Research
Advantage
Candidates 2020
Dr Emma Beckett
Casual Academic/Casual Academic - Online Development (HEPP)
School of Environmental and Life Sciences
This scholarship will allow the development of a project focused on consumer acceptance and perceptions of low alcohol wines, a multidisciplinary project encompassing nutrition and health, food science and consumer science.
- Emma.Beckett@newcastle.edu.au
- (02) 4348 4158
Dr Renee Goreham
Senior Lecturer
School of Information and Physical Sciences
This will allow me to continue to grow my research group with an additional student to investigate the synthesis and characterisation of nanomaterials for biomedical applications.
- Renee.Goreham@newcastle.edu.au
- (02) 4913 8252
Dr Fiona Hawke
Senior Lecturer
School of Health Sciences
We will continue to develop a clinical model to prevent foot and leg complications, including ulceration and amputation, in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with diabetes, and improve cultural capability training in undergraduate podiatry students.
- Fiona.Hawke@newcastle.edu.au
- (02) 4349 4549
Associate Professor Melinda Hutchesson
Senior Lecturer
School of Health Sciences
The student will have a specific focus on building world-first epidemiological evidence to demonstrate how modifiable risk factors for cardiovascular disease (e.g. diet, physical inactivity) modify the association between hypertensive pregnancies and cardiovascular health outcomes.
- Melinda.Hutchesson@newcastle.edu.au
- (02) 4921 5405
Dr Tessa Lord
ARC DECRA
Office PVC - Engineering, Science and Environment
The student that takes on the research project will be studying spermatogonial stem cells as a potential tool to treat male infertility.
- TESSA.LORD@NEWCASTLE.EDU.AU
- (02) 40553026
Dr Tracy Schumacher
Senior Lecturer/Senior Lecturer
University Newcastle Department of Rural Health
The scholarship will allow me to continue to build a small team of focused clinical researchers to be dedicated to the prevention of chronic disease in rural areas. The candidate’s project will align with a local clinical diabetes service.
- TRACY.SCHUMACHER@NEWCASTLE.EDU.AU
- (02) 49216259
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