New strategy for research activities and funding
A new research strategy has been unveiled that focuses SIRA’s research activities and funding from 2022-2025
With almost $13 million spent on research over the last 3 years, SIRA invests in a range of research activities, educational campaigns, and programs to meet customers' current and emerging needs.
The SIRA Research Strategy 2022-2025 unveils the priorities for research activities and funding for the next three years.
The priorities span across value-based healthcare, prevention, service delivery models, policy, regulation, and scheme design.
Research areas where there is limited evidence, such as health literacy and quality of life, will also form part of SIRA’s research priorities.
Through this strategy, SIRA will use the latest research and evidence to drive real improvements in the workers compensation, CTP and home building compensation schemes.
A key focus will be enabling more opportunities for people with lived experience and other stakeholders to participate in SIRA’s research program.
Greater participation was a key theme that arose in the public consultation on SIRA’s research program, which ran between May and July 2021.
Feedback to this consultation, an independent review of SIRA’s research program, and an analysis of gaps in existing research informed the SIRA Research Strategy for 2022-2025.
What was the feedback to SIRA’s consultation?
The consultation on SIRA’s research program attracted broad agreement with the identified research priorities. Some key feedback revealed that:
- research objectives must align with addressing the current challenges and needs
- the guiding principles were appropriate
- SIRA needs to increase opportunities for public participation in its research program and involve people with lived experience in setting priorities
- finding opportunities to co-design research with customers and key stakeholders would be beneficial
- there was some confusion about the terms ‘knowledge generation' and 'knowledge translation'