My areas of research are focused across two streams:

• Paediatrics / Child Health, Fitness and Learning
• Clinical / Health-professions Education. 

I completed my PhD in 2014 on the topic titled 

• Developing a simple tool for screening the health and motor performance-related fitness of children.  

Large Project Leadership:

• Paediatric Spinal Manipulation and Mobilisation for Infants, Children and Adolescents: A physiotherapy Position Statement
• Paediatric Physiotherapy Curriculum: An international Delphi Survey and Curriculum Guide.
• Tweed Healthy Schools Project; a pilot program and development of Paediatric Interprofessional Supervision and Service Learning Framework for health services in schools. (Funding from North Coast Interdisciplinary Clinical Training Network, HETI/HWA).
• Creating a supportive clinical learning environment for physiotherapy students: a feasibility study to enhance collaboration between students and educators using the ‘Everything DiSC’. 
• Can student’s unique behavioural patterns as identified through the Everything DiSC, predict success in health professional programs?

Areas of HDR supervision include:

• Paediatrics
• Child health, fitness and learning
• Injury prevention and development in sporting populations (child and youth focus)
• Health professional education
• Women’s health