Assessing research impact: Australian Research Council criteria and the case of Family Wellbeing research

Tsey, Komla; Onnis, Leigh-ann; Whiteside, Mary; McCalman, Janya; Williams, Megan; Heyeres, Marion; Lui, Siu Man; Klieve, Helen; Cadet‐James, Yvonne; Baird, Leslie; Brown, Cedric; Lui, Felecia Watkin; Grainger, Daniel; Gabriel, Zona; Millgate, Nigel; Cheniart, Ben; Hunter, Tahalani; Liu, Hongbo; Yang, Yinghong; Yan, Li; Lovett, Raymond; Chong, Alwin; Kinchin, Irina

doi:10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2019.01.004

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“…While, the barriers to the process of implementing CTW and in collecting suitable outcomes data created some limitations for the study; it also provided insights about conducting process and outcomes evaluations with new real-world services, particularly in an area, such as mental health, where positive health impacts can take time to be achieved (7,8). Further, there is complexity in measuring the outcomes of a referral service model that involves two distinct activities: (1) assessment and referral to an appropriate service; and (2) provision of psychological therapy (or other intervention).…”

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Evaluating the Implementation of a Mental Health Referral Service “Connect to Wellbeing”: A Quality Improvement Approach

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Kinchin

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Front. Public Health

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There is increasing demand for mental health services to be accessible to diverse populations in flexible, yet, cost-effective ways. This article presents the findings from a study that evaluated the process of implementing Connect to Wellbeing (CTW), a new mental health intake, assessment and referral service in regional Australia, to determine how well it improved access to services, and to identify potential measures that could be used to evaluate value for money. The study used a hybrid study design to conduct a process evaluation to better understand: the process of implementing CTW; and the barriers and factors enabling implementation of CTW. In addition, to better understand how to measure the cost-effectiveness of such services, the hybrid study design included an assessment of potential outcome measures suitable for ascertaining both the effectiveness of CTW in client health outcomes, and conducting a value for money analysis. The process evaluation found evidence that by improving processes, and removing waitlists CTW had created an opportunity to broadened the scope and type of psychological services offered which improved accessibility. The assessment of potential outcome measures provided insight into suitable measures for future evaluation into service effectiveness, client health outcomes and value for money.

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“…Services, such as CTW need to be cost-effective as well as accessible. However, it is difficult to conduct costeffectiveness studies without dedicated funding (7,8). Hence, it is advantageous if routinely collected data generated through the care of clients, could also be used for outcome evaluation data.…”

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Evaluating the Implementation of a Mental Health Referral Service “Connect to Wellbeing”: A Quality Improvement Approach

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Pryce

et al. 2020

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“…In relation to future research, all these limitations represent potential fruitful areas of inquiry, where a potential future research project might be following an impact case study from its process of creation, through the editing, submission, assessment, and finally feedback and implementations. As of now, there are some accounts that investigate the construction of such impact claims; for example, accounts that investigate the construction of research impact case studies [62], limitation in its evaluation [63] or a longitudinal account of how the more subdued notions of research impact manifest [64]. Nevertheless, such reflective accounts-as of now-are limited to the idiosyncratic nature of the authors reflecting upon their own experiences.…”

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The Language of Sustainable Tourism as a Proxy Indicator of Quality

Brauer

Dymitrow

2020

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Sustainable tourism (ST) has recently become the mainstream of the tourism industry and, accordingly, has influenced contemporary tourism research. However, ST is not just theories about indications and contraindications of global travel, but also a specific language that needs mastering to take sustainability work forward. In other words, what research receives recognition depends on the proficiency in how the articulation in research proposals and within assessment under the heading of “research impact”. The aim of this paper is to investigate how tourism research gains recognition within research evaluation, by investigating the national research appraisal in the United Kingdom (Research Excellence Framework). By using content analysis, we disentangle the rhetorical choices and narrative constructions within researchers’ impact claims. Our findings suggest that researchers adopt a rhetorical style that implies causality and promotes good outcomes facilitating ST. However, the structure of the assessment format enforces an articulation of sustainable research impact without stating the methodological limitations of that such claim. Therefore, the rhetorical choices of ST researchers merely represent a proxy indicator of the claimed impact. We conclude that the lack of rigor in accounting for the impact of ST research may inadvertently restrict attaining ST.

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“…In the past, perspectives of Indigenous Australians across most levels of education have focused on deficits (Bodkin-Andrews et al, 2018;Hogarth, 2018), with reliance on statistics to convey health inequity, mortality rates, and comparisons to other Australians (Brough, 2001). While a realistic picture is required, biomedical and epidemiological data gathered by non-Indigenous people overlook contextual information that would provide a wholistic understanding (Tsey et al, 2019).…”

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Strengthening Indigenous Australian Perspectives in Allied Health Education: A Critical Reflection

Manton

Williams

2021

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While professional education in medicine and nursing in Australia has been implementing strategies to increase accessibility for Indigenous Australians, allied health professions remain underdeveloped in this area. Failure to improve the engagement of allied health professions with Indigenous Australians, and failure to increase the numbers of Indigenous staff and students risks perpetuating health inequities, intergenerational disadvantage, and threatens the integrity of professions who have publically committed to achieving cultural safety and health equity between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people. Knowing this, leaders in the allied health professions are asking “What needs to change?” This paper presents a critical reflection on experiences of a university-based Indigenous Health Unit leading the embedding of Indigenous perspectives in allied health curriculum, informed by Indigenous community connections, literature reviews, and research in the context of an emerging community of practice on Indigenous health education. Key themes from reflections are presented in this paper, identifying barriers as well as enablers for change, which include Indigenous community relationship building, education of staff and students, and collaborative research and teaching on Indigenous Peoples’ allied health needs and models of care. These enablers are inherently anti-racism strategies that redress negative stereotypes perpetuated about Indigenous Australians and encourage the promotion of valuable Indigenous knowledges, principles, and practices as strategies that may also help meet the health needs of the general community.

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Assessing research impact: Australian Research Council criteria and the case of Family Wellbeing research

Cited by 20 publications

References 31 publications

Evaluating the Implementation of a Mental Health Referral Service “Connect to Wellbeing”: A Quality Improvement Approach

Evaluating the Implementation of a Mental Health Referral Service “Connect to Wellbeing”: A Quality Improvement Approach

The Language of Sustainable Tourism as a Proxy Indicator of Quality

Strengthening Indigenous Australian Perspectives in Allied Health Education: A Critical Reflection

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