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Research Overview

The Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences supports a range of innovative research targeted at understanding and improving human health in the context of the social and medical challenges of modern living. The Faculty’s mission is to offer professional courses underpinned by sound science, linked to research focusing on solutions to Australia’s major health issues.

Our research endeavours are interdisciplinary, seeking to explore the connections between society and health outcomes. Within the University Research Strength, the Centre for Health Initiatives, researchers from across the Faculty’s schools work together to examine and develop a variety of health promotion and education campaigns around the media, drugs and alcohol, sun protection, asthma management, healthy lifestyles and health workforce issues. Other Faculty research projects encompass studies of basic mechanisms underlying conditions such as cardiovascular disease, obesity, diabetes, ADHD and schizophrenia, as well as interventions to determine the impacts of diet and physical activity on these health risks. In the area of psychology, key research themes include attention and inhibition; perception and memory; cognitive and affective processing; and models for the delivery of community mental health services.

These activities are underpinned by world-class research facilities, notably in the areas of biomechanics, exercise physiology, human metabolism, neuroscience, psychophysiology, thermal physiology, cognition and perception, and personality and social psychology. Our researchers are also involved in the analysis and assessment of policy and clinical practice in the health care community, particularly in the fields of mental health, dietetics, nursing and exercise science and rehabilitation.

Research activities are organised within centres of excellence and collaboration identified and supported by the University. The Faculty hosts a university research strength, the Centre for Health Initiatives, and a number of strategic initiatives including the Smart Foods Centre, the Centre for Translational Neuroscience and Childhood Obesity Research Centre. Further, a new research group in Evidence-based Practice is under development. 

A visit to these web pages will provide you with a more complete view of the breadth and depth of our research.

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