Get the funding to make a change.
Through our Seed Funding Research Scheme, ANZMUSC has supported 18 projects, and ANZBACK a further 7, that relate to current or future multi-centre trials. Seed funds are granted for research projects that can achieve a tangible outcome within 12-15 months of receipt of grant funds.
How does it work?
Mid year, ANZMUSC opens applications for our seed funding scheme to support projects being undertaken around musculoskeletal health and/or low back pain.
The Australia & New Zealand Low Back Pain Research Network (ANZBACK) is a special interest group of ANZMUSC as well as its own NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence (CRE). ANZBACK also has seed funds available to support research aligned with their goals. Frequently our CREs will release a combined call in order to avoid the need for duplication of applications.
The scheme aims to:
- Support ideas and research questions that align with ANZMUSC or ANZBACK research priorities (reflecting important disease burden and an important evidence or evidence-practice gap)
- Support ideas that will lead to future external funding applications that could be endorsed by ANZMUSC
Seeding Grants awarded
Browse our previous recipients who’ve had projects funded by the scheme.
| Award Year | Recipient | Project | Funded by |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Dr. Hazel Jenkins (Department of Chiropractic, Faculty of Medicine, Health and Human Sciences, Macquarie University) | Effectiveness and acceptability of a swimming program for low back pain: a randomised controlled trial | ANZBACK |
| 2024 | Dr. Saurab Sharma (The University of New South Wales & Neuroscience Research Australia) | Co-designing evidence-based digital patient education resources for Nepali-speaking people with low back pain: A step towards improving equitable care for culturally diverse communities in Australia | ANZBACK |
| 2024 | Dr. Nardia-Rose Klem (School of Allied Health, Curtin University) & Kerry Mace (Consumer & Community Involvement Program, WA Health Translation Network) | Barriers and opportunities to the implementation of the Low Back Pain Clinical Care Standard in Australian Physiotherapists. A mixed methods study | ANZBACK |
| 2023 | Dr. Caitlin Jones (Sydney Musculoskeletal Health, The University of Sydney) | A pilot trial of Opioids After Total joint replacement Surgery (the OATS pilot trial) | ANZMUSC |
| 2023 | Dr. Andrea Bruder (Human Services and Sport, School of Allied Health, La Trobe University) | Co-creating new solutions to reduce the burden of knee osteoarthritis for young women | ANZMUSC |
| 2023 | Dr. Rodrigo Rizzo (Neuroscience Research Australia, Centre for Pain IMPACT; School of Health, University of New South Wales) | Supporting evidence-based decision-making for low back pain through artificial intelligence | ANZBACK |
| 2022 | Dr. David Anderson (School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney) | Acceptability of a new non-surgical care pathway for patients waiting for lumbar spinal stenosis surgery | ANZMUSC |
| 2022 | Dr. Saliu Balogun (Menzies Institute for Medical Research, University of Tasmania) | Development of a co-design intervention to increase General Practitioners' referral rates to first-line treatment for knee and hip osteoarthritis | ANZMUSC |
| 2022 | Dr. Nathalia Costa (Menzies Centre for Health Policy and Health Economics, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney) | Nothing about us without us: A qualitative investigation of general practitioners’ and consumers’ preferences on guideline implementation strategies | ANZBACK |
| 2021 | Dr. Stephanie Filbay (Department of Physiotherapy, University of Melbourne) | Development of a patient decision aid to inform evidence-based management of anterior cruciate ligament injury | ANZMUSC |
| 2021 | Dr. Juliana S Oliveira (Institute for Musculoskeletal Health, The University of Sydney and Sydney Local Health District) | Implementing supported referral to community-based fall prevention exercise into osteoporosis clinics: a co-design tailored strategy involving multiple stakeholders | ANZMUSC |
| 2021 | Dr. Wei-Ju Chang (St George and Sutherland Centre for Clinical Orthopaedic Research) | Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation to Bolster Analgesic Effects of Exercise in Knee Osteoarthritis | ANZMUSC |
| 2021 | Dr. Giovanni Ferreira (Institute for Musculoskeletal Health, The University of Sydney) | An acceptability study to inform a full-scale trial of antidepressants for people with sciatica | ANZBACK |
| 2021 | Dr. Mary O’Keeffe (Institute for Musculoskeletal Health, The University of Sydney) | Developing a ‘low back pain 101’ educational resource: a consumer-led project | ANZBACK |
| 2020 | Dr. Sam Adie (St. George and Sutherland Centre for Clinical Orthopaedic Research, University of New South Wales) | A partial meal replacement program for weight loss prior to knee or hip arthroplasty: a feasibility study | ANZMUSC |
| 2020 | Dr. Marina de Barros Pinheiro (Institute for Musculoskeletal Health, The University of Sydney and Sydney Local Health District) | Transitioning patients with musculoskeletal disorders from hospital to community-based exercise: a pilot hybrid type 2 implementation-effectiveness wait-list randomised trial | ANZMUSC |
| 2020 | Dr. Gustavo Machado (Institute for Musculoskeletal Health, The University of Sydney and Sydney Local Health District) | Optimising outcomes for patients with back pain by preventing hospital admission | ANZMUSC |
| 2019 | Dr. Michelle Hall (University of Melbourne, Department of Physiotherapy) | Effects of an intensive diet program & exercise in people with hip osteoarthritis who are overweight or obese: a pilot study | ANZMUSC |
| 2019 | Dr. Matthew Fernandez (Macquarie University, Faculty of Science an Engineering, Department of Chiropractic) | GLA:D Back Australia: improving self-management for people with persistent or recurrent low back pain through the implementation of evidence-based patient education and exercises. A feasibility study. | ANZMUSC |
| 2019 | Assoc. Prof. Anne Tiedemann (The University of Sydney, Institute for Musculoskeletal Health) | Peer-volunteer support to promote participation in group-based fall prevention exercise: multi-stakeholder and end-user consultation to adapt the UK ACE model for Australia | ANZMUSC |
| 2019 | Dr. Ben Darlow (University of Otago, Department of Primary Health Care and General Practice, University of Wollongong) | Harnessing the opportunities within community pharmacy to reduce the burden of knee osteoarthritis: a feasibility study to inform an RCT | ANZMUSC |
| 2018 | Assoc. Prof. Christine Lin (School of Public Health, The University of Sydney) | Understanding barriers and facilitators to opioid deprescribing in primary care for the development of patient deprescribing resources | ANZMUSC |
| 2018 | Prof. Cathie Sherrington (School of Public Health, The University of Sydney) | Safe mobility to prevent falls in acute hospitals: adaptation of the successful Safety Recovery rehabilitation unit | ANZMUSC |
| 2018 | Assoc. Prof. Mark Hancock (Department of Health Professions, Macquarie University) | Feasibility of testing the effectiveness of a theory-informed implementation intervention to reduce imaging for low back pain: a pilot cluster randomised controlled trial | ANZMUSC |
| 2018 | Dr. Milena Simic (Faculty of Health Sciences, The University of Sydney) | Reducing non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug use in people with knee osteoarthritis: A repeated measures study for risk minimization | ANZMUSC |
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