Professor Carlene Wilson

Emeritus Professor

College of Medicine and Public Health

+61 8 72218473

carlene.wilson@flinders.edu.au

Flinders Medical Centre (2.45)

GPO Box 2100, Adelaide 5001, South Australia

Professor Carlene Wilson was appointed to the Chair in Cancer Prevention (Behavioural Science) in March of 2008. Shes leads a group pf three postdoctoral fellows, three project officers and 5 PhD students.The position is a collaborative venture between Cancer Council South Australia and Flinders University and is located within the School of Medicine. The position is based in the Flinders Centre for Innovation in Cancer. The position exists in recognition of the key role preventive health strategies play in the primary and secondary prevention of chronic disease, including many forms of cancer. The objectives of the position are to work with both sponsoring organisations in extending understanding of the behavioural variables that influence risk of cancer and how knowledge of these variables can be used to develop interventions that reduce incidence of cancer in South Australia.

Qualifications

BA (Hons) PhD MBA

Honours, awards and grants

Prizes in the MBA:

Jointly awarded the 1999 Luminis Pty Ltd Prize for best Supervised Research Project.
2000 Tenneco Prize for Top Female Graduating Student.
2000 Normandy Mining Prize for Top Graduating Student.
2000 Top of Directors Honours List.

Other Prizes:

CSIRO One-CSIRO Award - December 2003. Awarded for 'Steering and Synthesizing the Agrifood Top-5 Flagship'
Awarded a high commendation by the Literati Club for the paper Wilson, C., and Brewer, N. (2001) Working in teams: Negative effects on organisational performance in policing. Policing: An International Journal of Police Strategies and Management, 24,

Key responsibilities

Duties:

To undertake research on ways to reduce risk of cancer through the modification to critical lifestyle behaviours.
To collaborate with other researchers in developing agendas that addresses this goal.
To advocate in the media for appropriate behaviour change.
To supervise research students in the performance of aim 1.
To assist Cancer Council South Australia with the development and delivery of their behavioural cancer prevention agenda.
To assist in the development of the Flinders Centre for Innovation in Cancer Control.

Supervisory interests

Behavioural influences on cancer risk and cancer screening participation

Bowel health and colorectal cancer

Cancer risk perception

Cancer screening

Cancer survivorship

Family health

Health promotion and education

Health psychology

eHealth

Higher degree by research supervision

Current

Principal supervisor: Health psychology, men’s health, early detection, help seeking behaviour (1), Health psychology, Cancer support, cancer attribution, fear of recurrence (1), Health psychology, children of cancer survivors (1)

Associate supervisor: Health psychology, HPV, vaccination (1), Health psychology, diet, Colorectal Cancer (1), Health psychology, young adults, emerging adults, diet, physical activity (1)

Completion

Principal supervisor: Health pychology (Univ of Adelaide) (5), Health Psychology (Deakin Univ) (1), Health Psychology (UniSA) (1)

Associate supervisor: Health pychology (Univ of Adelaide) (1), Health psychology, smoking, older age, Greek-Australians (1)

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Further information

I can be contacted on Carlene.Wilson@flinders.edu.au