Student Section
Key Contacts
Below are listed profiles of the Divisional representatives on the Student Section Committee and the AAG Student Section Academic Advisor.
CHRIS HATHERLY
Immediate Past National Student President 2009
Title: PhD Candidate (
Institution: Ageing Research Unit, Centre for Mental Health Research,
Thesis Title: Efficient peripheral vision and road safety: A novel
approach to screening and training at risk older drivers.
Research Interests: Psychology and Ageing, Cognitive Ageing, Cognition and
Perception, Road Safety, Research Integration and Knowledge Transfer.
Work History: PhD Student – 2007-08; Research Assistant, Tutor &
Demonstrator, ANU – 2005, 07-08; Project and Policy Officer, Federal Department
of Industry, Tourism and Resources - 2006; Age and Disability Support Worker,
2002–04.
AAG Membership History: Joined the AAG Division in 2007.
Primary Goals as State Representative: To continue the growth of student
membership, and to continue and expand the exciting range of student-initiated
activities and events that have taken place in
MILA CICHELLO
2008/2009 National Student President
Title: PhD
Research candidate (NHMRC Scholarship).
Institution:
Division of Psychology, School of Health Sciences, RMIT University.
Thesis title:
Cultural and health predictors of positive ageing in older Filipinos living in
urban and rural communities in Australia.
Research interests:
public policy and health administration, psychology of ageing, cross cultural
research.
Work history:
Registered Nurse Division1 (General Nurse, Midwife, Neonatal ICU), Drug &
Alcohol Counselling, Registered Organisational Psychologist, Executive Officer
with the Commonwealth Department of Health & Ageing (in program areas of
childcare services, rural health, aged care standards monitoring, community
programs, aged policy and strategic planning).
AAG membership history:
joined Vic Division in 2004.
Primary goals as State Representative: To share gerontology research and information across
professional disciplines, promote student membership in Victoria and help build an accessible
student forum with international linkages.
ANTHONY BROWN
Student Representative,
Email: Anthony Brown
Anthony Brown is a PhD student at the
LYN ADAMSON
Student Representative, NSW Hunter Chapter
Email: Lyn Adamson
Institution: Research Centre for Gender, Health
and Ageing at the
Thesis Title: “In their own words”: Healthy
ageing in late modernity: An analysis of the free text comments of the 1921-26
cohort of the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women’s Health.
Work History: For the past 17 years I have been
employed at the
Primary Goals Hunter Chapter Rep: I hope to be able to help promote
the organisation and the topic of ageing amongst the staff, and students of the
University and the general community of the Hunter region.
XIAO JING YANG
Student Rep, Victoria
Email: Xiao Jing Yang
Title: PhD
Candidate.
Institution:
Thesis title:
Early screening for balance dysfunction, and a targeted exercise intervention
among community-dwelling older people.
Research interests: Exploring effective ways to help older people stay
healthy, active and maintain a good quality of life.
Work history: I
was originally trained in medicine with a focus on Public Health issues in
Student Representative,
Email: Andrea Petriwskyj
Institution: Australasian Centre on Ageing and
the
Thesis
title: Governance in the Grey Area: Engaging
Research interests: Social and political participation
by older people, policy issues for older people, community attitudes to ageing.
Work history: Research assistant for School of
Psychology, The University of Queensland, for Australasian Centre on Ageing,
The University of Queensland, and for the School of Psychology and Counselling,
Queensland University of Technology.
Primary goals as State
Representative: To
promote gerontology to students, as well as to promote the role of students as
a driving force in this field.
Email: Chris Materne
Institution:
Thesis topic: Memory Rehabilitation in Dementia
and Alzheimer’s Disease: The Role of Memory Self-Efficacy in Spaced Retrieval
Training.
Research interests: Along with my
interest in memory dementia and Alzheimer’s Disease, I have an interest in
intergenerational relationships, especially between grandparents and their
grandchildren.
Work history: After many years in the
hospitality industry I found my way back to Uni and completed undergraduate
studies in psychology. Since then I have
worked in the Flinders Centre for Ageing Studies as a research assistant and as
the Co-ordinator of Clinical Assessments for The Australian Longitudinal Study
of Ageing. I am also involved in tutoring undergraduate (and some post
graduate) students at Flinders.
AAG member history: Student member since 2007; SA/NT
representative from October 2008.
Primary goals: To support and promote the AAG, especially
to students. To develop and foster
relationships between students from different disciplines and institutions who share
an interest in older people.
Title: PhD Candidate.
SHARON ANDREWS
Student Representative,
Email: Sharon Andrews
Title: PhD Candidate.
Institution:
Thesis title: Developing the care practices of
aged care staff around a palliative approach for people with advanced dementia.
Research interests: Practice development, capacity
building in the aged care workforce, participatory action research, dementia
care.
Work history: Registered nurse with clinical
background in aged care and palliative care services. Clinical Nurse Education,
Southern Cross Care (Tas). Previously managed a Registered Nurse Re-Entry to
Practice Program (aged care). Previously project officer "Building Connections
in Aged Care" Project. Currently Project officer (action research
component) for National Falls Prevention Project, NARI.
Primary goals as State
Representative: To
increase recruitment of student in gerontology to the Tas
JASON FOX
Student Representative,
Email: Jason Fox
Institution: School of Environmental Science,
Thesis title:The role of participant involvement
and interaction within a behavioral approach to healthy ageing health
promotion.
Research interests: Improving people's motivation and
attitude throughout the process of ageing. Exploring effective ways to promote
positive, sustained health and wellbeing outcomes.
Work history: Supervisor and Coordinator of
Murdoch University Mentoring Program, Co-founder of the Senior Smart healthy
ageing motivation program, Tutor and Casual Lecturer for
Primary goals as State
Representative: To
promote gerontology to students as not only an important research area, but an
exciting and holistic one too.
HELEN FEIST
Email: Helen Feist
Title: PhD Candidate.
Institution: University of Adelaide, School of Geography and Environmental Sciences.
Thesis title: Social Spaces, Rural Places: Ageing in Place in Rural South Australia.
Research interests: The nature of space, place and community for older people, social
policy and ageing in- place, critical and social gerontology, social
network analysis.
Work history: Project Coordinator, Elder Friendly Communities Project 2004/05; Special Projects Officer, Murray Mallee Aged Care Group 2005.
AAG member history: Student member since 2004; SA/NT representative to 2006, National Student Representative 2007.
Primary goals as Immediate Past National Student President: To continue to support the AAG student section and to create stronger
links between professionals and students in gerontology and to finish
my thesis.
ACADEMIC ADVISOR TO THE STUDENT REPRESENTATIVES COMMITTEE
PROFESSOR COLLEEN CARTWRIGHT
