Committee Research strategy
Chair: Melanie Schellekens
Members: Belle de Rooij, Nicole Ezendam, Femke Jansen, Dounya Schoormans & Leonieke Kranenburg
In 2024-2025 the Research Strategy committee has developed a collective psychosocial research agenda, taking the following steps:
- We have distributed a survey among Dutch senior researchers to determine priority themes for collaboration.
- We visualized the current Dutch landscape of psychosocial oncology research by modeling a network of keywords based on recent publications in the field.
- Compared the identified priority themes and keyword network with more general cancer agendas in the Netherlands.
Three overarching themes that were featured throughout these general agendas aligned with the identified priority themes but are currently underrepresented in psychosocial oncology research, as shown by the keyword network: “equity in cancer,” “implementation of innovations,” and “personalized psychosocial care.” Based on these themes, we established three POCON committees. In addition, we established a fourth committee “Data Inventory” to further facilitate collaboration.
In our letter to the editor ‘Establishing a research consortium in psychosocial oncology and formulating a collective research agenda: a Dutch example’ in Journal of Psychosocial Oncology Research and Practice you can read more on how we formulated the research agenda and what strategies we used.
Do you have questions, or would you like to contribute to this committee? Please contact Melanie Schellekens.