Bob Boyd OAM is President of the National Wellness Institute of Australia, and one of the foremost authorities on fitness, health and wellness - and he's now working in the CQ region.

Mr Boyd has arrived to establish a network of employers who can benefit by arranging relevant Work Integrated Learning for Human Movement Science students.

CQU's top-performing Human Movement Science students will (from July 2007) be able to stream into an Industry Co-operative pathway, giving them 2 paid periods of work experience during their degree.

When Mr Boyd first started out as a Human Movements graduate in the 1970s, no-one really understood the huge range of roles which would become open to people with this qualification.

Bob Boyd

These days, Human Movements specialists are found everywhere from the obvious areas (sports clubs and gyms) to a less obvious but much broader range of places. The less obvious places include mine and industry sites, community service networks, hospital rehab programs, workplace health and safety systems, events management companies, sports marketing firms, health promotion schemes and personal training services.

Mr Boyd showed his own entrepreneurial flair in the 1970s, when he was co-founder, co-owner and co-director of The Heart Beat Centre, the first ever scientific-based preventative health centre in Queensland.

His most recent posting was as Wellness Manager for the Queensland University of Technology's Wellness Matters Program and he also served as Director of Professional Studies for the QUT Human Movements program.

He has worked in a large range of teaching and lecturing positions over the past 40 years.

One of his strengths is networking as he has held major representative positions including: the Australian Council for Health, Physical Education and Recreation (ACHPER); the Australian Fitness Accreditation Council (AFAC); the Queensland Fitness, Sport and Recreation Industry Training Committee (QFSRITC) ; the National Recreation Education Working Party; the National Fitness, Sport and Recreation Industry Training Advisory Development Committee; and the Queensland State Steering Committee on Health Promotion in the Workplace.

Mr Boyd gained his Order of Australia Medal in 2005 for services to junior Water Polo in Queensland.

Employers interested in making contact about the Bachelor of Human Movement Science (Industry Co-op) program can contact b.boyd@cqu.edu.au or 07 4930 6747.ENDS