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Dr

Kate Lycett

Senior Lecturer

Faculty of Health/School of Psychology/SEED - Lifespan

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  • Senior Lecturer
    Faculty of Health/School of Psychology/SEED - Lifespan
  • +61 3 924 45653 (Work)
  • Geelong Waurn Ponds Campus, 75 Pigdons Road, Waurn Ponds, Victoria 3216

BIO

Dr Kate Lycett is a co-funded NHMRC and National Heart Foundation Early Career
Researcher. Her research interests span child mental health, obesity,
cardiovascular health, epidemiology, public health, sleep, air pollution and
well-being at both the individual and societal levels.

Dr Lycett is an early career child health researcher. Her formal training in
psychology and epidemiology (core Masters of Epidemiology subjects completed
and PhD in Paediatrics provide a strong grounding for her research program,
which spans air pollution, child mental health, wellbeing, cardiovascular
health, obesity, sleep and societal progress.
Dr Lycett has expertise in paediatrics and non-communicable disease-related
child health outcomes. Her fellowship, based within Australia's Child Health
CheckPoint project, is examining the relationship between mental health and
cardiovascular health in childhood and mid-life. She is also developing
expertise in community-defined child wellbeing indicators that are designed to
be embedded in government, and examining their potential to be included in
GenV and therefore contribute to cross-over in findings between GenV and
policy.

DEAKIN UNIVERSITY CURRENT APPOINTMENT

  • Senior Lecturer
    Deakin University, School of Psychology

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • NHMRC Research Fellow
    Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia14 Jan 2019 - present

DEGREES

  • Doctor of Philosophy
    University of Melbourne
  • Graduate Diploma of Psychological Studies
    Deakin University
  • Bachelor of Arts (Psychology)
    University of Melbourne

FIELDS OF RESEARCH (2020)

  • Clinical sciences
  • Epidemiology
  • Cardiovascular medicine and haematology
  • Paediatrics
  • Public health

AREA/FACULTY

  • Faculty of Health

DEPARTMENT/SCHOOL/INSTITUTE

  • School of Psychology

STRATEGIC RESEARCH AND INNOVATION CENTRE

  • SEED - Lifespan