The University of Wollongong boasts world-leading experts across a range of disciplines.
Staff from the University’s Media and Public Relations Unit can assist with finding relevant experts, organising interviews and providing answers to specific questions.
Below are a selection of our experts who can speak to current ongoing and breaking news stories. Journalists can also use our searchable database of more than 1400 academic staff profiles.
Deirdre McGhee
Associate Professor McGhee is an exercise physiologist and expert on breast injuries and protective equipment in female contact and combat sports, sports bra design and fit, and breast-related issues that limit physical activity and athletic performance.
Matthew Schweickle
Dr Schweickle is a sports psychologist who is interested in the areas of performance under pressure in sport, mental health and sports participation, psychological safety in sports, and the use of goal setting in sport and exercise settings.
Troy Heffernan
Professor Heffernan is an expert in sports marketing in the School of Business. He can discuss the role marketing principles play in the operations of sport organisations, sports marketing trends and how sport is used by sponsors to enhance their brand.
Markus Wagner
Professor Wagner is an internationally recognised expert in US and Australian constitutional law, as well as international economic law and governance, and international peace and security. He is the Director of the Transnational Law and Policy Centre.
Sharon Crozier-De Rosa
Professor Crozier-De Rosa is a historian whose expertise covers a range of topics from woman hate, and feminist and anti-feminist uses of history, to women’s movements, abortion activism, and campaigns for women’s monuments and libraries. She is a Professor in the School of Humanities and Social Inquiry.
Luis Gomez Romero
Dr Gómez Romero is a human rights expert who has practiced law in Mexico. He was a high level policy advisor to Mexican President Vicente Fox’s transitional government and a researcher at the Mexican Federal Judiciary Power. He often writes about the relationship between the United States and Mexico.
Kelly Lewer
Dr Lewer is an academic in the School of Nursing. She is a Registered Nurse whose research interests include the impacts of domestic and sexual violence on health and wellbeing. Dr Lewer says primary prevention needs to be evidence based and co-designed with lived experience experts.
Rachel Loney-Howes
Dr Loney-Howes is a criminologist in the School of Health and Society. She is an expert in the use of digital platforms for activism against sexual violence and alternative reporting options for survivors of sexual violence.
Jo Spangaro
Professor Spangaro researches interventions to address sexual and domestic violence both in Australia and internationally. Earlier in her career Professor Spangaro was a social worker with people impacted by sexual and domestic violence. She is a Professor of Social Work in the School of Health and Society.
Alfredo Paloyo
Associate Professor Paloyo is an economist in the School of Business. He is an expert in issues related to human capital, particularly in the fields of labour, health, and education economics.
Mona Nikidehaghani
Dr Nikidehaghani is an accounting expert in the School of Business. Her research focuses on the relationship between accounting and issues of social justice and public policies. Dr Nikidehaghani is often called upon to contribute to discussions of public policies at the national level.
Martin O’Brien
Professor O’Brien is an economist and the Director of the Centre for Human and Social Capital Research. His research interests include segmented labour market theory, econometrics, older worker employment issues and hidden unemployment.
