Associate ProfessorLuana Main

Associate Professor

Faculty of Health/School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences/Institute for Physical Activity and Nutrition

  • Associate Professor
    Faculty of Health/School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences/Institute for Physical Activity and Nutrition
  • +61 3 924 45030 (Work)
  • Melbourne Burwood Campus, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, Victoria 3125

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

  • CONFERENCE ORGANISING
    Main, LC., Bulmer, S, Tait, JL., Aisbett, B, Gastin, PB, Drain, J.R. (2020) Changes in Testosterone and Cortisol across 12 weeks Basic Military Training, 5th International Congress of Soldiers Physical Performance, Quebec, Canada, 11 14 February.
  • CONFERENCE ORGANISING
    Main, L.C., Wolkow, A., & Chambers, T.P. (2015) Quantifying the physiological stress response to simulated maritime pilotage tasks: The impact of experience International Symposium of Maritime Health 13, Bergen, Norway, 23 -26 June.
  • CONFERENCE ORGANISING
    Main, L.C., Warmington, S., Korn, E., & Gastin, P. (2015) Utility of the Multi-component Training Distress Scale to monitor swimmers during periods of training overload. 20th European Congress of Sport Science, Malmo, Sweden, 24-27 June.
  • CONFERENCE ORGANISING
    Main, L.C., Wolkow, A., Raines, J., Della Gatta, P., Snow, R., & Aisbett, B. (2012) The stress of fire fighting - implications for long term health outcomes. AFAC & Bushfire CRC Conference Research Forum, Perth, Australia.
  • CONFERENCE ORGANISING
    Main, L.C. (2011) Lecturing in First Year Functional Anatomy: New initiatives to improve student engagement. The 14th Pacific Rim First Year in Higher Education Conference, Fremantle, Australia.
  • PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY
    Invited Presentations
  • PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY
    Main L.C. (2019) Soldier performance management: monitoring and modelling of load, adaptation and performance. HPRnet Symposium, Canberra, Australia, 20-21 November.
  • PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY
    Main L.C. (2019) Soldier performance management: Load monitoring in tactical contexts and lessons learnt, ASCA, Gold Coast, Australia, 7-10 November.
  • PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY
    Main L.C. (2018) Soldier performance management: monitoring and modelling of load, adaptation and performance. HPRnet Symposium, Perth, Australia, 28 November.
  • PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY
    Main L.C. (2018) Stress: the good, the bad, the ugly and what to do about it. EMV July Staff forum. Melbourne, Australia, 19 July.
  • PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY
    Main, L.C. (2010). The Multi-Component Training Distress Scale for Monitoring Athletes Health and Wellbeing. Paper presented by L Main at the Conference of Science, Medicine & Coaching in Cricket 2010, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.