International Activity

The Innovative Health Technologies Programme secured additional funding from the ESRC to enable a two-way programme of visits and knowledge exchange with researchers in Europe and further afield.

Title of Fellowship Programme was "IHT Fellowships in Comparative and Evaluative Analysis" and its main objectives were:

• To provide international data and analysis that extends the Programme's work on developing a social science approach to evaluation
• To provide opportunities for improved international collaboration and networking within the IHT Programme
• To undertake visits to research sites to compare and evaluated the IHT within a project's area of interest

In total 7 exchanges took place. To see the reports outlining purpose and outcomes from each of the Fellowships can be seen by clicking on the links below. All file formats are in pdf

Summary of Fellowship exchanges

 

A Visit to Explore Iissues in the History of Cancer Pain Relief and Extend the Work of the Project: Innovations in Cancer Pain Relief: Technologies, Ethics and Practices

 

A Comparative A nalysis of UK and Australian Methods for Evaluating HIV Innovative Health Technologies

 

ICTs and Health in Women's Midlife: The Contrasting Health Care Contexts of UK, Greece and Finland

 

Evaluating ICTs In Health Care: The Canadian Healthcare System

 

Sociological Approaches to the Analysis of the Informatization of Health and Illness: Comparisons between the UK and New Zealand

 

An Exchange Visit to Examine Issues Relating to Technologies Used to Relieve Suffering at the End of Life: Comparison of Social, Ethical and Clinical Implications in the UK , Holland and Belgium

 

Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) and Cancer User Groups in the Australian Context: A Case Study of an Oncology Support Group in NSW

 

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