Current Research Projects
The main themes of the study are Work/Life Balance and Staying Healthy. Should you wish to become an external collaborator with the e-cohort, please contact the Research Manager (Biosatistician) Ms Anne Russell. Our current research projects are outlined below:
Work/Life Balance
Recruitment and retention of undergraduate students
This project will describe and quantify the factors associated with recruitment and retention of students within undergraduate nursing programs across metropolitan and regional universities within Queensland and South Australia. This project is funded by ARC grant LP0562102. Please refer to two recent publications (Gaynor et al., 2006; 2007) which are related to this project
New graduates' transition to practice
This project will describe and quantify the factors associated with new graduates' transition to practice, retention in the workforce and subsequent patterns of employment across metropolitan, rural and remote areas within Queensland and South Australia. This project is funded by ARC grant LP0562102. Please refer to the publications page.
Retention of nurses and midwives in the health workforces
This project will describe and quantify the factors associated with the retention of the nursing and midwifery workforce in Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. This project is funded by two ARC grants LP0562102 and SR0566924. Please refer to an initial systematic review which has been published by Zhao et al (2008) and relates to this project
Staying Healthy
Incidence of work-based injuries
This project will Identify the prevalence, incidence and associated risk factors for musculo-skeletal disorders and work-based injury outcomes within a cohort of student nurses (Australia), registered and enrolled nurses (Australia, New Zealand & United Kingdom) in order to develop, trial, and evaluate injury prevention strategies. This project is funded by two ARC grants LP0562102 and SR0566924. Preliminary analysis of this data is taking place in 2008.
E-cohort methodology
This project will examine the challenges of adapting traditional longitudinal epidemiological study methods using innovative e-cohort techniques. This project is funded by two ARC grants LP0562102 and SR0566924. Please refer to a recently published paper (Turner et al., 2008)