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Attracting funding as an Allied Health Clinician
Julie BernhardtDirector, AVERT Early Intervention Research Program, Stroke Division, Florey Institute
of Neuroscience and Mental Health, Austin Campus, Melbourne, Australia
“Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.”
Wernher von Braun
“Researchers need to have courage and be delusional...........
But not so delusional they think you have a mental illness”
Simon Koblar
Find your passionThink big
“Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts”
Albert Einstein
Ask important questions
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler”
Albert Einstein
Communication& research design
“Delay is preferable to error”Thomas Jefferson
Seek feedback & statistical help early
“Coming together is a beginning, keeping together is progress, working together is success”
Henry Ford
Find (powerful)Partners/mentors
“Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Learn from each failure
“Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no less enthusiasm”
Herm Albright
Shrug them off and move on
“If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it”
W.C. Fields
There comes a time .........
“If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong”
Arthur C. Clark
Let your science speak for itself
“Optimistic people live longer”Martin Seligman
You need optimism and persistence
“Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one’s living at it”
Albert Einstein
Take home messages Think big Ask important questions Perfect your communication Form great partnerships Have courage and let your science speak for itself Persistence pays, don’t give up Be ready to move on Celebrate every success!
AVERT Collaboration
Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response. Arthur M. Schlesinger Read more at http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/topics/topic_science3.html#P0UbGSpRHAHWOuB6.99
AVERT Progress
Target monthly recruitmentN=30+
Key barriers to recruitment
Not arriving within 24 hours
Recruiter unavailable
Key challenges
Staff turnover
Babies born - 60 1:22
N=30+
1730
August 27 n=1357
+4
Where are our centres?
Shanghai, CHINA