Book launch! The Rehabilitation and Management of Long COVID – A Handbook for Clinical Practice
Edited by Associate Professor Danielle Hitch and Dr Joanne Wrench, this recently released textbook includes the work of many of the Institute’s researchers and is currently available on Amazon and Booktopia.
This ground-breaking volume provides the first comprehensive resource for health professionals managing the rehabilitation of people experiencing Long COVID.
Founded on therapeutic principles and evidence from other chronic conditions, and informed by clinician and lived experience expertise, the book advances the narrative of Long COVID from ‘what do we know’ to ‘what can we do’. It skilfully integrates the latest evidence of the condition with practical therapeutic tips, supporting readers to develop the knowledge and skills needed to provide effective and respectful care for people with Long COVID. The lived and living experience of those with the condition is embedded in every chapter.
Written by clinicians, researchers and lived experience experts, this book is an invaluable resource for health professionals in all services and setting.
FOH Partnership in Practice – Research Impact Awards applications open 13 October 2025
The Faculty of Health holds an annual ‘Partnerships in Practice’ awards night, celebrating our Faculty research partnerships. Each year the Faculty awards prizes for research partnerships that have delivered the greatest impact, across various categories, including:
- Early-career researcher/s
- Mid-career researcher/s
- Regional and Rural research
- Informing policy and/or practice
- Health Service partnerships research
- Commercial partnerships research
- International partnership research
Category winners receive $1000 in internal funding (including travel), while an overall winner receives $5000 in internal research funding. Read more
Help Define Minimum Standards for Co-Design Research
Co-design has rapidly expanded across disciplines, with researchers using diverse approaches to engage stakeholders meaningfully. This diversity is a strength—but it also presents challenges. Without shared standards, co-design research can be difficult to compare, evaluate, and risk losing its impact. We’re conducting a Delphi study to identify minimum standards for co-design research.
We’d love to hear from you:
- Work as a researcher
- Have published co-design research outputs (e.g., papers, tools, frameworks)
- Want to help standardise co-design in research
Participation involves completing 2 online surveys between October and December 2025. Each round takes just 20–30 minutes
To participate, follow this link to the Survey:
Take the survey
If you would like more information, please contact Carmen Vargas at: carmen.vargas@deakin.edu.au. This project has received Deakin University ethics approval—reference number: HEAG-H 31_2024.
Thank you for considering this opportunity to contribute to the future of co-design research. We would appreciate it if you shared this information with colleagues who may be interested.
Help us understand AI usage at IHT
As part of our ongoing effort to understand and support how researchers are engaging with artificial intelligence, including Gen AI, in their work, we invite you to complete a short survey to share your experiences and interests. Your input will help inform future professional development activities, workshops, and tailored support to ensure we meet the evolving needs of our members.
The survey will remain open until Friday, 17 October.
👉 Click here to access the survey.
The Library has also launched GenAI enablement pages to provide a centralised resource for generative AI-related information. The intention is to make the Deakin GenAI Hub serve as the main source of information and includes links to a range of useful pages and Faculty-developed resources. Please take some time to review the content.
There are also weekly GenAI workshop series running through to the end of the year that may be of interest.
An initiative of the IHT Research Excellence Pillar.
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