Peter specialises in healthcare quality improvement through translation of research evidence into practices, systems, and policies. This involves research evidence synthesis, qualitative exploration of practice behaviour, stakeholder consultation to design behaviour change strategies and testing and embedding these into practice. Peter has convened local and international workshops and training seminars covering these topics and regularly facilitates multi-stakeholder dialogues addressing specific healthcare challenges. Peter manages BWA’s health portfolio and partnerships, which involves close liaison with a number of government and other agencies including WorkSafe Victoria, Department of Health and Human Services, Victorian Managed Insurance Authority and the Victorian Transport Accident Commission. He has published extensively on evidence translation theory and methods in specific areas of healthcare such as traumatic brain and spinal cord injury and public health. His publications encompass academic journals such as The Lancet and is active in other media such as The Conversation. Peter currently serves on the board of the Spinal Cord Injury Network and provides expert healthcare quality improvement advice in a range of other clinical areas. Prior to his full-time research career, Peter worked for 10 years as a physiotherapist in public and private practice settings, including one year in the United Kingdom.

Liam is Director and co-founder of BehaviourWorks Australia (BWA) and one of Australia’s leading authorities on behaviour change. Liam is committed to using behavioural science to tackle public policy issues for the benefit of individuals and society. Under Liam’s Directorship, BWA work in partnership with government and the private sector to design and deliver research and evidence-informed behaviour change programs to address a raft of social issues in health and safety, biosecurity, education, social inclusion, digital inclusion, retirement savings, energy, water and pollution. He has published widely on behaviour and behaviour change. Liam is an active contributor on Zoos Victoria’s Science Committee, South East Water’s Customer Engagement Council and VicHealth’s Leading Thinker Taskforce and Monash Sustainable Development Institute Executive. An exceptional public speaker, Liam believes that education and training is vital to wider uptake and application of behavioural insights. As such, he has delivered accredited education, executive training and public presentations to audiences around Australia and the world.

Lena holds a Master’s degree in Global Change Management from the Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development in Germany and a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from the Humboldt University Berlin and is a Research Officer at BehaviourWorks Australia (BWA). Lena has performed critical formative work for the Victorian state government in relation to policy shifts in the environmental domain and researched Victorians’ drivers, barriers and attitudes to recycling unwanted electronic items to inform future government policy and communications with the Victorian public. Lena is a Researcher-in-Residence with our founding partner Sustainability Victoria and has delivered training workshops on the BWA Method to government staff. Her research interests focus on behaviour change in the context of the environment. She is interested in how to motivate people to behave in a more environmentally-friendly manner and, more generally, in interactions between people, nature and the environment.

Rennae Christensen is a Campaign Advisor at Sustainability Victoria working predominantly on the upcoming e-waste to landfill ban behaviour change campaign. An experienced communications and marketing professional with a career starting in Advertising that has spanned well over a decade, Rennae’s interests now lie in social marketing and behaviour change communications. A Sydney native now settled in Melbourne, after a lengthy stay in the United Kingdom she returned to Australia with worldwide experience gained and a deeper understanding of working with many different cultural and social backgrounds.

Kim completed her BA (Hons.) at Monash University specialising in Behavioural Studies and Anthropology. Her research experience lies in the area of social and government research where she has worked with a number of large organisations and departments such as Australia Post, the Department of Health and Human Services, WorkSafe Victoria and the Transport Accident Commission. Kim has worked across many different topic areas (including road safety, health and the environment) and she has played an active role in designing and testing best practice methods for survey data collection. Since joining BehaviourWorks, Kim has led research projects on understanding digital inclusion, monitoring and evaluation of government-sponsored behaviour change campaigns, and increasing influenza immunisations using written communications.Kim is particularly interested in the impact of human behaviour on the environment and is currently enrolled in a Behaviour Change PhD via the Monash Graduate Research Industry Partnership program (GRIP) investigating the role of behavioural science in reducing consumption of single-use plastics.

Julia Symons has worked in community engagement, communications, sports administration and philanthropy across the corporate, not-for-profit and sports sectors in Australia, Hong Kong and Fiji. Julia holds qualifications in social sciences and communications and was a recipient of a 2017 Churchill Fellowship, investigating cultural diversity in elite women’s sport across New Zealand, the US and UK. She currently works in the Strategic Partnerships and Projects team at Australia Post, overseeing Digital Inclusion programs and strategy.

Kim Sutton is a public health professional with an extensive background in health program and policy development, implementation and evaluation in state government, community health and the not-for-profit sector. Kim previously led project work in the immunisaiton team at the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), predominantly focussed on adolescent vaccination. In addition to her current role as Senior Policy Officer in the Women's and Children's Policy team at DHHS, Kim co-facilitates the Masters of Public Health (MPH) Health Promotion course at the University of Melbourne.