UM-Dearborn and Oakwood Form Research Partnership

The University of Michigan-Dearborn and the Oakwood Healthcare System have formed a new research partnership that is built upon the current collaboration among the Oakwood Center for Exceptional Families (CEF), the University of Michigan-Dearborn Early Childhood Education Center (ECEC), and the University of Michigan-Dearborn School of Education

The  ECEC/CEF collaboration supports early childhood educators and healthcare professionals -- who bring different professional knowledge, training and backgrounds -- to work in concert to assist the development of children with and without disabilities and to model best practices for teachers and healthcare providers.

The current collaboration offers a solid foundation for a research partnership to promote transdisciplinary research that can enrich significantly the knowledge and evidence base in relevant fields, and bring important new perspectives to the intersection of education and healthcare. The research Institute will enhance our capacity to attract external grants, to conduct scientifically rigorous research, and to generate high­ profile reports for researchers, policy professionals, educational and medical professionals, and the general public. Under the auspices of the Institute, education and healthcare students and professionals, and students and professionals from other related disciplines, can participate in research activities.

For more about the partnership, see a story in the UM-Dearborn Reporter or listen to a podcast of an interview with Brian Connolly (Oakwood CEO) and Dan Little (UM-Dearborn Chancellor) recently aired on WDET.

We are currently searching for an inaugural director of the research partnership and invite all interested parties to apply.