Prof Julie Bernhardt
My research focuses on stroke rehabilitation and recovery. I build multi-stakeholder collaborations to accelerate knowledge acquisition and treatment solutions to reduce the burden of post-stroke disability on individuals, their families and the community. In Australia, I lead a Centre of Research Excellence focused on stroke recovery, and a Living Lab (NOVELLredesign) focused on rethinking and redesigning rehabilitation, built environments and services to optimise recovery.
I co-founded WiSPP in 2013 to address gender inequality in medical research with the help of Emma Burrows and later an enthusiastic and wonderful group of women and men. Inspired by the collective impact framework, I saw that the deeply entrenched and complex social problems surrounding the progression of women in science needed to be jointly tackled by each institute.