Hi Kelly,

Many thanks for your update.  Jodie's review study of the assessment reports currently used in our clinics looks interesting. I did not know much about how they usually write up their assessment reports, but it is good to see how the parents (and therapists perhaps) will respond to or perceive the new form of the assessment report.

You also produced a very good and succinct summary of your progress over your first week. What I also found is that your writing skills look quite good as well!!!

Keep your updated progress posted here...

WILL

First Day of the Summer Research Program

Hi Kelly,

Welcome to your participation in this summer research program. It is great you have done the induction with Mary Ann yesterday.  The following descriptions were to document what we had a chat about today.

Environment 

I have brought you around the Building 84A, including level 7 (Jodie's office, Sylvia's office, and photocopier room), level 8 (another photocopier room and hot water system), and level 3 (kitchen and stationery supply room).  I also showed you the emergency evacuation assemble area (around great court) and security phone number (53333).

Research

As for research, I mentioned there will be 2 stages for your project: one is to review the differentiation between activity and participation, and the other one is to link the participation measure with the ICF nine chapters.  I gave you two relevant papers for the first-stage research (they have been also placed in the shared Dropbox). Your task for this Week 1 is to read the papers and try to understand the participation definitions for children as well as what we are going to do the review in a similar way. I also showed you  briefly how we may do in the second-stage research in terms of the concept. The details will be delivered when you are more familiar with the process. The plan is to complete the first stage BEFORE Christmas and second stage BEFORE your scholarship is ended.

Workload

We had a chat about workload that you can have one day off flexibly in each week. You need to let me know which day you will off on Monday of that week or before Friday of that previous week if you want to take Monday off. For each day you are working, a flexible working hour is up for choice, but usually have to achieve the length of 7 hours (excluding lunch break).

Computer and Communication

I have set up a computer for you to work on over the following 10 weeks. We also set up the research blog on this site and a shared working folder on Dropbox. The important thing is to WRITE THE RESEARCH DIARY before you finish a day of work. So we can track your progress and enhance better communication.

Upcoming Meeting

You will have a meeting with Jodie 9:30am on 21 November (in Jodie's office) and meet with Jodie again 10:30am on 5th December (same place). We may set up regular meeting with you. And if you wanna to meet me or Syvlia/Jodie, please let me know so that we can arrange it.

Any questions?

WELCOME to the research team!!  from WILL

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