Our multidisciplinary team of researchers, clinicians and academics come from a wide range of allied health and nursing disciplines.
Our collaborating partners come from health services and community, and include community members, medical and surgical specialists and allied health practitioners and leaders.
| Name | Discipline |
Research interest |
|---|---|---|
| Jennie Scarvell | Physiotherapy |
Rehabilitation, arthritis and musculoskeletal chronic disease, and health services. |
| Bernie Bissett | Physiotherapy | Intensive care rehabilitation, inspiratory muscle training, long COVID. |
| Mei Ying Boon | Optometry | Ocular health, vision, binocular vision disorders (e.g. amblyopia, convergence insufficiency), virtual reality, visual processing, vision impairment, low vision. |
| Mary Bushell |
Pharmacy | Vaccination, profession preparedness, pharmacist education. |
| Irmina Nahon | Physiotherapy | Pelvic health in men and women, pelvic floor assessment to prevent birthing injuries, pelvic pain, rehabilitation of post prostatectomy incontinence. |
| Elisabeth Preston |
Physiotherapy | Rehabilitation after stroke and Parkinson’s disease, behaviour change in rehabilitation, education. |
| Faran Sabeti | Optometry | Retinal functional biomarkers in diabetes, structural and functional changes in inflammation, optometry education. |
| Tayne Ryall |
Physiotherapy | Education of Physiotherapy students for understanding people with Stroke. |
| Jeroen van Boxtel | Psychology | Cognitive psychology, autism spectrum disorder, action understanding, attention and consciousness perception, noise in the brain, visual illusions, driving performance. |
| Jaya Siddireddy | Optometry |
Paediatric eye health, ocular surface and anterior eye health during contact lens wear. |
| Allyson Flynn | Physiotherapy | Neurorehabilitation, primarily Parkinson’s disease and stroke, models of service delivery. |
| Name | Discipline |
Research interest |
|---|---|---|
| Rachel Bacon | Nutrition and Dietetics | Nutrition, aged care, digital health, palliative care and mental health. |
| Jaquelin Bousie | Physiotherapy | Rehabilitation, musculoskeletal disease, vaccination, women’s health, foot function and health. |
| Julie Cooke | Sport and Exercise Science | Respiratory health, lung function, exercise prescription, athlete performance, body composition. |
| Vicki Evans | Optometry | Dry eye syndromes, medication adherence, and contact lens innovative materials. |
| Angie Fearon |
Physiotherapy | Rehabilitation, healthy ageing, hip pain and patient reported outcome measures. |
| Nicole Freene | Physiotherapy | Primary and secondary prevention of chronic disease and increasing the populations' physical activity levels. |
| Jo Gibson |
Nursing | Nursing, palliative care, ageism and clinical leadership and followership. |
| Terry Ho |
Optometry | Evidence-based health care delivery, patient-centred outcomes, public health, vision and ageing research. |
| Dinesh Kaphle | Optometry | Myopia (shortsightedness) management, quality of life related to refractive error, visual impairment and blindness, optometry education, sports vision. |
| Phil Kavanagh | Psychology | Social acceptance and rejection, how these might influence later mental health problems. |
| Cathy Knight-Agarwal | Nutrition and Dietetics | Maternal nutrition for better mother and baby outcomes. |
| Myra Leung | Optometry | Effects of nutrition, neonatal complications and neonatal treatments on visual development in later childhood. |
| Reza Mortazavi | Diagnostic Pathology | Diagnostic pathology related to thrombosis and haemostasis. |
| Phil Newman | Physiotherapy | Musculoskeletal injury prevention and management, particularly medial tibial stress syndrome, motor control in anterior cruciate ligament injury, clinical prediction, and spinal pain in military aircrew. |
| Holly Northam | Nursing | Health services, social justice in health care and end of life care. |
| Claire Pearce | Occupational Therapy | Staff and consumer experience of delivering and receiving health services, the role of occupational therapy in mental health services; the utilisation of the allied health assistant workforce to support health service delivery. |
| Katherine Rae | Occupational Therapy | Wound management. |
| Jenny Weller-Newton | Nursing | Housing affordability (social determinant of health), consumer lived experience, reflective practice and workplace learning. |
| Andrew Woodward | Biostatistics | Interesting applications of statistical modelling to research questions in health and biology. |
| Kevin Li | UC Clinics | Clinical Optometry and prescription. |
| Sally Quatro | UC Clinics | Student education, health leadership. |
| Hannah Wallett | UC Clinics | Physiotherapy for people with stroke or Parkinson’s disease. |
| Sarah Collins | UC Clinics | Physiotherapy with musculoskeletal problems. |
| Melanie Moore | UC Clinics | Exercise for people with cancer, and cancer survivors, rehabilitation after cancer. |
| Name | Study |
Field of research |
|---|---|---|
| Tanya Buettikofer | PhD, UC | Long COVID, clinical outcomes |
| Jacqui Couldrick | PhD, UC | Knee osteoarthritis, biomechanics and clinical outcomes |
| Isobel Oon | PhD, UC |
Knee replacement surgery and biomechanics |
| Kate Hain | Doctor of Nurse Practitioner, UC | Factors that increase re-presentation to Emergency departments |
| Juliana Mendonca | PhD, UC | Inspiratory muscle training in Parkinsons Disease |
| Taehwan Lee | PhD, UC | Impact of binocular vision dysfunction on reading performance |
| Tayne Ryall | PhD, UC | Simulation in physiotherapy education |
| Paul Cusack | Master of Health Research, UC | Walking after stroke |
| Pratik Raul | PhD, UC | The benefits of noise, stochastic resonance, behaviour and cognition |
| Laura McKenzie | PhD, UC | Shoulder injury related to vaccine administration |
| Caroline Hall | PhD, UC | Vaccine hesitancy |
| Dhakshila Nyangoda | PhD, UC | Novel treatments for impetigo |
| Matthew Beverly Stone | PhD, UC | Psychiatric and mental health nursing |
| Alesha Sayner | PhD, UC | Patient and clinician needs when managing post prostatectomy incontinence |
| Chris Myers | PhD, UC | Pelvic floor dysfunction in high impact male sports |
| Joelene Murdoch | PhD, UC | Predicting and preventing pelvic floor damage during childbirth |
| Aida Lopez Brull | PhD, University of Valencia, Spain | Managing pelvic pain remotely |
| Caitlin Ironside | Master of Health Research, UC | Inspiratory muscle training in ICU |
| Sarah Jane Collins | Master of Health Research, UC | The high skills work environment of the Intensive Care |
We are happy to share our research and are keen to work with others who have an interest in improving our health – whether organisations, researchers or community members.
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