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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.
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.
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.
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.
A/Prof Nat Lander is part of the powerhouse behind IPAN's pioneering TransformUs program, helping to get more kids moving across every school day. She currently holds an ARC DECRA Fellowship that aims to understand the impact of an innovative initial teacher education program (TransformUs Higher Ed) on pre-service teacher's confidence and practical skills, and primary school students' learning, wellbeing and physical activity.
Prof Keske is a Deputy Director at IPAN and one of our leading diabetes researchers. For National Diabetes Week, we wanted to find out what drives her passion for research.