Future Leader

• Erin Godecke
• Kathryn Hayward
  
  

Seed Grants

• Andrew Bivard
  Modafinil in Debilitating fatigue After Stroke (MIDAS)
• Caitlin Brandenberg
  Improving communicative fitness: can a smart phone rehabilitation app increase talking time and community participation for people with post-stroke aphasia
• Louise Gustaffson
  The impact of MISTRENGTH on community participation after mild stroke
• Natalie Ciccone
  The Wangi (talking) project: a feasibility study of a culturally sensitive rehabilitation model for Aboriginal people post stroke
  
  

Small Project Grants

• Christopher Etherton-Beer
  "tops":tDCS to optimise participation in stroke rehabilitation - a sham controlled cross over study
• Elisabeth Preston
  Promoting physical activity after stroke via self-management: a pilot randomised trial
• Alexia Rhode
  Interrater reliability of language tasks used in the identification of acute post-stroke aphasia: a rational clinical examination approach
• Janet Bray
  The impact of FAST stroke awareness campaigns on emergency healthcare utilisation
• Samantha Siyambalapitiy
  Optimising acute transitional care for culturally and linguistically diverse stroke survivors

Future Leader

• Caleb Ferguson
• Anne Hill

Seed Grants

• Toby Cumming
  More Activity, Less Fatigue After Stroke (MALFAS): A randomised controlled trial
• Paulette Van Vilet
  Effects of aerobic exercise combined with task-specific training on neuroplasticity in (sub-) chronic stroke
• Coralie English
  Sitting less.  A new paradigm for reducing recurrent stroke risk
  
  

Small Project Grants

• Jane Maguire
  Biomarker characterisation of genetic associations reported in stroke risk
• Liam Johnson
  Early changes in physical activity and cardiorespiratory fitness after stroke : A longitudinal study
• Joosup Kim
  Communicating disparities in patient outcomes in cardiovascular disease
• Karlea Kremer
  Preclinical investigations towards the TOOTH clinical stroke trial
• Tina Kaffenberger
  Optimising stroke rehabilitation : Priming motor learning with physical activity
• Michele Veldsman
  Understanding network degeneration after stroke to guide brain plasticity based rehabilitation
• Jane Cross 
  Pre-clinical assessment of poly-arginine peptides as a treatment to reduce brain damage following stroke
• Michelle Rank
  The role of the spinal cord in promoting recovery of function after cerebral stroke
• Lucy Murtha
  Cooling the blood to prevent raised intracranial pressure and improve outcome after stroke

Clinical Research Development Award

• Rachel Wenke
  Efficient and effective subacute therapy for people with aphasia : How much therapy is enough

Honours Grants

• Cassandra Wetzler
  Combined physical and sensory training to improve arm function after stroke
• Hayden Johns
  Statistical modelling for comparative analysis of the factors affecting emergency department care timelines in stroke and cardiac patients.
• Janice Tang
  Let’s Play! Language action games for constraint induced language therapy
• Laura Harris
  Does Wii-based movement therapy increase functional use of the more-affected upper-limb in activities of daily living : an actigraphy study
• Candice West
  Effect of augmenting a home exercise program with insole biofeedback on balance and gait parameters of stroke survivors
• Hannah Smith
  Quantifying physical, cognitive and social activity early after stroke : how enriched is the acute stroke environment
• Kate Murdoch
  Does acute exercise promote neuroplasticity in the motor cortex following stroke?
• Laura Hundertmark
  Increasing intensity of stroke inpatient rehabilitation : a survey of physiotherapists’ attitudes to circuit class therapy and 7-day a week therapy

Small Project Grants

• Kathryn Hayward
  Use of tRNS as an adjunct to SMART arm training in chronic stroke survivors with severe arm paresis : an exploratory pilot study
• Nadine Andrew
  The impact of discharge planning on post-discharge stroke outcomes
• Di Marsden
  Implementation of mood screening after stroke (IMSAS)
• Heidi Janssen
  Tablets and technology during stroke recovery (TNT)
• Andrew Bivard
  Validation of contrast free perfusion imaging in stroke
• Naomi Cocks
  Is reading therapy effective for people who have reading difficulties related to impaired cognition and language after stroke?
• Elizabeth Lynch
  Investigating the implementation of the assessment for rehabilitation tool
• Lucy Thomas
  Seasonal variation in cervical arterial dissection
• Damian McLeod
  Cooling the brain via the skin to prevent intracranial pressure elevation after stroke
• Renee Turner
  Substance P : a novel target in the treatment of cerebral oedema and elevated intracranial pressure following stroke
• Karen Borschmann
  Effect of stroke on fermoral volumetric bone mineral density and structure : an experimental model
• Wei-Peng Teo
  Combined bilateral transcranial direct current stimulation and functional training for stroke rehabilitation
• Paul Stapley
  Postural adjustments for reaching in hemiparietic stroke patients
• Marie-Louise Bird
  Pilot RCT to evaluate use of Jintronix rehabilitation system
• Christine Shiner
  Genetic influences on post-stroke recovery and responsiveness to upper-limb motor rehabilitation
• Billie Bonevski
  Prevent 2nd stroke : the development and pilot testing of an online lifestyle behaviours program for stroke and TIA survivors
• Joanna Diong
  Hand contractures after stroke : changes in fascicle and tendon compliance of the forearm muscles
• Rachelle Pitt
  The feasibility of online aphasia group therapy

Honours Grants

• Melissa Cook
  Computer-based therapy and Telerehabilitation in Aphasia
• Eior Quinn 
  The benefits of an in-sole feedback device on walking quality and balance of stroke survivors
• Megan Swales
  Investigating the perspectives of Speech Pathologists in relation to aphasia rehabilitation post stroke: Improving the clinical usability of a software program for the development of electronic resources
• Rosanna Olsen
  The role of the complement system in post-stroke corticospinal remodelling
• Laura Cubirka
  Developing the skills to promote communicative competence in aphasia group therapy
• Jamie Rennie
  The role of brain vascular flow and white matter lesions in the decline of cognitive ability in older adults
  
  

Small Project Grants

• Mark Mackay
  Characterizing brain behaviour relationships in childhood stroke using diffusion weighted magnetic resonance imaging
• Frances Batchelor
  The presence of balance impairment after TIA or minor stroke
• Andrew Bivard
  How healthy is brain salvaged from ischemic stroke?
• Debra Kerr
  Effects of early motivational interviewing on post-stroke depressive symptoms: Pilot randomised controlled trial of the Good Mood Intervention program
• Anne Hill
  Better access to aphasia rehabilitation for stroke patients
• Emma Finch
  Using people with aphasia to train health professionals in effective communication strategies over the internet: A Phase II pre=post intervention study
• Sirous Mobini
  A preliminary Investigation of Effectiveness of Cognitive Bias Modification for Interpretative Biases in the Treatment of Post-Stoke Anxiety
• Nadine Andrew
  Exploring hospital and early discharge factors associated with long-term needs of stroke survivors
• Damien McLeod
  Novel mechanisms of ‘Stroke-in-Progression': Intracranial pressure elevation and collateral blood vessel failure after minor stroke
• Sharon Hakkeness
  Pilot study of development of a utility weighting function for the Functional Independence Measure in stroke rehabilitation
• Bernadett Lannen
  Brainwaves: The impact of choral singing on community dwelling stroke survivors
• Wayne Dite
  Finding the best does of exercise for improving walking in chronic stroke survivors
• Leon Teo
  Cellular proliferation and neurogenesis following focal ischemic stroke in the neonatal and adult nonhuman primate visual cortex
• Davide deSousa
  Does cycling with electrical stimulation (ES) improve strength and walking ability in stroke survivors? A randomised controlled trial

Clinical Research Development Award

• Luisa Hewitt
  Stroke Sounds: Music listening in stroke rehabilitation
• Michelle Woodger
  An analysis of post stroke activity engagement during a multidisciplinary home based rehabilitation (Early Supported Discharge) program

First Round Honours Grants

• Chantelle Gardiner-Mann
  Using human amnion stem cells to treat stroke
• Jessica Cavaye
  Effectiveness of interventions to maintain reductions in upper limb oedema
• Shelley Tregea
  What make a successful peer-led aphasia support group?
• Caitlin O’Connor
  Creating a communicatively enriched environment for people with aphasia

Small Project Grants

• Brooke Grohn
  Meeting the needs of people with aphasia and their family members early post-stroke to help them live successfully with aphasia
• Kyla Brown
  A friend in need is a friend indeed: A Phase II trial of an intervention program for friends to reduce social isolation of people with aphasia following stroke
• Angela Morgan and Mark Mackay
  Communication and swallowing problems following childhood stroke
• Coralie English
  Exploring patterns of inactivity and use of time in people living with stroke related disability
• Nabeel Sheikh
  Stroke prognostication in acute phase impacting upon effective management and rehabilitation
• Claire Layfield
  Applying principles of motor learning to dysphasia rehabilitation
• Stephen Robinson
  A step closer to preventing brain damage after hemorrhagic stroke.
• Kelly Bower
  Innovation in stroke rehabilitation: Determining the utility and the efficiency of customised interactive computer games as a modern day therapeutic toll to maximise functional outcomes post stroke
• Jodie Marquez
  Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS): A new modality in stroke rehabilitation
• Bruno Meloni
  Magnesium plus mild hypothermia as a stroke therapy: assessment using experimental stroke model
• Mardee Greenham
  Social competence and adjustment in children following early childhood stroke
  
  

Prevention Award

• Coralie English

Clinical Research Development Award

• Ms Joanne Murray
  Beverage intake and hydration status of stroke inpatients without dysphasia
  
  

Heart Foundation and Stroke Foundation co-funded research grants – Postgraduate Scholarship

• Mr Mutsumi Karasaki
  Social and cultural aspects of informal care giving: Spousal care of young stroke survivors

Post Doctoral Fellowship

• Dr Jacqui Webster
  Is legislation the only effective way to get the food industry to improve the nutritional composition of foods?
• Dr Bruce Campbell
  Imaging of acute ischemic stroke improving patient selection for thrombolysis

Honours Grants

• Alexandra Walter
  Oedema Management of the Hemiplegic Upper Limb
• Jeffery Mahoney
  Drug intervention to improve language rehabilitation after stroke as modelled in healthy individuals
• Jenna McAfee 
  Then impact of creative, non communication based leisure activities on quality of life in people with aphasia.
• Vergis Marianne Krupha
  Defining the impact of dysprosody in stroke related speech disorders for redesigning intervention
• Adele Coleman
  Communicative Fitness: Assessing the effects of a portable technical device on increasing daily talking time, language quality, communicative effectiveness, self-efficacy and quality of life in people with aphasia
• Gurpreet Kaur
  Ummm, about an hour? How accurate are physiotherapists at estimating therapy time in stroke rehabilitation?
• Sally Hollingsworth
  It’s all about smoke and mirrors! The clinical implementation of mirror therapy to restore lower limb function and mobility following stroke and traumatic brain injury: a randomised controlled trial
• Luke Cosgrave
  Factors that influence the amount of therapy received by acute stroke patient
• Catherine Gregory
  The modified Camperdown Therapy Program, a novel treatment to improve the intelligibility of everyday speech of people with Apraxia of Speech: a pilot study
• Alexandra Hall
  The transition experiences of stroke patients and their carers
• Kristen Hawck
  Developing an aphasia-friendly Burden of Stroke Scale (BOSS): How do people with aphasia prefer questions to be formatted?
• Stephanie Raad
  The relationship between functional independence and physical activity during stroke rehabilitation
• Reece Parry
  Are swallowing problems in acute stroke patients associated with obstructive sleep apnoea
• Crystal Kelly
  Key features of Aphasia friendly formatting
• Alexander Beath
  A novel agorthorithm for clinical predictors of outcome in ischaemic stroke patients treated with intravenous tissue plasminogen activator (tPA)
• Ariana Arulampalam
  The effect of ischaemic stroke on brain volumes and intracranial pressure

Small Project Grants

• Caroline Hills
  Increasing practice after stroke to optimise upper limb rehabilitation: A phase II trial
• Gail Robinson
  Executive dysfunction in stroke: Verbal and non-verbal generation
• Di Marsden
  How fit is the stroke survivor? (How FITSS?)
• Kim Brock
  Improving outcomes for the upper limb in severe stroke: the efficacy of rehabilitation interventions based on the Bobath Concept
• *Michelle McDonnell
  Aerobic exercise to improve cognition following stroke
• Bronwyn Simpson
  Feasibility of a home based program to improve handwriting legibility after stroke: A pilot randomised trial.
• Kylie Boots
  Work after a stroke: identification of cognitive difficulties using a work place assessment model
• Angela Vratsistas
  A closer look at arm rehabilitation: A study investigating the dosage of therapeutic and upper limb outcomes after stroke
• *Susan Hillier
  Music Therapy and support in a stroke rehabilitation unit
• Thomas Lillicrap
  Brain temperature measurement and modeling

*The awards to Michelle McDonnell and Susan Hillier have been supported by the generosity of Thyne Reid Foundation.

Clinical Research Development Award

• Amanda Osborne
  Evaluation of the implementation of Constraint Induced Aphasia Therapy within the constraints of the workplace