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Ms Michella Hill

Paramedic Lecturer

Staff Member Details
Telephone: +61 8 6304 6318
Mobile: 0438 899 793
Email: michela.hill@ecu.edu.au
Campus: Joondalup  
ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8476-6075

Michella is a Lecturer in paramedic placements and research in the School of Medical and Health Sciences.

Current Teaching

  • PSP1236 – Paramedic Clinical Placements 1
  • PSP2338 – Paramedic Clinical Placements 2
  • PSP3210 – Paramedic Clinical Placements 3
  • MMP6100 – Evidence-Based Practice
  • MMP6102 Medical Science Masters Project

Awards and Recognition

  • 2025:   Finalist for the APICTA Awards in Taiwan
    • Inclusion and Community category
    • Research and Development Project of the Year
  • 2025:   Finalist for the iAwards Awards
    • Government and Public Sector category (Merit award)
  • 2025:   Finalist in 2 categories for the Incite Awards
    • Government Innovation category
    • Research & Innovation Postgraduate category (Merit awarded)
  • 2024:   Woman & Infant Research Foundation
    • Acceleration Grant: $45,000
    • Purpose: To continue testing PhD project NEONATE in VR
  • 2023:   Finalist for the Incite Awards
    • Won an Incite Award for Government Innovation with IVADE project
  • 2022:   Mary and Elsie Stevens Scholarship, Graduate Women WA
    • Awarded to further HDR studies in mathematics or science
    • Scholarship amount: $3,000
  • 2020:   Clinical Simulation & Training Advisory Network (CSTAN) grant
    • Awarded $49,853.00 to design and develop the NEONATE in VR program
  • 2020:   Vice Chancellor’s Research Fellow Scholarship
    • For undertaking a PhD at Edith Cowan University
  • 2020:   Best Media Campaign by a Higher Degree by Research Student
    • Campaign: Why Dr Google is almost always wrong
    • Edith Cowan University
  • 2019:   Top grade in ECU’s Introductory Epidemiology unit
    • Received membership to the Australasian Epidemiological Association (AEA)

Research and Areas of Interest

My research centres on paramedic education, prehospital maternal and neonatal care, simulation‑based learning, and digital innovation, with a strong emphasis on translation into practice.

Qualifications

  • Master of Medical & Health Science by Research, Edith Cowan University, 2020.

Research Outputs

2026

Journal Articles

  • Hill, M., Flanagan, B., Hansen, S., Hopper, L., Mills, B. (2026). Assessing Australian and New Zealand prehospital clinicians' training, experience, and confidence with out-of-hospital childbirth: A mixed methods online questionnaire.. International Journal of Paramedicine, 2026(14), 50-69. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.56068/ TQYU1140.
  • Hill, M., Hopper, L., Flanagan, B., Hansen, S., Miles, A., Watson, J., Cashman, S., Balding, K., Dykstra, P., Johnson, J., Mills, B. (2026). Neonatal assessment and VR: designing 3D simulation training for prehospital clinicians. Virtual Reality: research, development and applications, 17(2), 1-56. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10055-026-01382-7.

2024

Journal Articles

  • Hill, M., Flanagan, B., Hansen, S., Hopper, L., Mills, B. (2024). Out-of-hospital birth training, experience and confidence of Australian rural volunteer ambulance officers. Rural and Remote Health, 24(3), Article number 8788. https://doi.org/10.22605/RRH8788.

2023

Journal Articles

  • Hill, M., Smith, E., Mills, B. (2023). Willingness to Work amongst Australian Frontline Healthcare Workers during Australia’s First Wave of Covid-19 Community Transmission: Results of an Online Survey. Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness, 17(2), article number e44. https://doi.org/10.1017/dmp.2021.288.
  • Hill, M., Flanagan, B., Mills, B., Hansen, S., Hopper, L. (2023). Paramedic training, experience, and confidence with out-of-hospital childbirth (OOHB) in Australia. Australasian Emergency Care, 26(2), 119-125. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.auec.2022.08.008.
  • Mills, B., Hill, M., Miles, A., Smith, E., Afrifa-Yamoah, E., Reid, D., Rogers, S., Sim, M. (2023). Calling an ambulance for non-emergency medical situations: Results of a cross-sectional online survey from an Australian nationally representative sample. Emergency Medicine Australasia, 35(1), 133-141. https://doi.org/10.1111/1742-6723.14086.

2022

Journal Articles

  • Mills, B., Hill, M., Miles, A., Smith, E., Afrifa-Yamoah, E., Reid, D., Rogers, S., Sim, M. (2022). Ability of the Australian general public to identify common emergency medical situations: Results of an online survey of a nationally representative sample. Australasian Emergency Care, 25(4), 327-333. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.auec.2022.04.002.
  • Hill, M., Smith, E., Mills, B. (2022). Work-based concerns of Australian frontline healthcare workers during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 46(1), 25-31. https://doi.org/10.1111/1753-6405.13188.

2021

Journal Articles

  • Hill, M., Mills, B., Rogers, S., Vance, L., Dykstra, P., Holmes, L. (2021). ‘Watson’ the wellness dog: Impact of a wellness dog on emotional wellbeing in undergraduate paramedicine students. Australasian Journal of Paramedicine, 18(Mar 2021), 7p.. https://doi.org/10.33151/ajp.18.943.
  • Smith, E., Hill, M., Anderson, C., Sim, M., Miles, A., Reid, D., Mills, B. (2021). Lived Experience of Emergency Health Care Utilization during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Qualitative Study. Prehospital and Disaster Medicine, 36(6), 691-696. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1049023X21001126.

2020

Journal Articles

  • Hill, M., Sim, M., Mills, B. (2020). The quality of diagnosis and triage advice provided by free online symptom checkers and apps in Australia. Medical Journal of Australia, 212(11), 514-519. https://doi.org/10.5694/mja2.50600.

Research Projects

  • Pilot evaluation of an out-of-hospital immersive birthing simulation training application for Paramedics and Volunteer Ambulance Officers using virtual-reality technology, Women and Infants Research Foundation, Research Acceleration Awards, 2025, $45,000.
  • Graduate Women - 2022 Scholarships and Bursaries Application, Graduate Women WA, Mary and Elsie Stevens Scholarship, 2022 ‑ 2023, $3,000.
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