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 Siyambalapitiya - 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.