The recipients of the 2024 ERA Travel Exchange program were announced at our 2024 ERA Conference.
Maddison Mellow
University of South Australia
Maddison will be undertaking an international exchange in the USA between June and August 2025 and will be hosted by the AdventHealth Research Institute in Orlando, Florida.
Maddison will be looking at the relationship between sleep and 24-hour activity patterns and dementia risk biomarkers. The research will inform movement guidelines for older Australians.
SHIN LAU
Monash University
Shin will be undertaking an international exchange in Canada between March and July 2025 and will be hosted by the University of British Columbia, Vancouver.
Shin will be utilising Australian survey findings to develop deprescribing recommendations for older people with diabetes. The research will inform Australian and international guidelines.
FLEUR HARRISON
University of New South Wales
Fleur will be undertaking a domestic exchange in Perth between May and June 2025, and will be hosted by Curtin University.
Fleur will be utilising population-based data to investigate the relationship between apathy and dementia risk.
The ERA travel exchange program is for Australian PhD/Professional Doctorate candidates and recent graduates who:
- have been enrolled in a PhD/PD program at an Australian university for at least one year full-time (two years part-time) or have completed such a program within the last year;
- are conducting research that is ageing-related;
- intend to remain in the field of ageing research in Australia post-PhD/PD.
Thanks to the support of the ARC Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research (CEPAR), which sponsored ERA until 2024, we have been able to make available funding for many international and national exchanges. Details on future travel exchange opportunities will be published here in due course.
Read about the past travel exchange winners here.