Professor Lucy Lewis

Professor

College of Nursing and Health Sciences

+61 8 72218261

lucy.lewis@flinders.edu.au

Sturt West (W418)

GPO Box 2100, Adelaide 5001, South Australia

Lucy is the Deputy Director (Workforce Transformation and Research Capacity Building) of the Caring Futures Institute at Flinders University. She is a registered physiotherapist and is the Academic Lead for Physiotherapy at the university. She is an experienced educator in physiotherapy, and loves to find new and interesting ways to teach students about physiotherapy and health.

Lucy is interested in investigating ways to help children and adults to sit less and move more to improve their health. She has research skills in the use of accelerometers to objectively measure activity. Lucy is currently completing projects investigating activity of older adults in residential care, an intervention to reduce sitting time in people with type 2 diabetes, and activity of older adults during walking sports. Lucy has supervised Honours, Masters by Research and PhD students to completion and is registered to supervise students both as Principal and Associate Supervisor.

Qualifications

PhD / Bachelor of Health Science (Honours) / Bachelor of Physiotherapy / Bachelor of Applied Science (Exercise and Sport Science)

Honours, awards and grants

Research funding

Prof Lewis has been a co-investigator on 25 successful grant applications that have been awarded $5,796,590 in total.

Awards

Vice President and Executive Dean's Most Outstanding Individual Award

Vice President and Executive Dean's Early Career Research Award

Vice Chancellor's Early Career Researcher Award

Key responsibilities

Current leadership roles:

Deputy Director (Workforce Transformation and Research Capacity Building) Caring Futures Institute

Academic Lead Physiotherapy

Adjunct University of SA

Previous leadership roles:

Interim Dean (People and Resources)

Teaching Program Director (Self-Regulating Health Professions)

Course Coordinator, Master of Physiotherapy

Teaching interests

Research design and methods

Health promotion

Acute care physiotherapy

Topic coordinator

PHYT9010 Health Promotion and Leadership in Physiotherapy

HLTH7011 Contemporary Issues in Health Research

Topic lecturer

NUTD1106 Nutrition Physical Activity and Health

PHYT8002 Principles of Movement and Function

REHB2002 Rehabilitation Studies 1

Supervisory interests

Ageing

Cardiac rehabilitation

Cardiovascular disease

Childhood obesity, physical activity and community awareness

Children's health

Diabetes

Physical activity

Physiotherapy

Sedentary behaviour

Teaching physiotherapy

Higher degree by research supervision

Current

Principal supervisor: Underperformance in clinical placements (1), Mental health and wellbeing of health professional university students (1), Consensus marking in oral vivas for postgraduate nursing students (Flinders, PhD) (1)

Associate supervisor: Commercially available smartphone apps for the self-management of low back pain (1), Physical activity and online social networking (Flinders, PhD) (1)

Completion

Associate supervisor: Guidelines for increasing children's physical activity in Outside Hours School Care (UniSA, PhD) (1), A physical activity intervention for post-partum women; social media (UniSA, PhD) (1), EBP; health professional education (UniSA, PhD) (1), Compositional analysis techniques for health behaviours in children (UniSA PhD) (1), EBP; development of a reporting guideline (UniSA, PhD) (1), Community participation of older adults (1)

Professional engagement

Australian Council of Deans of Health Sciences (ACDHS)

Council of Physiotherapy Deans Australia and New Zealand (CPDANZ): Secretary

Collaborative Australian Physiotherapy Research Initiative (CAPRI) Advisory Board

Australian Physiotherapy Association (APA) SA Branch Council

Aged care Research Industry Innovation Australia (ARIIA) Expert Advisory: Reablement and rehabilitation

International Society of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity (ISBNPA) Ageing Special Interest Group Executive

Australian Physiotherapy Association (APA) SA Educator's group committee member

Associate Editor: BMC Public Health and Frontiers of Sport and Active Living

Deputy Chair of the Board: Immanuel Primary School

External reviewer: Physiotherapy Research Foundation seeding grants, Journal of Physiotherapy, BMC Medical Research Methodology, Advances in Health Science Education, Physiotherapy Research International, Physical Therapy Reviews and BMC Medical Education.

Member of the Sport, Health and Physical Education (SHAPE) Research Centre, Flinders University.

Adjunct Associate Professor, University of South Australia.

Affiliate member of the Alliance for Research in Exercise, Nutrition and Activity (ARENA), Sansom Institute for Health Research, University of South Australia.

Member of the Australian Physiotherapy Association (APA)

- Member of the APA Cardio-Respiratory Physiotherapy Australia (CRPA) group

- Member of the APA National Educator’s group

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