We are public health academics who love to write and research.
We 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 fulfilling 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.
Dr Jane Frawley
Jane is a Senior Lecturer 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 more than 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. Her research is cross-disciplinary and spans the intersection between the environment and human and planetary health, the psychosocial impacts from environmental change, health behaviour and decision-making for health and wellbeing and sustainable healthcare. Her program of research draws on psychological theory and complex systems thinking to explore the intersection of these topic areas to promote health and wellbeing.
Erica loves writing, 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.
Dr Erica McIntyre is a Research Principal in the Institute for Sustainable Futures at the University of Technology Sydney.