Fields of Research

Epidemiology
Health promotion
Preventative health care
Health services and systems
Behavioural epidemiology
Cardiology (incl. cardiovascular diseases)
Social determinants of health
Health equity
Sports science and exercise
Paediatrics
Health and community services
Podiatry
Health counselling
Primary health care
Community child health
Exercise physiology
Social change
Mental health services
Recreation, leisure and tourism geography
Disease surveillance
Sociology
Land use and environmental planning
Nutrition and dietetics
Rheumatology and arthritis
Sport and exercise nutrition
Cardiovascular medicine and haematology
Public health
Rural sociology
Tourist behaviour and visitor experience
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander public health and wellbeing
Applied sociology, program evaluation and social impact assessment
Sports medicine

Research Objectives

Behaviour and health
Clinical health
Public health (excl. specific population health)
Preventive medicine
Rural and remote area health
Determinants of health
Health education and promotion
Nutrition
Women's and maternal health
Evaluation of health outcomes
Expanding knowledge in the health sciences
Neonatal and child health
Social structure and health
Health protection and disaster response
Health inequalities
Exercise
Community health care
Adolescent health
Expanding knowledge in human society
Terrestrial biodiversity
Sport, exercise and recreation
Other health
Mental health
Prevention of human diseases and conditions
Specific population health (excl. Indigenous health)
Recreational services
Health policy evaluation
Organised sports
Health status (incl. wellbeing)

Career Best Publications

Research Publications

trips4health: Protocol of a single-blinded randomised controlled trial incentivising adults to use public transport for physical activity gain; Contemporary Clinical Trials Communications
A Comparison of Subjective and Objective Measures of Physical Activity and Fitness in Identifying Associations with Cardiometabolic Risk Factors; Annals of Epidemiology
A cross-sectional study of geographic differences in health risk factors among young Australian adults: The role of socioeconomic position; Bmc Public Health
A latent transition analysis of physical activity and screen-based sedentary behavior from adolescence to young adulthood; The International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity
A longitudinal study of the family environment and youth physical activity; American Journal of Health Promotion
A mixed-methods study of the demographic and behavioural correlates of walking to a more distant bus stop; Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives
A prospective examination of children's time spent outdoors, objectively measured physical activity and overweight; International Journal of Obesity: and Related Metabolic Disorders
A qualitative study of environmental factors important for physical activity in rural adults; PLoS One
A scoping review: global health literacy interventions for pregnant women and mothers with young children; Health Promotion International
Acceptability and perceived feasibility of strategies to increase public transport use for physical activity gain - a mixed methods study; Health Promotion Journal of Australia
Accumulated exposure to rural areas of residence over the life course is associated with overweight and obesity in adulthood: a 25-year prospective cohort study; Annals of Epidemiology
Are associations between the perceived home and neighbourhood environment and children's physical activity and sedentary behaviour moderated by urban/rural location?; Health and Place
Are perceptions of the physical and social environment associated with mothers' walking for leisure and transport behaviours? A longitudinal study; Preventive Medicine: An International Journal Devoted to Practice and Theory
Associations between education and personal income with body mass index among Australian women residing in disadvantaged neighborhoods; American Journal of Health Promotion
Associations between sedentary behaviours and dietary intakes among adolescents; Public Health Nutrition
Associations between the perceived environment and physical activity among adults aged 55-65 years: Does urban-rural area of residence matter?; Journal of Aging and Physical Activity
Authors’ Response to the Letter to the Editor: Parkrun and the Claim of “Elitism” in Paid-Entry Run/Walk Events; American Journal of Health Promotion
Beating traffic only one consideration when weighing e-scooters' presence
Body mass index trajectories from childhood to adulthood: Evidence from the International Childhood Cardiovascular Cohort (i3C) Consortium
Body-mass index trajectories from childhood to mid-adulthood and their sociodemographic predictors: evidence from the International Childhood Cardiovascular Cohort (i3C) Consortium; EClinicalMedicine
Cardiometabolic Risk in Younger and Older Adults Across an Index of Ambulatory Activity ; American Journal of Preventive Medicine
Characteristics associated with willingness to walk further than necessary to the bus stop: Insights for public transport-related physical activity; Journal of Transport and Health
Childhood factors associated with muscular strength trajectories between childhood and mid-adulthood; Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise
Childhood factors related to diverging body mass index trajectories from childhood into mid-adulthood: A mixed methods study; Social Science and Medicine
Cluster patterns of behavioural risk factors among children: longitudinal associations with adult cardio-metabolic risk factors; Preventive Medicine
Cohort profile: the resilience for eating and activity despite inequality (READI) study; International Journal of Epidemiology
Combined associations of sitting time and physical activity with obesity in young adults; Journal of Physical Activity and Health
Correlates and determinants of transport-related physical activity among adults: an interdisciplinary systematic review; BMC Public Health
Correlates of pedometer-measured and self-reported physical activity among young Australian adults; Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport
Creating environments that support active living in rural Tasmania: Findings from a qualitative study
Decline in Physical Fitness From Childhood to Adulthood Associated With Increased Obesity and Insulin Resistance in Adults ; Diabetes Care
Do food and physical activity environments vary between disadvantaged urban and rural areas? Findings from the READI Study; Health Promotion Journal of Australia
Do the individual, social, and environmental correlates of physical activity differ between urban and rural women? ; Environment and Behavior
Effectiveness of interventions to promote physical activity among socioeconomically disadvantaged women: a systematic review and meta-analysis; Obesity Reviews
Effectiveness of interventions to promote physical activity and/or decrease sedentary behaviour among rural adults: A systematic review and meta-analysis; Obesity Reviews
Effects of school-based interventions for direct delivery of physical activity on fitness and cardiometabolic markers in children and adolescents: a systematic review of randomized controlled trials; Obesity Reviews
Encouraging Physical Activity And Discouraging Sedentary Behaviour In Adolescents; Journal of Adolescent Health
Environmental barriers and enablers to physical activity participation among rural adults: A qualitative study; Health Promotion Journal of Australia
Exercise-induced hypertension, cardiovascular events, and mortality in patients undergoing exercise stress testing: a systematic review and meta-analysis; American Journal of Hypertension
Exploring new ways to get to work
Exploring the health-promoting potential of the 'parkrun' phenomenon: What factors are associated with higher levels of participation?; American Journal of Health Promotion
Factors Affecting the Stability of Blood Lipid and Lipoprotein Levels From Youth to Adulthood: Evidence from the Childhood Determinants of Adult Health Study; Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine
Factors associated with change and stability in adherence to muscle-strengthening guidelines among young Australian adults: A longitudinal study; Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport
Factors associated with muscular fitness phenotypes in Australian children: a cross-sectional study; Journal of Sports Sciences
Factors associated with persistently high muscular power from childhood to adulthood; Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise
Factors associated with physical activity promotion by allied and other non-medical health professionals: a systematic review; Patient Education and Counseling
Feasibility of ‘parkrun’ for people with knee osteoarthritis: A mixed methods pilot study; Osteoarthritis and Cartilage Open
Final Report Girls in Action Sports Project (GASP)
Get Moving at Work: Evaluation of a Resource Kit for Workplace Health and Wellbeing Programs
Health and broader community benefit of parkrun – An exploratory qualitative study; Health Promotion Journal of Australia
Health by Stealth: Transport for an Active Tasmania
Health literacy status of pregnant women and women with young children in Tasmania; Health Promotion Journal of Australia
Health, Behavioral, Cognitive, and Social Correlates of Breakfast Skipping among Women Living in Socioeconomically Disadvantaged Neighborhoods; Journal of Nutrition
Home and neighbourhood correlates of BMI among children living in socioeconomically disadvantaged neighbourhoods ; British Journal of Nutrition
Impacts of life-events on sitting, TV viewing and computer use among women from disadvantaged neighbourhoods; BMC Public Health
In Reply: Cleland et al Respond to 'Physical activity over the life course: whose behavior changes, when and why?'; American Journal of Epidemiology
In Reply: Overweight and obesity from childhood to adulthood: a follow-up of participants in the 1985 Australian Schools Health and Fitness Survey; Medical Journal of Australia
Incentivising public transport use for physical activity gain: process evaluation of the COVID-19 disrupted trips4health randomised controlled trial; The International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity
Individual, social and environmental correlates of physical activity among women living in socioeconomically disadvantaged neighbourhoods; Social Science & Medicine
Individual, social and physical environmental correlates of physical activity among young women at risk of depression; Journal of Physical Activity & Health
Invited Comment: Evidence for secular trends in children's physical activity behaviour; British Journal of Sports Medicine
Is a perceived supportive physical environment important for self-reported leisure time physical activity among socioeconomically disadvantaged women with poor psychosocial characteristics? An observational study; BMC Public Health
Is greater public transport use associated with higher levels of physical activity in a regional setting? Findings from a pilot study; Pilot and Feasibility Studies
Lifestyle behaviours associated with 5-year weight gain in a prospective cohort of Australian adults aged 26-36 years at baseline; BMC Public Health
Longitudinal associations between TV viewing and BMI not explained by the 'mindless eating' or 'physical activity displacement' hypotheses among adults; BMC Public Health
Longitudinal examination of the family food environment and weight status among children; International Journal of Pediatric Obesity
Love thy neighbour? Associations of social capital and crime with physical activity amongst women; Social Science & Medicine
Maintaining participation in physical activity from childhood to young adulthood. Is fluctuating participation the norm?; 4th International Congress on Physical Activity and Public Health, 'Be Active'
Making Hobart a smart place: a healthy, just and ecological approach to smart cities
Maternal efficacy and sedentary behavior rules predict child obesity resilience; BMC Obesity
Obesity prevention programs and policies: Practitioner and policy-maker perceptions of feasibility and effectiveness; Obesity
Overweight and obesity from childhood to adulthood: a follow-up of participants in the 1985 Australian Schools Health and Fitness Survey; Medical Journal of Australia
Parental exercise is associated with Australian children's extracurricular sports participation and cardiorespiratory fitness: a cross-sectional study; International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity
Partnering and parenting transitions in Australian men and women: associations with changes in weight, domain-specific physical activity and sedentary behaviours; International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity
Patterns and predictors of sitting among women from disad-vantaged neighbourhoods over time: A 5-year prospective cohort study; International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Patterns and predictors of television viewing and computer use among women living in socioeconomically disadvantaged neighborhoods: A prospective cohort study; Journal of Physical Activity and Health
Personal, social and environmental determinants of resilience to physical inactivity amongst socioeconomically disadvantaged women; Health Education Research: Theory and Practice
Physical activity and food environments in and around schools: a case study in regional North-West Tasmania; International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Physical Activity and Healthy Weight Maintenance From Childhood to Adulthood; Obesity
Physical activity correlates in young women with depressive symptoms: a qualitative study; The International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity
Predictors of time spent outdoors among children: 5-year longitudinal findings; Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health
Recruiting hard-to-reach populations: lessons from a study of women living in socioeconomically disadvantaged areas of Victoria, Australia; Health Promotion Journal of Australia
Resilience to obesity amongst socioeconomically disadvantaged women: the READI study; International Journal of Obesity
Results from the Australian 2022 Report Card on physical activity for children and young people; Journal of Exercise Science and Fitness
Social and Environmental Determinants of Health Behaviors; Handbook of Behavioral Medicine
Social ecological factors associated with physical activity and screen time amongst mothers from disadvantaged neighbourhoods over three years; International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity
Social-ecological predictors of physical activity patterns: a longitudinal study of women from socioeconomically disadvantaged areas; Preventive Medicine
Socio-demographic, behavioural and health-related characteristics associated with active commuting in a regional Australian state: evidence from the 2016 Tasmanian Population Health Survey; Health Promotion Journal of Australia
Socioeconomic position and children's physical activity and sedentary behaviours: Longitudinal findings from the CLAN study; Journal of Physical Activity & Health
Socioeconomic position and physical activity among women in Melbourne, Australia: Does the use of different socioeconomic indicators matter?; Social Science & Medicine
Socioeconomic Position and the Tracking of Physical Activity and Cardiorespiratory Fitness From Childhood to Adulthood; American Journal of Epidemiology
Television viewing and abdominal obesity in young adults: is the association mediated by food and beverage consumption during viewing time or reduced leisure time physical activity?; American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
Test-retest reliability of a self-reported physical activity environment instrument for use in rural settings; Australian Journal of Rural Health
The association between physical activity and depressive symptoms in young women: A review; Mental Health and Physical Activity
The longitudinal influence of home and neighbourhood environments on children's physical activity and adiposity over five years: the CLAN study; International Journal of Obesity: and Related Metabolic Disorders
The provision of compulsory school physical activity: Associations with physical activity, fitness and overweight in childhood and twenty years later; The International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity
Three-year change in diet quality and associated changes in BMI among schoolchildren living in socio-economically disadvantaged neighbourhoods; The British Journal of Nutrition: An International Journal of Nutritional Science
Trends in children's physical activity and weight status in high and low socio-economic status areas of Melbourne, Victoria, 1985-2001; Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health
Understanding and PROmoting Active living in Rural Tasmania: UPROAR
Understanding and PROmoting Active living in Rural Tasmania: UPROAR
Understanding and PROmoting Active living in Rural Tasmania: UPROAR
Understanding and PROmoting Active living in Rural Tasmania: UPROAR
Understanding the physical activity promotion behaviours of podiatrists: a qualitative study; Journal of Foot and Ankle Research
Urban-rural comparison of weight status among women and children living in socioeconomically disadvantaged neighbourhoods; Medical Journal of Australia
What are grade five and six children buying from school canteens and what do parents and teachers think about it?; Nutrition & Dietetics
What factors are associated with physical activity promotion in the podiatry setting? a cross-sectional study; Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport
What might work? Exploring the perceived feasibility of strategies to promote physical activity among women living in socioeconomically disadvantaged neighbourhoods; Health Education Research
What predicts children's active transport and independent mobility in disadvantaged neighborhoods?; Health & Place
Which domains of childhood physical activity predict physical activity in adulthood? A 20-year prospective tracking study; British Journal of Sports Medicine
Women's work. Maintaining a healthy body weight; Appetite: The Journal for Research on Intake, and Dietary Practices, Their Control and Consequences
Young adult perceptions of Australia's physical activity recommendations for adults; Health Promotion Journal of Australia
“I love having a healthy lifestyle' – a qualitative study investigating body mass index trajectories from childhood to mid-adulthood; BMC Obesity

Research Projects

Cardiometabolic risk trajectories from childhood to midlife: finding pathways to better health; National Health & Medical Research Council (NHMRC)
Changing the game for girls in action sports; University of Tasmania (UTAS)
Critical windows: understanding changes in eating and physical activity over the transition from secondary school to young adulthood; Australian Research Council (ARC)
Developing a Collaborative Transport Research Program; University of Tasmania (UTAS)
Developing benchmarks and a smart online tool for assessing walkability in regional and rural communities: Supporting rural Australians to live healthy, active lives; Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF)
Exploring the public health potential of parkrun in Tasmania; University of Tasmania (UTAS)
Health by Stealth: Increasing Physical Activity through Active Travel in Tasmania; National Health & Medical Research Council (NHMRC)
Improving cardiovascular health through increased transport-related physical activity: A co-designed randomised controlled trial; Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF)
Improving cardiovascular health through walking and cycling for transport; Heart Foundation (HF)
Maintaining or increasing relative physical activity levels is associated with maintaining a healthy weight from childhood into adulthood: the Childhood Determinants of Adult Health (CDAH) study; Heart Foundation (HF)
Promoting active, healthy lifestyles among women at key life-stages; Heart Foundation (HF)
Public Health Nutrition Translational Research Focusing on Iodine and Health Eating in School Settings; Department of Health and Human Services Tasmania (DHHS)
Translational Research Program; Department of Health and Human Services Tasmania (DHHS)
Understanding and promoting physical activity amongst socioeconomically disadvantaged women; National Health & Medical Research Council (NHMRC)
Understanding obesity trajectories from childhood to adulthood; Menzies Institute for Medical Research (MIMR)
Understanding the perspectives of general practitioners regarding sedentary behaviour management in primary care: a qualitative study; Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP)
Understanding urban-rural influences on chronic disease risk factors and mental health in young adults: A five-year prospective study; The Select Foundation (SelF)
Unlocking the potential of a novel setting to promote physical activity (PA) among patients with Knee Osteoarthritis (KOA) - parkrun; Medibank Better Health Foundation (MBHF)
What factors influence the physical activity promotion and counselling behaviours of Tasmanian podiatrists; University of Tasmania (UTAS)
Which Features of the Physical Activity Environment are Important for Physical Activity Among Rural Women? A Qualitative Investigation; University of Tasmania (UTAS)
Changing the Game for Girls in Action Sports
Effects of Different Holiday Experiences in Tasmania on Visitors' Emotional Wellbeing
Evaluation of the extended School Lunch Pilot
Healthy Tasmania Evaluation Project
Young People and Physical Activity

Research Candidate Supervision

Maintaining participation in physical activity during the transition from adolescence to adulthood- A mixed methods study
Podiatric Physical Activity Promotion Study
Understanding Urban-Rural Differences in Chronic Disease Risk Factors Across the Life Course