Research
Advantage
Women in Research fellowship
Recipients of the Women in Research (WIR) fellowship are empowered to reach their full potential and focus intensively on research, strengthen and fast track their academic careers and nurture research leadership capability.
2022 Women in Research fellowship recipients
Dr Emma Beckett
Casual Academic/Casual Academic - Online Development (HEPP)
School of Environmental and Life Sciences
plans to implement a research and translation project aimed at improving vegetable intake in our communities.
- Emma.Beckett@newcastle.edu.au
- (02) 4348 4158
Dr Emily Freeman
Senior Lecturer
School of Psychological Sciences
aims to improve children’s wellbeing by focusing on their social, emotional and cognitive wellbeing.
- Emily.Freeman@newcastle.edu.au
- 4921 6115
Dr Sarah Hiles
Lecturer
School of Psychological Sciences
will explore the relationship between mental health and physical health.
- Sarah.Hiles@newcastle.edu.au
- (02) 4042 0060
Dr Megan Huggett
Senior Lecturer
School of Environmental and Life Sciences
will focus on building her research on isolation of key marine microbes and establish a marine microbial culture lab on the Central Coast Campus.
- Megan.Huggett@newcastle.edu.au
- (02) 43484025
Associate Professor Melinda Hutchesson
Senior Lecturer
School of Health Sciences
as a research vision to improve health behaviours of university students to promote mental health and wellbeing, and prevent mental ill-health.
- Melinda.Hutchesson@newcastle.edu.au
- (02) 4921 5405
Associate Professor Michelle Kelly
Associate Professor
School of Psychological Sciences
aims to implement the Brief Assessment of Social Skills (BASS) screening tool to gauge social cognition in people with dementia.
- Michelle.Kelly@newcastle.edu.au
- (02) 4921 6838
Dr Suzanne Macqueen
Senior Lecturer
School of Education
will expand on her research on equity in education through building collaborative partnerships nationally and internationally.
- Suzanne.Macqueen@newcastle.edu.au
- (02) 4921 5698
Associate Professor Julie McIntyre
Associate Professor
School of Humanities, Creative Ind and Social Sci
will build on her research and nurture industry partnerships in the cultural and wine/tourism sectors.
- Julie.Mcintyre@newcastle.edu.au
- (02) 4921 7029
Dr Irene Perez Lopez
Senior Lecturer
School of Architecture and Built Environment
aims to generate evidence-based design guidelines in response to the key challenges that our cities and inhabitants will face in relation to climate change, mitigation and adaptation
- Irene.PerezLopez@newcastle.edu.au
- (02) 4921 6608
Dr Hannah Schunker
ARC Future Fellow
School of Information and Physical Sciences
will work to understand one of the fundamental problems in astrophysics: the solar dynamo.
- Hannah.Schunker@newcastle.edu.au
- (02) 4055 3484
Dr Helena Sit
Senior Lecturer
School of Education
aims to collaborate with schools to innovate teaching programs to facilitate students learning a second language.
- Helena.Sit@newcastle.edu.au
- (02) 49217172
Dr Nisha Thapliyal
Senior Lecturer
School of Education
aims to continue to develop her research trajectory in the fields of Peace and Social Justice Education and South Asia Studies.
- Nisha.Thapliyal@newcastle.edu.au
- (02) 49215648
Dr Michelle Brown
Postdoctoral Researcher/Casual Lecturer
School of Medicine and Public Health
will establish an independent research program of drug repurposing in breast cancer.
- Michelle.Wong-Brown@newcastle.edu.au
- (02) 4042 0321
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