Associate Professor Amanda Muller
Associate Professor
College of Nursing and Health Sciences
HEALTHCARE ACADMEMIC
IN BRIEF...
Health research: disaster health, disability assistance dogs, CALD, nursing & midwifery, mental health.
Linguistic research: language testing & policy, health communication, educational apps.
Teaching: research methods, epidemiology and population health, quantitative methods, linguistics, nursing communication.
Research skills: quantitative (biostatistics, machine learning, epidemiology, survey validation, Rasch, etc), qualitative and mixed methods, corpus linguistics.
BA Social Sciences: Psychology, English, Sociocultural Anthropology
PhD English/Linguistics: Corpus Lingustics, Sociolinguistics
MA Public Health: Biostatistics, Epidemiology, Machine Learning, Social Determinants
Grad Certs TESOL & HighEd
Dog Behaviour and Training (National Dog Trainers Federation Cert III)
Positions and Accreditations
Flinders University Council academic staff member (2018-2026)
Australian Research Council (ARC) Assessor
TEQSA Register of Experts (one of approx 300 nationally)
Nationally Accredited Editor (IPEd) (one of approx 300 nationally)
Nationally Accredited Dog Behaviour and Training
NATIONAL AWARDS
Australian Awards for University Teaching Citation - Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning
National Excellence Award for Best Practice in International Education (International Education Association of Australia)
Vice-Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching
Vice-Chancellor's Award for Early Career Researchers
HESTA 'Innovation in Nursing' Award - national top 3 finalist
Quality Labels for Valid Serious Games (Serious Gaming Committee, Dutch Society for Simulation in Healthcare)
SELECT GRANT PROJECTS
“Understanding the Difficulty of Disaster Preparation Tasks”. SAFECOM Disaster Risk Reduction Grant ($65,556)
“Accessibility of emergency preparedness resources and planning tools for SA CALD communities”, Australian Red Cross ($9,921)
“Evaluating the effectiveness of the People at Risk in Emergencies Collaborative Action project” Australian Red Cross ($5,000)
“Assistance Dog Refusal Laws: Addressing the Impact of Inconsistent State Legislation”, Law Foundation SA ($6,000)
“Large Language Models for chatbots to support health behaviour change for prevention and management of chronic conditions.” Flinders Foundation Health Seed Grants ($24,594)
“Co-design and evaluation of resources and training strategies to support technology use in the hospital setting” CRG8: Collaborative Research ($46,891)
"Benchmarking International English Proficiency Standards across Universities and Professions" IELTS Research Grants ($72,344)
"Benchmark of English Language Requirements" TEQSA ($32,175)
"Error rates and types expected for IELTS half-band scores between 5.5-7.5, and the effect of this knowledge on stakeholders" IELTS Research Grants ($48,438)
"ALL University Register of Teaching and Learning Centres/Units" AALL ($3,901)
The reciprocal relationship between vocabulary knowledge, IELTS, and academic grades.” Flinders Re-Entry Fellowship ($40,000)
“InSoNMia project: Nursing English language learning computer games.” SoNM Project ($50,477) & Flinders T&L Innovation ($10,000)
Postgraduate Nursing, Epidemiology, Population Health, Clinical Communication, Nursing English, Linguistics, e-Learning, Quantitative Research Methods.
Assistance Dog work
- Community/Public health
- Disability
- Language/Linguistics
- Assistance Dogs
- Breastmilk research
- IELTS and English language testing
- Public Health
Welcome to the Paw Rights App which allows you to record assistance dog access refusals and have documentation of the event sent to your email, along with links of where to make a complaint. You can save a link to the site on your phone's home screen. This app is a part of a national study. With your help, enough data will be gathered to document the full national problem of assistance dog refusals, and we will be making the case for both an official single-point complaint system and more definitive action against those who break the law by refusing access. Please try Paw Rights and we welcome your feedback about improving it.
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