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Convening and Collaborating

Fourteen UVic scholars are leading C² projects that will enable knowledge exchange and meaningful collaboration. The program supports researchers, trainees and those who use research to co-develop research that is relevant and impactful for people such as patients, health practitioners and policymakers. 

Megan Ames Healthy youth then, healthy adults now? Strategic planning for the midlife follow-up of the Victoria Healthy Youth Survey

Ames and her team will build on an existing, robust community-based sample, the Victoria Health Youth Survey which began in 2003 with 662 people aged 12-18. They’ll develop a plan to collect follow-up data from these now adults including evidence-based measures of physical health, mental health, substance use, healthy relationships, and social determinants of health.

Lisa Bourque Bearskin Co-Creating Collaborative Pathways: Advancing Indigenous Clinical Nurse Specialist Roles

BC Indigenous Health Nursing Research Chair Bourque Bearskin’s collaborative partnership will convene expert knowledge holders to ensure Clinical Nurse Specialists in Indigenous Health and Cultural Safety in BC lead an impactful, nurtured and sustainable workforce.

Brian Christie Evaluating Wolves’ Den: A traumatic brain injury-focussed peer support and education group

Christie’s project will evaluate and expand the Wolves’ Den program, a peer support and education group dedicated to improving the lives of traumatic brain injury survivors.

Dzifa Dordunoo Creating a roadmap for critical care nursing retention

Dordunoo’s team will bring together Intensive Care Unit-trained nurses and managers to brainstorm strategies to recruit and retain these specialist nurses with an evidence-informed, nurse-centred implementation research roadmap.

Jane Gair Mindfulness as Medicine: Co-Developing a Program of Research to Improve Physician Wellbeing Through a Meditation Community of Practice

Gair’s team will co-develop a program of research that investigates the effectiveness of an intensive mindfulness meditation retreat and subsequent community of practice as a therapeutic intervention to improve and reduce burnout in healthcare professionals.

Kate Jongbloed Building Relationships and a Reciprocal Research Agenda for the Unlearning & Undoing White Supremacy and Indigenous Specific Racism Lab for Population and Public Health in BC

Jongbloed’s new Unlearning & Undoing White Supremacy and Indigenous-Specific Racism Lab, with three provincial population and public health organizations, will bring together Nations, Indigenous thought leaders and others to undertake territorial protocols with Coast Salish Nations; build relationships; and map a vision, grounding principles and research agenda for the next five years.

Claudia Lai Population aging: Co-development of a research agenda on supports to stay at home from the perspective of older adults and caregivers with lived experiences in rural and remote communities

Lai will build community-engaged patient-oriented research partnerships with social-sector agencies, service providers, private businesses, government partners and people from local communities on northern Vancouver Island. Together, they’ll develop a research agenda on aging at home in rural and remote communities.

Sam Liu Developing a scale-up and evaluation plan for the Healthy Hips and Knees exercise program across B.C.

Liu’s team will collaborate with YMCA-BC to co-develop a research agenda to expand the reach and accessibility of the Healthy Hips and Knees pre- and post-surgery exercise program, especially in underserved communities. The project will also identify funding opportunities to ensure the program is sustainable over time.

Theone Paterson Community Collaboration in the Gamification of a Proactive mHealth Intervention for Late-Life Cognitive Health

Paterson’s team’s mHealth-app-based psychoeducation intervention targeting cognitive health promotion for older adults has shown good results. Participants want more, so this project will develop a plan for enhancing engagement through gamification.

Bernadette Pauly Collaborative Planning of an Evaluation Framework for Peer Involvement in Cannabis Substitution within a Managed Alcohol Program

This project will bring together diverse stakeholders to plan an evaluation of the High Hopes Cannabis Substitution Program at Drinkers' Lounge, a peer-engaged harm reduction program. A planning committee will develop an evaluation framework and a plan for moving forward with research activities, emphasizing principles of community-based participatory research and cultural safety.

Allie Slemon Planning for Implementing a 2SLGBTQIA+ Liaison Nurse Role in the BC Health System: Promoting Equity in Our Communities

The Island Health Authority has recently launched a revolutionary role: the 2SLGBTQIA+ Liaison Nurse who works directly with 2SLGBTQIA+ patients in the healthcare system. Slemon’s project will involve scaling up and implementing this role across additional healthcare sites in BC, and evaluating the role to ensure safe, quality and equitable care for 2SLGBTQIA+ people across the province.

Kelli Stajduhar Generating New Ways to Address Real-World Problems in Seniors Health and Healthcare in British Columbia

Stajduhar’s Convening and Collaborating grant will help the team understand why extensive evidence to inform health system change for aging populations is seldom used. The team and stakeholders will begin laying the foundation for new approaches to both producing and applying research to real-world problems facing seniors’ health and healthcare.

Paweena Sukhawathanakul Incorporating Social-Emotional Learning into Youth Suicide Prevention Efforts in Schools: The development of a comprehensive toolkit for Island Health’s School Health Promotion Specialists

Sukhawathanakul’s team will review best practices of social-emotional learning promotion in the context of suicide prevention in schools in order to develop a toolkit and training workshop for Island Health’s newly appointed team of School Health Promotion Specialists. The goal is to support their efforts to prevent suicide, the leading cause of non-accidental deaths of children in BC.

Catherine Worthington STBBI Priorities for Small Urban, Rural and Remote BC Communities: Research and Evaluation Summit

Building on previous Small Urban, Rural and Remote Harm Reduction Project meetings, this Summit will allow attendees to consider their experiences with research and evaluation initiatives, discuss successful and promising approaches, define future research priorities, and discuss potential common outcome measures in the context of sexually transmitted and blood-borne infections.

Reach

Eight UVic researchers received these awards to promote knowledge translation activities that “extend the reach” of their work to other scholars, the public, patients, practitioners and policy makers.

Kate Jongbloed Sharing Our Tools: A Workshop Series to Share Practical Tools for Unlearning & Undoing White Supremacy and Indigenous-Specific Racism for Population & Public Health

Elders and Indigenous health leaders have told Jongbloed’s team that their tools are valuable and trustworthy. Settler health leaders and practitioners have shared that the tools offer tangible and meaningful ways to pick up the work of eradicating Indigenous specific racism.

Now, the team plans to build a series of hosted and self-directed workshops to share the Unlearning and Undoing tools more broadly.

David Kennedy Enhancing Knowledge Translation in Pain Management Through an Integrative Video Blog Series

This project aims to expand a well-established online video blog that brings together pain researchers, clinicians and patient partners to share critical insights about pain challenges and management. Season 5 will reintegrate our initial approach by mixing responses from all stakeholders.

Jeffrey Masuda Garden of Love, DTES (GOLD) Podcast: Stories of Indigenous Cultural Reconnection and Healing from the Downtown Eastside

Holding Space and Uya’am Gaak Cultural Society will produce six new episodes of the integrated knowledge translation project, a podcast highlighting the work and impact of Elder Rhonda Stephens and Uya’am Gaak Cultural Society to foster cultural and spiritual reconnection among Indigenous peoples living in and around Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside.

Christine Ou Beyond Birth: Enhancing a Parental Guide to Support Perinatal Mental Health in BC

The Purple Book, a very popular handbook for parents on perinatal depression and anxiety, no longer fully reflects the diversity of families. Ou’s team will update the book with inclusive language and content that addresses the specific needs of equity-deserving groups. This update will align the book with the latest research, best practices and insights from persons with lived experience.

Bernadette Pauly Cannabis Substitution of Alcohol as a Component of Managed Alcohol Programs: Co-Developing and Disseminating Research Evidence from a Recent Pilot Project

Pauly’s partnership will co-develop a knowledge translation strategy that will support partners to review robust data related to cannabis as a harm reduction alternative to alcohol and other drugs, improve and sustain their current programs, and create evidence-based recommendations for other harm reduction organizations that want to implement cannabis substitution.

Mariko Sakamoto Extending the Reach of the Flipping Stigma on its Ear Toolkit: Translating and Transforming the Toolkit for the Chinese Community

The purpose of this knowledge translation project is to extend the reach of the Flipping Stigma on its Ear Toolkit, a research output that is a web-based education and advocacy tool developed by an Action Group of people with lived experience of dementia. Currently the toolkit is only available in English, and this project will focus on translating and transforming the toolkit for the Chinese community. 

Allie Slemon Embedding research knowledge to prevent seclusion in a young adult inpatient mental health setting in British Columbia

Slemon’s project will build on knowledge gained from previous research exploring the perspectives of healthcare providers and young people with mental health challenges to better integrate seclusion prevention strategies in inpatient mental health settings. These strategies will then be directly embedded within a new Young Adult Mental Health Inpatient Unit within Island Health and shared more broadly.

Catherine Worthington Making it Work: Creating A Community Resource Guidebook to Transform Program Theory into Practice

Making It Work was a community-based research study that explored why, when, how, and for whom community-based services work for people living with HIV, hepatitis C, and/or co-occurring challenges with mental health and/or substance use, with a particular focus on Indigenous service delivery models and harm reduction. This guidebook will synthesize the program theory into a resource for community-based organizations to bridge the gap between research and practice.