CQUni student awarded prestigious scholarship
Published on 08 January, 2013
CQUniversity's Centre for Physical Activity Studies PhD student Stephanie Bland has been awarded a prestigious National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Postgraduate Scholarship.
The scholarship, worth more than $58,000 over three years, will commence in 2013.
Stephanie Bland has been awarded a prestigious scholarship to begin research work at CQUniversity in 2013. Stephanie's project for the scholarship is titled ‘Testing Innovative Methods to Improve the Reach of Effectiveness of Web-Based Physical Activity Interventions' and will build on her current research into improving website promotion and participation engagement around physical activity.
Director for the Centre for Physical Activity Studies (CPAS) Dr Corneel Vandelanotte said it was encouraging to see NHMRC supporting CQUniversity and CPAS' line of research.
"Stephanie's project will build strongly on the work we do at the CPAS, as well as relate to further studies we will be conducting thanks to a recent NHMRC Project Grant which we were awarded earlier this year."
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Dr Vandelanotte said CQUniversity was fortunate to have Stephanie on the team and the Centre was interested in recruiting more high quality PhD students for research work.
"It is hard getting good students, so when people like Stephanie come along and scoop up prestigious scholarships, we are over the moon with excitement."
Stephanie completed a Bachelor of Behavioural Science with honours in Psychological Science in 2010 and has worked on a range of public health projects at the Cancer Council Victoria.
In 2012 Stephanie began her PhD at CQUniversity, focusing on web-based physical activity interventions and has been conducting her research with the support of Dr Corneel Vandelanotte, Dr Cally Davis and Professor Ronald Plotnikoff.
The aim of the NHMRC Postgraduate Scholarships scheme is to support outstanding Australian health and medical graduates early in their career so that they can be trained to conduct research that is internationally competitive and to develop a capacity for original independent research.
This is usually achieved by NHMRC funding successful applicants to attain a research-based postgraduate degree, which may be a PhD, a PhD equivalent degree, or Masters degree. http://www.nhmrc.gov.au/grants/apply-funding/postgraduate-scholarships
Stephanie will present her PhD confirmation in February.
For more information on CPAS, visit www.cqu.edu.au/cpas.