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Learning and Teaching for Interprofessional Practice (Australia), L-TIPP (Aus)

Funded by the Carrick Institute for Learning and Teaching, the project will increase the capacity of higher education to graduate health professionals with developed interprofessional learning (IPL) and interprofessional practice (IPP) capabilities. Full details

ARC Discovery

• Beyond training and learning: integrated development practices in organisations
• Changing Work Changing Workers: pedagogy and the new vocationalism
• Context Judgement and Informal Learning at work
• Postoccidental Englishes and Rap

ARC Linkage

• Emergency Communication: addressing the challenges in health care discourses and practices
• Putting Scaffolding to work in language and literacy education
• Enhancing learning through computer based technologies
• Modelling the melody of human speech
• Uncovering learning at work
• School-university e-learning research and development partnerships (The GENESIS Project)
• Challenging pedagogies; engaging ESL students in intellectual quality
• Researching the development and use of a systemic e-learning approach to teacher professional development in K-6 Science and Technology (The DESCANT-SciTech Project)

Other

• An Industry-led VET system: issues for policy, practice and practitioners
• Resourcing VET in Australia; meeting whose needs?
• Learning and Development for sustainable health futures
• The Pedagogy of new vocational learning
• Case studies of personalised learning
• Welfare to work programs
• Engaging with youth and diversity in Western Sydney
• Inter-professional learning and practice in health
• Project based teacher education
• Literacy community capability
• Melbourne museum learning
• Early career teacher recruitment and retention
• Action learning in Teacher Professional Learning. What works?
• Australian Govenment Quality Teaching Indigenous Project Evaluation
• Exploring pedagogy with interactive whiteboards
• Teachers as e-learning designers
• Developing pedagogy using student-generated digital video
• Investigating technology-mediated, project-based learning: case studies of four schools

Project title: Emergency communication: Addressing the challenges in health care discourses

Professor Diana Slade, Professor Jane Stein-Parbury, Associate Professor Hermine Scheeres and Research Associates, Marie Manidis and Jeannette McGregor, are undertaking a cross faculty research project on communication in Emergency Departments in NSW and ACT hospitals.  The initiative involves collaboration between the Faculty of Education and the Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery and Health and is being funded through a large ARC Linkage Grant involving five hospitals (Gosford, Canberra, Hornsby, St George and Prince of Wales Hospitals) and the NSW Adult Migrant English Service.

The focus of the project is to investigate ineffective communication, which has been identified as the major cause of critical incidents in public hospitals (NSW Health report, 2005a).  Critical incidents are adverse events leading to avoidable patient harm. 

This interdisciplinary project, by examining spoken interactions between health-care practitioners and patients in hospital emergency departments, will identify and analyse causes of misunderstandings and breakdowns. 

The study addresses the Federal Government National Research Priority 2: Promoting and Maintaining Good Health and other government health policies.  The analysis will refine and extend contemporary studies of discourse, to enable health-care practitioners to recognise and reduce the likelihood of communication breakdowns.