Professor Carlene Wilson

Emeritus Professor

College of Medicine and Public Health

+61 8 7221 8473

carlene.wilson@flinders.edu.au

Flinders Medical Centre

GPO Box 2100, ADELAIDE, SA, 5001

Professor Carlene Wilson was appointed to the Chair in Cancer Prevention and Cancer Support (Behavioural Science) in March of 2008. She continued full time in this position until 2017, and then part time until 2019. She was then appointed Emerita Professor. She has focused her research and teaching on primary and secondary prevention of cancer and supportive care for those in cancer treatment. In addition, her current work focuses on supporting carers of people with cancer.

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'
Visiting Academic Award, June-July 2015, Coventry University, Applied Research Centre in Health and Lifestyles Interventions UK.
Invited Visiting International Research Fellow, April 2018, University of Essex, School of Psychology
NSW Premiers 2023 Outstanding Cancer Research ward for Improving Equitable Outcomes through Cancer Research to the CanEngage team:
The team category of the 2025 USA Robert Wears Patients Safety Leadership Award to the CanEngage team
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 assist with guidance on behaviour change strategies designed to improve participation in bowel cancer screening and surveillance.