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ARC Research Network in Ageing Well: Foundation Network Members as at 15th September 2006

Title	First Name	Last Name	Discipline	Position/ Organisation	Key Research Area (1)	Key Research Area (2)	Key Research Area (3)
Dr	Kaarin	Anstey	Psychology	Fellow Centre for Mental Health Research The Australian National University	Risk and protective factors for cognitive aging	Impact of cognitive and sensory aging on driving and other everyday activities	Psychological well-being and depression in old age
Dr	Emily	Banks	Epidemiology and medicine	Associate Professor National Centre for Epidemiology and Population The Australian National University	Large scale cohort studies	Health effects of hormone replacement therapy	Cancer epidemiology
Professor	Helen	Bartlett	Social policy, public policy and nursing	Director Australasian Centre on Ageing The University of Queensland	Ageing policy	Active ageing	Quality of residential aged care
Professor	Duncan	Boldy	Health policy and management	Professor Centre for Research into Aged Care Services and School of Public Health Curtin University of Technology	Independence and empowerment of older people	Evaluating models of care/support	Client input to planning and decision making
Professor	John	Braithwaite	Sociology	Professor Research School of Social Sciences The Australian National University	Regulation and quality in residential care	Program Evaluation	Research translation to policy development
Professor	Anthony (Tony)	Broe	Gerontology and geriatric medicine	Scientific Director Ageing Research Centre (Medicine) The University of New South Wales	Epidemiology of ageing	Neuro degeneration	Healthy ageing
Associate Professor	Colette	Browning	Psychology	Associate Professor School of Public Health La Trobe University	Ageing	Health behaviours and chronic illness	Psychological well being in older people
Associate Professor	Marc	Budge	Rehabilitation and medicine	Medical School The Australian National University	Prevention and management of cognitive and cardio-vascular decline with ageing and disease	Multi-modality, brain and cardiovascular imaging	Development of health service delivery models for older adults
Dr	Jim	Butler	Health economics	National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health The Australian National University	Health economics, welfare economics and public finance
Professor	Julie	Byles	Epidemiology and medicine	Director Centre for Research and Education in Ageing The Newcastle University	Social and environmental health and ageing	Women and ageing	Ageing and effective and equitable health care
Professor	Branko	Celler	Engineering	Co-director Centre for Health Informatics and Director Biomedical Systems laboratory Head The University of New South Wales
Dr	Michael	Clark	Psychology	Senior Research Fellow School of Medicine Flinders University	Caregiver stress and health	Disability, activity and healthy ageing	Driving capacity in people with dementia
Dr	Lindy	Clemson	Occupational therapy and epidemiology	Sesquicentenary Senior Research Fellow School of Occupation and Leisure Sciences Faculty of Health Sciences University of Sydney	Independence of older persons at home and in the community	Falls prevention	Physical environment, adaptation and ageing
Professor	Robert	Cumming	Epidemiology and geriatric medicine	Professor of Epidemiology and Geriatric Medicine Centre for Education and Research on Ageing and School of Public Health The University of Sydney	Prevention of health problems of older people	Falls	Vision problems
Professor	David	de Vaus	Sociology	Professor Sociology La Trobe University	Retirement	Family and aging	Intergenerational relations
Professor	Helen	Edwards	Nursing	Head School of Nursing Queensland University of Technology	Chronic disease and symptom management in older people	Quality of life in older people	Communication, ageing and health
Professor	Maria	Fiatarone Singh	Geriatric medicine and exercise physiology	John Sutton Chair of Exercise & Sport Science School of Exercise and Sport Science and Faculty of Medicine The University of Sydney	Geriatric medicine	Exercise	Nutrition
Dr	Diane	Gibson	Sociology	Head Welfare Division Australian Institute of Health and Welfare	Social aspects of ageing	Welfare services	Social policy
Professor	Nicholas	Glasgow		Director Australian Primary Health Care Research Institute The Australian National University	Interface between primary and secondary health care	Asthma and respiratory health	Drug and alcohol issues
Professor	Len	Gray	Geriatric medicine	Chair in Geriatric Medicine and Principal Senior Research Fellow Australasian Centre on Ageing The University of Queensland	Aged care program evaluation	Hospital care of frail older people	Assessment for disabled and older people
Professor	Bob	Gregory	Economics	Economics Program Research School of Social Sciences The Australian National University	Labour force	Macro economic policy	Public Policy
Professor	Ann	Harding	Economics	Director National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling The University of Canberra	Income and wealth	Assessing redistributional impact of government programs	Forecasting social and economic conditions
Dr	Judith	Healy	Social work and public policy	Director Social Protection Facility Centre for Social Research Research School of the Social Sciences Australian National University	Policies for ageing populations	Health care systems analysis	Cross-national policy analysis
Professor	David	Hensher		Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies Faculty of Economics and Business The University of Sydney	Transport economics, policy and strategy	Applied econometric modelling	Travel demand modelling
Professor	Beryl	Hesketh	Psychology	Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Sciences & Technology) Psychology The University of Sydney	Retirement decision-making	Training and consumer education	Organisational psychology
Professor	Graeme	Hugo	Geography and demography	Professor of Geography and Director The National Centre for Social Applications of GIS Department of Geographical and Environmental Studies The University of Adelaide	Population, geography and demography	Demographic trends (especially population mobility)	Development in Southeast Asia and Australia
Dr	Natalie	Jackson	Sociology	Director Demographic Analytical Services Unit University of Tasmania	Population dynamics	Regionality of population ageing distributions of older people	Population policy
Professor	Hal	Kendig	Sociology and gerontology	Research Professor of Ageing and Health The University of Sydney	Intergener-ational and social relationships	Social policy and planning	Ageing and the built environment
Professor	Alan	Lopez	Demography	Head Population Health The University of Queensland	Mortality decline among the elderly	Changing health profiles at older ages and the compression of morbidity	Disease burden among elderly populations
Professor	Mary	Luszcz	Psychology	Professor School of Psychology Social Sciences and Centre for Ageing Studies School of Medicine Flinders University	Cognitive ageing (especially memory information processing)	Pre-clinical cognitive impairment and geronto-neuro- physiology	Psychological indicators of well-being (eg., morale, depression, generativity, integrity)
Professor	John	McCallum	Sociology	Deputy Vice-Chancellor Victoria University	Healthy ageing	Social epidemiology of ageing	Social support in old age
Professor	Peter	McDonald	Demography	Head Demography and Sociology Program Research School of Social Sciences The Australian National University	Population dynamics	Inter-generational relations	Population policies
Professor	John	McNeil	Epidemiology and medicine	Head Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine Faculty of Medicine Nursing and Health Sciences	Cardiovascular disease	Epidemiology and public health	Pharmacology
Professor	Victor	Minichiello	Sociology	Professor of Health School of Health and Dean Faculty of Education Health and Professional Studies University of New England	Ageism, sexual health in later life and social support	Health promotion in later life, oral health and prevention of dementia	Labour force issues in aged care and rural ageing
Dr	Deborah	Mitchell		Director ACSPRI Centre for Social Research The Australian National University
Associate Professor	Elizabeth	Ozanne	Social work and sociology	Head School of Social Work The University of Melbourne	Social gerontology	Aged care service design and evaluation	Politics of Ageing
Dr	Nancy	Pachana	Clinical psychology	Senior Lecturer School of Psychology University of Queensland	Ageing	Cognition	Anxiety
Professor	John	Piggott	Economics	Associate Dean (Research) Faculty of Commerce and Economics	Pension economics	Public finance	Computable general equilibrium
Associate Professor	Susan	Quine	Sociology and public health	Associate Professor School of Public Health and Co-convenor Ageing Institutional Research Strength The University of Sydney	Social gerontology	Cultural variation	Retirement
Professor	Sue	Richardson	Economics	Director National Institute of Labour Studies Flinders University	Planning for an ageing workforce	Workforce changes and the wellbeing of children	Migration
Professor	Linda	Rosenman		Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences University of Queensland	Retirement income policy	Superannuation	Assets and wealth
Professor	Peter	Saunders	Economics	Director Social Policy Research Centre The University of New South Wales	Measurement, causes and consequences of poverty; Income distribution and economic inequality	Economic aspects of social security	Social policy and the welfare state
Professor	Terry	Seedsman	Social gerontology	Deputy Dean Faculty of Human Development Victoria University	Physical activity, leisure, lifestyle and retirement	Inter-generational relationships
Professor	Bob	Stimson	Economic geography	Director Centre for Research into Sustainable Urban and Regional Futures University of Queensland	Geography of ageing	Spatial behaviour	Community options for the aged
Professor	Shane	Thomas	Psychology and public policy	Professor School of Public Health La Trobe University	Health and human service use trajectories	Decision making	Problem gambling
Associate Professor	Jill	Wilson	Social work	Associate Professor School of Social Work and Applied Human Sciences University of Queensland	Ageing and assets	Aged care in residential and community settings	Staff supervision
Professor	Mark	Wooden	Economics	Professorial Fellow and Deputy Director Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic And Social Research University of Melbourne and Director Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia Survey (HILDA) Project.	Labour economics	Social and labour market policy	Longitudinal survey research
Associate Professor	Linda	Worrall	Speech pathology	Associate Professor School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences The University of Queensland	Communication disability in ageing	Communication in residential aged care facilities	Accessibility issues for older people (an age-friendly society)