The UTS Faculty of Health recently announced the recipients of the Health Futures Development Grants (HFDG) for 2016.
These grants are designed to support researchers who wish to undertake high quality pilot, exploratory or small scale projects that can be used to expand and attract major competitive funding from external sources.
The HFDGs will help to build the Faculty’s national and international reputation in research through increasing the number of Faculty-held external competitive grants.
In 2016, six worthy applicants received grants for a diverse range of projects:
- Professor Fiona Brooks (Investigating the evidence for interventions to prevent self-harm in the school aged population).
- Professor Elizabeth Sullivan (Health professional practice and service delivery in the NSW prison system).
- Professor Jane Philips (Addressing unrelieved pain in the Australian residential aged care sector: a phase 1 mixed-methods scoping study).
- Professor David Sibbritt (Legal risk and consumer protection relating to complementary and alternative medicine services and products in Australia)
- Associate Professor Elizabeth Denney-Wilson (Fit for the Future pilot study: Preventing weight gain in new graduate nurses).
- Dr. Carla Saunders (Social capital resources for health).
The Faculty congratulates all grant recipients and wishes them ongoing success in their research work.