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