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