Role Title: MHEX - Research Translation + Dissemination
Organisation: UWA School of Human Sciences
Internship Period: Semester 2 (July – October)
Location: Nedlands
The Mental Health & Exercise Research (MHEX) team investigates how exercise and physical activity can support mental and physical wellbeing, develop evidence-based methods for embedding exercise into care pathways, and create innovative strategies for community and clinical settings. The group works with diverse populations and stakeholders, including young people and adults with mental illness, and health professionals.
Role Purpose
You will support the MHEX research team to translate complex research insights into clear, engaging digital content that enhances public understanding and reach. Your work will help amplify MHEX’s research outputs, knowledge translation, and community engagement across digital platforms.
Key Responsibilities
Content Creation: Draft, edit, and optimise digital content (e.g., blog posts, research summaries, social media posts, newsletters) that communicates MHEX projects and impact in accessible language.
Digital Storytelling: Work with research leads to turn academic findings into visuals, narratives, or interactive pieces that resonate with external audiences.
Platform Support: Assist with updating the MHEX website and coordinating posts on relevant social channels.
Audience Engagement: Incorporate clear audience insights to shape what content is created and how it’s presented (e.g., for clinicians, community partners, students).
Quality Assurance: Ensure all content reflects evidence, ethical communication standards, and the team’s
Discovering what it is to be human.
The School of Human Sciences is a large multi-disciplinary School with research and teaching focused on better understanding what it is to be human, from our structure, function, development and genetics, to adaptation, performance and evolution.
Our students are provided with a fundamental interdisciplinary understanding of human function and the manner in which it adapts to challenging and disruptive change. Our graduates become innovative and integrative scientific thinkers, whose careers can be found in fields relating to human structure, development and performance.