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Research Facilitation

The Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute (VCHRI) Research Facilitation team offers support and guidance to research teams throughout the research process, providing one-on-one support to assist health care professionals with:

  • Developing practice-based research questions and designing research projects
  • Putting together applications for the Research Ethics Board and Operational Approval 
  • Finding and applying for funding opportunities
  • Forming research collaborations, teams and programs both within Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH) and with external partners
  • Building research capacity for community health research
  • Executing knowledge translation activities
  • Integrating research and evaluation into new and existing clinical programs
  • Connecting students and volunteers with VCH research projects
  • Facilitating implementation of research into practice, and its spread and scale to drive improvement in long-term care (as part of the Long-Term Care Quality Initiative at BC AHSN)

Resources

  • Research Methods Webinar Series are designed to support health care providers to develop a clinical research proposal (e.g., framing a research question, selecting a study design, aligning research methodology).
  • BC Academic Health Science Network: Long-Term Care Quality Initiative

Contact

Eric Liow

Research Facilitator, Richmond and Coastal

604-970-5284
eric.liow@vch.ca
Room 3301, 7000 Westminster Hwy, Richmond

Sonia Hardern

Regional Practice Lead, Research and Knowledge Translation (Long-Term Care)

236-688-7193
sonia.hardern@vch.ca
Room 308B - 520 West 6th Avenue,
Vancouver

Amanda Chisholm

Senior Manager, Education and Funding Initiatives

604-875-4111 x 21696
amanda.chisholm@vch.ca

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