Assistant Professor Dr. Stephanie Glegg was recently awarded a Michael Smith Health Research BC (MSHRBC) Scholar Award for a project title “Bridging KT Connections: Using the social drivers of knowledge translation (KT) to improve health care service delivery.” Dr. Glegg’s area of research, implementation science, examines the ways in which evidence-based research is incorporated into clinical guidelines for health care services. Dr. Glegg will use this award to investigate strategies to strengthen connections between researchers, health care providers, and families, which are essential to the provision of optimal care.
MSHRBC Scholar Awards are highly competitive, and they support researchers in the early stages of their careers as they develop their programs of research. We asked Dr. Glegg what receiving this award means to her and how it would help her further her research.
It’s a great honour to receive the Scholar Award – it will help me dedicate more time to my research to improve the health care system. I’ll be using an approach called social network analysis, which examines how social factors influence knowledge uptake. Working together helps to move progress forward, and this research will help us to understand how researchers, health care providers, and families can pool our expertise more effectively to mobilize meaningful change, in partnership.
To learn more about her research and keep up with her latest findings, you can read more about the CHILD-BRIGHT Knowledge Mobilization Program, which Dr. Glegg jointly leads, and her role as an Investigator at the BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute.
Please join us in congratulating Dr. Glegg on having won this prestigious award!
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