ACQOL Members

The Australian Centre on Quality of Life brings together expertise from researchers and postgraduate students from a diverse range of areas. Below is a current list of our members and their interests within the field. To contact a member, click on their name to email them.

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Common keyword abbreviations

QoL: quality of life
HRQoL: health-related quality of life
SWB: subjective wellbeing
AQoL: assessment of quality of life / quality of life assessment

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Assoc. Professor Zhumazhan Abdrakhmanov: Doctor, IKTU, medical faculty
Dr Gboyega Emmanuel Abikoye: Clinical Psychologist and Lecturer , Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago - Iwoye, Ogun State, Nigeria; Caregivers' well-being and QoL, psychological intervention among chronically ill persons and their caregivers
Dr Hisham Abu-Rayya
Dr Ed Adams: County Director, Washington State University Extension; outreach education, evaluation
Dr Jane Adams: Engagement Manager, IMS Health; utility values, HRQoL
Mrs Sevil Agaoglu Yildiz: Pharmacist, Public Pharmacy in Turkey
Ms Mahnaz Ahangari: Supervisor of Physical Therapy Ward (M.S.), Shahid Beheshti Med. University; elderly, QoL
Ms Nazli Ahmad: Assistant Professor, Institute for Mentally Retarded Children, Chandigarh; While being a proffesional in the field of intellectual diasability I feel now is the perfect time when we should talk about Quality of Life of persons with Intellectual Disabilty.
Dr Eliza Ahmed: Assistant Director, Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations; QoL, well-being (personal, workplace)
Ms Pamela Aldridge: Dementia Educator , Alzheimers Australia SA; Wellbeing construct, measure for people with dementia QoL, person-centred care; Alzhimers Australia
Mrs Mellise Anderson: Network Coordinator, Mental Health Promotion, Tropical Population Health Services, Queensland Health
Ms Stacey Jayne Anderson: Post Graduate Candidate and Tutor, James Cook University; Up to date Research, well-being
Ms Gloria Antonio: General Manager, Disability Services, Lifestyle Solutions (Aust) Ltd.
Mr Mufutau Aremu: Senior lecturer, Obafemi Awolowo Unversity
Dr (PhD) Benito Arias: Professor, Institute on Community Integration; objective QoL, subjective QoL, intellectual and developmental disability, social services, AQoL
Mr Victor B. Arias: Associate Teacher, University of Valladolid; subjective and objective QoL, developmental and intellectual disabilities, AQoL
Ms Pat Armitstead: Joyologist, Joyology; joy, compassion, healthcare, wellbeing, engagement, happiness, multiple intelligences
Ms Pauline Armour: Community Care Development Manager, UnitingCare Ageing NSW & ACT; older people, people with disabilities, carers, disadvantaged communities
Mr Seyed Aroos Sheriffdeen: University of Canberra; I am undertaking a research on how ICT can contribute to improve Quality of Life
Mrs Yana Arsyadi Leiper: Owner, Arsyadi and Font Raket Consulting
Dr Abdolrahim Asadollahi: Assistant Profesor, Assist Social Capital; Social well-being among aged, Quality of society and life regarding elderly, Civic Engagement of older adults
Mr Steve Auld: Principal, Bundarra Central School; Potential retirees, interested in advising students from school to retirement re life factors other than school exit marks and salaries
Dr Andreja Avsec: Lecturer, University of Ljubljana; www.psiha.net
M.Sc. Nihat Ayceman: Lecturer, Akdeniz University; complementary and alternative medicine, spa and fitness wellness, massage, natural therapies, sport; The Massage and Natural Therapies Association
Mr Kojo Ayernor: MPhil Student, Regional Institute for Population Studies (RIPS), University of Ghana; ageing, QoL
Mr Salahuddien Ayob

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Professor Rajendra Prasad Bajpai: Visiting Professor, Sino Dutch Center of Personalised and Preventive Medicine; Holistic Health Indicators, Biophotons, Life. Every portions of the body of any human subject incessantly emit visible range photons. The emitted signal has a core quantum part and a peripheral classical part. The signal is continuous broadcast of the state of subject. The signal carry information about physiological and psychological states,and can provide indices for their measurements.
Ms Jo-Anne Baker: Counsellor / Life Coach, The Pleasure Spot; health, healing, longevity
Ms Jyoti Bala: Lecturer, M.M. college of nursing
Mr Alan Baldwin: Head of Dental Care, Australian Unity; oral health related QoL, health related QoL, relationship between OHQoL and wellbeing
Ms Linda Barclay: Lecturer, Occupational Therapy Department, Monash University
Ms Larisa Ariadne Justine Barnes: Research Clinician / Naturopath, Northern Rivers University Dept of Rural Health / Private Practice; palliative care, prenatal health, postnatal health, optimising health and QoL throughout the lifespan
Assoc. Professor Tony Barnett: Monash University; older persons, rural, community
Ms Pagan Barrett-Woodbridge: Manager, Performance Effectiveness, Department of Human Services; QoL, evaluation, disability, abuse and neglect, standards, surveys, tools and resources, resilience, social enterprise, positive psychology, measures
Mr Christopher Beehner: Adjunct Instructor, Remington College; workplace spirituality, QoL, quality of work life, voluntary simplicity
Ms Kerstin Beise: Student, University Leeds; QoL for disabled people
Mrs Rosalind Ben-Moshe: Laughlife Wellbeing Programs; happiness research, health and happiness, social capital and health
Mr David Bennett: Executive Coach, Coaching Student at Henley Business School; wellbeing, coaching, community, fulfilment, resilience, self-awareness
Dr Sharon Bentley: Senior Lecturer, School of Medicine (Optometry), Faculty of Health, Deakin University; vision, optometry, ophthalmology, public health
Mr David Berka: Student, Deakin University
Ms Anoo Bhopti: PhD Student / Research & Development Clinician, Monash University / Yooralla; family QoL, families of children with a disability
Mr Peter Bill: Program Coordinator, Crossroads Queensland
Ms Elizabeth Anne Bishop: CEO, St. John of God Accord; QoL, disability, population, satisfaction, reports, statistics, benchmark, family, services
Dr Malachy Bishop: Professor, University of Kentucky; chronic illness, disability, multiple sclerosis, epilepsy
Mrs Margaret Bishop: Accommodation Manager, St. John of God Accord; individualised, wants and needs
Ms Silvia Blatter: QoL in adults with autism spectrum disorder, intelligence reduction
Mrs Janette Boazman: Doctoral Candidate, University of North Texas; personal wellbeing of gifted students
Mr Bob Boyd: President, National Wellness Institute of Australia; QoL is a related concept to the Wellness Paradigm and as such important in my roles as Wellness Lecturer, Workplace Wellness Consultant, Wellness Coach, Chair NWI International Wellness Committee.
Mrs Cecelia Boyd Orford: PhD Student, QUT; QoL in people waiting for transplantation
Ms Melissa Branagh: Writer / Journalist, MJB Communications; health and wellbeing
Ms Paula Bray: The Institute for Neuroscience and Muscle Research; QoL in children, chronic disease, measurement of QoL, electronic measurement of QoL, diary methods
Mr Charles Brent: Human Resources Manager, Hanson; contribution of work-life balance initiatives on discretionary effort, performance, organisational sustainability
Ms Thea Katherine Bridgman: Student, Deakin University; SWB, happiness, laughter
Mrs Lisa Broom: Lecturer, Monash University
Dr Ivan Brown: Professor, University of Toronto; family QoL, intellectual disability
Ms Krystal Browne: Student , Deakin University; wellbeing, developmental disabilities, autism, parenting
Dr Amma Buckley: Research Fellow, Curtin University of Technology; community research, land use change and wellbeing, wellbeing and the environment
Dr Lea Budden: Senior Lecturer, James Cook University
Mr Tom M. J. Burke: Student, Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology; QoL, attitude change, self esteem, personal wellbeing, psychological wellbeing, intellectual/learning/cognitive disability
Dr Sue Burney: Senior Lecturer, Monash University; QoL, research, cancer patients
Dr Evelin Burns: nursing research
Dr Richard Burns: Post-Doctoral Fellow, Australian National University; wellbeing, happiness; ANU staff profile
Ms Jane Buschkens: PhD student, Associate Lecturer, James Cook University; circadian rhythms, SWB, chronic stress, carers

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Mr Praveen C. S.: Research Scholar, Pondicherry University, India; QoL
Dr Inmaculada Calleja
Dr Helen Laura Cameron-Tucker: Physiotherapist, Research Fellow, Royal Hobart Hospital, University of Tasmania; impact of chronic disease on QoL, Australian norms for QoL domains, how best to measure QoL
Mrs Shelby Canterford: Demographer/Social Analyst, Geoscience Australia; Disaster, resilience, recovery
Miss Tanja Capic: Student, Deakin University; Honours
Ms Linda Carpenter: Area Manager, Aspire, Southern Tasmania; PPEI workshop facilitator, mental health rehabilitation recovery, Master Rehabilitation counselling student, thesis QoL, psychosocial, social determinants
Dr Susan Carruthers: Research Fellow, National Drug Research Institute; AQoL, chronic disease, hepatitis C, injecting drug use, mental health
Ms Minna-Johanna Chand: Teacher / Psychologist / Coach, Charles Darwin University / American Psychological Association / Australian Sports Commission
M Satish Chandramadhav: Consulting Advisor & Therapist, Institute of Psychodynamics; Psychologist, Hypnotherapist, counsellor
Mr Khairudin Che Tak: PhD Student, University of Malaya, Malaysia; SWB, life satisfaction, happiness, Malay Culture
Ms Maria Chow: PhD Candidate, University of Sydney; acute illness, immunisation, questionnaire development; National Centre for Immunisation Research & Surveillance
Mr David Christian: Manager, WISE Community Investment, WISE Employment
Dr Samantha Clarke: Lecturer, Clinical Psychology, University of the Sunshine Coast; research, student support, access to resources for teaching
Dr Kay Cook: Senior Research Fellow, Deakin University; poverty, welfare, single parents, policy analysis, stigma, social inequalities, social policy; Deakin staff profile
Mr Justin Coulson: PhD Candidate, University of Wollongong; parenting, SWB, calling, character strengths, eudaimonia; Happy Families
Ms Lyn Courtney: PhD Student / Lecturer, James Cook University; psychosocial wellbeing, holistic wellbeing, Baby Boom career women, Australian Baby Boomers
Ms Shelley Anne Cowden: PhD Scholar, Deakin University; yoga, health & wellbeing, lifestyle, Eastern philosophy, mental health, cultural practices, globalisation
Mr Philip Cox: Student; wellbeing, happiness, existential
Mr Graeme Craig: Senior Manager, Service Development, Vision Australia; measuring quality, service outcomes, QoL indicators
Ms Carol Craigie: Master of Psychology Student, Monash University; Research in Subjective Wellbeing
Dr Madeline Cruice: Senior Lecturer / Clinical Educator, City University London; wellbeing, communication disability, stroke, rehabilitation, speech pathology, measurement, qualitative, interview; City University staff profile
Mrs Angela Cullen: Nurse; Adults with an intellectual disability who live in a group home
Professor Robert Ashley Cummins: Professor of Psychology, Deakin University; QoL, subjctive wellbeing, happiness; Deakin staff profile

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Mrs Margaret Daly: Occupational Therapist, Royal North Shore Hospital Sydney
Associate Professor Jarosova Darja: Head of Department of Nursing and Midwifery, University of Ostrava; Nursing research, Qol, health, wellbeing
Dr Melanie Davern: University of Melbourne; SWB, affect, personality, religiosity
Mr Harry George Davey: Student, Hurlstone agricultural highschool; curious, interested, contributive, willing, educating
Ms Kim Davis: Career Coach and Trainer, Ironbark Employment, Darwin; researching QoL in indigenous australians
Ms Helen Dawson: Honours Student, University of Sydney
Dr Marian De Souza: Senior Lecturer/Editor, Journal of Religious Education, Australian Catholic University; spirituality and education, intercultural education, interreligious education, transmission of cultural values in pluralist societies, lifelong learning
Dr Caroline De Vries: Psychiatry Registrar, Hunter New England Mental Health
Mrs Nadine Dean: QoL in disability work
Dr Prakash (Sanju) Deenapanray: Research Analyst, Ecological Living In Action (ELIA); QoL, SWB, ecological economics, sustainability indicators
Dr D. Dhanapal: Honorary Director, Geo Resource Centre; research, project proposals, project implementation, development works, policy advocacy, gender, ICT, biodiversity, energy, environment, water management, education; Ph.D. thesis
Ms Ashley Di Battista: MPsych/PhD Candidate, Clin. Neuropscyhology, Murdoch Children's Research Institute; University of Melbourne; TBI QoL, subjective wellbeing, theories of QoL, integration of QoL into rehabilitation of TBI. I am currently in my final year of the MPsych/PhD program in Clinical Neuropsychology at the University of Melbourne. I also have a Masters Degree in Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Psychology. My current research focuses on quality of life in pediatric patients following traumatic brain injuries.
Professor Dale Dinnel: Professor of Psychology, Western Washington University; subjective and psychological well-being, positive emotions, QoL, cultural variation
Dr Anjli Doshi: Deputy Director General (Policy), National Population and Family Development Board, Malaysia; family, QoL, wellbeing, family strengths
Mr Craig Duckmanton: Wellbeing Co-Ordinator, Australian Unity - Retirement Services
Dr Marina Dyakovich: Institute of Occupational Health & Human Ecology, Angarsk, Russia; HRQoL of patients with occupational neurointoxication, their disability, psychological and social problems
Bc. Andrea Dzurova: I'm student and I need more information about Quality of life
Mr Richard Dzwonkowski: Vocational Counsellor , Melbourne Citymission

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Ms Kathleen Earle: Founder / Creative Director, Custodians Garden; eco-social wellbeing, holistic healthcare, custodianship of the Earth
Ms Liz Edge: Counsellor, NMIT; women's health, body image, resiliency, optimism, relationships, communication
Ms Laura Edney: Student, Adelaide University
PhD Student Luke Einerson: RA/TA, Texas Tech University; Financial satisfaction, quality of life, SWB
Mr Ahmed El Bialy: Researcher , The Institute of Environmental Studies and Sciences - Ain Shams University
Mrs Vicky Ellam-Dyson: follower satisfaction, team cohesion, effective leadership
Dr Graham Engel: Retired; QoL, post retirement, elderly
Mrs Lesley Ervin: Social Worker, Barwon Health
Mrs Carolyn Evans: Managing Director, ThinkEvans Pty. Ltd., ThinkEvans; wellbeing, research, prosperity, index, work/life balance, employment
Mr Lionel Glenn Evans: Research Worker, Central Queensland University; wellbeing and QoL, rural/remote issues, farming communities and disability

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Mr Rasoul Fadaee
Dr Giulio Fanton: Head of Rehabilitation Care Unit, Centro Polifunzionale Don Calabria, Italy
Dr (PhD) Muhammad Shahid Farooq Chaundry: Lecturer / Doctoral Student in Education, Institute of Education and Research, University of the Punjab, Pakistan / Institute of Science of Educational Practices and Training, University of Lyon, France; inclusive education, learning styles, cognitive styles, quality education, research in educational problems
Professor Joseph Fattal Junior Fattal: Palestrante / Consultor / Coordenador, CIVI- Centro de Valorização e integração do idoso.; QoL, lecturing in Australia, QoL around the world
Mr Rafael Pablo M. Fernando: President / Founder, Integral Transformation Group, Inc.; total quality management, ISO standards, organic agriculture, good governance and institutional management; LinkedIn profile
Mr Sebastian Filep: Research Fellow in Wellness Tourism and Wellbeing, Centre for Tourism and Services Research, Victoria University; positive psychology in tourism, spa and wellness tourism, QoL and wellbeing in tourism
Professor Judith Finn: Professor (Research), University of South Australia; HRQoL, HRQoL after critical illness, HRQoL after cardiac arrest; University of South Australia staff profile
Mrs Jennifer Fleischer: Project Manager, Gov - DEECD; future, fulfillment, awareness, happiness; Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority (VCAA)
Ms Lisa Formosa: Candidate of a Research Masters in Psychology, Deakin; Positive youth development, life satisfaction, wellbeing, student
Ms Deborah Fox: M.Sc. (Midwifery and Women's Health), University Central Lancashire (UCLAN), UK; normal birth, midwifery continuity of care, collaborative maternity care
Ms Ronit Fraid: Doctoral Student, Deakin University
Miss Camilla Franklin: Honours Student, Deakin University; SWB, Resilience, Risk factors for Homeostatic Defeat
Ms Ayanna Frederick: Student, The University of Trinidad and Tobago (UTT); Quality of life, QOL research, subjective well-being

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Mrs Laura Gómez: Teaching Assistant, Institute on Community Integratio; individual QoL, AQoL, subjective QoL, objective QoL, intellectual disabilities, social service recipients
Ms Lisa Gardiner: Senior Consultant, SAL Consulting; QoL cross sectorial, organisational, clinical and learning
Ms Rita Adriana Gargiulo: Student of Master of Psychology (Clinical), Deakin University; SWB, mood disorders, gender issues
Mr Caleb Ademola Gbiri: Neuro-Physiotherapist / Research Fellow, Federal Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital, Yaba, Lagos, Nigeria; neurodevelepmental, public health, neurological condition, health promotion, psychiatry, rehabilitation, QoL
Ms Julie George: Life Enquirer; giving more, taking less, making sense, keeping life simple
Dr Atefeh Ghanbari: Assistant Professor, Guilan Medical Science University; QoL in all diseases especially gastro intestinal and skin, QoL in any kinds of cancer and breast cancer, construction of different questionnaires about QoL in different cultures
Dr Azza Ghonem: Lecturer; Down's syndrome, intellectual disabilities, QoL, health promotion, physical activity
Ms Claudia Gorecki: Research Fellow, University of Leeds; HRQoL, patient-reported outcomes, psychometrics, health outcomes methodology
Dr Suzy Green: Co-Founder, Positive Psychology Institute; wellbeing
Ms Lucy Gries: Student, Monash University
Mr Carsten James Grimm: Postgraduate Student, University of Canterbury; Positive Psychology, Orientations to Happiness, Experience Sampling, Psychological Health and Flourishing
Ms Ekaterina Grishina: Postgraduate Student, Moscow State University; strategy planning for QoL improvement, ecology, health, personal development; katin_ecoblog Livejournal
Mrs Rebecca Gumb: Business Assurance Manager, integratedliving
Mrs Asanka Gunasekara: PhD student, Swinburne University; I have used the Index to measure life satisfaction of Sri Lankan and Indian skilled migrants living in Australia

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Mrs Flurina Hain
Ms Vivienne Halat: mental health, social circus, art therapy
Ms Anne Hammond: interaction of employee wellbeing (individual/team) and organisational wellbeing (strategic considerations), wholistic approach to mental and physical wellbeing
Ms Kathryn Hammond: wellbeing, workplace
Mr Thomas Hammond: Graduate Student, Deakin University
Mr Ashiru Hamza Mohammad: PhD candidate, Center for Population Health, University of Malaya, Malaysia; impact, determinants, HRQoL, stroke survivors, wellbeing
Ms Grace Hancock: Student, Deakin University; psychology, wellbeing, mental health, enjoyment, opportunity, support
Mrs Sue Hanley: work life balance, career choice, coaching
Ms Zena Hanna: Occupational Therapist; understanding how to create wellbeing and use that to influence individuals and society in the choices the take everyday
Dr Martin William Harris: Lecturer in Rural Health, University of Tasmania; thriving, transition, dislocation, mental health, refugees; University Department of Rural Health (UDRH)
Mrs Linda Hartley-Clark: PhD Candidate, Deakin University; SWB, depression, interpersonal relationships
Mr Shukir Hasan: PhD student, College of Nursing; Deakin University
Dr Marge Hauritz: Manager, Department of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders and Multicultural Affairs; Subjective, wellbeing, community, data, aboriginal
Mr Ash Hauser: Director, Life Pilot Pty. Ltd.; more evolved perspective, redefine success, true happiness
Assoc. Professor Graeme Hawthorne: Principal Research Fellow, University of Melbourne; QoL research, QoL scales and instruments, the mental health of populations, mental health and program evaluation; Mental Health Evaluation Unit
Mr Laurie Haynes: Specialist Clinical Psychologist, Geographe Psychology Services; client wellbeing, work-life balance, stress management
Al Hazen: Judaica Store
Dr Giti Hemmatirad: Researcher and Assistant professor, Payam Nour University; Mental health in students
Dr Elizabeth Hensel: Research Fellow, University of Birmingham, UK; learning disability, happiness, subjective QoL
Mr Royce Hernandez: Head, Testing Office, De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde; psychometrics, clinical psychology, educational psychology, test development, SWB
Ms Susan Heyes: PhD candidate, Flinders University, SA; Life, death, urinary, prostate cancer, bladder cancer, partners, families & carers, end of life, nurse, health, psychology, treatment. Equality of health, care, facilities, and resources to allow all patients and their families, quality of life through illness, survivorship or death.
Ms Tracey Higlett
Dr Arifin Bin Hj Zainal: Chairperson / Assoc. Professor, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
Ms Esmé Holmes: Holistic Psychotherapist; holistic, positive ageing, community, connectedness, population health, spirituality, indigenous
Ms Krystine Horfiniak: Deakin University; SWB, elite athletes, coping, resilience
Dr Severin Hornung: Assistant Professor, Hong Kong Polytechnic University; quality of working life, flexible work arrangements, occupational stress, psycho-social wellbeing and job performance
Ms Joy Hosking: Executive Director, The Friendship Foundation Limited; partnership, QoL study, competencies, carers, self-managed chronic care plans
Mr Robin Howat: Lecturer, University of Western Sydney; music therapy, aged care, well being, evaluation, research; Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy
Ms Morgen Hughes: Project Officer, Sexual Assault Support Service (SASS); ACQoL's application to individuals who have experienced sexual assault
Timo Hujanen: Researcher, CHESS (Centre for Health and Social Economics), National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL); cost-effectiveness, outcomes of health services, elderly care, proxy assessment, HRQoL instruments, algorithms
Dr Jennifer Hunter: University of Sydney
Ms Vicki Hutton: PhD Candidate, Monash University; HIV, stigma, companion animals

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Dr Stanley Igwe: Cosultant Psychiatrist, Federal Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital Maiduguri, Nigeria
Ms Sally Imeson: PhD Student, Griffith University; work life balance, food and sport-stress management
Mrs Mª Jesús Irurtia: University of Valladolid - Department of Psychology; QoL, AQoL; University of Valladolid staff profile
Mr Ismahalil Ishak: Researcher, National Population and Family Development Board; understanding the SWB

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Mr Aaron Jarden: Lecturer in Psychology; wellbeing, happiness, flourishing, values
Jayaram Jayaram: Caregiver / Professor, SRMV CAS
Mrs Rita Jenkins: Teacher
Dr Reza Johari Fard: Researcher , Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg, Germany; Clinical Psychologist, Specialist in Psychosomatic Medicine & Psychotherapy
Mrs Janice Jones: Lecturer and Program Coordinator (B.Ed.), University of Southern Queensland; Wellbeing, education, indigenous knowledges, spirituality, nature deficit disorder, creativity, nature, play, teaching and learning, futures, Thirdspace, the third space, restorative environments, narrative, holistic learning

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Mr Akram Kalule: Project Manager, Action to Positive Change on People with Disabilities in Uganda, Africa
Dr Suneetha Kandi: Assistant Professor (Counsellor), MVGR Collge of Engineering; enhance student QoL, maximising potentials
Mr Jahanvash Karim
Mr Harry Karoo: Director , Crawshaw Hall Medical Centre and Nursing Home; Evaluation of quality care services provision in nursing home for physical/medical disabilities age over 18 years. Dementia and associated mental disability.
Mrs Anastasia Kastanaki: Clinical Psychologist, Psychooncology Center, State Mental Health Hospital of Chania, Crete, Greece; psycho-oncology, suicides, psychology
Ms Satpal Kaur: Lecturer, International Medical University (IMU) Sdn Bhd; student stress, QoL of students, employees, psychiatric patients and the caregivers, workplace stress
Mr Ehsan Kazemi: Manager, Life quality institute; Research, teaching
Mr John Kearney: Student , Charles Sturt Universtity; QoL across the life span, SWB, positive psychology
Mr Tim Kelly: Graduate student, Deakin University
Dr Michaela Kennedy: Manager; how best to evaluate whether a person believes they have a good quality of life
Dr Wendy L. Kennedy: Senior Associate, Quality Life Australia; SWB, perceived control, and adaptation specifically towards health, life transitions, loss, and relationships.
Ms Maree Keynes: Quality and Program Development Officer, Anglicare
Dr Aqeel Khan: Senior Lecturer, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Dr Leigh Kibby: Kinematic; meaning and purpose, spirituality, values, morals and ethics
Mr Gordon William Arthur King: Student, Charles Sturt University; Useful resource, networking, impetus for change, information dissemination, policy development, common equitable future. I believe that quality of life is influenced factorily from the moment of conception to the moment of death. Quality of life can be achieved, both on a personal and on a communal basis, through an holistic approach that encompasses physical, spiritual, economic, mental, environmental and social wellbeing.
Dr Susan Jane King: Researcher, Deakin / Knox Community Health Services; QoL tools, chronic illness samples, amphetamines and impact on QoL, substance abuse, motor neurone disease, oral health, Type 1 diabetes
Ms Tatyana Kiseleva: PsyD candidate, Immaculata University, PA, USA
Mrs Ruth Knight: Director, Zark Consultancy; health and wellbeing, surveys, change, culture
Mrs Elena Konovalov: PhD Student, James Cook University; objective and subjective wellbeing, community wellbeing, tourism impact
Dr Pieter J Kriel: Consultant, PKE Consulting; change management, quality of work life, evolutionary psychology
Ms Inga Kristoffersen: Lecturer, UWA business school; SWB and economics
Mrs Chitra Ravi Kumar: Lecturer, College of Nursing; research, doctoral program, literature review

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Miss Justine La: Student, Deakin; I am a 4th year Psychology student involved in a Research Project to do with subjective well being this year.
Ms Jill Lane: Consultant, LDC Group; quality improvement, outcome measurement, consultation with service users, knowledge and skill development, evaluation methods and tools
Dr Anna Lay Ding Lau: QoL, SWB, cross-cultural measurements and investigations, general and specific populations e.g. elderly, children, disability
Dr Udi Lebel: Senior Lecturer, Ariel University Center; loss, bereavement, trauma, civil-military relations, political psychology
Mr Eric Leung: University of Wales
Mrs Alexandra Lewer: SaLT, SABP NHS Foundation Trust; learning disabilities, communication, eating and drinking
Mr Stefan Lindsay: Statistial Analyst (Subject Matter), Statistics New Zealand; subject matter, Statistics New Zealand General Social Survey, General Social Survey, NZ GSS, social psychology; New Zealand General Social Survey
Ms Moi Yieng Ling: Student, Deakin University; Research data and outcomes
Mr Richard Lombard-Vance: PhD Student, Dublin City University; Cognition, amputation, QoL, community participation
Professor Violeta Lopez: Director, Research Centre for Nursing and Midwifery, Australian National University; QoL, HRQoL, psychometric validation, translation, cancer patients, psycho-oncology, qualitative, quantitative, mixed methods, caregivers; ACT Government Health
Ms Rachael Lorenz: Provisional psychologist, Australian Catholic University; PWI-A, Aboriginal, Indigenous, Australians, Forensic, Psychology
Ms Katherine Louise: Student, Deakin University
Mr Prince Love
Ms Karen Lowe: General Manager (Quality), Jewish Care Victoria; residential aged care, holocaust survivors, disability, healthy ageing
Mr Trevor Lunn: PhD student, Deakin University; HRQOL, personality FFM, elderly, osteoporosis, bone strength, strength training, falls resistance

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Ms Lauren MacTaggart: Student, Deakin University; research, SWB
Dr Bello Arkilla Magaji: PhD Candidate, Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; methodology (development and validation of instruments) ,HRQoL, cancer
Ms Sylvana Mahmic: Student, UWS; Research, children with disabilities, families
Professor David Manier: Assoc. Professor, Lehman College - City University of New York; Stress, college adjustment, happiness, cross-cultural research; Staff profile
Ms Jillian Marchant: PhD Student, James Cook University; Social Empowerment
Dr (PhD) Schäfers Markus: Researcher, TU Dortmund University, Faculty of Rehabilitation Sciences; disability, inclusion, capabilities, QoL and ICF, QoL and disability, QoL and quality of services, methodological issues; TU Dortmund staff profile
Professor John Martin: Director, Centre for Sustainable Regional Communities, LaTrobe University; local governance, rural development, regional development, community development; Centre for Sustainable Regional Communities
Mr Mike Martin: economics of wellbeing
Mr Craig David Martini
Mr Donatus Klaudius Marut: Executive Director, International NGO Forum on Indonesian Development (INFID); Quality of life and decentralisation, social welfare indicator and district government, sustainable development goals, Millennium Development Goals
Dr Nicole Mazur: Adjunct Research Fellow, Charles Sturt University - Institute for Land, Water & Society; social research, climate change, public policy, natural resource management, environmental management, community engagement
Dr Trevor Mazzucchelli: clinician, researcher
Dr Janette McDougall: Researcher, Thames Valley Children's Centre; QoL, children, youth, health measurement, child development, child health, disability, ICF
Ms Anne McGenniss: Teacher, Chisholm Institute of TAFE; promoting well being and flourishing in changing and dynamic work place environments
Mr Duncan McKimm: Economist, AECgroup; A private sector firm, providing consulting assessment of wellbeing. Interested in developing robust methodologies for assessing wellbeing and areas of disadvantage.; www.aecgroupltd.com
Dr Kennedy McLachlan: Senior Lecturer; HRQoL, assessment issues
Ms Jodie McNair: Research Manager, Verso Consulting
Mr Terence McSweeney: Recreation Manager, COPE Foundation; My job requires me to ensure that clients with intellectual disabilities have access to inclusive leisure, recreation, physical activity and sports
Assoc. Professor Keith Raymond McVilly: Principal Research Fellow, Deakin University; Intellectual & developmental disability, social relationships & friendship, challenging behaviour & restritive practices, human rights, forensic populations, family QoL
Mrs Vijayshri Mehtha: Lecturer, JSPM; women empowerment , entrepreneurship, statistics
Miss Holly Melrose: Honours student (Psychology), Australian College of Applied Psychology; mental health, attachment, coping, relationships, social support; Creative Nutrition, www.savvystudies.com.au
Ms Jasmine Micklem: ENT Research Assistant, Royal Adelaide Hospital; HRQoL, Aboriginal people's QoL, head and neck cancer patients
Femke Migerode: Phd Student, University of Ghent
Ms Barbara Miller: Consulting Psychologist, Potential Unlimited; Positive Psychology, Strengths Based Approaches to Success and Happiness, Creativity, Resilience and Wellbeing. Provide evidence based psychological interventions for business people through coaching to develop strengths and wellbeing in a balanced lifestyle.
Ms Anjani Millet: President / Chief Happiness Officer, Gross National Happiness World Project
Ms Christina Mills: PhD Candidate, University of Western Australia; PhD research
Mr Krishna Kumar Mishra: Research Scholar, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, INDIA; urban-rural differences in QoL
Dr Sunil Mishra: Director, Samadhan Counselor and Therapist; migraine, self improvement, consciousness, graphology
Ms Joanna Mitchell: Clinical Psychologist / PhD Candidate, Monash University; positive psychology, wellbeing, wellbeing measures, applied research, interventions
Mrs Leith Mitchell: Teleworking & wellness
Dr Nancy Mock: Co-Director, Tulane University's Disaster Resilience Leadership Academy; wellbeing instruments, disaster resilience, psychosocial impacts of disasters
Mr Momtchil Momtchilov: Fitness and Lifestyle Consultant, MYPT; health, wellness, lifestyle, psychology, research, best practices, professional network, news
Mr Timothy Morrissey: Course Coordinator (Welfare Studies), Australian Learning, Training & Education Centre (ALTEC); education, welfare, community services, counselling
Mrs Nicola Morrow: research, commissioning
Mr Saeed Muhammad: Senior Teacher, Doctoral Student, Institute of Physically Handicapped Children; Special education, QOL, needs help of seniors in the field of QOL
Dr Torooti Mwirigi: Student, Strathmore University; QoL, heart disease, health, hypertension, low-income countries

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Ms Premi Naidoo: Speech and Language Therapy and Audiology Manager; impact of disability associated with neurological, respiratory and age related communication disorders on participation and QoL
Mr Siddharth Nair
Dr Fiona Nichols: Senior Research Officer, Combined University Centre for Rural Health, Geraldton, Western Australia; indigenous, inclusion, community, celebrating multiculturalism, participatory action research
Dr Karl Nunkoosing: Principal Lecturer, Dept of Psychology, University of Portsmouth; Disability Studies
Mr Christian Nwafor: Student, University of Nigeria Nsukka; Education

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Dr Catherine O'Brien: Assistant Professor, Cape Breton University; sustainable happiness, children's wellbeing, built environment, education; Sustainable Happiness
Mr Martin O'Connor: Senior Clinical Psychologist, Brothers of Charity Services, Ireland; intellectual disability, family QoL, validity and reliability of QoL instruments, QoL/work of staff in human services
Mr Martin O'Connor: Clinical Leader, Clare Children's Services, HSE, Ireland; young adults with a disability/QoL, transition from children's to adult services, family QoL in families with a child with a disability
Ms Carol O'Dwyer: Behaviour Support Practitioner, Department of Human Services; For practical use; assessments and improvement and contemporary research
Dr Siobhain O'Riordan: Visiting Fellow, Coaching Psychology Unit, City University, UK; coaching psychology, coaching, life transitions, wellbeing, happiness, health, ageing, coping
Dr Ansa Ojanlatva: Docent, University of Turku; sexual health promotion, sexuality, QoL
Mr Erik Okerstrom: Director, Australian Survey Research Group; research services, online surveys, survey services, research consulting
Mr Jeremy Olson: Social Science Researcher; spinal cord injury, strategies of control, subjective QoL
Mr Majid Omidi Khankahdani: Educator, Payamnoor University and Azad University; Quality of life specialty family quality of life
Ms Soheila Omidnia: Researcher, Ministry of Health
Ms Sandra Oniga: Support Worker
Dr Kevin Orrman-Rossiter: Director, Clarity Now Pty. Ltd.; philosophy of mind, wellbeing, happiness studies, positive psychology, decision making, learning
Dr Magued Osman: Chairman, Information and Decision Support Center (IDSC); Wellbeing Index
Dr Lloyd Owen: Adjunct Senior Lecturer, Social Work and Social Policy, LaTrobe University; youth welfare, family welfare, youth homelessness, out of home care, international social development, sustainable society

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Dr Prasadarao P.S.D.V.: Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Waikato Hospital; QoL, dementia, mental health
Dr (PhD) Jose Pais-Ribeiro: Professor, Porto University
Professor Stephen Palmer: Director, Coaching Psychology Unit, City University, UK; wellbeing, health education, coaching, stress, QoL, coaching psychology, positive psychology, stress management, stress prevention, stress psychophysiology, anxiety, depression, happiness, strengths, health promotion, assessment of wellbeing, assessment, research
Professor Epaminondas Panas: Professor, Athens University of Economics and Business; Wellbeing Index
Eleni Papadioti: MC Special Education; QoL, healthy children, siblings of children with special needs
Ms Megan Parsons: Service Development manager, Karingal Inc.; QoL indicators and measures, quantitative vs qualitative measures, QoL research with people with disabilities
Dr Natia Partskhaladze: QoL of children in different forms of family substitute care
Shrikant Pawar: Lecturer in Pharmacology, Smt. Kashibai Navale College of Pharmacy; HRQoL in Indian populations
Ms Elizabeth Jane Michelle Pearson: Occupational Therapy Head of Department, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre; palliative care, instrument
Dr Manuel Pereira Teixeira
Ms Carol Peterson: disability, aged, measurement, health
Ms Ekaterina Petetskaya: policy, planning, culture, community, QoL
Mr Nattawat Phaophoo: Researcher; QoL for improving rural development, improving QoL for sustainable development
Dr Michoń Piotr: Assistant Professor, Department of Labour and Social Policy, The Poznań University of Economics; comparisons and wellbeing, theory of utility and happiness, individuals' wellbeing
Mr Steaphen Pirie: Director, Belief Institute; beliefs, belief-systems, betterment, health, wellbeing, quantum physics, congruent frameworks, intuition, nonlocal awareness, key principles, Belief Institute, belief-systems consultancy, creativity, innovation, insights, The TOA, belief-systems analysis, possibilities, solutions, answers
Ms Jeanette Pope: Research Manager, Department of Planning and Community Development
Mrs Geeta Pradeep: Phd Student, RMIT; HRQoL, Type 2 diabetes, pharmacist
Ms Helen Praeger: Director, New Image PR; QoL, statistics, research, business, happiness, satisfaction, productivity
Mr Rumesh Priyadarshana: Student, University of Colombo; healthy life
Mrs Flavia Rimoli Prospero: Director, Quality of Life/Quality of Living; wellness, open spaces, equity, prevention, health promotion

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Mr Marc Jason Quejada: Student, Universidad De Manila

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Ms Shanthi Ramanathan: Research Fellow, Hunter Valley Research Foundation; Australian Unity Wellbeing Index, developments in measuring wellbeing, networking, conferences
Ms Melissa Raven: happiness, psychological distress, social determinants of health
Ms Robyn Reeves: Chief Executive Officer, Ballarat Community Health; health, wellbeing, QoL, mental health
Professor Jeff Ralph James Richardson: Foundation Director, Centre for Health Economics, Monash University; AQoL, HRQoL, health system, social objectives, personal preferences, health services research
Mr Michael Patrick Ringland: Executive Coach; executive coaching, personal coaching, adult education
Dr David Ritchie: Higher Education Consultant, NMAS Accredited Mediator
Mr Laurie Rivers: Researcher, CRC_Remote Economic Participation; wellbeing, indicators of wellbeing, regional wellbeing, regional development, sustainable development
Ms Carmen Rodriguez-Blazquez: Researcher, Carlos III Institute of Health; QoL, psychometrics, older adults, disabilities
Dr Lia Rodriguez De La Vega: Associated Professor, La Matanza University, Buenos Aires, Argentina; QoL, diversity, religion, human trafficking
Professor Mariano Rojas: Professor, Latin American Facuty of Social Sience, Mexico; economics and happiness, domains of life
Mr Gordon Ross: Manager, GV Health; case management, planning and facilitation in the aged/disability sector
Dr Dana Roth: Director of Research & Evaluation Dept.,; Involved in participatory action research and evaluation with People with disabilities, and part of the original group and developers of the Family Quality of life Survey, 2006
Mrs Kathryn Russell: SWB, social change, social justice
Mr Glenn Rutter: program evaluation, social work, mental health, addictions, therapeutic jurisprudence

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Mr Ajay Chandra Sadhuneni: Director (HR), NetEnrich Technologies; wellness at work, job satisfaction, career success
Assoc. Professor Peter Sainsbury: Director (Population Health), Sydney South West Area Health Service; health and social policy, social relationships, mental health promotion, social inequalities
Dr Ehssan Sakhaee: Osaka University, Japan; QoL, mentoring, happiness studies
Mr Younan Eshak Aziz Saleep: Psychologist / Lecturer, Faculty of Arts and Human Sciences, Minia University, Egypt; problem solving, QoL, aesthetic appreciation, wellbeing
Mr Mauricio Sanabria: Manager Program Development, Nulsen Association; Learning, update knowledge, resources, research, people with disabilities. The aim of my work is to enable connections that help people with intellectual disabilities to achieve and maintain the best possible quality of life.
Mr Mauricio Sanabria: Manager Program Development; Quality of life for people with profound and severe intellectual and physical disabilities.
Mrs Suseela Santhosh: H.O.D., Mallige College of Nursing
Mrs Pinar Savas Yavuzcehre: Research Assistant, Pamukkale University; migrants, migrate, poverty, urban regeneration, women, city, urban
Mr Jim Scantsonihas: Regional Manager, Fronditha Care
Assoc. Professor Nicola Schutte: Associate Professor, University of New England; positive psychology, self-efficacy, emotional intelligence, positive affect, broaden and build
Mr Andrew Searles: Co-Director of Research, HVRF; wellbeing, regional monitoring, Hunter Region
Dr Andrew Seaton: Author / Education Consultant / Independent Academic; education, human potential, alienation; Andrew Seaton's Homepage
Dr Pamela Seaton: Clinical Psychologist / Owner, Dr Pamela Seaton & Associates; clinical psychology, wellbeing; Dr Pamela Seaton & Associates
Mr P dhayal jeya Selvan: HR executive, Annamalai University, Tamilnadu, India; Doing PG diploma in guidance and counselling. I want to know more about the counselling theories/techniques and various psychological assessment surveys, etc.
Professor Pasquale Sgro: Associate Dean (Research), Deakin University; health economics
Ms Jennifer Shaw: Care Coordinator - Allied Health Professional, Albury-Wodonga Health, Wodonga Campus; HRQoL measures to determine the effectiveness of our Chronic Disease Self Management program
Mrs Patricia Sheil: Teacher, Stanthorpe State High School; QoL, chronic diseases, poor support by medical personnel for this issue
Ms Colleen Shelley: Quality of life, subjective wellbeing, assessment of quality of life, measuring outcomes
Dr Seyed Alavi Sheriffdeen: Domain Head: Information Technology & eLearning Coordinator, Ilim College of Australia; Teaching, Dealing with students from from (Migrant) Culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) communities. Youth Issues, Minority communities.
Assoc. Professor Mohammad Taghi Sheykhi: Member of Teaching Board , Al-Zahra University, Tehran, Iran; QoL, ageing studies, welfare, happiness, youth development
Dr M. A. Shoqeirat: Consultant Clinical Neuropsychologist
Miss Eloise Silburn
Dr Ana Luísa Junça Silva: Lecturer, ISCTE-IUL; SWB, QoL, happiness, flourishing, psychological wellbeing
Dr Carlos Henrique Silva: Head of Scientific Division, Brazilian National Cancer Institute
Mr Peter Simpson: businesses role in happiness, positivity, learned optimism, positive approaches in the work place, leadership training, purpose, meaning, balanced lifestyles
Mr Colin Sims: Psychologist, City of Perth; employee development, quality of work life
Mrs Eylem Simsek: Phd Candidate / Industrial Psychologist, Anadolu Univercity; life satisfaction, communication satisfaction, SWB, personality
Dr Vishal Singh: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Deakin University; quality of work life, work-life balance, motivation, choice, career growth and opportunities, decision making
Dr Kompal Sinha: Research Fellow, Centre for Health Economics, Monash University; QoL
Ms Shelly Skinner: Palliative Care Social Worker, Princess Margaret Hospital for Children
Ms Alison Smith: Planning and Performance Lead, Greater Metro South Brisbane Medicare Local; Health service planning and evaluation, development of patient surveys, benchmarking projects Dr
Mr Peter Smith: Researcher / Therapist / Educator, Sisters of Mercy; applied research, expressions of sexuality
Mrs Sue Smith: Principal Health Lead, SEQOL NHS Social Enterprise; research, QoL, autism diagnosis, learning disability
Mrs Anneloes Smitsman: Director, Ecological Living In Action (ELIA)
Ms Samantha Snowden
Mr Henry So
Mr Mário Soares: Student, Universidade Lus�ada Porto
Dr Noelia Somarriba: Professor, University of Valladolid; QoL, SWB, happiness, synthetic indicators
Ms Georgina Spilsbury: Chief Psychologist, Corrective Services NSW; suicide prevention, self-harm, mental health, resilience
Ms Karen Sprey: Student, RMIT (Masters of Wellness); wellness, wellbeing, health, positive psychology
Ms Katrina-Jae Stair: Student, Charles Sturt University Bathurst; wellbeing, happiness, mothers
Mrs Viktorija Starkauskiene: Doctoral Student, Vytautas Magnus University; QoL, SWB, happiness - concepts, measurement and challenges
Mr Adam Phillip Stefano: Student , Deakin University, Burwood; study, thesis, interest
Mr Keith Storace: Psychologist / Manager - Sub-acute Ambulatory & Community Services, Royal Melbourne Hospital; adults, healthcare, welfare, disability, perceived social support, SWB, QoL, relationships
Professor Shishir Subba: Department Head, Central Department of Psychology, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal; QoL, wellbeing, mental health, self-esteem, indigenous psychology
Dr Lakshmi Sundaram: Professor, Anna University, Chennai, India; infrastructure, transportation facilities, mobility, pedestrian facilities, city development and QoL studies
Professor Jill Sweeney: Professor, Business School, University of Western Australia; health, customer co-creation, QoL; UWA staff profile
Dr Jeng-Chyang Syu: Researcher, Rajabhat University Udon Thani Thailand; sustainable, index, Udon Thani, Thailand, sustainable development

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Dr Bernadette Tan: Faculty Negros Oriental State University; teaching resource, research topics, methodology
Dr Selda Tasdemir Afsar: Research Assistant, Hacettepe University; quality of work life
Dr Mortaza Tavakoli: Assoc. Professor; Quality of place and quality of life, rural social welfare, evaluation methodology
Professor Mortaza Tavakoli: University staff, University of Zabol; Quality of life - quality of place - evaluation - assessment - research methodology - rural social welfare
Ms Kejanna Taylor-King: Person Centred Planner and Trainer, Sunnyfield; person centred planning, essential life planning, futures planning, aged planning, QoL, counselling, end of life, high support, special needs
Dr Helen Tebble: Adjunct Associate Professor (Research), Monash University; Language of depression, empathy, discourse analysis
Dr Liz Temple: Lecturer in Psychology, University of Ballarat; psychological wellbeing, psychological distress, substance use, Self-Determination Theory, Attachment Theory, Time Perspectives
Dr Alexiu Teodor Mircea: Professor / Chief of Social Work Department, West University Timisoara, Romania
Dr Prasad Thakurdesai: chronic diseases, patient reported outcome, HRQoL, metabolic syndrome, geriatric
Mr Nessan Thambiah: Cluster Manager, Sunshine; The organisation Sunshine is attempting to change traditional service delivery to a person centred service. I am interested to develop a way of measuring our effectiveness and client outcomes from this change.
Dr Paraskevi Theofilou: Chronic disease, HRQoL, Medication adherence, Mental health, Health locus of control, Palliative Care
Ms Maree Thomson: Executive Officer, Community Lifestyles Agency Inc.
Doctorante Chercheure Fatima Tlemsani: Doctorante Chercheure; Le bien être subjective. L'enfance, les adolescents. Locus de Control
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Dr Vera Toepoel: Assistant Professor, Tilburg University; life satisfaction, leisure; Tilburg University staff profile
Dr Adrian Tomyn: Lecturer, RMIT University; theory development and assessment of SWB, adolescent SWB, student wellbeing
Dr Richard Tooth: Principal, LECG Limited; public policy implications, economics and QoL
Ms Pamela Tsiapos: Master of Clinical Psychology (Student), Deakin University; Subjective Wellbeing, Personal Wellbeing Index
Mrs Vicki Tuchtan: National Training Team Captain, Australian Institute of Fitness; wellness coaching, fitness, nutrition
Dr Majid Turmusani: Researcher, Independent research; Disability inclusive development; disability research; policy planning/strategy development; CBR; M&E; capacity building; Linkedin

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Ms Woitsch Ulrike: PhD Student, University of Glasgow; spirituality and intercultural learning
Dr Õie Umb-Carlsson: Researcher / Senior Lecturer, Uppsala University, Department of Public Health and Caring Sciences, Research in Habilitation and Disability; intellectual disability, living conditions, health, QoL, methodology

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Mr Claudio Vásquez Wiedeman: Researcher, Universidad Autónoma de Chile; SWB, material and social recovering, rural/urban development, poverty and inequality
Dr Alpana Vaidya: Associate Professor / Head of Department of Psychology, Symbiosis College of Arts and Commerce; Happiness Index, belief in a just world and emotional intelligence among arts, commerce and engineering students
Mrs Winsome Van den Bossche: Postgraduate Student; positive ageing, health promotion
Ms Alison Van den Eynde: PhD Candidate, Victoria University; wellbeing, social exclusion, inequality
Dr Gorka Vuletic Mavrinac: Assistant professor, Psychology Study, Faculty of Philosophy University of Osijek, Croatia; QoL and health, health psychology, health behaviour, population surveys

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Dr John Waldon: HRC Eru Pomare Post Doctoral Research Fellow in Maori Health, Massey University; QoL, HRQoL, Maori health, indigenous health, public health, psychometric validation, translation
Ms Jay Wallace: Senior Case Manager, Central Coast Case Management Services
Dr Sarah Walsh
Dr Steffen P Walz: Director, RMIT University, Games and Experimental Entertainment Laboratory (GEElab); game design, architecture, city flow, pervasive computing, urban planning
Dr Dawei Wang: Researcher, School of Psychology, Shandong Normal University; Center for Social and Organizational Behavior, Chinese Academy of Sciences; QoL, life satisfaction, SWB, NWI, objective and subjective social indicators
Ms Belinda Warren
Ms Joanne Watson: PhD Student, Deakin University; intellectual disability, measurement, self-determination, supported decision making
Dr Dave Webb: Associate Professor, Business School, University of Western Australia
Dr Melissa Weinberg: Research Fellow, Deakin University; QoL of families of Holocaust survivors
Professor Margaret Sandra Westaway: Retired; successful ageing, HRQoL, QoL domains, South Africa, psychology
Dr Mathew White: Director (Training and Leadership), Teach For Australia; positive psychology, positive education, wellbeing
Ms Terry Whittle: PhD Student, University of Sydney; psychophysiology, stress, chronic muscle pain
Dr Benjamin Wilkes: Clinical Psychologist, Campus Wellbeing, Macquarie University; student populations
Dr Allison F. Williams: Senior Research Fellow, University of Melbourne; enhanced patient outcomes, nurse-initiated interventions to improve QoL in consumers with chronic illnesses
Ms Jacqui Williams: Chronic Disease Coordinator, Blue Care; how to improve the QoL for persons living within their own homes
Ms Kerre Willsher: PhD Scholar, University of South Australia; family centred care, childhood disability
Dr Eve Wittenberg: Research Scientist, Harvard School of Public Health; Health-related quality of life; health utility, decision analysis; www.chds.hsph.harvard.edu
Ms Jacqueline Woerner: Research Fellow, Deakin University; QOL Research Fellow at Deakin University
Professor Dr. George Wolfgang: CIO, GenoPortal; health-care, health-care assessments, disease management, regional development
Ms Min Yee Wong: Student, University of Malaya, Malaysia
Mrs Rachel Woodlock: Doctoral Candidate, School of Political & Social Inquiry; Muslim wellbeing, Australian Muslims, minority wellbeing, wellbeing and identity; rachelwoodlock.com
Ms Christine Wu: Masters Student, University of Canberra; psychological wellbeing, social health, QoL, active ageing
Professor Guobao Wu: Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; Measurement of well-being, conceptual and methodologic aspect of well-being, international and inter-regional comparison
Professor Dianne Wynaden: Professor of Mental Health, Curtin University; mental health, indigenous health, family health

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Ms Svetlana Yaremtchuk: PhD in Psychology, Amur State University of Humanities and Pedagogy, Komsomolsk-on-Amur, Russia; person's attitude to life, self-development, SWB
Dr Gozde Yilmaz: Lecturer, Kocaeli University; SWB, happiness, economics
Ms Amanda Yoong: Occupational Therapy Student, Monash University; the impact of caring for adults with intellectual disability on the QoL of parents
Ms Tarli Young: Economics of wellbeing, positive psychology, wellbeing in education

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Dr Grazyna Zajdow: Senior Lecturer, Deakin University; alcohol, illicit drugs
Ms Rhonda Zappelli: Senior Consultant, TNS Social Research
Ms Csató Zsuzsa: PhD Student on Social Policy, EL University of Science, Hungary, Budapest