Biography
Dr Amanda Young’s background is in the behavioural sciences, specializing in health and rehabilitation psychology. Before joining the THRIVE Project, Amanda spent a number of years as an independent research consultant, working with businesses, practitioners and governing bodies in both Australia and the United States. Prior to this she spent close to two decades working in the United States as a Research Scientist at Liberty Mutual’s Center for Disability Research. Before this she was lecturing and working as a research fellow at Monash University, Melbourne Australia, which is also where she did she did her doctoral studies (Faculty of Medicine, conferred April, 2000).
KEY RESEARCH AREAS / INTERESTS
Dr Young’s interests focus around psychosocial rehabilitation following injury, with a particular interest in injuries that result in significant disruption to the injured person’s ability to participate in their pre-injury working life. She tends more towards aiming to understand the worker’s perspective, but has also been involved in research from the employer, insurer and health care provider points of view. She cares deeply about helping people affected by disability achieve their greatest potential, and is motivated by knowing that her work can be used to this effect.
EXPERTISE / SKILLS
Dr Young has an appreciation of quantitative, qualitative and mixed-methods research. Her discipline background includes psychological, behavioural, sociological, biological, medical and epidemiological influences. This allows her to address research questions using diverse methodologies, adapting to the topic at hand, without being encumbered by adherence to a strict doctrine or paradigm.
- Publications
Co-Design of a Digital Health Platform for Chronic Disease Management in Rural Settings Using a Person-Centered, Collaborative-Care Model: Protocol for a 3-Phase Mixed Methods Study
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.2196/77844