1. Name: Dr Alice Cairns
2. Age: 38
3. Where and in what position are you working?
Weipa. HOT North Research Fellow, Centre for Rural and Remote Health, James Cook University.
4. Tell us which grant you received and how you are going to use it? $25,000 grant. This grant will be used to employ research assistants to support implementation protocols, data collection and data analysis. The money will also allow for extra training for the data collection team on effective and culturally appropriate qualitative data collection techniques with indigenous participants.
5. How did you hear about the Foundation’s research grants? Promoted through the JCU network.
6. What is your project about? Evaluating the implementation and outcomes of a student-led community rehabilitation service in Napranum and Weipa.
7. How did you come to be studying this particular field? I am an occupational therapist with a clinical background in mental health rehabilitation. Since moving to Weipa in 2015, my research interests have expanded to meet the challenges of remote communities where the focus of health services and the local community is on innovative ways to use the available resources to meet community needs.
11. How will your research benefit the FNQ community? This research will help build the evidence for how the delivery of a student-led community rehabilitation model can be implemented and what outcomes a service can expect from this service delivery.
