year, but moving forward, there will be a cost, and you might not have Anne herself as your trainer.

This course is suitable and free for:

Citizens – including representatives of community organisations, people with lived experience of health conditions or illnesses, or their carers or support crew – who want to get involved in shaping the research that we run at HMRI.
Researchers and consumers with some experience in working together, but who have only a completed a short online module or have had no formal training.
Researchers who have never worked with consumers before.
Pre-clinical or clinical researchers.
Representatives of community organisations who are partnered with HMRI research programs on current projects.
Staff members of HMRI, UON or HNEHealth who work in a role that supports research.

If you’re not sure if this course will be right for you, please contact Gillian Mason, HMRI's Head of Public Participation and Integration to find out at gillian.mason@hmri.org.au.

All attendees are required to complete a 1.5h online training module in their own time, before their booked in-person session in either Newcastle or Tamworth.

Tamworth - Thursday 9 May 2024
Time: 9:30 am – 2:30 pm
Where: University of Newcastle Department of Rural Health, 140 Johnston St, North Tamworth (Tamworth Hospital Campus)

Researchers from Newcastle are also very welcome (encouraged!) to attend in Tamworth, May 9th instead of the May 7th Newcastle session. Attending in Tamworth is recommended for researchers, consumers and research staff who want to learn more about designing research that meets the needs of regional and rural communities.

RSVP: By 24th April 2024 through Humanitix. Courses are limited to 30 people per session.

These initial, free sessions are only available with the 5h component in-person. There will be all-online options available for this course later this year.

Accessibility:

Venues are wheelchair accessible, and AI-generated captions will be available when presenters are addressing the group.

If you are a consumer representative and need assistance with transport or expenses associating with attending, please do contact us so we can see if we can support you to attend.

If you have any further access needs, or have questions, contact Gillian Mason, Head of Public Participation and Integration at HMRI on gillian.mason@hmri.org.au