Physiotherapy Research Group

The mission of the Physiotherapy Research Group is to build the health of our communities by developing practical strategies & solutions through pragmatic physiotherapy & health research in real-world settings.

Current areas of Research

If you are interested in research collaboration or undertaking a Higher Degree by Research in one of the areas listed below, please contact the Lead Researcher for that area to discuss your interest.

Tactical Injury & Performance Risk Management (Lead: Rob Orr)
- Military
- Police
- Fire Fighters / First Responders
Lead: Associate Professor Rob Orr
Paediatric Physiotherapy & Clinical Education (Lead: Nikki Milne)
- Child Health and Development
- Physical Activity
- Child Obesity / Metabolic Disease
- Clinical Education, Interprofessional Education, Action Based Learning
Lead: Assistant Professor Nikki Milne
Clinical Physiotherapy & Clinical Education (Lead: Wayne Hing)
- Manual Therapy
- Physiotherapy in Sports & Exercise
- Clinical Education
- Physical Activity, Mobility & Rehabilitation in Acute Care and Community Settings
- Outcome Measures
Lead: Professor Wayne Hing
Health of Communities (Lead: Adjunct Professor Rod Pope)
- Injury Prevention & Management
- Injury Surveillance
- Health Services & Other Community Assets in Health
- Physical Activity, Mobility & Participation
- Community-Based Approaches for Health
Lead: Adjunct Professor Rod Pope

Academic Staff
Internal Collaborators
External Collaborators
- United States Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine
- Defence Science and Technology Organisation
- University of Colorado: Colorado Springs
- Karolinska Institutet
- Australian Defence Force
- New South Wales Police Force
- Queensland Fire and Rescue Service
- Charles Sturt University
- Curtin University
- Southern Cross University
- QLD Health
- NSW Health
- Pindara Hospital
- John Flynn Hospital
- NSW Department of Education, Training & Employment
- QLD Department of Education, Training & Employment
- University of Queensland
- AUT University
- Griffith University
- Gold Coast University Hospital
- The Wesley Hospital
- Stanford University
- Murdoch Children's Research Institute

Research Students

Rebecca Terry	Relationships between summative coursework assessments & student performance in clinical practice settings
Amanda Hannan	High intensity aerobic and resistance interval training in supervised cardiac rehabilitation and home environments
Kirstin MacDonald	Evaluation of the Tweed Healthy Schools Action Based Learning Program
Jaclyn Szkwara	Medical compression garments to manage prenatal pain & in postnatal recovery
Clare MacFarlane	Effect of orthoses on gait & mobility in children with cerebral palsy
Katherine Doiron	Early mobilisation & functional outcome measurement in critically ill patients in the intensive care unit
Cherie Zischke	Improving access to paediatric physiotherapy: can video technology help?
Josephine Grigg	Biomechanics of BMX at the start gate (In conjunction with EXSCI)
Timothy Whitehouse	The Epidemiology of injury in Australian Professional Rugby Union (In conjunction with EXSCI)
Jo Gooderson	Evaluate current Interprofessional Student Health Team Model (ISHTM) programs, and develop an evidence based manual for implementation of ISHTM throughout Australian Schools (In conjunction with Nutrition/Dietetics)