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Research Fellow

Background

• 2007–present: Project Director, Child Health Promotion Research Centre, Edith Cowan University.
• 2004-2006: Project Director, Child Health Promotion Research Centre, Edith Cowan University.
• 1995-2003: Project Coordinator, WA Centre for Health Promotion Research, Curtin University of Technology.
• 1993-1994: Schools and Community Health Coordinator, Dorset Health Commission, UK.
• 1991-1992: Research Assistant, American Health Foundation, New York.

Research Areas and Interests

• Health promotion for children and parents
• Health promotion in schools
• Tobacco control
• Parental smoking cessation
• Sun safety education
  
• Intervention research
• Adolescent smoking cessation
  
• Pastoral care

Staff Qualifications

• PhD (Doctoral Degree), Edith Cowan University, 2007 .

Research

Recent Research Grants

• Strengthening pastoral care to reduce secondary students' harm from tobacco,  Healthway (WA Health Promotion Foundation),  Grant,  2009,  $164,460.
• Strengthening pastoral care to reduce secondary students' harm from tobacco,  Healthway (WA Health Promotion Foundation),  Grant,  2008,  $109,000.

Recent Publications (within the last five years)

Journal Articles

• Baxendale, S., Cross, D., Johnston, R., (2012), A review of the evidence on the relationship between gender and adolescents' involvement in violent behavior. Aggression and Violent Behavior, 17(4), 297-310, DOI: 10.1016/j.avb.2012.03.002.
• Baxendale, S., Cross, D., Johnston, R., (2012), A review of the evidence on the relationship between gender and adolescents? involvement in violent behavior. Aggression and Violent Behavior, 17(4), 297-310, DOI: 10.1016/j.avb.2012.03.002.
• Cardoso, P., Thomas, L., Johnston, R., Cross, D., (2012), Encouraging Student Access to and Use of Pastoral Care Services in Schools. Australian Journal of Guidance and Counselling, 22(2), 227-248, United Kingdom, DOI: 10.1017/jgc.2012.28.

Research Student Supervision

Principal Supervisor

• Master of Public Health,  Opening Doors: Indentifying Factors That Influence Students' Use Of Pastoral Care And School-based Health Services Related To Tobacco And Other Harmful Drug Use..

Co-principal Supervisor

• Master of Public Health,  An Examination Of Gender Differences In Violence-related Behaviours In Western Australian Secondary School Students..

Associate Supervisor

• Master of Public Health,  Effectiveness Of School Nurse Involvement In School-based Tobacco Control And Smoking Cessation Programs And Services.