SHARE researchers strive to be present at a range of forums and to disseminate our research in a variety of forms to reach as many, and as a diverse body as possible. Throughout the year of 2023 SHARE researchers have therefore contributed to dissemination activities such as interviews, opinion papers, lectures, seminars and stand-up comedy contributions in addition to national and international conference attendances and peer review articles.
This year a great number of the SHARE researchers used their voice to inform the public debate in important matters related to quality and patient safety through various opinion papers. Among them are Kristian Ringsby Odberg, Siri Wiig and Inger Johanne Bergerød who published a paper on the importance of collaborations for a safer healthcare system. Our Phd candidates have made their contributions to the public debate through sharing their knowledge related to the importance of sense of smell, tips for leaders within healthcare and why believing in yourself matters.
In addition to opinion papers, a large part of the dissemination activities has evolved around contributing to various meetings, conferences and symposiums. SHARE members have given lectures about their research at bachelor, master and PhD level, participated in national and international quality and safety network meetings, held information meetings for various stakeholders such as patient ant families, and healthcare workers, they have been invited to several bodies to talk about their work such as the Ministry of Health and Care Services, the Norwegian Healthcare Investigation Board, the Norwegian Board of Health Supervision, and Rectors office at UiS, in addition to various leader forums at different levels. While a majority of the activities are held in healthcare settings, we are please to see that our reach spans across a range of settings and contexts such as education, technology development, leadership, nursing, cancer care, emergency care, mental health, simulation, nursing homes, home healthcare, hospitals and government. There have also been several media contributions where research from the SHARE Centre has been discussed in both newspapers, at television and in various discussion forums.
One of the SHARE interns Annelin Festervoll got the pleasure of providing the Ministry of Children and Families with information about the InvolveMent project and the importance of involving indigenous people, national minorities and refugees. In May, a rather large delegation of SHARE researchers attended the Resilience in Healthcare summer meeting in Jacksonville, Florida, where they had both oral presentations and poster contributions spreading their experience and knowledge related to resilience research. In August, several researchers attended the ISQua conference in Seoul, a large patient safety conference with world outreach, gathering 1650 delegates from 72 different countries. SHARE researchers contributed to a range of different activities among them posters, workshops, discussion panels and oral presentations. All attendees bring home valuable lessons related to patient safety, quality improvement and in particular universal health coverage and equity.
In addition to international conferences SHARE researchers also substantially contributed to the National Patient Safety Conference in Oslo, Norway in November 2023. Contributions at this conference have almost become a tradition and we are humble to be able to take part at such an important stage to get dissemination and networking opportunities with clinicians and ‘safety junkies’ across Norway. Among the contributions at this year’s conference were keynote lecturers, workshops, oral presentations, and plenary discussions. This conference is the largest patent safety conference in Norway and provided the researchers with a great opportunity for engaging with representatives from healthcare organizations nationwide.
Other activities include Professor Karina Aase who was granted a scholarship for developing a new book about resilience in healthcare and Professor Siri Wiig and colleagues signed a contract to develop a book based on the research in the Resilience in Healthcare project. Furthermore Professor Jo Røislien has published a new book in Norwegian, “TENK” about principles for scientific communication.
Finally, we would like to congratulate three of our members who won awards in 2023. Our professor emerita Ingunn Aase received an award by the Medical Faculty at the University of Bergen for her outstanding contributions to developing educational curriculum. Post-doctoral fellow Ellinor Haukland received an award for her improvement work for cancer patients from the Northern Regional Health Authority. An finally, Nina Vatland who recieved UiS's award for outstanding education and learnig environmental award for her inovative use of techology and high quality educational programme.