SHARE collaborates with world leading researchers and research groups in the field of patient safety.
SHARE’s strategic vision is to become an internationally recognized research centre by reforming the understanding of quality and safety in current healthcare systems.
To achieve such status, the Centre must develop, share, and communicate new knowledge at all levels of healthcare systems and collaborate with leading researcher worldwide.
SHARE collaborates with world leading researchers and research groups in Scandinavia, Europe, Australia, USA, Canada and Japan. The internationalisation efforts take several forms with the most important being researcher mobility, joint grant applications, organisation of expert panels and seminars, attendance at conferences, and adjunct professorships.
During 2022 both researcher mobility and international conference attendance have increased significantly after covid restriction stopped.
Key internationalization activities throughout 2022:
- SHARE hosted the “SHARE international seminar on quality and safety in healthcare – learning across countries and sectors” with world leading researchers presenting from USA, the Netherlands, Australia, Norway and Brazil.
- SHARE researchers were keynote speakers at seminars and conferences in Australia, England, New Zealand, and Norway.
- The Involvement project participated at an international youth mental health conference in Copenhagen with 10 youth co-researchers.
- As partner in the DIKU project STERNA, SHARE participated in running the course Resilience Engineering and Safety Management for Complex Socio-Technical Systems, which is conducted in collaboration with universities in Norway and Brazil. The course was available for master and PhD students.
- Five international adjunct professors and four international honorary professors are affiliated with SHARE
- SHARE hosted an exchange meeting with the English Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch (HSIB) during HSIB’s visit to the Norwegian Healthcare Investigation Board.
- SHARE provided input to an American initiative to establish a National Patient Safety Board in the USA focusing on independent safety investigation. This also included experience exchange to the American President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST).
Researcher mobility
SHARE’s mobility program includes mobility in the large research projects to visit partners and host partner visits at SHARE, in addition to the PhD and post doc mobility and other research visits.
Some of the researchers in the Centre have spent longer periods abroad during 2022. During the spring, PhD Student Torunn Strømme spend 3 months at ERASMUS University in Rotterdam visiting Erasmus School of Health Policy and Management. Erasmus is a collaborating partner in the SAFE-LEAD project, in which Strømme is part of. PhD candidate Karolina Mæland has also recieved financial support from SHARE in order to spend five weeks abroad at Uppsala University in Sweden.
Kristin Akerjordet and Siri Wiig both spent three months in Australia during the fall. Akerjordet has a longstanding collaboration with the University of Wollongong (UW) while Wiig visited the Australian Institute of Health Innovation (AIHI). AIHI is a partner in the Resilience in Healthcare project and has hosted multiple research visits from SHARE researchers since 2015. Both the UW and AIHI research environments have kindly included the SHARE researchers in fruitful meetings over time, resulting in multiple publications and ongoing collaborating activities.
Getting to know University of Wollongong and University of New South Wales with new contacts and collaborations is rewarding and makes it even more fun when I return next time and hopefully also results in more people visiting us in SHARE
Furthermore, SHARE researchers also carried out several shorter research visits to Malawi and Tanzania, and Brazil. In the NORHED project Ingrid Tjoflåt visited both Kilimanjaro Christian Medical University College in Tanzania and Kamuzu University of Health Sciences in Malawi twice in 2022. The project carried out workshops and simulation-based training and data collection. Inger Johanne Bergerød and Sina Furnes Øyri visited Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul in Porto Alegre as part of the mobility program in the Sterna project collaboration between Norway and Brazil.
The Centre puts major efforts in being an attractive environment for international incoming researchers at all levels. 2022 was a success in terms of hosting international guests. Both Elizabeth Austin from Australian Institute of Health Innovation and Stephen Billett from Griffith University Australia, visited SHARE as part of the Resilience in Healthcare project. They spent one month each and several articles, research ideas and conference papers were generated. Furthermore, as part of the International week our adjunct professors Jeffrey Braithwaite (Australia) and David Bates from the USA visited SHARE along with Johanna Westbrook, Robyn Clay Williams, Peter Hibbert, Janet Long, Louise Ellis (Australia), Jessica Mesman (the Netherlands), Tarcisio Saurin (Brazil), and Tor Olav Grøtan (Norway).
All together the internationalization and mobility program create avenues for knowledge generations, collaboration, projects, international networks, and new friendship advanced thought academia. The social program and being able to meet over time and test academic ideas and reflect in international settings are all crucial elements for building an international research centre in the forefront of the field