Allison McKendrick

 

Allison McKendrick

University of Western Australia

Allison McKendrick is currently appointed as the UWA/Lions Eye Institute Chair of Optometry Research. She is an AHPRA registered optometrist and has over 20 years research experience related to vision and visual disorder. Her research aims to improve understanding of normal visual processing and damage to vision due to disease, in addition to providing recommendations for improved clinical identification of vision disorder.

 


Workshop
Set Yourself Up for Grant Success 

The WA Department of Health Office of Medical Research and Innovation and The University of Western Australia are co-hosting a grant writing workshop for allied health researchers to develop skills in writing grant applications and improve success rates in winning funding. Drawing on WA funding opportunities such as the Western Australian Future Health Research and Innovation Fund, we will focus on how to position yourself, how to identify key information that should be presented in a proposal, ways of presenting this information, storytelling, and language. Hear tips and advice from experienced researchers and university research office speakers on how to write a winning application.