RECOVER Injury Research Centre

12/12/2025

🚨 Calling Men Over 45 or Living in Remote Areas! 🧠💬
We’re conducting a research project to understand why men often don’t use digital mental health support services—and how we can make these tools more helpful.

📋 What’s involved?
A confidential one-hour chat (online or in-person) about your experiences and thoughts on digital support for men doing it tough.
You don’t need to have used apps or online services before—your perspective matters!

💡 Why participate?
Your insights will help shape better mental health support for men across Australia.

✅ Who can join?
Men 45 years or older, OR
Men living in a remote area
Have felt stressed, anxious, or down at some point
⏱️ Time commitment: Up to 1 hour
🔒 Confidential and anonymous
🎁 Reimbursement: $75 gift card
📌 Interested?

Sign up here: https://uniofqueensland.syd1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_4PmjoFv0eRAbyZM

Or learn more via UQ’s official research volunteer page:
https://partners-community.uq.edu.au/get-involved/volunteer-research-study/barriers-and-facilitators-access-and-engagement-digital-mental-health-services-priority-populations

Please share this post or tag someone who might be interested. Your voice can make a difference.

04/12/2025

Who wants to strap on some VR goggles and test drive the VR power wheelchair simulator? We've been working with JJ (from RAD Rollin All Day ) and a co-design team at Spinal Life Australia to bring JJ's vision to life. There are a few sessions left to play through the prototype game and share your thoughts.

RAD Rollin All Day , Spinal Life Australia, Queensland Powerchair Football Assoc Inc, Queenslanders with Disability Network

01/12/2025

This month's edition of Research Australia's INSPIRE Magazine features Dr Nicole Andrews' Pain ROADMAP. The mobile application enables people living with chronic pain and their clinicians to identify activities that trigger pain flare-ups and modify them with activity pacing. Pain ROADMAP is currently being tested in a pilot trial to support opioid tapering.

Read the full article 👉 https://researchaustralia.org/inspire-magazine/

UQ Health

16/11/2025

Are PEMF mats popping up in your feed? Professor Michele Sterling from RECOVER discussed the evidence base for claims about these devices for the Guardian's Antiviral series.

People in pain swear by pulsed electromagnetic field therapy. Experts weigh in on the mats that have emerged as a self-therapy tool

28/10/2025

This study is part of the RISE project, which aims to pilot test the text message intervention to improve recovery for Queenslanders following a road traffic injury.

22/10/2025

Do you know someone who has recently experienced whiplash from a road traffic incident?

We’re inviting Queenslanders with recent lived experience of whiplash (within the past 3 months) to take part in a 2-hour online workshop. Your insights will help shape RISE — a new text message support program designed to make recovery more accessible and responsive to the emotional impact of trauma.

➡️Participants will be remunerated $50/hour for their time.

➡️Interested? Email Jessica Formosa at j.formosa@uq.edu.au
to learn more or register.

https://recover.centre.uq.edu.au/get-involved/volunteer-research-study #4

20/10/2025

We're looking for 5 Queenslanders who have experienced driving anxiety after a car crash to join the Consumer Advisory Group for a new project at the RECOVER Injury Research Centre. You'll work with psychologists, technology experts, and health professionals to help design an immersive virtual reality exposure therapy for driving anxiety. You don’t need any tech or design skills.

For more information about the role, time commitment and reimbursement, please visit: https://recover.centre.uq.edu.au/calls-consumer-involvement-research #1

12/10/2025

We're keeping fingers crossed🤞for the team behind MyWhiplashNavigator. Their evidence-based online tool to guide recovery after whiplash has been shortlisted for the “Education and Training Program Design” award! The winner will be announced at the Personal Injury & Disability Management Industry Conference's Awards Gala Dinner on 27 October.

This innovative resource empowers healthcare professionals and injured individuals with guideline-based strategies. The nomination highlights the impressive impact from the MyWhiplashNavigator team at the Centre of Research Excellence in Better Health Outcomes for Compensable Injury. Led by CRE Chief Investigators Professor Trudy Rebbeck and Professor Michele Sterling (UQ RECOVER, CRE Director), along with team members Marinus du Preez, Dr Ana Paula Carvalho E Silva, Pt, MSc, PhD, Dr Christopher Papic (UQ RECOVER), and Associate Professor Katie de Luca, including Joshua Ho, Ash Dunleavy, and Martin Dunne from Allianz Australia Insurance.

UQ Health

10/10/2025

It was great to be part of UQ's 'Through our Eyes' event this week. The two-day event focused on examining systemic issues that impact the health and well-being of people and communities at every stage of life, sparking great conversations with diverse perspectives from research, community, and providers.

JJ Hitchens from RAD Rollin All Day (consumer co-lead on our VR Wheelchair project) took part in the Community Voice Panel, facilitated by Jo Maxwell and Jess Taylor. Despite the different interests and agendas of the panellists, some common themes emerged:
🌟 Conversations take time and sometimes seem to stray off topic. Listening for the gems is a skill and takes patience
🌟 It is vital that researchers meet consumers and community members in the spaces where they feel safe and comfortable (hint - this is not a hospital or clinic setting)
🌟 Consumers bring more to the table than their health conditions - their skills, professional expertise, and different perspectives are invaluable to the team.

02/10/2025

Join the official launch of Health Translation Queensland's Framework for Consumer and Community Involvement (CCI) in Health Research. This new guide is designed to help health researchers embed meaningful consumer and community involvement across all stages of the research cycle.

Date: Friday, 17 October 2025
Time: 12pm - 12:45pm (AEST-QLD)
Format: Zoom webinar
Whether you’re starting a new research project, applying for funding, or seeking to strengthen consumer engagement in your current work, this Framework will be an invaluable tool.
Register now at https://bit.ly/4nn4Vtn

23/09/2025

This month, we're focused on co-design with consumers. On September 4th, we hosted a very popular webinar covering the basics. Last week, our guest presenters Adrienne Young and Anja Christoffersen returned for a follow-up workshop.

Consumers and researchers got the chance to put theory from the webinar into practice as we dove into a mini co-design sprint. By getting to know each other, finding common ground and working through a common issue we had a unique opportunity to practice skills in a safe space. Consumers took on facilitation roles, and our researchers drew on their own lived experiences as consumers.

Consumers and researchers got the chance to put theory from the webinar into practice as we dove into a mini co-design sprint. By getting to know each other, finding common ground and working through a common issue, we had a unique opportunity to practice skills in a safe space. Consumers took on facilitation roles, and our researchers drew on their own lived experiences as consumers.

02/09/2025

There's still time to register 👇

Are you wondering what all the fuss is about co-design? Interested in including it in your research project or facilitating your own workshops? This practical introduction is for health consumers (people with lived experience), health researchers, and health professionals.
Register now for this free, engaging session 👇

https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/a-practical-introduction-to-co-design-in-healthcare-and-research-tickets-1574339394509?aff=oddtdtcreator