A/Prof Paola Chivers is the Deputy Director role at the Institute for Health Research (IHR), The University of Notre Dame Australia (UNDA), Adjunct Research Fellow at the School of Medical and Health Sciences, Edith Cowan University and the Principal Consultant at DATaR Consulting.

Strengths include:

- Effective communicator across disciplines and levels to facilitate project outcomes on time and on budget.  

- Lead, develop and motivate teams to deliver project outcomes within constrained environments.

- Develop and implement systems to reliability manage risk and strategies.

- Effective decision-making through planning, analysis and stakeholder engagement.

- Adaptable and able to pivot to implement new strategies or learn new processes or systems within a diverse range of environments and contexts.

A/Prof Chivers provides data analysis, training and research consultancy through DATaR Consulting and along with her executive role at UNDA engages in activities with research students, university staff, Clinicians, government and non-government organisation staff. A/Prof Chivers is a co-founder member of Western Australian Bone Research Collaboration (WABRC); a cross-institutional and multidisciplinary team of researchers and clinicians investigating bone health and disease; and is a manuscript reviewer for clinical journals across paediatric, human movement, ageing, obesity, epidemiology and neuroscience themes and Statistical Advisor for the international journal Clinical Oral Implants Research.  

While A/Prof Chivers provides executive supports across a range of projects her personal research focus has centred on Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD) and the subsequent reduction in poor health outcomes for these individuals. A/Prof Chivers serves on numerous committees at the university and is currently serving a 3-year term appointment on the South Metro TAFE Governing Council. A/Prof Chivers is an active researcher currently supervising three (2) PhD research students, with seven (8) Higher Degree Research student completions.  She has over $1.2M in grant success and over 60 peer reviewed articles published in clinical journals.

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