Our people
| Name | Discipline | Research interest |
|---|---|---|
| Dr Ananthan Ambikairajah | Psychology | Ageing, dementia, menopause and neuroimaging |
| Assoc Prof Rachel Bacon | Nutrition and Dietetics | Nutrition, aged care, digital health, palliative care and mental health |
| Prof Kasia Bail | Nursing | Nursing, gerontology, quality of care, aged care, dementia, cognitive impairment, functional decline and information systems |
| Ms Macey Barratt | Nursing | Decision making, disability, ethics and law, capacity and consent, palliative care and psychotropic medication reduction |
| Dr Rowena Beecham | Psychology | Neuropsychology (assessment and management of cognitive, emotional and behavioural changes) |
| Dr Suzanne Carroll | Public Health | Epidemiology, physical activity, chronic disease, mental health and wellbeing |
| Dr Dimity Crisp | Psychology | Mental health and social wellbeing |
| Prof Rachel Davey | Public Health | Preventive health, physical activity, chronic disease, health services and digital health |
| Dr Nathan D’Cunha | Nutrition and Dietetics | Dementia, carers, art therapy, bio-markers, nutrition and assistive technology |
| Dr Angie Fearon | Physiotherapy | Rehabilitation, healthy ageing, hip pain and patient reported outcome measures |
| Distinguished Prof Diane Gibson | Ageing and social policy | Aged care, dementia, health services, digital health and assistive technology |
| Dr Jo Gibson | Nursing | Nursing, palliative care, ageism and clinical leadership and followership |
| Ms Alicia Hind | Nursing | Nursing, aged care, sexuality and gender diversity |
| Optometry | Evidence-based health care delivery, patient-centred outcomes, public health, vision and ageing research | |
| Prof Stephen Isbel | Occupational Therapy | Assistive technology, dementia, rehabilitation, aged care and health services |
| Assoc Prof Jane Kellett | Nutrition and Dietetics | Nutrition, healthy ageing, palliative care, mental health and malnutrition |
| Assoc Prof Sam Kosari | Pharmacy | Aged care and pharmacy |
| Assoc Prof Tanya Lawlis | Nutrition and Dietetics | Nutrition, food security and social inequality |
| Mr Vincent Learnihan | Public Health | Spatial epidemiology, built/social environments, mental health and wellbeing |
| Dr Chandra Makanjee | Medical imaging | Health services and medical imaging |
| Prof Mark Naunton | Pharmacy | Medicine safety (national health priority), pharmacoeconomics, quality use of medicines, gender and ethnicity, physical activity and infectious disease |
| Dr James Neill | Psychology | Green space and nature-based activity, mental health and social wellbeing |
| Mrs Sylvia Nilsson | Nursing | Generalist palliative care, curriculum development |
| Assoc Prof Holly Northam | Nursing | Health services, social justice in health care and end of life care |
| Dr Joe Northey | Sports and Exercise Science | Physical activity and neuro-cognition, exercise and the ageing brain |
| Dr Claire Pearce | Occupational Therapy | Health services workforce recruitment and retention, including the use of the allied health assistant workforce; the role of occupational therapy in mental health; health service implementation of evidence and the impact of stigma and the concept of choice on people’s health |
| Prof Ben Rattray | Exercise physiology | Physical activity, cognition, brain and health ageing |
| Nursing | Nursing, mental health nursing, nursing workforce, practice environment, skill mix, health services, routinely collected data | |
| Prof Jennie Scarvell | Physiotherapy | Rehabilitation, chronic disease and health services |
| Dr Sujatha (Suja) Shanmugasundaram | Nursing | Dementia, palliative care, end of life care, mixed methods, family caregivers, cultural issues, Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) communities. |
| Assoc Prof Helen Southwood | Speech Pathology | Rehabilitation, neurological communication disorders including dementia |
| Ms Emily Wallis | Nursing | Nursing and aged care |
| Prof Jenny Weller-Newton | Nursing | Housing affordability (social determinant of health), consumer lived experience, reflective practice and workplace learning |
| Name | Discipline | Research interest |
|---|---|---|
Adjunct Professor Dr Paresh Dawda | Medicine | Primary care, chronic and complex care & multi-disciplinary care, digital health, leadership, value based healthcare and palliative care |
| Adjunct Prof Jane Frost | Nursing | Aged care, dementia and assistive technology |
Adjunct Associate Professor John Goss | Economics | Health services, chronic disease and health economics |
| Professional Associate Dr Louise Barrett | Neuropsychology | Neuropsychology of rehabilitation, ageing, and dementia. |
| Professional Associate Michelle Bennett | Occupational Therapy | Rehabilitation, dementia and aged care. |
| Professional Associate Rachael Mitterfellner | Occupational Therapy | Dementia, ageing and rehabilitation |
PhD
| Name | Project description |
|---|---|
| Jacqui Couldrick |
Why Does GLA:D® work? A pilot study investigating the link between biomechanical factors and a successful outcome for movement retraining in people with knee osteoarthritis
Supervisors: Jennie Scarvell, Nick Brown, Joseph Lynch (ANU), Paul Smith (ANU) |
| Ibrahim Haider |
Evaluate the effectiveness of a new collaborative aged care model involving an on-site residential care pharmacist (RCP) in a RACF setting
Supervisors: Sam Kosari, Mark Naunton and Rachel Davey |
| Peta Harbour |
Social group influences on self-management of chronic illness in the baby boomer generation
Supervisors: Kasia Bail, Diane Gibson and Mary-Ellen Hooper |
| Nikki Johnston |
How does the happening of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) / Trauma, manifest at End of Life? Supervisors: Jo Gibson, Kasia Bail and Michael Chapman |
| Nic Lawlis |
Physical activity for cognitive performance in clinical neurological conditions Supervisors: Joe Northey, Nathan D'Cunha & Ben Rattray |
| Robyn Lewis |
New models of dementia care and support Supervisors: Nathan D'Cunha, Diane Gibson, Stephen Isbel and Kasia Bail |
| Lakeesha Liyanage |
Evaluation of medication outcomes and quality indicators of onsite pharmacists in the aged care practice model: A multicentre study Supervisors: Sam Kosari and Mark Naunton |
| Elizabeth Low |
The influence of social isolation on diet quality in older persons living independently in the Australian Capital Territory – a mixed methods study.
Supervisors: Jane Kellett, Stephen Isbel and Rachel Bacon |
| Tricia O'Connor | The unresponsive dying patient: An exploration of clinical decision-making among nurses. |
| Katherine Rae |
Evaluating the effectiveness of pressure mattresses for people over 55 living in the community Supervisors: Stephen Isbel, Dominic Upton and Judith Barker |
| Denika Silva |
Biomechanical effects after physiotherapy interventions and minimal clinically important change and difference in people with knee osteoarthritis.
Supervisors: Jennie Scarvell, Angie Fearon and Diana Perriman |
| Gemma Wall |
Occupation-based groups in inpatient rehabilitation: effectiveness in improving occupational performance outcomes and barriers and enablers to successful implementation Supervisors: Stephen Isbel, Claire Pearce and Louise Gustafsson |
| Yushan Zou |
Interactive Textile Design for People Living with Dementia Supervisors: Eddi Pianca, Damith Herath, Nathan D’Cunha and Livio Bonollo |
Honours
| Name | Project description |
|---|---|
| Georgia Croker |
Ageing Well: Education to Enhance Students’ Opportunities to Maximise Engagement, Experience and Excellence (Project AWESOME) Supervisor: Dimity Crisp |
| Dragana Paravinja |
Positive behaviour plans – enablers and barriers to nursing leadership Supervisors: Rowena Beecham & Kasia Bail |
Interns
| Name | Project description | Year completed |
|---|---|---|
| Stephanie Munk | StoryTiling in Dementia Care | 2023 |
| Rhiannon Toohey | Story Tiling in Dementia Care | 2023 |
Completed HDR
PhD
| Name | Project description | Year completed |
|---|---|---|
| Miranda Batten |
Evaluating interprofessional collaboration, normalisation and implementation fidelity of an on-site pharmacist intervention within Australian residential aged care facilities Supervisors: Sam Kosari, Mark Naunton, Joanne Lewis | 2023 |
| Nathan D'Cunha |
Engaging Activities for People Living with Dementia in Residential Aged Care Supervisors: Nenad Naumovski, Andrew McKune, Stephen Isbel, Jane Kellett and Ekavi Georgousopoulou. | 2021 |
| Nicole Mc Derby |
Proximity and partnerships: embedding pharmacists in Australian aged care homes to improve quality use of medicines Supervisors: Mark Naunton, Sam Kosari, Kasia Bail and Alison Shield | 2020 |
Honours
| Name | Project description | Year completed |
|---|---|---|
| Kevin Ding |
Radiographers’ expectations and experiences of ageing population medical imaging examinations Supervisor: Chandra Makanjee | 2023 |
| Abdeljalil Lahiouel |
Nutritional knowledge and experiences of family or unpaid carers of community-dwelling people living with dementia Supervisors: Nathan D’Cunha, Jane Kellett and Stephen Isbel | 2023 |
| Shweta Venkataraman |
Exploring the relationship between dietary components and CD4+ T helper cells in Rheumatoid Arthritis Supervisors: Chloe Goldsmith (Primary), Nathan D’Cunha, David Pyne, Nenad Naumovski, Andrew McKune | 2022 |
| Emeliha Jermyn | Nurse experiences of caring for older people with cognitive impairment while conducting minimally invasive procedures | 2022 |
| Jennifer Hutchinson |
The dietary patterns of older people living in retirement villages and associations with anxiety and depression Supervisors: Jane Kellett, Stephen Isbel, Nenad Naumovski and Nathan D’Cunha | 2021 |
Vacation Scholarships
| Name | Project description | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Eleanor Brace |
Point prevalence survey of cognitive impairment screening – single site study
Supervisors: Kasia Bail, Chrysta Bridge (ACT Health) and Sean Hambrook (ACT Health) | 2021-2022 |
| Ian Huang |
Evaluation of a multicomponent post-diagnostic support program for people living with dementia and their carers Supervisors: Nathan D'Cunha and Michelle Bennett (ACT Health) | 2022-2023 |