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Past projects
The School of Exercise and Health Sciences, its centres and research groups have completed the following research projects:
Child Health Promotion Research Centre
- An empirical trial to reduce cyber-bullying in adolescents
- Baseline, Phase 2 and 3 evaluation of the Road Aware Kids and Child Car Restraints programs
- Bringing a reduction in adolescent smoking and harm (BRASH) project
- Building a portfolio of interventions: Addressing issues hampering the promotion of healthy weight gain among young children in Australia
- Childhood Aggression Prevention project: Child centred environments to limit early aggression intervention trial
- Constable Care child safety foundation evaluation toolkit
- Covert Bullying Project: Its nature and prevalence in Australian schools
- Cyberbullying and the Bystander project
- Development and rural pilot of a Perinatal Healthy Lifestyle web-based support network for parents and providers
- Development of a Research and Evaluation Framework to Guide NfP Tenders, Delivery and Reporting on “Good Health” Funded Health Promotion Programs
- Development of a scale to measure harms associated with cyberbullying
- Development of national principles for early childhood safety education
- Development of parent education resource materials to reduce cyberbullying
- Diffusion and dissemination of a mental health promotion innovation in an education setting
- Engaging families through primary health care to prevent childhood obesity
- Engaging parents in research project: Do current ethical standards prevent participation of low socio-economic populations in child health promotion research?
- Evaluation of Cybersmart Detectives game
- Evaluation of the Alannah and Madeline Foundation’s national pilot of the Cybersafety and Wellbeing Schools Initiative
- Evaluation of the effectiveness of the pedestrian education programs delivered by VicRoads and the TAC
- Evaluation of the implementation of Kids on the Move (KOTM)
- Formative evaluation of the development of a Pastoral Care Standard for all Western Australian Government schools
- Formative evaluation of the Road Aware Parents program
- Formative study of aggression prevention and reduction in junior primary school children
- Formative trial of a video to promote father-child communication about drugs
- Friendly Schools Bullying Intervention Project: Bullying prevention for primary school students
- Helmet formative project
- Investigating the interpersonal and contextual mediators associated with secondary school students’ behaviour as bystanders in bullying interactions, and how these differ according to gender
- 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
- K-3 Baseline evaluation of School Drug Education and Road Aware (SDERA)
- Kidskin Sun Safety project: Intervention to reduce sun exposure in children
- KIT-Plus research project: Strengthening pastoral care to reduce secondary students’ harm from tobacco
- Literature review of best practice in performance-based education
- Mandurah Bullying Prevention project
- Monitoring and evaluation of the Active-Ate Project: Activate program evaluation in tropical North Queensland
- Optimising school nurse involvement in youth-based tobacco control programs
- Parental smoking cessation and children’s smoking attitudes and behaviours
- Phase One of the outcome evaluation of the School Drug Education Project
- Phase Two outcome evaluation of the School Drug Education project
- Prevention and early intervention of overweight and obesity in young children: Evidence for management and policy making
- Principles of best practice for road safety education: A formative evaluation of best practice principles for school-based road safety education in Australia
- Relational aggression in boarding schools - A formative study
- Review of existing Australian and international cyber-safety research
- School Bicycle Safety Project: A health promotion school approach to encourage children to wear helmets: Intervention trial
- Smoking cessation for youth project booster and cohort tracking study for the year 12 cohort
- Strengthening school and families’ capacity to reduce the academic social and emotional harms secondary students’ can experience from cyber-bullying
- Strengthening student bystanders’ capacity to respond to covert bullying
- Strong Kids, Solid Schools: Reducing the effects of bullying among Aboriginal school children living in rural areas of Western Australia
- Successful practice in the prevention, reduction and management of bullying in schools: A Delphi and interview study
- Supportive Schools Project: A randomised control trial to reduce bullying and other aggressive behaviours in secondary schools
- The Child Pedestrian Injury Prevention project
- The Cyber Bullying project: How cyber technology is affecting relational aggression and teenage health
- The Early Childhood Pedestrian Injury Prevention Project (ECPIPP): Maximising parent involvement in the pedestrian safety of 4 to 6 year old children
- The Extra-Curricular Project: The impact of extra-curricular activities on adolescents’ connectedness and cigarette smoking
- The Friendly Schools Friendly Families project: Maximising parental involvement in school-based bullying prevention interventions
- The Health and Extra-curricular Project: The role of extra-curricular activities in reducing smoking among adolescents
- The Marijuana Education Project: Trans-adaption of successful cigarette smoking intervention to randomised school-based cannabis intervention trial
- The relationship between mental health outcomes and bullying trajectories of students transitioning from primary school to high school
- The Smoking Cessation for Youth Project: A harm minimisation intervention trial targeting tobacco use by high school youth
- The Starting Childhood Obesity Prevention Earlier (SCOPE) project
- Tobacco control in South Africa: Prevention and capacity building
- Violence related behaviours and young people project