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Waranara

Health professions education research network
We're an inclusive community of educators and researchers committed to undertaking quality health professions education research and scholarship that contributes to an evidence-based approach to improving our learning environments.

About us

Waranara is aimed at advancing the skills of our healthcare educators and researchers by fostering interdisciplinary discussions and understanding of the cultures in which we learn, teach and practise.

Drawing on social science disciplinary knowledge and through ongoing engagement and collaboration with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander members and University colleagues, the purpose of Waranara is to develop a high-class global community for health professions education research, learning, and support.

Our objective

To undertake quality health professions education research that contributes to an evidence-based approach to improving our learning environments.
 

Our values

Striving to foster a strong sense of belonging and cultural safety for all to flourish; valuing all perspectives in the knowledge that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts; endeavouring to undertake work that is not just done to our community of stakeholders, or done on them, but achieved with them via co-design.

Opening up possibilities to promote cross-pollination of ideas and concepts for research and education innovation; striving to empower our community of stakeholders to share educational and research experiences and ideas; being courageous to take a risk, learning from our endeavours whatever the outcomes.

Open to the contribution that all members of our community make, which will facilitate our collective success; respecting personal values across our community of stakeholders; facilitating leadership and learning opportunities, providing opportunities for growth across our community.

Ensuring our work is known as excellent in its integrity and ethical principles; a culture of honesty and trust provides the basis of our ethical working practices; fostering our ethical approach reflexively through role modelling best practice, respectfully raising concerns where necessary.

Previous Events & Resources

Listen to our Podcast. New episodes are released monthly. Make sure you are a member of the network to receive a link to the podcast each month, and an invitation to join our monthly PodClub. 

Read the full report here (doc, 3.6MB). You can view the recordings of the day on our Waranara Youtube Channel.

On Friday March 17th, developed, chaired and facilitated by Marcelle Townsend-CrossJulia McCartanJosephine Gwynn, and Lynn Monrouxe, the Waranara Network held its adventurous 2023 flagship event. Bringing together around 70 healthcare professions educators and researchers from across the country and the globe, the Symposium included in-person invited guests from remote and rural settings alongside top international research networks across Australia and Taiwan, and online guests from across Canada: Broken Hill UDRHSchool of Rural Health (Dubbo/Orange)UCRHMCSHE PrideauxCG-MERC and CHES. We shared our ancestral history and, discovering the cultural melting pot from which we all originate, we acknowledged the lands on which we were all coming from.

We explored new ways of understanding and shared experiences and knowledge around Indigenous and non-Indigenous collaborations. We held truly critical conversations around our place in creating and maintaining oppression and exploring ways in which we can bring our new-found awareness to enhance remote, rural, and urban service learning. Breaking from traditional presentation formats, our program was designed to facilitate thoughtful, critical conversations for both our in-person and online attendees. We held brief talks, small blended-group activities, discussions and a World Café.

View the series on our Waranara Youtube Channel. In this series of events, we invite Waranara members who have recently completed their PhD to share their work with the network. 

View the series on our Waranara Youtube Channel. A series of online events, presented collaboratively by Waranara, MCSHE (Monash Centre for Scholarship inHealth Education), and Prideaux (Health Professions Education, Flinders University).

View the series on our Waranara Youtube Channel. A series of online events, presented collaboratively by Waranara and MCSHE (Monash Centre for Scholarship inHealth Education).

View the series on our Waranara Youtube Channel. A series of online events, presented collaboratively by Waranara and MCSHE (Monash Centre for Scholarship inHealth Education).

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Our people

 


Image credit: Ngara - Education and Research
‘Yanhambabirra Burambabirra Yalbailinya (Come, Share and Learn)' 2020 by Luke Penrith for the One Sydney Many People Strategy.

Director

Professor Lynn Monrouxe