DIET: Having a vegan Christmas or catering to vegans and vegetarians during the holiday period
- Dr Matt Ruby – Lecturer in Psychology
Mobile: 0490 854 736 / Email: m.ruby@latrobe.edu.au
Please note, Dr Ruby is NOT available on the following dates:
December 25
December 26
December 31
ALCOHOL: Trends in alcohol consumption and harms during the festive season
- Dr Michael Livingston – Research Fellow at the La Trobe University Centre for Alcohol Policy Research
Mobile: 0411 662 525, Email: m.livingston@latrobe.edu.au
Please note, Dr Livingston is NOT available between the following dates:
December 22-27
December 30-January 1
January 16-23
WORK LIFE BALANCE: Working over the holiday period/working on Christmas day, the importance of recharging your batteries during the holiday period, is it time to look for a new job?
- Associate Professor Jodi Oakman – Head of the Centre for Ergonomics and Human Factors at La Trobe
Mobile: 0447 152 944 / Email: j.oakman@latrobe.edu.au
SPORT:
- Exercise, fitness resolutions in the New Year
Dr Christian Barton – Research Fellow at the La Trobe Sport and Exercise Medicine Research Centre
Mobile: 0403 012 914 / Email: c.barton@latrobe.edu.au
- The history of cricket and historic moments in cricket, moving cricket television coverage from Channel Nine, to Channel Seven and Foxtel
Anthony Condon – Graduate Researcher in History
Mobile: 0434 277 522 / Email: a.condon@latrobe.edu.au OR anthony@anthonycondon.com
Please note: Dr Condon has greater availability in the morning/early in the day
BUSHFIRES:
- Bushfire season and risk areas
Professor Mike Clarke, Head of the La Trobe School of Life Sciences
Mobile: 0427 368 851 / Email: m.clarke@latrobe.edu.au
- Why residents don’t evacuate when bushfire looms, climate change
Adjunct Professor Jim McLennan, La Trobe School of Psychology and Public Health
Mobile: 0438 096 548 / j.mclennan@latrobe.edu.au
RELIGION:
- Christianity/Islam
Emeritus Professor Joseph Camilleri
Mobile: 0448 002 483 / Email: j.camilleri@latrobe.edu.au
- Anti-Muslim hate speech
Dr Andre Oboler – Lecturer in the La Trobe Law School
Email: a.oboler@latrobe.edu.au (please CC andre@oboler.com)
ONLINE: What to share and what not to share online when it comes to your holiday activities, the risks of sharing your holiday locations online
- Dr Andre Oboler – Lecturer in the La Trobe Law School
Email: a.oboler@latrobe.edu.au (please CC andre@oboler.com)
DRUG USE: Methamphetamine use at music festivals, drug addiction/deaths, pill testing
- Professor Maarten van den Buuse – La Trobe School of Psychology and Public Health
Mobile: 0402 025 097 / Email: m.vandenbuuse@latrobe.edu.au
FAMILY CONFLICT/LAW & MEDICINE: Coping with difficult family conflict during the holiday period (i.e. custody issues), legal parentage, consent to medical procedures, medical malpractice
- Hannah Robert – Lecturer, La Trobe University Law School
Mobile: 0419 667 633 / Email: h.robert@latrobe.edu.au
Please note, Ms Robert will NOT be available between the following dates:
27-28 December
31 December-4 January
8-11 January
RURAL ROAD TRAUMA: The factors that contribute to a disproportionate number of people dying, or being seriously injured, on rural roads. How rural road users differ from their metropolitan counterparts
- Professor Pamela Snow, Head of La Trobe's Rural Health School (Bendigo based)
Mobile: 0458 377 253 / Email: p.snow@latrobe.edu.au
Please note:
Professor Snow is only available between December 26 to January 31
INFERTILITY: How the social effects of infertility are felt more over the Christmas period, how we can be more sensitive to those who might be affected by infertility
- Dr Paulina Billett – Lecturer Sociology (Bendigo/Gisborne based)
Mobile: 0401 821 721 / Email: p.billett@latrobe.edu.au
Please note:
Dr Billett is available over the phone from December 26 to January 1
Dr Billett is available for in person interviews from January 14 to January 31
ANIMALS/PETS: How to look after your dogs and cats during Summer, adopting pets as Christmas presents, how to look after pets that might be frightened of loud festivities like fireworks
- Dr Pauleen Bennett, Head of Department Psychology and Counselling (Bendigo based)
Mobile: 0427 700 260 / Email: pauleen.bennett@latrobe.edu.au
Please note:
Dr Bennett is only available from January 7
