What is a Chief Investigator?

Chief Investigators are eviDent members who provide ‘the intellectual, administrative and ethical leadership’1 to an eviDent research project or program.

Chief Investigator A must make a significant contribution to the project and will be the primary contact and manager of the project.

Chief Investigators B-F are Co-Chief Investigators.

Chief Investigators A have overall responsibility for the management of the research project, as per the University of Melbourne’s ‘Chief Investigator’s Responsibilities’ listed at http://www.research.unimelb.edu.au/azservices/ci.

¹The University of Melbourne, Melbourne Research Office, Chief Investigator Responsibilities http://www.research.unimelb.edu.au/azservices/ci

Member Eligibility

It is essential that each eviDent project team is adequately supervised and supported; therefore, Chief Investigators must be full or part time academic staff members at a participating university¹, experienced in clinical research and competent to undertake and lead a research project. 

¹The University of Melbourne is the only participating university at the time of publication.

Membership Details

• membership is free
• confidentiality will be maintained as your details will be kept only on our database and will not be distributed to other organizations without your permission

 Benefits

• A chance to help shape the first dental practice based research network in Australia
• An opportunity to participate in the translation of oral health research into evidence based daily practice by dentists
• A chance to share research findings via peer learning, seminars, workshops, conference presentations and publications
• Publicity highlighting that clinical research can lead to new findings to improve patient care and make a practice more successful
• Access to general dental practitioners’ expertise and practice base
• Be kept informed about research projects