From 2019 to 2025, UTS IMPACCT was a partner on a Research England i3 grant awarded to the Wolfson Palliative Care Research Centre at the University of Hull, UK. This grant allowed these two significant palliative care groups to build on their strategic partnership and expand the scale and impact of collaborative research activities.
IMPACCT and the Wolfson Palliative Care Research Centre (Wolfson) are closely aligned in our priorities and commitment to producing excellent and practice-changing research.
i3 enabled us to strengthen, deepen and broaden our established collaboration, providing the momentum needed to generate innovations in health and social care that are urgently needed worldwide.
Australia and the UK face similar challenges from our ageing populations, and joint research has greater international impact if we work together.
The i3 grant funded a 5-year programme of joint "Creating Connections" conferences, workshops and masterclasses to foster shared learnings and joint working, as well as an academic exchange programme to cross-fertilise ideas and support the growth of early career researchers.
Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, the programme delivered:
- 37 exchange visits by academics of all levels: professors, senior lecturers, post-doctoral researchers, PhD students;
- $793,273 (IMPACCT) and £2,849,869 (Wolfson) in research grant income;
- 80 peer-reviewed publications;
- 5 Creating Connections conferences, attended by 718 delegates;
- 7 masterclasses on research methods, attended by 304 delegates; and
- joint supervision of 4 PhD students.
Funding
Research England, International Investment Initiative, £403,510
Investigators
Professor Miriam Johnson [opens external site]
Professor Fliss Murtagh [opens external site]
Professor Liz Walker [opens external site]