College of Healthcare Sciences
Lisa Shaw
- Doctor of Philosophy (Health)
- lisa.shaw@jcu.edu.au
Stephen Yu
- Senior Lecturer, Nursing and Midwifery
- stephen.yu@jcu.edu.au
Karen Smith
- Lecturer, Nursing and Midwifery
- karen.smith6@jcu.edu.au
Chae Rose
- Lecturer, Psychology
- chae.rose@jcu.edu.au
Helen Petsky
- Head, Nursing and Midwifery
- helen.petsky@jcu.edu.au
Lucy Bird
- Postdoctoral Research Fellow
- lucy.bird@jcu.edu.au
Matthew Yau
- Adjunct Professor
- matthew.yau@jcu.edu.au
Alyssia Merrick
- Doctor of Philosophy (Health)
- alyssia.merrick@jcu.edu.au
Louise Myles
- Adjunct Lecturer
- louise.myles@jcu.edu.au
Sandra Dash
- Lecturer
- sandra.dash@jcu.edu.au
Comparing the proteins expressed within the ischaemic penumbra between two common rodent models of ischaemic stroke
This is a small grant offered by Brain Australia. We seek to leverage JCU seed funds and extend our experiments to include a model of mild cortical stroke. This will utilise magnetic resonance imaging (in collaboration with the University of Queensland), and mass spectrometry imaging (in collaboration with the university of South Australia) to provide a spatial proteomic snapshot of treatable tissues. This will provide preliminary data to support subsequent applications to develop novel therapeutics and diagnostics.
Rural and Remote Generalist Nurse Pathway Scoping Review
This is a joint collaborative project with Queensland Health Office of the Chief Nurse, USQ, CQU, USC. The project is a scoping review that we will undertake together and publish collaboratively to inform a new nursing pathway in Queensland for rural and remote nurses.
Rural and Remote Generalist Nurse Pathway Scoping Review
This is a joint collaborative project with Queensland Health Office of the Chief Nurse, USQ, CQU, USC. The project is a scoping review that we will undertake together and publish collaboratively to inform a new nursing pathway in Queensland for rural and remote nurses.
NurtureNextGen: Co-design of a digital tool to support families of children with genetic neurodevelopmental conditions to receive balanced prognostic information
This project, led by Dr Erin Turbitt (UTS) was a successful MRFF application from the 2023 Consumer-Led Research Grant Opportunity. The project start was delayed due until 2025 due to parental leave.
The AIMS of this project are to:
1. Co-design an evidence-based, consumer-led intervention: NurtureNextGen, a digital tool to promote a strengths-based approach to discussing genetic neurodevelopmental conditions.
2. Investigate the implementation and feasibility of NurtureNextGen to inform the design of future research testing outcomes in controlled trials.
The SUPPORT-TFMR Project: Strengthening the Understanding of Parental Preferences and Options for Receiving supporT during and following a Termination For Medical Reasons Project
Project led by Dr Sarah Fogarty to undertake research to inform the development of guidance for care related to termination for medical reasons (successful application - funded by Stillbirth Foundation to commence in 2025).
The care and support parents receive around their stillbirth is pivotal to how they manage their grief journey. The loss of a baby before they are born, or shortly after, has wide-reaching and long-lasting impact for parents, family members, and communities. Captured within the experience of stillbirth are parents who have experienced a termination for medical reasons (TFMR). Australian surveillance of stillbirth includes unborn babies with a congenital anomaly who died through TFMR. In fact, congenital anomalies were the leading cause of stillbirth in Australia in 2021.(1) While strides have been taken in antepartum stillbirth care over the last 10 years, this care and support does not always meet the needs of parents who have experienced a TFMR. The TFMR journey has unique challenges that are not experienced by parents who have a spontaneous loss. These challenges can include complex medical information, tests and waiting, time-pressured decisions based on uncertain or ambiguous information, isolation from typical supports, procedures to end the life of the baby or induction to deliver early, and stigma, judgement or dismissal of the perceived “choice” around TFMR. This is evidenced by a participant in our research who states:
“you get to make a decision which is a crappy decision that you don't want to make a choice on, and then you get to also carry that forever with you”.(2)
Parents who have experienced a TFMR have indicated that even though ‘miscarriage, stillbirth or neonatal loss’ might be how their loss is classified, they can struggle to feel part of the pregnancy and neonatal loss communities. Research shows that the burden of TFMR is high for parents, and this is an area where non-judgemental, compassionate, and sensitive support
Enhanced network of real-time tropical cyclone monitoring weather stations
This project seeks to build a fully functional mobile weather station network for disseminating real-time, community-based, weather data during tropical cyclones. The second aspect to this program is to relate the measured wind data against community perceptions.
Playgrounds with a purpose: Facilitating free physical activity opportunities at local community parks/playgrounds
This research seeks to determine how instructional videos demonstrating creative use of existing infrastructure available in public parks with playgrounds can increase community user accessibility to physical activity experiences.
Leveraging AI simulations for allied health education: Pilot study for Psychology
This project will test IDA with psychology students to determine its effectiveness before expanding to other healthcare disciplines, ultimately providing students college-wide (and university-wide) dynamic and scalable simulations
Exploration of park playground features and opportunities to advance fundamental movement skills and/or components of fitness for community users
This project aims to audit local community park playgrounds (i.e. playgrounds not on school/day care/kindy/private properties) to ascertain what physical activity opportunities they present community users to work on advancing fundamental movement skills (FMS) and/or components of fitness.
Embedding best practice physical and health assessment and monitoring technology in Exercise Science and Exercise Physiology subjects to enhance learning, teaching and assessment.
Study Aims:
• to increase student exposure to industry-specific software and hardware
• To explore student’s confidence with using API integrated technology to capture, interpret and report data within SP2016, SP3016, SP3020 and SP5206
• To explore student perceptions of the use of such technology in the assessment, prescription and monitoring of exercise interventions
One nurse's experience with the effects of assumptions and judgements on practice.
- 2005
- Researchers:Pauline Calleja
Inca trail porters : the health of local tourism employees as a challenge for travel medicine
- 2003
- Wiley-Blackwell
- Researchers:Irmgard Bauer
Health advice in Australian travel brochures
- 2002
- Decker Periodicals
- Researchers:Irmgard Bauer
Geographic information systems and travel health
- 2002
- Decker Periodicals
- Researchers:Irmgard Bauer
Influence of age and moderate-intensity exercise training on heart rate variability in young and mature adults
- 2003
- Human Kinetics
- Researchers:Anthony LeichtAndrew Hoey
Influence of intensive cycling training on heart rate variability during rest and exercise
- 2003
- NRC Reserch Press
- Researchers:Anthony LeichtAndrew Hoey
Health psychology: biopsychosocial interactions. An Australian perspective
- 2002
- John Wiley & Sons
- Researchers:Marie Caltabiano
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Title:
SARRAH
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01 Jan 2021
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01 Jan 2021