Our Management and Steering Committee

Management Committee

With guidance from the Steering Committee, the Management Group fosters, facilitates and monitors high-quality research projects with outcomes that include external research income, peer-reviewed publications, and research student completions.

Steering Committee

The Steering Committee provides guidance on behalf of key stakeholders to the Management Committee to establish, design, implement and monitor high-quality research projects with outcomes that include external research income, peer-reviewed publications, and research student completions.

Our Research Staff

Director

Professor Michael Kingsley

The Holsworth Research Initiative is led by our Director, Professor Michael Kingsley. Michael established the Initiative in 2019. His current research focus includes nutritional and exercise interventions, the influence of exercise and lifestyle interventions on cardiometabolic function in athletes and patients with chronic disease, such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and chronic kidney disease, and the use of wearable sensors to monitor exercise intensity and volume.

Post-Doctoral Research Fellow

Dr Daniel Wundersitz

Dr Daniel Wundersitz is the Holsworth Post-Doctoral Research Fellow and has been with the Initiative since its inception in 2019. Daniel's main area of research focus is on cardiac arrhythmia after endurance exercise in recreational athletes.

Research Officer

Dr Blake Collins

Our stream leads are ably supported by our Research Officer, Dr Blake Collins. Blake completed his PhD at Charles Sturt University in Bathurst. His research focused on cardio-metabolic pathogeneses among shift workers and the prognostic effect of exercise. He looks forward to contributing to our innovative research, and we look forward to him spending lots of time in our exercise physiology labs collecting and analysing and synthesising data.

Research Coordinator

Dr Courtney Sullivan

Administrative tasks are completed by our Research Coordinator, Dr Courtney Sullivan. Courtney completed her PhD at The University of Technology, Sydney in 2019 investigating the talent selection and career progression of professional Australian Football players. She teaches within the Exercise Science degree at La Trobe Bendigo and contributes to current research being conducted within the Initiative. Courtney looks forward to helping promote and expand the Initiative in the coming years.