Dr Shelley Beatty

Position: Senior Lecturer, Centre for Public Health, School of Exercise Biomedical and Health Sciences
Location: Joondalup 19.389
Phone: (61 8) 6304 5602
Fax: (61 8) 6304 5449
E-mail: s.beatty@ecu.edu.au
Qualifications: Dip Teach; B Ed; Tch Higher Cert; Postgrad Dip (Hlth Prom); MPH; PhD
Teaching Interests:
  • Addiction Studies
  • Health promotion and public health policy and practice
  • Research methods
Research Interests:
  • Development, implementation and evaluation of youth and family-based health promotion interventions
Community and professional service:

Shelley is involved in a range of community and professional service activities, most of which centre on issues relevant to youth health promotion
Biographic notes:

Being a formally trained teacher Shelley has taught in secondary schools throughout WA.  She has worked in the central office of the Education Department of WA as a curriculum writer and completed her Bachelor of Education and Postgraduate Diploma in Health Promotion during this time (graduating with distinction in both instances). Shelley has also worked in the WA Health Department in the school health and also the alcohol and other drug program areas.  During this time she completed a Master of Public Health where her research investigated the needs of school-based police officers in WA.  During her time in the government education and public health sectors Shelley authored numerous school-related best-practice curriculum, policy and training resources that are currently used in youth and school health promotion.

She commencing working at ECU as a lecturer in health promotion and addiction studies in 1992.  In 1998 Shelley was awarded a three-year Doctoral Research Training Scholarship from the WA Health Promotion Foundation.  Her thesis investigated the feasibility and effectiveness of providing drug education for parents of pre-adolescent children and was awarded Vice Chancellors’ medal for excellence.  Her most recent book, “Drugs and Your Teenager” was co-authored with Martin Palin and published in 2000.  In collaboration with the WA Centre for Health Promotion Research at Curtin University, Shelley is currently the Principal or Co-investigator on three externally funded research grants.