On 8 May, Dr Faye Forbes presented with EML at the Self-Insurance Association of Victoria (SIAV) Conference on ISCRR’s recent work evaluating their biopsychosocial claim profiling tool. EML discussed what motivated them to adopt a biopsychosocial tool approach, the process...
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ISCRR is proud to share that three of our abstracts have been accepted for the upcoming 2025 Australian Evaluation Society (AES) Conference in September. Dr Sarah Oxford has been selected to speak on the “Growing the Evaluation Workforce in 2025...
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Farms are among the most dangerous workplaces in Victoria. The agriculture industry employs about 2% of the Victorian workforce whilst accounting for approximately 30% of workplace deaths across the state. The VEG Education Victorian Fresh Produce Network, a program funded...
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ISCRR’s Dr. Sophie Pointer recently presented at the Australian and New Zealand Society of Occupational Medicine (ANZSOM)’s Annual Scientific Meeting in Perth. We’re delighted to announce that her paper “Spinal Cord Stimulators: Putting the ‘evidence’ into evidence-based practice” won the...
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In September, four of our researchers (above) attended the Australian Evaluation Society’s International Evaluation Conference in Melbourne, where they explored powerful insights relevant to ISCRR, especially in the areas of organisational strategy models, cultural safety, trauma-informed evaluation, lived experience and...
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We’re extremely proud to announce that ISCRR and WorkSafe Victoria won the ‘Collaboration in Injury and Disability Management’ award at the PIEF Personal Injury and Disability Management National Conference in Perth. WorkSafe’s Senior Manager of Research, Nicola Wojcik joined ISCRR’s...
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ISCRR’s Acting Co-Director Janine McMillan recently attended and presented at the 2024 Comcare National Conference in Canberra. Janine’s talk ‘Prevention of vicarious trauma – what is evidence-based?’ was well received. It was based on ISCRR’s Evidence Reviews into the prevalence...
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On World Mental Health Day (October 10, 2023), Carmen Schroder, a Research Officer at the Institute for Safety, Compensation and Recovery Research (ISCRR) presented at Comcare’s Psychosocial Health and Safety Forum on approaches to tackling vicarious trauma in the workplace....
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ISCRR’s Learning Series Webinars got off to a flying start in April this year with our most popular webinar to date! Dr Sophie Pointer (ISCRR Senior Researcher) presented findings from ISCRR’s Evidence Review on the clinical effectiveness of spinal cord...
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The ISCRR Research Impact Showcase hybrid event was held on Thursday 9th February 2023. It was a great success with close to 200 attendees joining us either in person or via live stream. The event commenced with opening addresses by...
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