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Newsletter 3: July 2006Welcome to the MonRAS monthly newsletter, your link to the latest in ageing research at Monash University The MonRAS e-newsletter archive is available - here. Monash Research for an Ageing Society July ConferenceThe Monash Research for an Ageing Society 1st Annual Research conference took place at the Bayview Conference Centre on Monday 10 July with over 150 delegates attending. Aimed primarily at the Monash University research community, guests also included representatives from government, community, industry and philanthropic groups. Edwina Cornish, DVC Research, opened the conference. During her speech Edwina announced the $60,000 MonRAS Research support scheme. For more information on the scheme click here The conference showcased a number of current projects the Monash research community is currently undertaking. Concurrent breakout workshops explored collaborative research opportunities around the themes
For a more information on the Conference proceedings, including speaker presentations, click here The MonRAS brandMonRAS commissioned Gene Bawden from the Faculty of Art & Design to develop our brand. Gene presented a number of designs for the MonRAS Executive Committee to consider. After some discussion we readily approved Gene’s preferred design. We thank Gene for his excellent work and the staff at MAPA for the quick approval process. Here are some of Gene’s thoughts about the development of the MonRAS brand: The circle is representational of life cycles, unity and democracy. If it is anything, the aging process is democratic; it happens to us all, regardless of gender, race or social standing. Secondly, water is the most apparent and universal symbol of life. The aging process is not about an end or death. It is a part of life; a part of a journey that is begun at birth, not entered into at a given age. Water also has the added benefit of being without form, colour or gender. Water is also unpredictable. A simple drop into the surface and one wave of ripple results in the next; an apparently endless series of cause and effect. Like research, one discovery is the impetus for the next. And so to the identity: age and research represented a ripple in a vast and seeming infinite space: An endless quest for knowledge regarding a period of human life so often overlooked.
Sub-theme Networking MeetingsAs MonRAS has mapped researcher interests in the area of ageing a number of sub-themes have emerged. These include
Meetings of interested researchers are being arranged, in the near future, to explore these sub-themes and to develop collaborative research proposals for MonRAS RSS or other funding opportunities. Partnering with relevant industry partners such as Baptcare and VECCI (Victorian Employers’ Chamber of Commerce and Industry is also being promoted through these research groups. If you are interested in attending these meetings and/or joining a sub-theme research group please contact the MonRAS team Other NewsAgeing Well SeminarColette Browning, Professor of Healthy Ageing in the Monash Institute of Health Services Research will be presenting on "AN OVERVIEW OF ARC/NHMRC RESEARCH NETWORK IN AGEING WELL" at the Monash University Accident Research Centre lunchtime seminar series on Thursday 27th July at 1pm in the 3rd Floor teaching area. Prof Browning is Convenor of the Healthy Ageing Theme of the ARC/NHMRC Research Network in Ageing Well (www.ageingwell.edu.au). The website www.monash.edu.au/muarc provides more details on this seminar and others. Successful grant applicationCongratulations to Prof Carol Morse, Dr Christopher King, Lynn Gray, Sue Leake on their successful grant application to the Department of Health and Ageing Title: "information and service needs of the ‘baby-boom’ generation as carers of persons with dementia, and as future receivers of care" The information and service needs of the ‘baby-boom’ generation as carers of persons with dementia, and as future receivers of care are distinct from those of their parents’ generation and of their own children. Appropriate dementia support services need to be urgently developed that meet multi-generational needs. The proposed project will be located in a community that is demographically the most rapidly ageing region of Victoria with 33.6% of its population aged between 40 and 64 years. The project will develop communications between the 'baby boom' residents and community-based dementia service providers in order to raise awareness of dementia among this group, to understand their dementia support needs as carers and care recipients and to collaboratively develop and promote at the community level, services that better meet their needs Research Assistant requiredService usage pathways in dementia respite A Research Assistant is required to work on a pilot research project on service pathways of people with dementia and their caregivers. The results of the pilot project will form the basis for a larger research project on dementia respite usage patterns among persons with dementia and their caregivers living in regionalVictoria. The Research Assistant will be employed at 40% Equivalent Full Time, for a fixed term from July 2006 until December 2006 (24 weeks). Duties will involve a literature review, assistance in preparing research design and research tools, and contributing to the final report and publications. For a Position Description and further details, contact Dr Christopher King Email: carol.morse@adm.monash.edu.au Register your interestThe number of researches with an interest in ageing who have completed our web-form is now over 100. Whether you are looking to break into ageing research, looking for assistance with funding or seeking potential collaborators completing the web-form will help MonRAS to help you. If you are yet to complete the form, please follow the link:http://www.ageingresearchinitiative.monash.org/interest-form.html Funding Opportunitieshttp://www.ageingresearchinitiative.monash.org/funding.html Upcoming eventsThe Australian Financial Review’s Australia ’s Ageing Population Summit 2006Sponsored by OFM. 26 & 27 September 2006 The 3rd International Conference on Healthy Ageing & LongevityCo-sponsored by the World Health Organization (WHO). 13 - 15 October 2006 Australian Association of Gerontology 39th National Conference'Diversity in Ageing' 22 - 24 November 2006 Contact usIf you have any conference, seminar or funding opportunity announcements or other news that you would like publicised to the Monash researcher community through the MonRAS newsletter and/or website please contact the MonRAS Executive Officer - Shane Ryan. |
