Te Kahui Houhare Rangahau Hauora
The Early and Mid-Career Researcher (EMCR) Group aims to support EMCRs to achieve research excellence by facilitating networking and promoting career development opportunities within the Division. We can be contacted at hsemcr@otago.ac.nz
Our Mission: Promote research excellence and sustainability
The Early and Mid-Career (EMCR) Researcher Group aims to support EMCRs to achieve research excellence at the University of Otago. The EMCR group is an EMCR-led initiative established by, and for, EMCRs within the Division of Health Sciences. This group will facilitate networking and promote career development opportunities among EMCRs within the Division. The EMCR Management Committee serves to coordinate the organization and planning of EMCR Group activities, and to facilitate communication between EMCRs and the Divisional Research Committee.
Activities organised by the EMCR group will address/target seven main areas of focus (see below). The areas of focus have been developed to reflect Aotearoa’s unique research environment and issues particular to Health Sciences research. Finally, some areas were taken from the Vitae® model from the UK. By addressing many facets of research/academic life (listed below) the group aims to support EMCRs in a holistic way to help fellow EMCRs achieve research excellence.
- Support development of early and mid-career Māori and Pacific researchers
- Knowledge and intellectual abilities
- Research governance and organisation
- Engagement, influence and impact
- Personal effectiveness
- Balancing research and teaching
- Balancing academia and clinical activities
Division of Health Sciences Accelerator Grant 2021
Applications for the inaugural Division of Health Sciences Accelerator Grant close on Friday 4 June.
The main priority of this grant is to support Early and Mid-Career Researchers (EMCRs) of the Division of Health Sciences, to provide additional resources that will enhance career development.
Areas of priorities
- Support EMCRs to develop and strengthen meaningful relationships and research collaborations with Māori communities, enabling research that is of relevance to Māori and Vision Mātauranga
- Support EMCRs to develop and strengthen meaningful relationships and research collaborations with Pasifika communities, enabling research that is of relevance to Pasifika
- Proof-of-concept experiment for a future grant application
- Domestic travel for access to specialised equipment not available at host institution
- Domestic travel to workshops/seminars for training e.g. leadership skills, professional skills or commercialisation
- Application guidelines (PDF)
- Application form (PDF)
- Application form (Word)
- CV template (Word)
EMCR Management Committee members
Each Management Committee member is involved in two areas of focus and strategic oversight is provided by the Chair.
The EMCR Management Committee currently comprises 10 members from across the three main campuses.
Khoon Lim (Chair)
Orthopaedic Surgery and Musculoskeletal Medicine, Christchurch Campus
Senior Research Fellow
Twitter handle: @khoonono
Khoon's profile page
(7) Balancing academia and clinical activities
Megan Anakin
Education Unit, Dean’s Office, Otago Medical School – Dunedin Campus
Lecturer and Education Adviser
Twitter handle: @MeganAnakin
Megan's profile page
(1) Support development of early and mid-career Māori and Pacific researchers, (6) Balancing research and teaching
Htin Lin Aung
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, School of Biomedical Sciences
Sir Charles Hercus Health Research Fellow
Twitter handle: @DrHtinLinAung
Htin Lin Aung's profile page
(1) Support development of early and mid-career Māori and Pacific researchers, (4) Engagement, influence and impact
Janice Chew-Harris
Christchurch Heart Institute, Department of Medicine, Christchurch Campus
Research Fellow
Twitter handle: @Janice_C_Harris
Janice's profile page
(1) Personal Effectiveness, and (2) Knowledge and Intellectual abilities.
Catherine Collins
Department of Anatomy, School of Biomedical Sciences
Research Fellow
Twitter handle: @cjcollins_nz
Catherine's profile page
(1) Support development of early and mid-career Māori and Pacific researchers, (5) Personal effectiveness
Daniel Cury Ribeiro
School of Physiotherapy
Senior Lecturer – Sir Charles Hercus Health Research Fellow
Twitter handle: @danielcr
Daniel's profile page
(3) Research governance and organisation, (6) Balancing research and teaching
Hemakumar Devan
Centre for Health, Activity and Rehabilitation Research (CHARR), School of Physiotherapy, Wellington Campus
Postdoctoral Fellow
Twitter handle: @HemDevan
Hem's profile page
(2) Knowledge and intellectual abilities, (5) Personal effectiveness
Eddy Dowle
Department of Anatomy, School of Biomedical Sciences
Research Fellow
(3) Research governance and organisation, (4) Engagement, influence and impact
Claire Henry
Department of Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Women’s Health, Wellington Campus
Research Fellow
Twitter handle: @DrClaireHenry
Claire's profile page
(2) Knowledge and intellectual abilities, (5) Personal effectiveness
Manon Knapen
Division of Health Sciences
Scientific Officer, Research and Development
Reference Group
The EMCR group also includes a larger Reference Group to capture the diversity of the Division. Each Department has a designated member; if you don’t already know who is involved in the Reference Group from your School/Department, flick us an email and we will put you in touch.
| Dunedin Campus | Faculty of Dentistry | Oral Diagnostic & Surgical Sciences | Graeme Ting |
| Oral Rehabilitation | Joanne Choi | ||
| Oral Sciences | Hanna Olson, Carolina Loch | ||
| Sir John Walsh Research Institute | Angela Clark | ||
| Otago Medical School | Medical Education Unit | Kelby Smith-Han | |
| Bioethics | Taryn Knox | ||
| General Practice & Rural Health | Maria Larcombe | ||
| Medicine | Sierra Beck | ||
| Pathology | Louise Bicknell, Nicholas Fleming | ||
| Preventive & Social Medicine | Sarah Donald, Erin Penno | ||
| Psychological Medicine | Charlie Mentzel | ||
| Surgical Sciences | Divya Adhia | ||
| Women's & Children's Health | Emma Wade | ||
| School of Biomedical Sciences | Anatomy | Charlotte King | |
| Biochemistry | Debina Sarkar | ||
| Microbiology and Immunology | Hannah Hampton | ||
| Pharmacology and Toxicology | David Finlay | ||
| Physiology | Michelle Munro | ||
| School of Pharmacy | Shyamal Das | ||
| School of Physiotherapy | Lizhou Liu | ||
| Centre of Biostatistics | |||
| Centre for Pacific Health | |||
| Christchurch Campus | Anaesthesia | |
| Centre for Postgraduate Nursing Studies | Chris Moir | |
| General Practice | ||
| Māori/Indigenous Health Institute (MIHI) | ||
| Medicine | Campbell le Heron, Sarah Appleby | |
| Obstetrics and Gynaecology | ||
| Orthopaedic Surgery and Musculoskeletal Medicine | David Kieser | |
| Paediatrics | Martin de Bock | |
| Pathology and Biomedical Science | Elisabeth Phillips, Amy Scott-Thomas | |
| Physiotherapy | Ally Calder | |
| Population Health | Angela Curl | |
| Psychological Medicine | Janet Spittlehouse | |
| Radiology | Aamir Raja | |
| Surgery | Rachel Purcell |
| Wellington Campus | Medicine | Caroline Shorter |
| Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Women's Health | Leigh Searle | |
| Paediatrics and Child Health | Becs Dyson | |
| Pathology and Molecular Medicine | Michelle Thunders | |
| Primary Health Care and General Practice | Jo Hilder | |
| Psychological Medicine | Matthew Jenkins | |
| Public Health | Jason Gurney | |
| Radiation Therapy | ||
| Surgery and Anaesthesia | Kirsty Danielson | |
| Physiotherapy |
Contact
For more information, please contact:
Email hsemcr@otago.ac.nz
Links and resources
Internal Resources already available to EMCRs
- HS_EMCR_SUPPORT Blackboard paper
- Funding opportunities
- Mentoring for female academics
- O-zone group
- Mental health support
- HEDC
- HEDC – opportunities for academic staff with teaching responsibilities
- HEDC – Supervising postgraduate students
- Māori at Health Sciences
- Pacific at Health Sciences
- Māori health research advancement
External links
- Royal Society Te Apārangi ECR Forum
- ECRs in Aotearoa after COVID-19 (RSNZ ECR Forum) (PDF)
- ECRcentral
Downloads
- Terms of Reference (PDF)
- Strategic Plan 2020–2025 (PDF)
