Student Success Stories
Health Sciences
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Corey Somerville, Bachelor of Health Science
"It was a great way of putting my studies into action and gave me a little taste of what to expect in the field."
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Kahlia Perry, Bachelor of Health Science
"Growing up I always had an interest in the human body and how it moves, and how we can help people when they have injuries or problems with their health."
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Raquel Andrews, Bachelor of Health Science
"I would love to work with schools with young kids. I think it’s important that they learn healthy behaviours when they’re young."
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Hannah Martin, Bachelor of Health Science
"I want to return to Tasmania, and really give back to the North West community that helped me."
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Torben Partridge-Madson, Bachelor of Health Science
"I really wanted to see how elite athletes do it – what separates them from the rest of us."
Medicine
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Jessica Teoh, Bachelor of Medical Research
"The University of Tasmania fosters a great atmosphere to study and friendly community to live in. It provides great opportunities, and above all the University values students, our opinions and our successes."
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Emma Cazaly, Bachelor of Medical Research
"Undergraduate, honours and PhD studies are imperative to becoming a medical researcher. I feel my degree has prepared me well for the practical and academic skills required to become a researcher."
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Benjamin Dodds, Bachelor of Medicine/ Bachelor of Surgery
"The facilities available to medical students at the University of Tasmania are world-class, and the doctors that lecture and tutor us are genuinely interested in helping students learn."
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Devika Remash, Bachelor of Medicine/Bachelor of Surgery
"The best aspect of my course so far has been the hands-on experience with anatomy through the Body Bequest Program."
Nursing
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Fiona Bauld, Bachelor of Nursing
"I wanted a job that was going to have flexible working hours. It is never a perfect time to do it but you just make it work. I am glad I did what I did."
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Lindsay Fletcher, Bachelor of Nursing
"Placement was so amazing. It really opened my eyes to what my career in nursing is going to look like."
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Chantelle Ward, Bachelor of Nursing
"I am a mature-aged student. I didn’t finish high school. I had a long path to university but I did it. I was determined."
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Freyr Colvin, Bachelor of Nursing
"I needed a career change. And here I am."
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Mirwais Adli, Bachelor of Nursing
"I felt so proud and happy on the graduation day with my family and friends to receive my degree and award."
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Angus Reid, Bachelor of Nursing
"Jump at the opportunities offered by this unique environment, as you will learn both nursing skills AND life skills."
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Anna Brooke, Bachelor of Nursing
"I feel like I’m doing something worthwhile with my life."
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Adele Close, Bachelor of Nursing
"I have made heaps of lifelong friends through this degree and it’s awesome to now be working with some of them."
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Diana Butler, Bachelor of Nursing
"I don’t know whether I could have done this work in Africa had I not had that base degree."
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Elise How, Bachelor of Nursing
"I spent the first week with the emergency response retrieval team which involved being on call for emergency retrievals."
Pharmacy
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Wei Qi Chau (Claire), Bachelor of Pharmacy
"It has been a highlight for me to meet people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds and continue to build interpersonal relationships with them. This has also allowed me to broaden my networks in the field of Pharmacy."
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Sarah Barwick, Bachelor of Pharmacy
"I chose the University of Tasmania as I wanted to take advantage of its reputation for high quality learning environments while also being able to enjoy everything Tasmania has to offer."
Psychology
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Kaela Martin, Graduate Diploma in Counselling
"The University of Tasmania has provided an environment I feel supported in. Lecturers make time for you and try to get to know who you are as a person."
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Rosalind Woodworth, PhD in Psychology
"The training that I received at UTAS has an impact on almost everything I do in the work place and allows me to be a true professional in my field."
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Michelle Dwyer, Master of Psychology (Clinical)
"I have made lots of friends at the University of Tasmania, and have learnt so much in a short amount of time about being a Clinical Psychologist."
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Ella Cuthbertson, Graduate Diploma of Counselling
"My current studies are giving me the opportunity to broaden my skills. There is a strong emphasis on role-play and simulated scenarios which allow me to continue developing my knowledge base. We have used real life case studies in workshops to gain our practical skills."
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Robert Kirkis, Bachelor of Psychological Science with Honours
"I feel there is a point in time when studying psychology where your mindset changes from being a student to ‘scientist-in-training’, and I feel all my lecturers and tutors have been nurturing this from the very beginning."
Public Health
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Dr Jan Wallace, Master of Public Health
"I learned a lot about the overarching role of public health in a global context. It certainly broadened my knowledge of what I believe public health to be and its importance to health equity across populations."
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Laura Schreiber, Master of Public Health
"One of the biggest highlights of my experience with the University of Tasmania so far is being able to study my Polar Health units while sitting on the aft deck of a coast guard icebreaker at 70.7368° N, 117.7704° W in the Canadian Arctic."
Research
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Rosalind Woodworth, PhD in Psychology
"The training that I received at UTAS has an impact on almost everything I do in the work place and allows me to be a true professional in my field."
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Ross Brosnan, PhD in Health Sciences
"It will be a great way of identifying the factors that get athletes to that next step and we can then start applying those to the team."
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Ishanka Munugoda, PhD in osteoarthritis
"In my studies, I was repeatedly reading literature and research coming out of the Menzies Institute for Medical Research that was cutting edge and sparked my desire upon completion of my physiotherapy degree to pursue a PhD at the University of Tasmania’s Menzies Institute"
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Emily Handley - PhD student in neuroscience
"It's so important to me to let people suffering with these diagnoses know that there are people who are truly passionate about working hard to find a treatment and cure."
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Ali Morse - PhD candidate in Health Sciences
"It is exciting to think that the research I am undertaking will have an impact on Tasmanian health services and the people working within health organisations."
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Hoang Phan - PhD candidate in stroke
"My ultimate goal is to help both men and women around the world to recover to their maximum potential after stroke."