New centres for enhancing interdisciplinary qualitative research and evidence-based practice
The School held the opening ceremonies of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Qualitative Research (ICQR) and the Centre for Advancing Patient Health Outcomes: A JBI affiliated Group in June and July respectively.
The ICQR is Asia’s FIRST Interdisciplinary Centre for Qualitative Research to provide a new platform to facilitate inter-departmental, and inter-institutional knowledge sharing, ideas exchange, joint grant applications and research collaboration. This new Centre is a significant step forward taken by the School to take the lead in advancing qualitative research development and expertise in Asia and beyond. The ICQR is partnering with some world-renowned universities including the Karolinska Institutet and Malmo University’s in Sweden; the University College Dublin in Ireland; Manchester Metropolitan University and the University of Derby in the UK, and West Attica University in Greece. Our list of local and global partners will continue to expand.
Led by the Director of the ICQR, Dr Martin Christensen (Associate Professor & Associate Head), a series of activities will be organised by the Centre, for example training sessions on qualitative systematic reviews and meta-syntheses. The Centre is developing a qualitative research training database to provide digital convenience for researchers and academia to list their qualitative research projects for collaborative research opportunities and for students to initially identify their potential supervisors.
The opening of the Centre for Advancing Patient Health Outcomes and our joining of the family of the JBI Collaboration (JBIC) was a big event in July. As a new member of the JBIC, the School is having new opportunities to work along with over 75 collaborating entities across 40 countries for achieving the mission and mission of the JBI.
Led by Dr Martin Christensen, the Centre for Advancing Patient Health Outcomes is the ONLY centre in Hong Kong that is affiliated to the JBI. We play a unique strategic role in partnering with other JBI affiliated groups in the region, and particularly in Greater China, to promote evidence informed approaches to impact health policies and enhance nurses’ capacity to implement evidence into practice. Being the FORTH JBI affiliated group in the Greater Bay Area in Mainland China, the Centre has a larger objective of developing closer collaborative partnerships with the other three JBI affiliated groups in the Greater Bay Area to join efforts to build capacity for evidence-based practice and research projects that enhance quality of the service and advance patient health outcomes.
With the opening of the two new centres, the School is confident that we will enhance our capacity in qualitative research and scholarship and expand our networks with partners in the region and around the globe to enhance evidence-based nursing practice and advance patient health outcomes.
Prof. David Shum, Chair Professor of Neuropsychology & Dean of Faculty of Health and Social Sciences, gave a welcoming address to kick off the opening ceremony of the ICQR.
Over 50 participants from different countries joined the opening ceremony of the ICQR.
Prof. Alice Yeun Loke (top row, 1st from left), Honorary Professor and the speaker for the webinar held following the opening ceremony of Centre for Advancing Patient Health Outcomes. Mrs Bianca Pilla, the Director of Global Relations at JBI; and Ms Yanni Wu (lower row, 1st from left), Asia Regional Coordinator for JBI gave opening remarks for the event.
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