Research Award
ELIGIBILITY FOR THE 'RESEARCH AWARD: BEST RESEARCH PRESENTATION' – 1 Winner
The Research Award is presented to the best research paper presented.
Abstracts being considered for the Research Award:
To be eligible for the ACMHN Research Award, the abstract must report on a research project that is completed or a completed section of a program of research and that the research has ethical approval, or quality improvement (minimal risk) approval or is a systematic review or a quality improvement project, and needs to include:
- Abstract
- Title
- Author(s) Surname, Initial.
- Organisational Affiliation.
- Introduction and background
- Aims/Objectives/Hypotheses
- Methodology and methods
- Results
- Outcomes/significance/Implications for the profession
- Translation to policy and/or practice change
- Identify 2-3 learning objectives significant to the paper
Presentations eligible for the Research Award are assessed against the following criteria:
- Introduction and background to the research including aims, objectives or Hypotheses
- Methodology and methods
- Results and outcomes
- Significance and translation to policy, practice and profession of Mental Health Nursing and/or consumer and family /community
- Presentation, audience engagement and discussion
The Research Award is generously sponsored by:
Previous Winners
2010 Winners
Drinkwater, Mullen and Chesterson
Drinkwater, Mullen and Chesterson
2010 Runners Up
D. Wynaden
Matthew, Walsh, Munro and O'Brien
2011 Winner(s)
Kim Foster, Andrea McCloughen and Cynthia Delgado
What is known about the physical health and wellbeing of emerging adults with mental illness?
2011 Runners Up
Matt Dilges
Integrating theoretical concepts to practice for intervening with systems and children impacted on by trauma
Etty Matalon and Ursula Perry
Quitting Cannabis 1-6
2012 Winners
John Hurley and Paul Lindsey
Realistic evaluation of nurse-led services within Scottish Police holding cells
2012 Runners Up
Mike Hazelton
Mental health in comprehensive nursing education: is the fabric really that threadbare?
Fiona Gosling
Weaving mental health into the fabric of the courts
2013 Winners
Ian Munro and Sini Jacob
Don't go ahead or behind, walk alongside to understand the real meaning of recovery
2013 Runners Up
Andrew Watkins
Nurse-obtained metabolic monitoring within a psychiatric hospital
Terance McCann
Bibliotherapy
2014 Winner
Maggie McIntosh
Is the post anaesthetic care of patients receiving ECT and patients undergoing minor general anaesthesia comparable?
2014 Runners Up
Bindu Joseph
"Working towards shaping the future, little known"; An exploration of the experiences of being an overseas trained nurse from Kerala, India; and working in mental health in Australia
Peter Santangelo
Shaping recovery-focused mental health nursing for the future: report of a grounded theory study
2015 Winner
Andrew Watkins
2016 Winner
Phillip Maude
2017 Winner
David Ekers
2018 Winner
Teresa Kelly
Every heart matters: A call for a radical approach to addressing cardio-vascular inequalities
2019 Winner
Sione Vaka
Ūloa, an ethnic model of integrating mental health care