Communicating with teams


Communicating, sharing, and celebrating research within health teams builds research capability and creates a productive research culture.

Listen to your staff

Perry Judd (Metro North Hospital and Health Service)

Communicating research with health teams

Leaders who encourage research inspire their teams to view research as integral to improving clinical services and patient outcomes. These leaders can demonstrate the connection between research and tangible impacts on healthcare improvement.

Health leaders influence research culture through communication. Effective leaders can foster passion for research within their team by celebrating research successes, sharing research events and training opportunities, and disseminating clinically-relevant research evidence.


Handy guides

Access practical tools and strategies to help lead and support research-informed practice:

Communicating with clinical teams about research
Strategies to empower research engagement among teams.
Developing and sustaining research events
Activities to develop research engagement in health teams.
Professional Development Plans (PDPs)
Tips for exploring research in professional development conversations.

Last updated: 21 July 2026