How to get the most out of Interprofessional Collaborations
Dr. Samia Chreim Receives SSHRC Grant
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How to get the most out of Interprofessional Collaborations Dr. Samia Chreim,Telfer School of Management, with team members Ann Langley, HEC Montréal, and Patricia Reay, University of Alberta, will attempt to provide an answer to this question through a $140,850 grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) for their project entitled The Dynamics of Interprofessional Collaboration: Bridging between Macro and Micro Levels of Analysis. In Canada and abroad, members of a variety of disciplines such as health care, social work, engineering, and education are being called upon to cross professional boundaries and to collaborate with each other. This movement towards interprofessional collaboration (lPC) involves adopting integrative approaches and solutions, and is most evident in the health care field where members of different professional or occupational groups such as physicians, nurses, physiotherapists, social workers share their knowledge and engage in joint decision-making to improve service provision. With a special emphasis on the health care field, Dr. Chreim’s project seeks to understand the obstacles that stand in the way of such collaboration and to consider how successful interprofessional collaboration (IPC) can be realized. Dr. Chreim’s research will prove to be highly useful to government bodies that are engaged in setting policy, to educational institutions that play a major role in devising interprofessional programs and in socializing health care workers, as well as to professional associations that are engaged in setting professional boundaries and codes of conduct for their members. Additionally, it will also provide significant insights to managers and to professionals themselves on the organizational contexts, leadership dynamics and other factors that foster the successful practice of IPC. |
Is Test Anxiety a Source of Bias in Aptitude Tests?
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Dr. Silvia Bonaccio Receives SSHRC Grant |
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Is Test Anxiety a Source of Bias in Aptitude Tests?
Dr. Silvia Bonaccio,Telfer School of Management, with collaborator Charlie Reeve, Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, received a $63,898 grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) through the Standard Research Grants program for her project entitled Investigating Test Anxiety as a Source of Psychometric Bias in Aptitude Tests. The use of aptitude tests is common in both educational and employment settings due to their capability to predict important outcomes such as scholastic achievement and job performance. However, the finding that test scores are often negatively related to self-reported test anxiety continues to fuel concerns that these could be biased against some test takers. Dr. Bonaccio’s project will examine test anxiety where academic and work performance outcomes are the criteria. This research will contribute significantly to the evaluation of aptitude tests to ensure their fair and unbiased use in organizational and educational contexts, and it has the potential to inform the current debate of whether test anxiety puts test takers at a significant disadvantage relative to non-anxious applicants, and, if so, whether test administrators should provide reasonable accommodations to anxious test takers. |
Seeking quality health care for seniors
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Dr. Doug Angus Receives SSHRC Grant |
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Seeking quality health care for seniors Dr. Doug Angus, Telfer School of Management, received a $66,750 grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) through the International Opportunities Fund program. Dr. Angus’ project entitled Seniors’ Support Services has the collaboration of team members Corinne Grenier, Euromed Marseille, and Michèle St-Pierre, Université Laval. Canada and France are currently attempting to address a number of issues related to caring for their elderly and disabled populations, particularly with the underlying goal of the health policy to maintain such population groups in their own residences. While various initiatives to maintain seniors and the disabled in their homes have been implemented, little solid research has been done to ascertain how well these services have been implemented and to determine the possible leading practices that may result in effective integration, management and governance of such services. With the collaboration of Champlain Local Health Integration Network, Canada, and the Maison départementale des personnes handicapées, France, Dr. Angus’ project aims to evaluate the governance, integration and coordination activities and stakeholders in order to ascertain leading and innovative practices, tools and management processes that may be applicable in both jurisdictions. This project also seeks to offer policy recommendations to decision makers in both countries while also striving to arrive at approaches that may be adapted elsewhere.
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Telfer Professor Receives the Young Researcher of the Year Award
Dr. David Doloreux, associate professor at the Telfer School of Management and Research Chair in Canadian Francophonie, is the recipient of the University of Ottawa Young Researcher Award for his outstanding contributions to research. The award ceremony was held on March 5, 2009. Only two prizes are awarded every year and Dr. Doloreux received the only one in the field of social sciences for his work in technology and innovation management, industrial and regional policy, and innovation systems and clusters.
Each award is accompanied by a bursary of $10,000 to cover research assistant salaries. His innovative research program, his formidable record of high-quality publications and his commitment to engaging and supporting others in their own research and research training placed him as an outstanding and deserving recipient for this award.
One Canadian Article in the Latest Issue of the Reputable Journal Operations Research
The November/December 2008 special issue of the journal Operations Research, on Operations in Research in Health Care, published an article by Assistant Professor Jonathan Patrick and his two co-authors Martin Puterman and Maurice Queyranne, two researchers from the University of British Columbia. The article, entitled “Dynamic Multipriority Patient Scheduling for Diagnostic Resources” is the only Canadian article published in this issue. Operations Research is a recognized top-tiers journal that serves the entire operations research community, including practitioners, researchers, educators, and students.
