Studying the implementation of virtual care during the COVID-19 pandemic with patient partners and stakeholders
August 19, 2022
Speaker
Dr. Lillian Hung - Founder and Head, IDEA Lab; Assistant Professor, UBC
Nazia Ahmed - Lab Manager, IDEA Lab
At the beginning of the pandemic, stay-at-home orders highlighted the importance of social connection; and technology became paramount in filling the gap in bringing people together virtually. The use of technology in long term care settings continued to grow too, including using telepresence robots as part of delivering care. In this webinar, our speakers will share how to leverage technology to involve patient partners and stakeholders in knowledge translation. They will also discuss challenges and practical strategies to overcome them. You will also have the opportunity to hear more about the future directions for care delivery from Dr. Lillian Hung and Nazia Ahmed.
Learning Objectives:
- Describe the process of innovating with patient partners and stakeholders to advance the use of telepresence robots in dementia care.
- Identify benefits and challenges in engaging with patient partners and stakeholders in implementation research during the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Consider facilitators and barriers to implementing virtual care in aged care settings.
- Describe future directions for supporting technology adoption in aged care settings.
Resources
Upcoming webinar
Dr. Alice Fleerackers and Dr. Juan Pablo Alperin
Date
November 06, 2024
Preprints as knowledge translation: Another way of opening science to the public
In 2024, KT Connects is focusing on open science — the practice of making scientific inputs, outputs, and processes freely available to all with minimal restrictions. Learn more.
Webinar summary
Wednesday, November 6
1 – 2 p.m. PST
Preprints are research papers made publicly available before journal peer review and publishing in scientific journals. They allow rapid and free sharing of findings within and beyond academia. Recent research suggests that journalists also report on them. This brings new challenges and opportunities for making research knowledge public.
This session will introduce participants to preprints as one means to make science more open, as well as key points to remember when using them as a knowledge translation method.
Learning objectives
After this webinar, the audience will be able to:
- Understand the unique role preprints play within the open science movement
- Understand how journalists use preprints and the potential benefits and risks of preprint media coverage for the public
- Identify ways to share preprint research that provide journalists and their audiences with the necessary context to interpret research findings accurately.
Speaker bio
Alice Fleerackers is a postdoctoral research fellow at the School of Journalism, Writing, and Media, University of British Columbia, and a researcher at the Scholarly Communications Lab, Simon Fraser University. She studies the intersections of journalism, health and science communication, and scholarly communication. She is also a freelance writer, the vice president of the Public Communication of Science and Technology Network (PCST), and co-founder and co-chair of PCST’s Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility Committee.
Juan Pablo Alperin is an associate professor in the publishing program, Scientific Director of the Public Knowledge Project, and the co-director of the Scholarly Communications Lab at Simon Fraser University. He is a multi-disciplinary scholar who uses a combination of computational techniques and traditional qualitative methods. His work focuses on investigating ways of raising the scientific quality, global impact, and public use of scholarly work.