Global Utilities

La Trobe University
Department of Mathematics and Statistics

Staff profile

Dr Robert Champion

Senior Lecturer

School of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences

Room 2.10 / Business Building, Bendigo

Qualifications

  • BSc(Hons), PhD, DipEd (Monash).

Teaching areas

  • Calculus and linear algebra at 1st and 3rd year levels (MAT1CB, MAT3NM).

  • Applied statistics art second year level (STA2FOR).

Professional involvement

  • Senior Research Fellow (Collaborative Health Education & Research Centre).

Research interests

  • Applied Statistics in Health Care.

  • Elastic properties of springs.

Recent publications and presentations

  •  'The extension and oscillation of a non-Hooke's law spring', European Journal of Mechanics A/Solids, 26, 286-297, 2007. (Co-author: W.L. Champion).

  • 'Forecasting emergency department presentations', Australian Health Review, 31, 83-90, 2007. (co-authors: L.D. Kinsman, G.A. Lee, K.A. Masman, E.A. May, T.M. Mills, M.D. Taylor, P.R. Thomas, R.J. Williams).

  • `Assessing the impact of streaming in a regional emergency department', Emergency Medicine Australasia. 20(3), 221-227, 2008. (Co-authors, Kinsman L., Lee G., Martin M., Masman K., May E., Mills T., Taylor M.D., Thomas P., Williams R.J., Zalstein S.

  • 'Emergency Maths', ANZIAM, Freemantle, WA, 29 Jan. 2007.

  • 'The oscillation of a loaded spring', EMAC, Hobart, 3 July 2007.

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