Participants sought for a survey on human monkeypox

What do people know and think about monkeypox?

We would love to hear from you (check eligibility below first!) We are running a survey to find out what people know and believe about human monkeypox. We also invite you to share with eligible people.

Monash University and Melbourne Sexual Health Centre are running an online anonymous survey to understand the current knowledge of monkeypox and the willingness to get vaccinated.

You are eligible if you:

• identify yourself as a man or trans woman who has sex with men; AND
• are currently living in Victoria, Australia; AND
• are 18 years old or above.

Your diverse lived experiences - GEDI survey findings

See the CCS Diverse Lived Experience survey summary

by Dr Lenka Vodstrcil and Dr Jess Borger

The Central Clinical School’s Gender Equity Diversity and Inclusion (GEDI) committee aims to support and advocate for all its staff and students and regularly provides guidance or recommendations to the CCS Executive.

In 2021, the GEDI committee ran the CCS Diverse Lived Experiences survey to understand the hurdles or barriers CCS staff and students had faced during their career to inform the development of new GEDI Committee initiatives to support staff and their career progression.

The full findings are summarised in the document available here and we recently reported the findings to the CCS Executive.

Participants sought for short anonymous survey: Where did you meet your last partner?

Where did you meet your last partner? Take the online anonymous
survey. Image: Shutterstock

GPS: Geographical location of meeting Partners Survey

The GPS (Geographical location of meeting Partners Survey) study is an online anonymous survey that aims to understand where you met your last partner. The study is led by researchers at the Melbourne Sexual Health Centre, The University of Melbourne and Monash University.

To be eligible, you must be:
- Over the age of 16
- Currently living in Victoria, Australia

The survey is anonymous which takes approximately 3-5 minutes to complete.

New THRIVE@Monash survey, closing midnight Sunday 12 December

THRIVE@Monash wants to hear from you!
Take the survey

As part of the recent THRIVE@Monash week a new THRIVE@Monash survey is being released to staff. This survey is to understand how staff are finding the transition to onsite work and their mental health and general wellbeing.  

The survey will help the Monash Thrive team at the Turner Institute identify what additional resources are needed for resilience and adaptive coping throughout the COVID-19 global health crisis, as we continue on our path to COVID normal.  

This Diversity & Inclusion Week, we want to find out how we can help you

Please complete the CCS GEDI diversity survey

by Drs Lenka Vodstrcil, Catherine Carmichael and Loretta Piccenna

The Central Clinical School’s Gender Equity Diversity and Inclusion (GEDI) committee aims to support and advocate for all its staff and students and regularly provides guidance or recommendations to the CCS Executive.

This Diversity & Inclusion week we would like to learn more about you and your needs. See more below or take the survey now.

Take our short course survey featuring headache, surgical research and neuroimaging

Take our survey and go in the draw for a
really nice bottle of wine.

We would like to find out what you think through our survey about three proposed CME short courses on:

• headache
  
• neuroimaging 
• surgical research techniques. 

Is the content interesting? Are the fees reasonable?? Take the short survey (3-5 mins) here to give us your feedback, and you can go in the draw for a Penfolds St Henri Shiraz 2017!

Creativity for our youngest students - volunteers sought

Volunteers sought for creative sessions with children to help
out CCS staff home-schooling during lockdown: Sign up here

From Professor Robyn Slattery

Dear colleagues and extended Monash community,

We are seeking your time for approximately one hour per month (take the survey here) to support our Monash parent community.  Home-schooling parents, juggling professional commitments are perhaps the most impacted by extended lockdown.  This disproportionately affects our early career colleagues and graduate students -- most profoundly those with children in prep - grade 2. 

Mapping the impacts of the COVID -19 pandemic on the medical research workforce

The 2020 CCS GEDI committee authored the survey to assess
the pandemic's impacts on medical researchers. See CCS intranet

“We are all in this together” was the rallying call of our political leaders regarding the effects of the pandemic and our responses to it. The Central Clinical School's Gender Equity Diversity and Inclusion (CCS GEDI) committee teased out the specifics with a survey to map the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on CCS's  medical research workforce. They discovered both positive and negative impacts on medical researchers, some immediate and some with a much longer tail.

Participants sought: Survey on eating behaviours and personality characteristics

Find out more about our survey

If you are aged between 16 - 30 years old, we would love to hear from you to help us find out more about how personality is associated with eating behaviours! Australian participants aged between 16-30 years of age are sought for an online survey, estimated to take about 30 minutes. See detail about the study here. 

A+ EMCR news & survey

A+ EMCR Best Paper CCS winners were, L-R: A/Prof Jason Ong (MSHC), Dr Tiffany  
Phillips (MSHC), Dr Natalie Thomas (MAPrc) and Dr Maithili Sashindranath (ACBD)

i. News

The Alfred Research Alliance Early and Mid Career Research (A+ EMCR) have published their final newsletter for the year, featuring:

• Chair's Report
• Recruitment for New A+ EMCR Committee Members
• 2020 Best Paper Awards Winners
• EMCR Mini-Symposium Feedback
• Let's Collaborate Session Feedback
• Mentorship Updates

ii. Survey

Humour and acceptance most helpful during lockdown

Associate Professor Caroline Gurvich
is lead author on the study

A Monash survey finds that humour and acceptance, rather than venting and denial, are helping us get through lockdown.

It's ancient folk wisdom, that "A merry heart doeth good like a medicine", and it is borne out by research on coping strategies during the current pandemic.

According to a comprehensive Monash University study of more than 1500 Australians over one month during the first national lockdown, humour and acceptance of the current COVID-19 impacts are far more likely to assist in promoting mental health than venting or trying to distract yourself about what is happening in the world.

Have your say – Clinical Academic Pathways survey

Monash Partners Academic Health Science Centre is leading research to understand what currently exists to support and sustain nursing, allied health, scientific and medical clinicians in undertaking a clinical academic career.

We are asking those who work in a university, hospital, speciality college, research institute or primary/community health organisation to help us complete a short 10-minute survey. Responses will help us determine priorities, programs and resources for our clinical academic workforce.

The survey will close Friday 31 August at 5 pm. Complete the survey

This project has been approved by the Monash Health Ethics Committee. HREC Reference Number: QA/65445/MonH-2020-217312(v1)

Mental Health & COVID-19 survey: you are invited to take part

Monash Alfred Psychiatry research centre (MAPrc) has launched a community survey of mental health impacts from COVID-19 and you are invited to take part.

The aim is to examine resilience factors that promote good mental health and risk factors that contribute to poorer mental health.

Participating in this study will involve completing an online questionnaire (press 'Submit' at the bottom of the information section to begin the survey) which should take 30-40 minutes. These questions will include demographic information, questionnaires about your current mood, your physical health, your coping styles as well as questions about resilience.

Monash Staff Equity and Diversity Survey

Monash University is undertaking a staff equity and diversity survey, closing 20 December.  Please have your say! See more about the survey at www.monash.edu/gender-equity/staff-equity-and-diversity-survey

Take the survey

If you have any questions about the survey, please email staff-equity@monash.edu or call Dr Lucie Joschko, Manager Staff Equity and Diversity, on 03 9902 0246.

Survey: Teaching environmental sustainability in health profession education

You can read more about the project:
bit.do/explanatorys

Your feedback is wanted! A team of researchers (below) from within the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences (FMNHS) are conducting research into teaching environmental sustainability in health profession education. This project aims to explore factors (individual, interpersonal, organisational and system-level), which influence capacity to teach environmental sustainability and climate change in your courses.

Specifically, this research project will involve:

• A survey to explore knowledge, attitudes and experiences of FMNHS teaching academic staff around capacity to teach environmental sustainability. This survey was sent to all Chief Examiners and Unit Coordinators by Michelle Gschiel.  

Have your say on how we do the CCS enews!

How often should the enews be circulated?
Over half our respondents (so far) prefer a
fortnightly issue, one third would like it
weekly, and 14.6% would prefer monthly.
Have your say and take our 1-2 min survey

We are reviewing the way we let you know about Central Clinical School researchers, their projects and achievements. Our survey to give your feedback is still open. (Take the 1-2 min CCS enews survey here). Many thanks to those who responded to our survey - much appreciated! What we have so far learned from your responses in summary is that:

• you mostly like all the content provided 😊
• you'd like to see more grant opportunities💲 and event notices
• the news is useful for updating you, sharing with others and promoting collaborations🤝
• Over half the respondents would prefer fortnightly rather than weekly output.