Women’s Health and Neuroscience research programme: our team
This research programme has been co-created with iwi, interdisciplinary researchers and people from various backgrounds and ethnicities.
Funders
- Abbott Research Plan #3 Optimising athlete brain health: Brain health factors feasibility study (>$450,000)
- Abbott Research Plan #2 Effects of confounding factors on mTBI blood biomarkers (>$450,000)
- Abbott Research Plan #1 Determining optimal sampling times for concussion blood biomarkers for prediction of recovery in females (>$450,000)
- AUT FHES Women's Health and Neuroscience Research Programme Building ($20,327.27)
- AUT FHES: Analysis of mild traumatic brain injury biomarkers in venous and capillary blood ($6,000)
- AUT FHES: Refrigeration systems for exercise physiology and biochemistry testing $6,391.26
- AUT SPRINZ blood biomarkers research programme development ($13,290.98)
The team
Co-ordinating Principle Investigator
Co-Principle Investigators
- Dr Ed Maunder
- Scott Crawford
- Dr Doug King
- Dr Beth McQuiston
- Dr Chris Puliu’vea
- Dr Stephen Kara
- Professor Alice Theadom
- Assoc Prof Mangor Pedersen
- Dr Anja Zoellner
- Dr Liza Kunz
Co-Associate Investigators
- Dr Ryu Yoshida
- Dr Mark Fulcher
- Dr Swati Pradhan-Bhatt
- Katherine Forch
- Dr Trevor Clark
- Sapi Mukerji
- Prof Andrew Kilding
- Dr Sharon Olsen
- Dr Stacy Sims
- Dr Brian Russell
- Dr Ken Quarrie
- Christi Essex
- Dr Raj Chandran
- Dr Martin Berman
- Naaz Shaikh (The University of Sydney
- Sam Guy
- Tina Gao
- Prof Helen Pilmore
- Josh McGeown
- Helen Murray
- Jason Chua
Research officers
- Nikki Reynolds
- Dhani Ramadhani
- Julia Parry
- Jordan Boriel
- Elena Prandoni
- Maggie Sandleback
- Louise Ramari Ashby
Research collaborators
- Dr Hannah Wyatt
- Dr Kelly Sheerin
- Bryce Hastings (Les Mills International)
- Dr Simon Roberts (University of Bath, UK)
- Dr Alice Rogan (University of Otago Wellington & Wellington Regional Hospital Emergency Department, Capital and Coast DHB)
- Emma O’ Loughlin
- Esther George
- Natasha Doyle
Sports collaboration group associate investigators
Postgraduands
Research students
- Nikki Reynolds (PhD candidate)
- Charlotte Bray (PhD candidate)
- Melissa Cuthbertson-Moon (PhD Candidate)
- Renata Bastos Gottgtroy (PhD candidate)
- Melissa Cuthbertson-Moon
- Jie Chen
Māori research team members
- Dr Doug King (Ngāi Tūhaitara, Ngāi Tūhu)
- Dr Trevor Clark (Tainui, Ngaati Korokii Kahukura)
- Louise Ramari Ashby (Te Rarawa, Te Aupōuri)
- Manu Albert (Ngāti Porou)
- Shawn Stewart (Tainui, Te Ati Awa, and Maniapoto)
- George Jahnke (Ngati Tuwharetoa, Ngati Porou)
- Sam Guy (Ngāti Maru)
Pasifica research team members
- Dr Chris Puliu’vea
- Assoc Prof Mangor Pedersen
Women’s Health and Neuroscience research programme
Find out what our research programme is about and what projects are currently running.