Workshops
Pre-Conference Workshops 1, 2 & 3
Half Day Workshops will be held on Tuesday, 1 December 2026, at the Conference venue.
DATE: Tuesday, 1 December 2026
TIMES: 1.00pm - 5.00pm (4 hours) *Workshop 1,2 & 3 running concurrently*
INCLUSIONS: Afternoon Tea will be provided
WORKSHOP COSTS
Attendance at a Workshop is an additional cost to your registration fee and charged per person. Workshop registration fees are in Australian dollars and inclusive of 15% NZ GST.
Conference Attendee: $175
Student Attendee: $100
Non-Conference Attendee: $225
OVERVIEW
WORKSHOP 1: Essential Elements of a Successful Grant Application
Essential Elements demystifies the core components common to all successful research grant proposals, regardless of funder. The workshop supports participants to build a clear “skeleton draft” of their application, with a focus on articulating the need for their research, demonstrating innovation, and aligning with assessment expectations.
Participants will work through key elements including research drivers, significance, innovation, project impact, methodology, team capability, and measures of success. The session is practical and interactive, enabling attendees to translate these components into their own project ideas and leave with a structured foundation they can develop into a competitive application.
Presenter:
Dr Lyn Airey is a senior advisor at The GrantEd Group, specialising in research funding strategy, grant development, and building researcher capability. She supports universities and research teams to strengthen competitiveness across national schemes, with a particular focus on translating complex ideas into clear, assessable funding proposals.
Lyn’s workshops are known for cutting through complexity, helping researchers understand what assessors are actually looking for, and equipping them with practical tools to immediately improve their applications.
LOCATION: MAKĀRO Room Workshop 1 is proudly sponsored by
This interactive workshop will explore why measuring the costs (and effects) of implementation strategies is essential for demonstrating impact, securing funding, and informing scale-up decisions. We’ll unpack how implementation strategies influence both implementation outcomes and clinical effectiveness, and why economic thinking should be embedded from the start.
Participants will learn:
- Why capturing implementation costs matters — and how it strengthens the case for sustainability and scale
- The relationship between implementation strategies, outcomes, and economic evaluation
- How to get started: practical approaches to research design and planning for impact
- Step-by-step guidance on identifying and measuring implementation costs, including a Cost-IS walkthrough with a real-world case study.
Through practical activities and applied examples, you’ll leave with the confidence and tools to plan, measure, and articulate the full impact of your implementation efforts.
Presenters:
Dr Thomasina Donovan
Dr Donovan is an early career health services researcher at QUT's AusHSI. In her Research Fellow role, she expands on her PhD work and refines her researching skills across a variety of projects. She works collaboratively with multi-disciplinary stakeholders, applying her implementation science and costing expertise to projects. Her PhD titled Methods for collecting and estimating the cost of implementation strategies in healthcare settings, combined the knowledge from the fields of health economics and implementation science to develop a costing implementation strategy (Cost-IS) instrument. Cost-IS assists in data collection of the costs associated with implementation strategies for digital health innovations. Cost-IS provides a pragmatic and flexible approach that can be tailored to meet the needs of various projects. Cost-IS aims to enable implementation costing which is important to support appropriate resourcing of implementation efforts and address the knowledge gap in implementation science research. The Cost-IS instrument and its development can be found here.
Dr Lane Meredith
Lane is an early career researcher in health economics and implementation science at the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Research Centre (ANZIC-RC), Monash University. She specialises in developing methods to integrate economic evaluation within adaptive platform trials and design studies that generate decision-ready evidence for implementation and policy. Her work aims to bridge the gap between trial evidence and real-world impact.
Dr Zoe Szewczyk
Dr Zoe Szewczyk is a health economist with a background in nutrition and dietetics. She is currently a Research Fellow in the Prevention Research Collaboration, Sydney School of Public Health where she holds dual appointments as the Health Economics Lead, Sydney Health Partners, Implementation Science Academy and as a conjoint research fellow with Western Sydney Local Health District. Her area of research is health economic evaluation of population health and health services interventions, their implementation, and scale-up.
Dr Marina De Barros Pinheiro
Dr Pinheiro is a NHMRC Early Career Fellow / Senior Research Fellow at Institute for Musculoskeletal Health, Sydney Local Health District and University of Sydney. Dr Pinheiro’s research focuses on cost-effectiveness of physical activity interventions and implementation of physical activity interventions for older people. She has unique multidisciplinary expertise in physical activity for older people, implementation science and health economics. Dr Pinheiro has conducted well-received reviews on economic evaluation for WHO and is currently a physical activity consultant for the WHO. Dr Pinheiro is an investigator in several MRFF/NHMRC grants where she is leading the trial-based economic evaluation.
LOCATION: MATIU Room
WORKSHOP 3: Trans-Tasman collaborations in cancer inequities research
We would like to invite interested registrants who are working in the area of addressing inequities in cancer through health services research, and who might be interested in contributing to a Trans-Tasman collaboration on this topic.
The aim of the workshop is to provide a forum for researchers to establish or further relationships with other researcher's / research groups, with the hope of being able to foster collaborations into the future. We will start with each researcher/ group providing an overview of their interests. We will then have some short talks on methodological approaches or specific topics - there will be a call for topics in October. In the final 45 mins or so, people will self-select into groups of common interest and allow discussion / development of collaborations; these discussions can of course evolve over the course of the conference also.
Facilitators:
A/Prof Mona Jeffreys
Mona is a cancer epidemiologist and health services researcher, with a specific interest in improving equitable access care. Her current projects include a mixed methods approach to addressing inequities in colorectal cancer outcomes; and identification of determinants of early pancreatic cancer diagnosis (led by Claire O'Loughlin). She is supervising several students in the area of cancer-related health services research.
Dr Claire O'Loughlin
Claire
is a health services researcher whose work has concentrated on primary health
care, with a strong focus on equity research. She has been a named investigator
on a number of long COVID research projects including the HRC Project
‘Evidence-based Management of Long COVID’ which looked to provide an evidence
platform for service delivery to manage Long COVID. Current projects include
the identification of socio-demographic and medication predictors of early
diagnosis of pancreatic cancer.
Mona and Claire are co-leading a Cancer Research Network, currently Wellington-based, but welcome external researchers to join.
*Workshop 3 Bursaries available - for further information CLICK HERE.
LOCATION: MOKOPUNA Room
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