Research Education and Development (RED) Hub

Ground-breaking and world-class research requires excellent researchers. The RED Hub has been developed specifically to support and nurture our talented researchers so that their work can have maximum impact.

To achieve this, FHMRI’s RED Hub will provide support, training and professional and personal development for our researchers.

Our goal is to:

• improve research quality and research capacity
• increase outputs of publications and research impact on policy and health outcomes
• develop successful grants
• increase leadership skills
• develop avenues for greater internal and external collaboration, industry and consumer engagement
• foster a vibrant, inclusive, equitable people-focussed culture.

RED Hub resources and facilities will be particularly useful for a wide range of staff and students, including Honours and HDR students, early and mid career academics, senior academics, professional research staff, and rural, remote and Indigenous students and academics.

We aim to foster the development of staff and students through mentoring programs. These voluntary programs are designed to facilitate the transfer of the personal and professional knowledge of an experienced person (mentor) to a less experienced staff member or student (mentee) to assist in the development of the mentee.

Health professions education

We are conducting health professions education research to improve education approaches for future doctors, nurses, speech pathologists, paramedics and health professionals. This fundamental research is building researchers’ capacity to bring medical research from the lab and into practice in a more effective way.

Current research projects include self-regulated learning, expertise development, human judgement, predictability of admission procedures, educational change management and clinical supervision quality. We remain focused not only on conducting high quality research in this field but also ensuring it moves from theory to practice sooner to support health professionals now and into the future.