Bateman & de Pereira A poster to be presented at the World Federation of Neurological Rehabilitation (WFNR) Special Interest Group in Neuropsychological Rehabilitation, Glasgow, 11-12 July 2016.

1. A report about the UK-BRAZIL
Acquired Brain Injury Researcher Links
Workshop in Curitiba, Brazil March 2016
Andrew Bateman & Ana Paula de Pereira
Objectives of our workshop:
To collate research priorities regionally
To scope how to work together internationally
To provide a framework of research priorities
Outline research proposals and agree on key
developmental areas
Follow up:
To produce final research proposals for relevant
funding bodies
Strategic Road Mapping for Innovation
Outcomes and planned projects
• Ongoing social networking and friendships
• Adult Intervention Group“ABI Links Intervention for
Social Participation”
• Measurement Group looked at psychometrics for UK
and Brazil, paediatrics and adults
• Functional tracking of natural recovery afterstroke
• Mapping clinical services, resources (MRI etc) and
research groups we have in UK and Brazil. Private or
public services
• Paediatric Intervention Support participation at home
• Zika Group monitor impact of Zika on developing brain
and work toward an intervention RCT
• Book contract
Conclusions – what has worked so far?
• Marketing via Twitter & storify see #abilinks
• Using ProjectPlace to organise participants
• Using road mapping technique to get 40 post-docs’ ideas
to coalesce and innovate
• Outcome of a visitingsabbatical of Prof Ana Paula De
Pereira (CAPES fund) to OZC
BACKGROUND –TheNewton
Fund gives earlycareer
researchersacrossselected
partner countriesthe opportunity
to form internationalconnections
throughfully funded workshops
and travelgrants. Sincethe
launch in 2013, thousands of
researchersfromacross the
various countries havebenefited
from Researcher Links
Brain Injury
Healthcare Technology Co-operative
In order to achievechangewe
need to balancethis equation:
Dissatisfaction +Process +Vision >
Cost