Professor Clare Bradford
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| Position: |
Professor |
| School: |
School of Communication and Creative Arts |
| Faculty: |
Faculty of Arts and Education |
| Campus: |
Melbourne Burwood Campus |
| Business Phone: |
(03) 9244 6487 |
| Mobile: |
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| Email: |
clarex@deakin.edu.au |
| Areas of Expertise: |
Children's literature—issues and conflicts in writing and publishing for children including questions of censorship and political correctness. Writing for young adults—themes, controversies. Writing about Aborigines and Aboriginality in Australian children's literature. |
| Category: |
literature, children |
Dr Karen Campbell
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| Position: |
Senior Lecturer |
| School: |
School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences |
| Faculty: |
Faculty of Health |
| Campus: |
Geelong Waterfront Campus |
| Business Phone: |
03 5227 8414 |
| Mobile: |
0414 600 130 |
| Email: |
kcamp@deakin.edu.au |
| Areas of Expertise: |
Obesity prevention in children. Home environments as predictors of children's eating. Childhood obesity prevention interventions with parents with a focus on skills development of parents around children's eating, physical activity and sedentary behaviours. |
| Category: |
obesity, children, health and wellbeing, nutrition |
Dr Belinda Guadagno
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| Position: |
Lecturer |
| School: |
School of Psychology |
| Faculty: |
Faculty of Health |
| Campus: |
Melbourne Burwood Campus |
| Business Phone: |
(03) 9251 7231 |
| Mobile: |
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| Email: |
guadagno@deakin.edu.au |
| Areas of Expertise: |
Investigative interviewing. Memory for repeated events. |
| Category: |
psychology, children, policing |
Dr Bianca Klettke
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| Position: |
Lecturer |
| School: |
School of Psychology |
| Faculty: |
Faculty of Health |
| Campus: |
Melbourne Burwood Campus |
| Business Phone: |
(03) 9244 6207 |
| Mobile: |
0403 258 594 |
| Email: |
biancak@deakin.edu.au |
| Areas of Expertise: |
Child and adult sexual abuse. Jury behaviour and decision making. Memory. Forensic psychology. Cognitive psychology. |
| Category: |
psychology, abuse, children, memory, legal system - jury decision making |
Ms Louise Laskey
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| Position: |
Lecturer |
| School: |
School of Education |
| Faculty: |
Faculty of Arts and Education |
| Campus: |
Geelong Waurn Ponds Campus |
| Business Phone: |
(03) 5227 1474 |
| Mobile: |
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| Email: |
louisel@deakin.edu.au |
| Areas of Expertise: |
Child abuse including mandatory reporting. Child protection and teachers. Families and schooling. School violence. School discipline. |
| Category: |
abuse, children, education, family, violence |
Dr Helen McGrath
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| Position: |
Senior Lecturer (and part time counselling psychologist) |
| School: |
School of Education |
| Faculty: |
Faculty of Arts and Education |
| Campus: |
Melbourne Burwood Campus |
| Business Phone: |
(03) 9244 6418 |
| Mobile: |
0419 351 616 |
| Email: |
helenmc@deakin.edu.au |
| Areas of Expertise: |
Adults—relationships, mental health, sociopathic(anti-social) behaviour, difficult people;
workplace bullying; personality; stress management. Young people—resilience, behaviour problems,
learning difficulties, bullying, social skills, effective teaching
Parenting values and skills. |
| Category: |
relationships, behaviour - problems, children, health and wellbeing, education |
Dr David Ritchie
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| Position: |
Sessional higher education consultant |
| School: |
School of Communication and Creative Arts |
| Faculty: |
Faculty of Arts and Education |
| Campus: |
Melbourne Burwood Campus |
| Business Phone: |
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| Mobile: |
0418 576 476 |
| Email: |
dritchie@deakin.edu.au |
| Areas of Expertise: |
Media audiences. Media research. Arts and Media reviewing. Representations of death and dying in popular culture and the mass media. Grief education. Multicultural perspectives on death and dying. Conflict resolution and mediation. |
| Category: |
culture, health and wellbeing, children, media, mediation |
Professor Jo Salmon
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| Position: |
Associate Head of School (Research) |
| School: |
School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences |
| Faculty: |
Faculty of Health |
| Campus: |
Melbourne Burwood Campus |
| Business Phone: |
(03) 9251 7254 |
| Mobile: |
0425 735 445 |
| Email: |
jsalmon@deakin.edu.au |
| Areas of Expertise: |
Physical activity in the population using a behavioural epidemiological approach. Physical activity measurement—development and use of survey instruments (for monitoring and research), accelerometers (activity monitors), pedometers. Sedentary behaviours—television viewing, electronic games, computer use. Physical activity of special population groups—children, adolescents, adults, older adults. Prevention of overweight/obesity, type 2 diabetes, osteoporosis. Mental health. |
| Category: |
children, health and wellbeing, youth/young people's issues, obesity, disease, exercise/physical activity, mental health |
Associate Professor Andrew Scott
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| Position: |
Associate Professor in Politics |
| School: |
School of Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Faculty: |
Faculty of Arts and Education |
| Campus: |
Melbourne Burwood Campus |
| Business Phone: |
(03) 9244 3867 |
| Mobile: |
0412 210 283 |
| Email: |
scand@deakin.edu.au |
| Areas of Expertise: |
Australian politics and history. Policies to reduce child poverty and inequality. Improving access to educational opportunity. Reducing unemployment. Promoting more fulfilling work lives, Australian Labor Party. Social democracy. British, Scandinavian, Nordic European politics. Supporting retention of manufacturing industry including to assist particular regions. |
| Category: |
children, education, history, policy, politics, regional/rural development, social and welfare issues, work and workplace issues |
Professor Karen Stagnitti
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| Position: |
Professor |
| School: |
School of Health and Social Development |
| Faculty: |
Faculty of Health |
| Campus: |
Geelong Waterfront Campus |
| Business Phone: |
(03) 522 78363 |
| Mobile: |
0417 150 244 |
| Email: |
karen.stagnitti@deakin.edu.au |
| Areas of Expertise: |
The assessment of play skills in children. The importance of play to children’s abilities in language, literacy, social competence, problem solving. Active play improves children’s fundamental movement skills. Children with diagnoses such as autism can benefit by developing play skills. |
| Category: |
children, play |
Associate Professor Petra Staiger
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| Position: |
Associate Head of School (Research) |
| School: |
School of Psychology |
| Faculty: |
Faculty of Health |
| Campus: |
Melbourne Burwood Campus |
| Business Phone: |
(03) 9244 6876 |
| Mobile: |
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| Email: |
pstaiger@deakin.edu.au |
| Areas of Expertise: |
Treatment of alcohol dependence and eating disorders and in particular the treatment of both. Emotional abuse of children. |
| Category: |
abuse, eating disorders, children, alcohol |
Dr Mark Stokes
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| Position: |
Associate Professor |
| School: |
School of Psychology |
| Faculty: |
Faculty of Health |
| Campus: |
Melbourne Burwood Campus |
| Business Phone: |
(03) 9244 6865 |
| Mobile: |
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| Email: |
stokes@deakin.edu.au |
| Areas of Expertise: |
Autism. Evolutionary psychology. Child injury. Injury. Circadian rhythms. Shift work. Biological psychology. Statistics. |
| Category: |
children, neurobiology, psychology, autism Spectrum Disorders, health and wellbeing, work and workplace issues |
Professor Boyd Swinburn
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| Position: |
Alfred Deakin Professor |
| School: |
School of Health and Social Development |
| Faculty: |
Faculty of Health |
| Campus: |
Melbourne Burwood Campus |
| Business Phone: |
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| Mobile: |
64 22 167 9636 |
| Email: |
swinburn@deakin.edu.au |
| Areas of Expertise: |
Obesity prevention. Intervention programs. Childhood obesity. Promotion of nutrition and physical activity. (Please note that Boyd works part time for Deakin and the rest of the time at the University of Auckland.) |
| Category: |
obesity, nutrition, health and wellbeing, children, exercise/physical activity |
Dr Anna Timperio
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| Position: |
Lecturer |
| School: |
School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences |
| Faculty: |
Faculty of Health |
| Campus: |
Melbourne Burwood Campus |
| Business Phone: |
(03) 9251 7165 |
| Mobile: |
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| Email: |
timperio@deakin.edu.au |
| Areas of Expertise: |
Population physical activity among adults and children. Particular research interests include: obesity, physical activity measurement, personal, social and environmental influences on physical activity, special population groups. |
| Category: |
exercise/physical activity, children, health and wellbeing, youth/young people's issues, obesity |
Mr Adam Walsh
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| Position: |
Lecturer |
| School: |
School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences |
| Faculty: |
Faculty of Health |
| Campus: |
Melbourne Burwood Campus |
| Business Phone: |
(03) 9251 7788 |
| Mobile: |
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| Email: |
awalsh@deakin.edu.au |
| Areas of Expertise: |
Children's nutrition. Clinical nutrition. |
| Category: |
nutrition, health and wellbeing, children, diet/dieting |
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