Pharmacy Research Collaborative

Our Pharmacy Research Collaborative team meets every two months to develop strategies to promote a research culture within the Pharmacy Department. The Collaborative provides advice and develops governance procedures to support and facilitate research within the Pharmacy Department.

Our focus is to build research capacity through:

• Developing pharmacy staff knowledge regarding how to undertake research, including understanding the difference between research and QA/QI, and ethics requirements.
• Providing advice on time staff could be allocated to conduct research within the Pharmacy Department.
• Linking Pharmacy Department supported research with Departmental and HHS priorities.
• Increasing staff and student participation in research, including collaborative research external to the Pharmacy Department and GCH.
• Increasing the number of presentations and publications by Pharmacy staff, including posters/presentations from quality use of medicine (QUM) projects.
• Defining support provided to staff whilst undertaking higher level research.
• Supporting successful grant applications to facilitate research.
• Increasing the visibility of research within the Pharmacy Department.
• Developing Pharmacy research KPI’s.

The Pharmacy Research Collaborative is comprised of:

Pharmacy Department members:

• Pharmacist – Assistant Director(s) with Research Portfolio
• Pharmacist – Advanced or Senior/s, including Medication Safety and Clinical Trials
• Pharmacist Senior – Clinical Facilitator (Griffith)
• Pharmacist Senior – Clinical Educator
• Pharmacist Senior – Research (Chair)
• Pharmacist (Secretariat)

Representatives from:

• Office for Research Governance and Development, Gold Coast Health
• Griffith School of Pharmacy and Medical Sciences
• The University of Queensland School of Pharmacy

View the Pharmacy Research Collaborative Terms of Reference for further information about the collaborative.