Quality of Life
16 April 2009
Robert Cummins
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Population happiness is serious business
Robert A. Cummins has held a personal chair in psychology at Deakin University since 1997. He has published widely on the topic of quality of life and is regarded as an international authority in this area. Professor Cummins is a fellow of the International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies and the Australian Psychological Society. He is on the editorial board of eight journals and is editor-in-chief of the Journal of Happiness Studies. |
Billie Giles-Corti
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Improving quality of life through urban design
Billie Giles-Corti is director of the Centre for the Built Environment and Health at the University of Western Australia’s School of Population Health and an NHMRC senior research fellow. For more than a decade, she and a multi-disciplinary team of researchers and post-graduate research students at UWA have been studying the impact of the built environment on health, social and health behavior outcomes such as walking, cycling and public transport use. |
Daniel Galvão
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Staying strong for life: The role of resistance training
Daniel Galvão is a senior research fellow at Edith Cowan University in the School of Exercise Biomedical and Health Science Vario Health Institute. His research focus is in the area of physical exercise in the prevention and management of cancer. Dr Galvão has been the recipient of research grants from National and Health Medical Research Council (NHMRC), Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia, and The Cancer Council of Western Australia and Queensland. |
Daniela Stehlik
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Maintaining ‘community’ and quality of life in the face of dynamic change
Professor Daniela Stehlik heads a team of social science researchers in the Research Centre for Stronger Communities at Curtin University of Technology. She has extensive research experience in regional and rural Australia, most recently as a member of the Federal Government’s National Review of Drought Policy. She was an invited member to Australia 2020 and the National Rural Women’s Summit in 2008. |
Don Punch
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Quality of Life: What does it really mean?
Don Punch is the chief executive of the South West Development Commission and has been a career public servant in Western Australia for 25 years. He has worked throughout regional Western Australia on many infrastructure projects and has special expertise in both community and economic planning. Mr Punch has responsibility to facilitate the planning and coordination of government services and funded infrastructure throughout the South West. |