Impact assessment of a national research collaboration improving health outcomes for working-age Australians with disability

Abstract

Background: Despite growing recognition of the need for cross-disciplinary research collaborations to tackle complex issues, the impact of such collaborations is rarely documented. This study applied an impact framework to assess the impact of a cross-disciplinary disability research collaboration, the Centre of Research Excellence in Disability and Health (CRE-DH) (2016–2023). We report on the utility of the impact framework for this task and propose a set of actions to ensure the effectiveness of impact evaluations for other cross-disciplinary collaborations. Methods: We retrospectively applied the Framework to Assess the Impact from Translational health research (FAIT) to the CRE-DH, whic..