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Dr Kristiana Ludlow
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Kristiana Ludlow

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Overview

Background

Dr Kristiana Ludlow is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Health Services Research, Faculty of Health, Medicine, and Behavioural Sciences, the University of Queensland, and an Honorary Postdoctoral Fellow at the Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Macquarie University. She completed her Bachelor of Psychology with first class Honours in 2015, her Master of Research in Medicine and Health Sciences in 2017, and her PhD in in Health Innovation in 2020. Dr Ludlow has expertise in co-design, qualitative research and Q methodology. Her research interests include co-designing interventions and digital health tools with end-users, frailty, education, aged care, person-centred care, the role of family caregivers in care, missed care/unfinished care, and care prioritisation. She is passionate about collaborating with consumers, service users and health professionals to improve the delivery of healthcare and mental health services.

Availability

Dr Kristiana Ludlow is:
Available for supervision
Media expert

Qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosophy, Macquarie University

Works

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62 works between 2016 and 2025

61 - 62 of 62 works

2016

Journal Article

Association between organisational and workplace cultures, and patient outcomes: Systematic review protocol

Braithwaite, J., Herkes, J., Ludlow, K., Lamprell, G. and Testa, L. (2016). Association between organisational and workplace cultures, and patient outcomes: Systematic review protocol. BMJ Open, 6 (12) e013758, 1-5. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2016-013758

Association between organisational and workplace cultures, and patient outcomes: Systematic review protocol

2016

Journal Article

The basis of clinical tribalism, hierarchy and stereotyping: A laboratory-controlled teamwork experiment

Braithwaite, Jeffrey, Clay-Williams, Robyn, Vecellio, Elia, Marks, Danielle, Hooper, Tamara, Westbrook, Mary, Westbrook, Johanna, Blakely, Brette and Ludlow, Kristiana (2016). The basis of clinical tribalism, hierarchy and stereotyping: A laboratory-controlled teamwork experiment. BMJ Open, 6 (7) e012467, 1-10. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2016-012467

The basis of clinical tribalism, hierarchy and stereotyping: A laboratory-controlled teamwork experiment

Funding

Current funding

  • 2025 - 2029
    Improving frailty knowledge and empowering behaviour change via a co-designed Frailty Hub for healthcare consumers and caregivers
    NHMRC Investigator Grants
    Open grant
  • 2024 - 2029
    An automatic electronic frailty index in Australian primary care and a toolkit for action
    Bond University
    Open grant
  • 2024 - 2029
    Co-creating rainbow-inclusive care for gender & sexually diverse people in residential aged care (MRFF led by Southern Cross University)
    Southern Cross University
    Open grant
  • 2024 - 2025
    FI Guide: Developing and evaluating a resource with older cancer patients that presents and explains Frailty Index scores
    Metro South Health Research Support Scheme Project Grant
    Open grant
  • 2023 - 2026
    Physical activity, goals and outcomes for older Australians in the Transition Care Program: a pragmatic randomised controlled trial
    Metro South Hospital and Health Service
    Open grant
  • 2023 - 2026
    Oral Health in Aged Care: Addressing Oral Health Inequity and Unmet Dental Care Needs of Vulnerable Population
    NHMRC MRFF Dementia, Ageing and Aged Care Mission
    Open grant

Past funding

  • 2024 - 2025
    Frail-VaS: Core Outcomes Study (Queensland Advancing Clinical Research Fellowship led by Metro South HHS)
    Metro South Hospital and Health Service
    Open grant
  • 2023 - 2025
    Outcomes of importance to frail vascular surgery patients and their caregivers: A longitudinal study (Frail-VaS) (QA CRF externally led by Metro South HHS)
    Metro South Hospital and Health Service
    Open grant

Supervision

Availability

Dr Kristiana Ludlow is:
Available for supervision

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Available projects

  • Co-designing digital frailty education with health consumers and caregivers

    Frailty is a risk state characterised by an accumulation of physical, cognitive, social and functional deficits. Interventions targeting exercise, nutrition, social connection and medication optimisation can prevent, reduce or even reverse frailty. Evidence suggests that healthcare consumers generally have a poor understanding of frailty and limited access to frailty resources.

    This program of work aims to co-design digital frailty education and resources for consumers and caregivers to improve their knowledge and understanding of frailty, and equip people with skills to prevent and manage frailty.

    This PhD project may involve:

    • Conducting a needs analysis to inform the content of the education intervention;
    • Facilitating the co-design of the digital modules and resources with consumers and caregivers;
    • Conducting usability testing of the intervention; and
    • Co-designing a dissemination plan to support knowledge translation.

    This PhD will directly contribute to the health knowledge and behaviours of healthcare consumers and caregivers and the implementation of the digital education intervention at a national level.

    The PhD candidate will have the opportunity to develop skills in quantitative and qualitative research methods, co-design, project management, behaviour change science, digital health, and health promotion.

Supervision history

Current supervision

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Process evaluation of the electronic Frailty Index for Acute Hospital (eFI-AH) implementation and co-design of consumer frailty resources.

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Adrienne Young, Dr Natasha Reid, Professor Monika Janda

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Co-designing online learning modules to increase knowledge and understanding of frailty amongst health professionals and students

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Associate Professor Nicola Warren

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Core outcomes in frail inpatients.

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Associate Professor Emily Gordon, Professor Ruth Hubbard

  • Doctor Philosophy

    An intervention to develop empathy in primary-aged children

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Professor Vanessa Cobham, Professor Virginia Slaughter

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Oral Health in Aged Care: Addressing Oral Health Inequity and Unmet Dental Care Needs in Vulnerable Populations

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Lori Delaney, Professor Loc Do

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Beyond Recovery: Developing A Decision Making Framework For State and Provincial Level Governments To Design And Deliver Mental Health and Wellbeing Services That Promote Resilence and Foster Growth To Communites Impacted By Climate Risk Disasters

    Associate Advisor

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Loneliness among rural cancer survivors and their caregivers

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Zoe Walter

  • Master Philosophy

    Co-designing allied health clinical pathways with frail vascular patients

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Associate Professor Merrill Turpin, Associate Professor Jacki Liddle

  • Doctor Philosophy

    CHAMP: a co-creation of a comprehensive health assessment and management plan for younger people with schizophrenia spectrum disorders

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Associate Professor Emily Gordon, Professor Ruth Hubbard

Media

Enquiries

Contact Dr Kristiana Ludlow directly for media enquiries about:

  • Aged care
  • Care prioritisation
  • Frailty education
  • Informal caregiving
  • Missed care
  • Residential aged care
  • Workplace culture

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