CARAT team

Director
Ageing and Social Policy
Aged care, dementia, health services, digital health and assistive technology

Deputy-Director & Theme leader: Innovative care models
Occupational Therapy
Assistive technology, dementia, rehabilitation, aged care and health services

Theme leader: Workforce
Nursing
Gerontology, quality of care, aged care, dementia, cognitive impairment, functional decline and information systems

Theme leader: Dementia and cognition
Nutrition and Dietetics
Dementia, carers, art therapy, bio-markers, nutrition and assistive technology

Psychology
Ageing, dementia, menopause and neuroimaging

Nursing
Adverse events, patient safety, quality improvement, delirium and cognitive impairment, consumer and family engagement

Public Health
Post-diagnostic dementia care, active ageing, digital health

Nutrition and Dietetics
Nutrition, healthy ageing, palliative care, mental health and malnutrition

Nursing
Person-centred practice, shared decision making, capacity & consent, dementia care, gerontological nursing and workforce development

Nutrition and Dietetics
Nutrition and foodservices in care settings, aged care, health services, models of care, codesign and consumer engagement, implementation science

Nursing
Dementia, carers, gerontology, sleep & older adults, bio-markers, pressure injuries and social engagement

Speech Pathology
Rehabilitation, neurological communication disorders including dementia

Nutrition and Dietetics
Nutrition, aged care, digital health, palliative care and mental health

Nursing
Decision making, disability, ethics and law, capacity and consent, palliative care and psychotropic medication reduction

Psychology
Neuropsychology (assessment and management of cognitive, emotional and behavioural changes)

Nursing
Primary health, preventative health, child and family, healthy aging

Public Health
Epidemiology, physical activity, chronic disease, mental health and wellbeing

Psychology
Mental health and social wellbeing

Public Health
Preventive health, physical activity, chronic disease, health services and digital health

Physiotherapy
Rehabilitation, healthy ageing, hip pain and patient reported outcome measures

Vision Science and Optometry
Optometry

Nursing
Palliative care, ageism and clinical leadership and followership

Nursing
Aged care, sexuality and gender diversity

Vision Science and Optometry
Evidence-based health care delivery, patient-centred outcomes, public health, vision and ageing research

Public Health
Health services research - Residential aged care, palliative care

Pharmacy
Aged care and pharmacy

Nursing
Organisational culture, healthcare workforce, clinical governance, end of life care and voluntary assisted dying (VAD).

Nutrition and Dietetics
Nutrition, food security and social inequality

Public Health
Spatial epidemiology, built/social environments, mental health and wellbeing

Medical imaging
Health services and medical imaging

Pharmacy
Cardiovascular disease, stroke, diabetes mellitus, risk assessment and prediction modelling

Pharmacy
Medicine safety, pharmaco-economics, gender and ethnicity, physical activity and infectious disease

Psychology
Green space and nature-based activity, mental health and social wellbeing

Nursing
Generalist palliative care, curriculum development

Sports and Exercise Science
Physical activity and neuro-cognition, exercise and the ageing brain

Occupational Therapy
Health workforce; mental health; service implementation; stigma and the concept of choice on health

Sports and Exercise Science
Exercise physiology - Physical activity, cognition, brain and health ageing

Physiotherapy
Rehabilitation, chronic disease and health services

Nursing
Dementia, palliative care, mixed methods, family caregivers, cultural issues, culturally and linguistically diverse communities

Nursing
Housing affordability (social determinant of health), consumer lived experience, reflective practice and workplace learning

Sport and Exercise Science
Physical Activity, Exercise and population health, Risk of Falls in older population, Wellbeing, Purposeful Play

Nursing
Nursing and aged care

Law, Criminology - Institutions and criminalisation

Finance and Financial Planning - Ageing populations, gendered poverty, retirement savings, retirement planning

Signal Processing and Machine Learning - multimodal biosignal processing and machine learning for diagnostic, prognostic, and rehabilitation purposes

Information Systems - Digital inequality, IT innovation and adoption for development in different ethnic and socio-economic communities and developing countries (ICT4D), socio-cultural and organizational influence on IT and their transformation impacted by IT

Data Science - Signal processing, multimodal analysis, neural systems (EEG, fNIRS), cognitive workload, pain assessment, sensor-based neurophysiological markers, data fusion, machine learning, deep learning.
Name | Position | |
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Nina Bala | CPOP Research Assistant | nina.bala@canberra.edu.au |
Angela Chau | Project Coordinator | Angela.Chau@canberra.edu.au |
Juliana De Mendonca | Research Assistant | Juliana.DeMendonca@canberra.edu.au |
Julia Evans | Research Assistant | Julia.Evans@canberra.edu.au |
Lisa Gladman | Research Support Advisor | Lisa.Gladman@canberra.edu.au |
Laura Hants | Research Assistant | Laura.Hants@canberra.edu.au |
Dr Helen Holloway | Clinical Liaison Manager and Project Coordinator | Helen.Holloway@canberra.edu.au |
Stephanie Mulhall | Senior Research Advisor | Stephanie.Mulhall@canberra.edu.au |
Stephanie Munk | CPOP Program Manager | Stephanie.Munk@canberra.edu.au |
Jade Rohrlach | CPOP Administration Assistant | jade.rohrlach@canberra.edu.au |
Lara Wiseman | CARAT Centre Manager | Lara.Wiseman@canberra.edu.au |
Name | Discipline |
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Professional Associate Dr Louise Barrett | Neuropsychology |
Professional Associate Michelle Bennett | Occupational Therapy |
Adjunct Professor Dr Michael Chapman | Medicine |
Adjunct Professor Dr Paresh Dawda | Medicine |
Adjunct Professor Jane Frost | Nursing |
Adjunct Associate Professor John Goss | Economics |
Adjunct Professor Rodney Jilek | Nursing |
Professional Associate Rachael Mitterfellner | Occupational Therapy |
Adjunct Professor Tom Morris | Neuropsychology |
Adjunct Associate Professor Wendy Prowse | |
Professional Associate Isobel Sanger | Occupational Therapist |
Adjunct Professor Karen Strickland | Nursing |
Adjunct Associate Professor Kellie Toohey | Exercise Physiology |
Student | Project | Supervisor(s) |
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Sne啪na Bizilj Schmidt | How to best deliver technology solutions as a component of services for people with dementia in residential aged care: using user-centric techniques and co-design to maximise the value of technology solutions and improve quality of service | Ram Subramanian, Blooma John, Nathan D鈥機unha, Stephen Isbel |
Lauren Ducat | Nutrition interventions for survivors of cancer | Jane Kellett, Nathan D鈥機unha, Ekavi Georgousopoulou |
Ibrahim Haider | The Impact of On-site Pharmacist in Aged Care Model on Medication Appropriateness | Sam Kosari, Mark Naunton and Rachel Davey |
Tara Jewell | Personalised Nutrition in Dementia: A Multidimensional Exploration of Nutrigenomic Mechanisms, Stakeholder Perspectives, and Health Behaviour Outcomes | Nathan D鈥機unha, Michelle Minehan & Ben Rattray |
Zongyi Jiang | Optimizing Embedded Platforms for Continuous Pain Monitoring with sensors and Machine Learning | Raul Fernandez Rojas, Maryam Ghahramani and Nathan D鈥機unha |
Nikki Johnston | How does the happening of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) / Trauma, manifest at End of Life? | Jo Gibson, Kasia Bail and Michael Chapman |
Abdeljalil Lahiouel | Post-diagnostic support for people with dementia and their care partners in the ACT region | Nathan D鈥機unha, Stephen Isbel, Jane Kellett |
Nic Lawlis | Physical activity for cognitive performance in clinical neurological conditions | Joe Northey, Nathan D'Cunha & Ben Rattray |
Robyn Lewis | New models of dementia care and support | Nathan D'Cunha, Diane Gibson, Stephen Isbel and Kasia Bail |
Lakeesha Liyanage | Evaluation of medication outcomes and quality indicators of onsite pharmacists in the aged care practice model: A multicentre study |