Graduate Research Colloquium 2023
The annual Melbourne School of Health Sciences (MSHS) Graduate Research Colloquium held on Thursday 7 December 2023 was an astounding success, featuring MSHS graduate researchers and staff, as well as external collaborators and partners.
This student-led event brought together graduate researchers and academics across all School disciplines and members of the broader university community to network, inspire and reflect on our achievements over the year.
The Colloquium showcased the exciting and important work that our MSHS graduate research community has undertaken. It was a wonderful opportunity to look beyond our own field of expertise and hear about the vast array of research being conducted by our peers across health science, taking time to engage, ask questions and practice scientific presentation and communication skills.
This year’s theme was 'New Horizons in Research: Navigating Digital Transformation in Healthcare'. In addition to our School's graduate research student presentations, we had an exciting line up of guest speakers including a keynote speech by A/Prof Daniel Capurro from the Centre for Digital Transformation of Health, as well as a panel discussion surrounding the hot topic of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Digital Health in Research.
We congratulate the six Graduate Research Colloquium Prize winners for their top scoring abstracts:
- Van Nguyen (Social Work) - “Working metaphors: cross-sector collaborations between family violence and substance use services”
- Shiyi (Julia) Zhu (Physiotherapy) - “Development of self-directed online Tai Chi intervention for people with knee osteoarthritis”
- Matt Wilkinson Stokes (Nursing) - “Parliament to the frontliners: Viewpoints on paramedic practitioner specialists within Australian emergency medical services”
- Rajni Rajan (Optometry and Vision Sciences) - “Assessing the efficacy and safety of therapeutic interventions for corneal neuropathy: A systematic review”
- Dominic Truong (Physiotherapy) - “An international clinimetric evaluation of the Short Physical Performance Battery test in survivors of critical illness”
- Sarah Horton (Audiology and Speech Pathology) - “Executive function, stuttering severity, and subjective impact of stuttering in adults”
We would also like to congratulate those who won awards on the day:
- Academic prize for best overall colloquium presentation (prize session winner): Sarah Horton
- Academic prize for best conference style presentation: Thomas Rollinson
- Academic prize for best short presentation: Yifu Ding and Sarah Swann
- Academic prize for best poster presentation: Emma Searle
- People’s choice award for best conference style presentation: Matt Wilkinson-Stokes and Van Nguyen
- People’s choice award for best short presentation: Sophie Hatzipashalis
- People’s choice award for best poster presentation: Nicolas Mosso Tupper and Anna van Koeverden
The day was concluded with a social event held at Naughtons Hotel, including networking, drinks and a canape dinner.
