We are public health academics who love to write and research.
We also love supporting higher degree research students and early career academics to thrive! We run high quality, tailored writing retreats as well as seminars and workshops on how to be a successful academic. Our aim is to help academics create and maintain a sustainable and enjoyable career.
We are inspired by the many authors, writers and colleagues who metaphorically held our hand through our own careers and writing ups and downs from early PhD onwards. Academics that have inspired us include the prolific writing expert Helen Sword, Thesis Whisperer Inger Mewburn, Researcher Whisperers Tseen Khoo and Jonathan O’Donnell, the Happy Academic Katie Ball, the professional community supporting women in research Franklin Women, and Slow Professors Maggie Berg and Barbara Seeber, along with many others. Our retreats and workshops draw on insights from the slow academic movement and include an authentic, ethical, values-based approach to sustainable academia.
Associate Professor Jane Frawley
Jane is an Associate Professor in Public Health at the School of Public Health within the Faculty of Health at UTS. She was a National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Early Career Fellow from 2017-2021. She conducts research in the area of maternal and child health with a strong focus on immunisation and infectious disease. Her current work looks at vaccine uptake and decision making, equitable access to vaccines, vaccine risk communication, and maternal and infant outcomes from severe disease during pregnancy.
Jane is an experienced writer having published over 90 peer-reviewed publications including ~80 journal articles and other textbooks, chapters, and government reports.
Dr Erica McIntyre
Erica is a public health academic with broad expertise in health and wellbeing research and teaching. She is also an ADHD coach and career and leadership coach specialising in supporting women academics.
Since 2014 Erica has worked in universities as an educator and researcher in the broad areas of public health and psychology. her research and teaching has focused on self-care and health care decision-making, mental health and wellbeing, environmental impacts on health and wellbeing, and neurodivergence—with a special interest in ADHD.
She is an Adjunct Fellow in the Institute for Sustainable Futures at the University of Technology Sydney, where she is supervising PhD candidates in the area of planetary health.
Erica has over 10 years experience supervising and mentoring early career academics and professionals. She has lead and facilitated graduate research student wellbeing and professional development support initiatives including research retreats, writing bootcamps, and 3-Minute Thesis training.
Erica loves writing and collaborating, having over 70 publications that include 50+ peer-reviewed journal articles, text-book chapters and industry reports. She is also an active member of the Public Health Association of Australia contributing to policy development and government submissions.
Her top character strength is love of learning so she is always building on her knowledge and skills in training and development, coaching practice, neuroinclusion, neurodivergence, and mental health and wellbeing.