Research Platform for Collaboration for Health

Vision

Established in 2003 as a unique collaboration between Kristianstad University, the county council Region Skåne and six municipalities in the northeast area of Skåne, the main vision is to provide research with the aim to develop knowledge to meet future challenges and to provide possibilities to increased health and quality of life for the citizens. The platform has four prioritized research areas for the period 2016-2020:

• Development of preventive and health promoting means
• A person-centered care and service with specific focus on vulnerable groups in the society
• A safe and economically sustainable care and service, crossing organizational borders
• Development of new and innovative solutions, including e-health.

Research

The research is characterized by a close collaboration between researchers from different fields, public actors and stakeholders, which increases the possibility to implement research results in everyday practice and to establish sustainability. The research has a strong focus on user participation throughout the entire research process.

The platform is hosting ten different multidisciplinary research projects, engaging about 25 researchers and eight doctoral students in the field of e.g. nursing, health sciences, occupational health, oral health, medicine, social work, psychology and computer science.

The projects embraces different targets groups; from children to older people, and with different focus, such as preventive home visits, existential loneliness and development of care models for psychiatric acute care.

All projects also have involvement of students on different levels (Bachelor and Masters).

The Research platform offers a great variety of possibilities

There are many advantages for those being involved in the platform;

• Being an arena for research and development in health care
• Providing a wide network of researchers and organizations
• Organizing workshops, seminars and public lectures
• Funding of research projects
• Administrative support

The research should be permeated of high awareness of principles of research- and researcher ethics and aspects of diversity and gender equality.

How to become a co-worker at the research platform

Those being employed by Kristianstad University, Region Skåne or by the municipalities in the northeast are of Skåne are most welcome to submit ideas for research projects, while only senior researchers at Kristianstad University can apply for funding of projects.