Projects
The School of Exercise and Health Sciences is one of the leading groups in the University for research output. A large proportion of the School’s budget is allocated to growing research capacity and our researchers have been highly successful in attracting large amounts of external funding from agencies such as the NHMRC, ARC, Healthway and Cancer Council. Key research areas are child health promotion, cancer treatment and management, Parkinson’s and Huntington’s disease, human performance and sport, nutrition and health, occupational health and safety and health promotion. Types of research range from basic, applied and translational.
Occupational Health Research Group
- Field validation of a laboratory developed heat stress intervention in the Australian liquid natural gas sector
- How healthy are hairdressers? A prevalence study investigating health problems of female Western Australian hairdressers
- Occupational heat stress experienced by LNG personnel in tropical regions of Northern Australia
- Occupational respiratory health surveillance at Minara Resources, Murrin Murrin mine site
Population Health Research Group
Child Health Promotion Research Centre
- An empirical trial to reduce cyber-bullying in adolescents
- Collaborative Research Networks (CRN) Program: Promotion of mental health and well-being in young people
- Constable Care child safety foundation evaluation toolkit
- Cyber 8 - An online learning experience for Year 8 students
- Cyberbullying and the Bystander project
- Developing social conventions of online image sharing: For youth, by youth
- Development and rural pilot of a Perinatal Healthy Lifestyle web-based support network for parents and providers
- Development of a scale to measure harms associated with cyberbullying
- Development of national principles for early childhood safety education
- Investigating the use of social media as a methodological communications technology tool for researching cyber bullying: An assessment of feasibility and acceptability among young people of an innovative research method
- Optimising school nurse involvement in youth-based tobacco control programs
- Raising adolescents: Developing strategies for fly in/fly out parents
- Solid Kids Solid Schools bullying prevention project extension: Formative social marketing campaign
- Strengthening student bystanders’ capacity to respond to covert bullying
- Strong Schools Safe Kids: Building school capacity to reduce social aggression among students
- The relationship between mental health outcomes and bullying trajectories of students transitioning from primary school to high school
- The Starting Childhood Obesity Prevention Earlier (SCOPE) project