IMPART Research Day October 2010 Dr. Nicole Vittoz Program Coordinator

9/4/20152 Setting the Stage for Year 8 New this year:  Integrating online course with seminars Iterative, thorough, structured, dynamic, self-sustaining Excerpted from Vittoz et al (2009). IMPART: Mental Health Perspectives in Addictions Research. Into the Light Conference -Transforming Mental Health in Canada.

9/4/20153 Challenges faced by IMPART: Developing a common language Understanding each others’ disciplinary stance Learning about other epistemological, theoretical and methodological frameworks Making the links between animal and human research Coalescing a community of research practice  Distributed in multiple physical locations

9/4/20154 Integrating disciplines and sectors How can policy makers work with women and communities? How can researchers work with communities and policy makers? How can medicine work with other health disciplines?

9/4/20155 Integrating research approaches Mix disciplines, methods and sectoral involvement from policy, providers and community in all phases of research Inserts new values, practices and broad based training into research processes Makes sure knowledge is relevant and ends up getting applied and returned The Fusion Model (Greaves and Ballem, 2001)

9/4/20156 Copyright © British Columbia Centre of Excellence for Women’s Health, 2001

9/4/20157 Excerpted from Vittoz et al (2009). IMPART: Mental Health Perspectives in Addictions Research. Into the Light Conference -Transforming Mental Health in Canada.

9/4/20158 Excerpted from Snow et al (2009). IMPART: The Evolution of a Transdisciplinary Research Training Program. Society for Teaching and Learning Conference.

Sex and Gender: hope for the future 9/4/20159

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9/4/ Acknowledgements Thanks to Brenda Toner and Adrienne Amato and to CAMH for making our Research Day happen! Our partners include: Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) University of British Columbia British Columbia Centre of Excellence for Women’s Health BC Women’s Hospital and Health Centre