In 2024, the SHARE centre expanded its collaborations, secured significant EU funding, and enhanced international mobility, and strategic efforts to position the Centre in the forefront of the international research.
SHARE is a multidisciplinary Centre with over 70 researchers affiliated including nurses, medical doctors, psychologists, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, lawyers, sociologist, anthropologists, engineers, and safety scientists. PhD scholars are crucial in pioneering research in areas such as teamwork, involvement, learning processes, risk perception, implementation and evaluation of improvement measures. The PhD scholars apply diverse perspectives to their research to address, understand and improve health services in a national and international perspective. Currently, SHARE has 30 ongoing PhD projects and in 2023 five new PhD were completed. Congratulation for the great achievement.
The Centre has been in operation since 2017 and during 2023 Oslo University Hospital (OUH) has become partner in the consortium. There has been an ongoing collaboration between SHARE and OUH for many years, but the partnership will give room for new ways of collaborating and positioning the Centre in the forefront of the research field with a clear anchoring in clinical practice. We are delighted to welcome OUH into the SHARE consortium and look forward to the collaboration and learning processes in the years to come.
The year of 2023 has involved a high activity level in terms of application for funding, mobility, internationalization, international seminars, and strategic efforts to position the Centre in the forefront of the international research. Key activities in the consortium have been partner meetings to operationalize the research strategy, develop joint applications for funding, seminars with national and international speakers in addition to a broad range of dissemination activities. The Centre has also submitted a report to the Research Council of Norway’s evaluation of research in the health. This report summaries the Centre’ and research group’s development, activities, and achievements since 2010. The results from the international review panel will be reported in 2024 and will be used to further improve the longstanding effort to improve quality and safety in healthcare.
Internationalization and incoming and outgoing mobility have characterized the year of 2023. In addition to researchers being invited to speak as keynotes in large international congresses, the Centre has received several requests from acknowledged international researchers related to research visits and various talks. We have appointed two new adjunct professors, Rebecca Lawton from University of Leeds and Anita Salamonsen, University of Tromsø. They provide new perspectives in psychology of safety and user involvement and will contribute with their experience and network to improve our research. Our researchers have spent time at various location overseas such as Australia, Denmark, Sweden and USA. While we have had the pleasure of hosting incoming researchers from other parts of Norway as well as from Australia, Scotland and Canada for several months during 2023. Overall, this demonstrates the research excellence, and the international position SHARE has established over the years.
A key achievement of 2023 was the successful granting of a 6 million Euro project as a coordinator by the EU Horizon Health programme. The Support4Resilience project will be coordinated by the SHARE Centre and we are proud to say it received a full score of 15/15 from the evaluation panel. The project will develop a toolbox for leaders in European elderly care and contribute to support resilience and mental wellbeing for staff and informal caregivers. The project has 14 partners in 9 countries and starts in 2024. In addition, two large projects granted in 2023 - the InvolveMENT project, (led by Petter Viksveen and team) and the EU doctorial network Tool4Teams (led by Sissel Eikeland Husebø) have started in 2023. For both projects new PhD fellows and adjunct professors have been recruited.
We would like to thank the researchers for their incredible effort in developing and disseminating new knowledge. Last but not least, we welcome new researchers and collaborators and international contacts to the Centre and look forward to the future development of our joint activities and collaborations in 2024.