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RLA Data Community of Practice Health and Wellbeing
A data-driven approach to enhancing understanding of research-industry collaborations in wellbeing, as part of the ARDC Research Link Australia (RLA) Project
Who will benefit
Health and medical researchers, industry and businesses, government
The Challenge
Launched in 2024, ARDC Research Link Australia (RLA) aims to bridge the information gap between research, industry, business, and government for impactful innovation. The release of RLA marked the beginning of an iterative process aimed at refining and expanding the capabilities of the RLA platform.
Reducing the information gap between the health research sector and industry has the potential to pave the way for collaborations that could lead to meaningful and lasting impacts on health and wellbeing of Australians.
The Response
The RLA Data Community of Practice Health and Wellbeing (Data CoP) project sought to develop a data-driven approach, enhancing understanding of research-industry collaborations in wellbeing.
Our objective was to convert fragmented research data into an integrated network, yielding insights into health collaborations. Additionally, we augmented this process with expert insights, synthesising key knowledge on Australia’s health and wellbeing collaborative landscape.
Our work encompassed research institutions, healthcare practitioners, nonprofits, governmental bodies, and private sectors.
The project consisted of 3 main components:
Augment partners research Information
This invovled:
- creating secure cloud-based environments for Data CoP partners to store
- connecting and augmenting their research information
- animating their collaboration networks using custom built visualisations.
CoP workshops
This invovled working with subject matter experts on data wrangling and generating data insights.
Data insights and dashboards
This invovled:
- identifying the data insights and questions raised by health experts
- working closely with wellbeing experts provides an opportunity to understand how research-industry collaboration impacts physical and mental wellbeing outcomes
- developing data dashboards that animate insights, and collaboration networks.
All data partners contributed to RLA public data. We envisaged the following data contributions to RLA:
The Outcomes
The project has achieved the following objectives:
As a result, the RLA Data CoP project has enabled health and wellbeing organisations to visualise their research collaboration networks. It has provided critical insights into the nature and characteristics of collaborations in the health sector, identifying dynamics that contribute to successful partnerships. This project has highlighted effective strategies for fostering impactful research-industry collaborations, emphasising the qualities of strong partnerships and successful researchers. The insights gained have equipped participants with practical examples of how to use collaboration data to achieve better outcomes.
To learn more about the project and its outcomes, read the project report.
Who Will Benefit
- Health and medical researchers
- Industry and businesses
- Government
Our Partners
This was a collaborative project, enabled by the contributions of the ARDC and:
- Research Graph Foundation (project lead)
- Digital Health CRC
- Health Research Institution, University of Canberra
- Regional Insights Data Lab, Griffith University
- HEAL Network
- Infoxchange
- Orygen Ltd MRI.
Key Resources
- Read the project report.
- Visit Research Link Australia.
- Learn about the main Research Link Australia (RLA) Project.
Contact the ARDC
Timeframe
May 2024 to 29 November 2024
Current Phase
Complete
Project lead
Amir Aryani (Research Graph Foundation Ltd.), Prof Luis Salvador Carulla (HRI), Prof Sotiris Vardoulakis (HEAL), A/Prof Suzie Lavoie (Orygen), Alessandro Luongo (DHCRC), Dr Tom Verhelst (Griffith), Dr Kristen Moeller-Saxone (Infoxchange)
