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Rob Soward

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Rob Soward

Project Officer

M202 , Newnham Campus

+61402357536 (phone)

robert.soward@utas.edu.au

Rob Soward has significant leadership and management experience in a variety of capacities; as a senior leader within the Tasmanian Education Department ( 1991-2014), former Deputy Mayor and current Councillor of the City of Launceston ( 2009-present) , and as State Business Development and Client Relations Manager My Pathway ( 2015-2019).Rob is also a former elected Director of My State Financial and brings significant experience as a community leader/volunteer in a number of different community and sporting organisations.   Rob has a lifelong passion for health and wellbeing and has assumed a variety of roles in those areas through his work as a teacher, sports administrator and sports coach.

Career summary

Qualifications

MEd, BEd, Graduate Certificate in Business Studies, Certificate 3 Investigative Services , Tasmanian Teachers Certificate, Commissioner for Declarations ( Tas)

Teaching

Teaching expertise

Winner of University of Tasmania Teaching Excellence Award.

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Fields of Research

  • Health promotion (420603)
  • Social determinants of health (420606)
  • Community child health (420601)

Research Objectives

  • Prevention of human diseases and conditions (200104)
  • Determinants of health (200201)
  • Rural and remote area health (200508)
  • Other health (209999)

Publications

Total publications

5

Journal Article

(5 outputs)
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2023Jayasinghe S, Holloway TP, Soward R, Patterson KAE, Ahuja KDK, et al., ''An Ounce of Prevention is Worth a Pound of Cure': Proposal for a Social Prescribing Strategy for Obesity Prevention and Improvement in Health and Well-being', JMIR Research Protocols pp. 1-12. ISSN 1929-0748 (2023) [Refereed Article]

DOI: 10.2196/41280 [eCite] [Details]

Co-authors: Jayasinghe S; Holloway TP; Patterson KAE; Ahuja KDK; Dalton L; Murray S; Byrne NM; Hills AP

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2022Jayasinghe S, Flies EJ, Soward R, Kendal D, Kilpatrick M, et al., 'Physical activity and food environments in and around schools: a case study in regional North-West Tasmania', International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19, (10) Article 6238. ISSN 1660-4601 (2022) [Refereed Article]

DOI: 10.3390/ijerph19106238 [eCite] [Details]

Citations: Scopus - 1

Co-authors: Jayasinghe S; Flies EJ; Kendal D; Kilpatrick M; Cleland V; Holloway TP; Murray S; Patterson KAE; Ahuja KDK; Hughes R; Byrne NM; Hills AP

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2022Jayasinghe S, Soward R, Dalton L, Holloway TP, Murray S, et al., 'Domains of capacity building in whole-systems approaches to Prevent Obesity-A 'Systematized' Review', International Journal of Integrated Care, 19, (17) Article 10997. ISSN 1568-4156 (2022) [Refereed Article]

DOI: 10.3390/ijerph191710997 [eCite] [Details]

Citations: Scopus - 1

Co-authors: Jayasinghe S; Dalton L; Holloway TP; Murray S; Patterson KAE; Ahuja KDK; Byrne NM; Hills AP

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2022Jayasinghe SU, Soward RI, Holloway TP, Patterson KAE, Ahuja KDK, et al., 'Why some do but too many don't? Barriers and enablers to physical activity in regional Tasmania - an exploratory, mixed-methods study', BMC Public Health, 22 Article 627. ISSN 1471-2458 (2022) [Refereed Article]

DOI: 10.1186/s12889-022-13001-6 [eCite] [Details]

Citations: Scopus - 2Web of Science - 1

Co-authors: Jayasinghe SU; Holloway TP; Patterson KAE; Ahuja KDK; Hughes R; Byrne NM; Hills AP

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2021Jayasinghe S, Flies EJ, Soward R, Kendal D, Kilpatrick M, et al., 'A spatial analysis of access to physical activity infrastructure and healthy food in regional Tasmania', Frontiers in Public Health, 9 pp. 1-13. ISSN 2296-2565 (2021) [Refereed Article]

DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2021.773609 [eCite] [Details]

Citations: Scopus - 1

Co-authors: Jayasinghe S; Flies EJ; Kendal D; Kilpatrick M; Holloway TP; Patterson KAE; Ahuja KDK; Hughes R; Byrne NM; Hills AP

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