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Research Opportunities

Our researchers are often looking for people to participate in their work through advisory groups, community conversations, and as research participants. See below for available opportunities.

Want to be involved in our research?

Whether you're looking to participate in research projects or join an Advisory Group, this is the place for you.

See below for current opportunities to get involved in our work.

Parental Accounts of Infant Retrieval Project

Our aim is to improve the emergency transfer of very ill babies by the NETS WA team to better support parents and enhance infants’ recovery and long-term health outcomes.

We plan to address this aim through three research questions:

  1. What are the parent’s experiences of NETS WA retrieving their newborn for emergency transport for further medical care?
  2. What are ways the NETS WA team can improve the service based on the perspectives of parents who have recently used the service?
  3. Based on this input, what general principles can we distil to guide emergency transportation services for very ill babies in WA, and beyond?

Participation involves completing a short survey and a recorded interview with a member of The Kids research team.

Click here to register your interest.

Click here to learn more about the project.

Understanding children and families' hospital experiences

Our Exploring Hospital Experiences team are seeking expressions of interest for participants to be involved in their study. They are looking for:

  • Parents/caregivers who have at least one child between 0-17 years old, and that child has attended a WA hospital within the past three years as a patient
  • Adolescents aged between 12-17 years old, who have been a patient of a WA hospital within the past 12 months.

If this sounds like you, please click the link here to express your interest and our researchers will be in touch with further details.

You can also email us at hospital.experiences@thekids.org.au if you have questions or need support to fill out the form.

If you would like to learn more about our trauma informed care research, click here.

Embrace Internship Program

Each year, Embrace hosts two paid internship placements, giving students the opportunity to gain hands-on experience in a research institute across 100 hours.

To learn more about this opportunity and submit an Expression of Interest, click the link here.