Current Research
There are a number of research groupings within the Centre for Kidney Research. Membership of the groupings overlaps extensively, and the research methodologies which are employed include clinical trials, cohort studies, systematic reviews and meta-analyses, epidemiological surveys, questionnaires and qualitative methods such as focus groups, laboratory studies, use of human blood and tissue samples and animal models.
Our current research includes:
- Aboriginal Health
- ARDAC [Antecedents for Renal Disease in Aboriginal Children]
- SEARCH [Study of Environment on Aboriginal Resilience and Child Health]
- Cancer & Kidney Disease
- CARI Guidelines [Caring for Australasians with Renal Impairment]
- Continence Research
- Cochrane Renal Group
- Glomerulonephritis Research
- Getting Research into Practice
- Quality of life & CKD (QUICK Study}
- Renal Genetics
- STEP [Screening and Test Evaluation Program]
- Social research in chronic kidney disease, transplantation and organ donation
- Systematic review and synthesis of qualitative health research
- Transplantation Research
- Trials & outcomes in pediatric surgery
