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The theme for International Day of Women and Girls in Science 2025 is 'Unpacking STEM Careers: Her Voice in Science'. We sat down with Dr Shannon Sahlqvist, Senior Lecturer and Sustainability cross-domain theme co-lead at IPAN, to understand more about her career in science working to tackle the global challenge of sustainability.
Professor Jenny Veitch is renowned for her research examining how the neighbourhood environment affects physical activity. Her research and stakeholder engagement has had broad impact, earning her funding from several prestigious schemes and industry sources, as well as multiple awards and nominations for research excellence and innovation.
Dr Jackson Fyfe shares five principles to help make it easier to stick to an exercise routine.
Deakin University's School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences and the Institute for Physical Activity and Nutrition (IPAN) have again been ranked number one in the world for Sports Science Schools in the prestigious ShanghaiRankings Global Ranking of Sports Science Schools and Departments.
With over 10 years of clinical experience as an Accredited Exercise Physiologist and an impressive research profile, Dr Kim Way is an emerging international leader in the field of exercise physiology for cardiometabolic diseases. Dr Way has secured over $1m in research funding to date from several prestigious national and international sources.
IPAN researchers discuss via The Conversation how a balanced approach to screen use may be helpful for parents, as well as children.
Being more conscious of what, when and why we eat could help us put strategies in place to improve our eating behaviours.
Dr Jordan Bakhsh aims to understand mega sport events as sites for social change. Jordan has collaborated with over 50 major sporting organisations around the world, generating transformational knowledge to maximise the social benefits and reduce social costs for sporting event stakeholders.
Dr Priscila Machado envisions a world with a food system that is conducive to equitable access to affordable and sustainable healthy food. In the last 5 years, her groundbreaking research on the impacts of ultra-processed foods, sustainable diets, and policy responses has attracted over $1.5m of research funding.
IPAN researchers are testing how common household AI assistants can help older Australians to help manage type two diabetes, with promising results.
An avid science communicator, Dr Jackson Fyfe's popular newsletter The Weekly Exerciser provides ‘actionable tips to make exercise easier’, helping to translate his research interest in reducing age-related functional declines through exercise to a broad audience.
An IPAN PhD project is exploring whether a specially designed non-contact cardio boxing program could support the mental and physical health of women who have experienced violence within an intimate partner relationship.