Greater Perth Area
Graduated with a Bachelor in Biomedical Science, majoring in Public Health and Marketing from UWA. Completed First Class Honours in 2021 with UWA and The Kids Research Institute, receiving the top honours mark for 2021. Currently on a RTP Scholarship completing my PhD about Trauma-Informed Pedagogy with the School of Allied Health (Social Work) UWA and The Kids Research Institute (Healing Kids, Healing Families team). I am currently employed as a Research Assistant in the Healing Kids, Healing Families team at The Kids Research Institute Australia, working on a trauma-informed care project about parents, staff and kids' hospital experiences. My PhD, supervised by Professor Karen Martin and Dr Alix Woolard, focuses on exploring pre-service teachers and early career teachers’ knowledge, perceptions and experiences surrounding trauma-informed practice training and education. My PhD is investigating if university Initial Teacher Education programs impact the way teachers respond and support trauma-impacted children. I have developed a strong passion for trauma-informed practice and improving the health of vulnerable or disadvantaged populations. I was also previously employed as a research assistant at the School of Allied Health at UWA, assisting on the Thoughtful Schools Program.
Working on a project about understanding children and families' hospital experiences within the Healing Kids, Healing Families team. The research focuses on identifying practical ways to provide trauma-informed care for children and families visiting the hospital. The Healing Kids, Healing Families (HKHF) team wants to understand how difficult or stressful experiences affect children and their families, and how we can best support them to heal and move forward. Our research focuses on listening to and learning from the experiences of children and families visiting the hospital. By understanding what feels stressful, overwhelming, or supportive during these times, we can identify practical ways to improve care. One way we do this is through research on trauma-informed care. This project is about understanding what children and families go through when they are in the hospital and finding new ways to support them. We want to learn from kids, parents/carers, and hospital staff about what helps them feel safe, calm, and cared for. By listening to the experiences of kids, families, and hospital staff, we will create helpful tools and ideas that make hospital visits more positive and less overwhelming. Our goal is to build a supportive, healing approach that ensures children and families feel understood, safe, and supported during and after their hospital stay.
My PhD, supervised by Professor Karen Martin and Dr Alix Woolard, focuses on exploring pre-service teachers and early career teachers’ knowledge, perceptions and experiences surrounding trauma-informed practice training and education. It is investigating if university Initial Teacher Education programs impact the way teachers respond and support trauma-impacted children.
My honours paper is accessible here: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11218-025-10037-5
Walk in GP, travel and vaccination clinic run by Dr. Peter Burke. Involves admitting patients, getting their details, lodging medicare rebates, finalising the banking, processing patient records and payments to dealing with private and overseas health funds etc.
Research Assistant on the Thoughtful Schools Project. Assisting Dr. Karen Martin and Dr. Stephan Lund at Allied Health (Social Work) UWA. This research project is developed by university researchers, psychologists and teachers, and is based on current best evidence.
Mainly work in reception: Admitting patients, doing medical admissions, checking eligibility (health fund checks), doing the banking, dealing with patients papers and the patients themselves, dealing with large amounts of money and settling the banking, sorting and delivering the mail, answering and directing the calls on the switchboard and using Kronos and Webpas software systems. Also do lots of shifts in: Bookings/Pre-admissions: Creating patient hardtop and electronic files, calling patients and health funds and theatre bookings and meetings Health records: Clinical coding, filing patient’s records, data entry, compiling records, making files etc Maintenance: Using Kwiklook programs for data entry and logging maintenance jobs, dealing with the contractors who come to do jobs and repairs at the hospital, organising and filing job sheets, doing maintenance checks around the hospital Concierge: Taking the patients up to their ward and settling them into their room Orderly: Taking admitted patients from their rooms to theatres, to scans, to cognitive tests, to appointments in the hospital etc
Casual: Assisted Loft Department in manufacturing industrial plastic products and packaging industrial product lines