“The Honours Program was really well-rounded, so after I finished I really prospered.”
Rachel Clark
Psychology Honours student
Associate Professor Christina Aggar
Associate Professor
Research interests: Primary health care, transition programs for new graduate nurses, clinical skills education, chronic care and rehabilitation, carers and caregiving, international students and nurses
Dr Kachina Allen
Lecturer
Research interests: Cognitive psychology, attention, perception, speech and language processing, psychophysiology
Dr Jacinta Arellano
Lecturer (Teaching Scholar)
Nutritional biochemistry, herbal medicine and plant constituents, and biomedical science
Dr Alex Barwick
Course Coordinator, Lecturer
Research interests: Chronic foot disease, diabetes, screening for peripheral arterial disease, footwear, lower limb biomechanics
Dr Kyle Bennett
Lecturer
Research interests: Skill acquisition, expertise, talent, development, esports, performance analysis, sport science
Dr Jessica Browne
Lecturer
Research interests: Respiratory infectious disease, otitis media, clinical microbiology, antimicrobial resistance, microbe-host relationships, immunology
Dr Paul Butterworth
Senior Lecturer
Research interests: Obesity and foot pain, foot surgery, chronic disease
Professor Andrew Cashin
Professor
Research interest: Autism Spectrum Disorders
Dr Yingyan (Lisa) Chen
Lecturer (Teaching Scholar)
Research interests: Knowledge translation, process evaluation, change management, cardiovascular nursing research
Dr Mike Climstein
Senior Lecturer
Research interests: Water-based research (surfing, stand-up paddle boarding, etc.), DXA (segmental body composition)
Associate Professor Rosanne Coutts
Associate Professor
Research interests: Sport and exercise psychology, exercise physiology, sport science, exercise science, exercise interventions, teaching and learning in health
Dr Zachary Crowley-McHattan
Lecturer
Research interests: Motor control, motor learning, neuromuscular control, skill acquisition, skill analysis
Dr Elizabeth Emmanuel
Senior lecturer
Research interests: Women’s health, motherhood, domestic violence, learning, quality of life
Professor Marie Hutchinson
Professor
Research interests: Nursing; nursing workforce; safety and quality; child and family nursing; patient participation; workplace bullying; domestic and family violence
Dr Elaine Jefford
Senior Lecturer
Research interests: Maternity, women’s health, education/curriculum, clinical reasoning & decision-making, perinatal mental wellbeing, unregulated health workers (Doulas)
Associate Professor Deb Massey
Associate Professor and Group Lead Nursing
Research interests: Midwifery, midwifery education, interprofessional education, women’s health, maternal and infant heath
Associate Professor Gayle McLelland
Associate Professor
Research interests: Midwifery, midwifery education, interprofessional education, women’s health, maternal and infant heath
Beth Mozolic-Staunton
Course Coordinator and Lecturer
Knowledge translation, prospective community-based design Occupational Therapy, Paediatrics, Early Intervention, School-based practice, Autism Spectrum Disorder, health and early childhood education workforce capacity building, service-learning and practice education
Dr Karin Plummer
Lecturer (Teaching Scholar)
Research interests: Nursing, pain, oncology, paediatrics
Dr Alexia Rohde
Senior Lecturer
Research interests: Allied health care, evidence based practice, epidemiology, acquired communication disorders
Dr Nedeljka Rosic
Lecturer
Research interests: Neurodegenerative diseases, genetics, medicinal bio-products, environmental stress markers, host-microbe interaction
Dr Nasim Salehi
Lecturer
Public health/health promotion, health services management/healthcare leadership, health and community services, social capital, social determinants of health, social policy and practice, social psychology, mental health and wellbeing, health psychology, citizen science, digital health, health education
Lucy Shinners
Lecturer (Teaching Scholar)
Research interests: Artificial intelligence, digital technology, intensive care
Dr Kirstine Shrubsole
Lecturer
Research interests: Implementation science, evidence-based practice, knowledge translation, stroke rehabilitation, aphasia, acquired communication disorders, communication access, Parkinson’s disease
Dr Christopher Stevens
Senior Lecturer
Research interests: Sports science, exercise physiology, environmental physiology, training monitoring, exercise engagement
Dr Felicity Walker
Lecturer
Research interests: Nursing, nursing workforce, leadership, management, teamwork, supervision and delegation, clinical placement education, collegiality/ civility in the workplace, the new graduate nurse experience, communication
Dr Nicola Whiteing
Lecturer
Research interests: Nursing, preparation for practice, curriculum design, rural and remote nursing, workforce
Associate Professor Jacqui Yoxall
Head of Allied Health and Midwifery
Research interests: Deception detection and malingering, interpersonal violence and risk assessment, human response to trauma, interprofessional education, psychological assessment, program evaluation