2022 recipients
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
- 49216115
Dr Sarah Hiles
Lecturer
School of Psychological Sciences
will explore the relationship between mental health and physical health.
- sarah.hiles@newcastle.edu.au
- 0240420060
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
- 0243484025
Associate Professor Melinda Hutchesson
Associate Professor
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
- 0249215405
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
- 0249216838
Dr Suzanne Macqueen
Honorary 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
- 0249215698
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
- 0249217029
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
- 0249216608
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
- 0240553484
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
- 0249217172
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
- 0249215648
Dr Michelle Brown
Postdoctoral Researcher
School of Medicine and Public Health
will establish an independent research program of drug repurposing in breast cancer.
- michelle.wong-brown@newcastle.edu.au
- 0240420321
The University of Newcastle acknowledges the traditional custodians of the lands within our footprint areas: Awabakal, Darkinjung, Biripai, Worimi, Wonnarua, and Eora Nations. We also pay respect to the wisdom of our Elders past and present.