Dr Kim Van Schooten
Kim van Schooten is a senior research fellow at NeuRA and conjoint associate professor at UNSW Medicine supported by the Human Frontier Science Program. She obtained her PhD in 2014 from the faculty of Human Movement Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (the Netherlands). She was a Mitacs & Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research postdoctoral fellow at the faculty of Biomedical Physiology and Kinesiology, Simon Fraser University and the Centre for Hip Health and Mobility, University of British Columbia (Canada).
Kim's research focuses on balance control and fall risk in seniors. She is particularly interested in the underlying mechanisms of balance impairments, and methodologies for ambulatory monitoring of mobility using wearable sensors. Through a combination of experimental and epidemiological studies, she studies how people maintain and recover balance during daily-life activities, to improve our understanding of why falls occur and to reveal targets for the prevention of mobility impairments and falls.
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Memberships:
- International Society of Posture and Gait Research (ISPGR)
- Advisory roles on fall risk assessment committees
- Member of various health and research policy groups
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Community Engagement:
- Promoting fall prevention strategies through public outreach
- Collaborating with community-based organisations to improve mobility and health outcomes for older people
- Advocacy for integrating sensor technologies into everyday healthcare practices
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Media & Outreach:
- Active participation in public discussions on fall prevention and ageing
- Engaged with media to raise awareness about balance and fall risk among older people
My Research Supervision
I currently supervise several ILP, Honours, MSc, PhD students and postdoctoral researchers, and I welcome students interested in the intersection of neuroscience, biomechanics, and public health.