Dr Rebecca Stewart
Rebecca is an interdisciplinary researcher whose experience and interests focus on primary prevention and behaviour change in the gender equality field. Rebecca completed her doctoral studies as part of the highly-competitive Behaviour Change Graduate Research Industry Partnership program, an interdisciplinary collaboration between BehaviourWorks Australia and VicHealth. Her recently submitted doctoral thesis investigated healthier masculinities from a gender equality perspective, focusing on primary prevention interventions. Applying a behavioural science lens to the project, she presented a framework to support program design and impact, by looking at how programs support participants to engage in deliberate processing of information, which leads to stronger attitude formation and is a good predictor of behaviour change.Rebecca has extensive research experience, particularly in qualitative data collection and analysis. She also has a passion for making research accessible and is experienced in adapting outputs across a variety of platforms and mediums, including but not limited to academic publications, government-funded reports, publications such as The Conversation, and presenting to a variety of audiences.