Learn about GenV: your opportunity to create a healthier future GenV is a research project built by Victorian families for all families. If you join, you will contribute to healthier children, parents, and families in the future.
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Home\About GenV\GenV Students, Fellows & Postdocs\MDRS projects Back MDRS projects MDRS projects Interested? Reach out to supervisors to ask about a project, or to GenV’s Student Coordinator for general enquiries about MD research projects. What are the most important outcomes for children’s health and wellbeing research? What are the most important outcomes for children’s health and wellbeing research? Core Outcome Sets (COS) can help researchers choose the most important outcomes to measure. COS are agreed-upon, minimum sets of outcomes that must be measured and reported in clinical trials for specific conditions. They are developed through a rigorous consensus process involving patients, families, clinicians and researchers worldwide. COS can improve the value and impact of research by ensuring outcomes are relevant to stakeholders and by standardising outcomes to enable harmonisation for purposes such as meta-analysis. Generation Victoria is Australia’s largest and most inclusive parent and child cohort. As a multipurpose, interventional mega-cohort aiming to support diverse future research, it is vital to embed the ‘right’ outcomes from a potentially limitless pool. This systematic review will update a prior review and synthesis of COS (see publication here) to include new COS recently developed in this fast-moving field. Findings will help GenV to decide what outcomes to measure. It leverages the substantial international effort already invested in COS to improve the effectiveness of GenV in changing children’s and families’ lives. Capturing neurodiversity and mental health in young Australian children: The GenV Early School Wave Capturing neurodiversity and mental health in young Australian children: The GenV Early School WaveJoin Australia’s largest-ever child and parent cohort – Generation Victoria (GenV) – and help shape its landmark Early School Wave in 2028–29. This initiative will assess 50,000+ children across Victoria to tackle rising mental and physical health challenges. In 2027–28, you’ll work with senior GenV researchers and experts to design and test digital assessment measures of mental health and neurodiversity that can be taken to scale with 6-7 year olds. This project can support two MD Research Scholars and is part of a broader team developing GenV’s school-based measurement protocol across key health domains. Following a 4-week Discovery phase in mid-2027, you’ll undertake a 4-month full-time placement in Semester 1, 2028, testing your measures in Victorian schools. You’ll gain valuable experience in research design, data collection with children with and without autism, and the practicalities of large-scale health measurement – supported by both your supervisor and the GenV team. This is a unique opportunity to pursue your interests, be part of something bigger and contribute to real-world change in children’s health and wellbeing.