The CBC’s Australasian Hub (AusHub) provides training, research collaboration and consultancy to academic and other organisations in Australasia and South-East Asia.

Since 2015, the AusHub has collaborated on research projects and provided training and consultancy to the following institutions and organisations:
- Research
Since 2015, the AusHub has collaborated on research projects and provided training and consultancy to the following institutions and organisations:
Enabling PEAK Mental wellbeing, Cognitive Performance and Brain Health for University Students. In collaboration with BrainPark, Monash University (Vic).
Midwives and Obstetricians Helping Mothers to Quit. In collaboration with the University Centre for Rural Health, Lismore (NSW).
Supporting Indigenous Smokers To Assist Quitting. In collaboration with Southern Cross University.
- Training
Since 2015, AusHub has provided bespoke behaviour change training courses for the following institutions and organisations:
Australia
ANZ Banking Group
Behavioural Insights Team
Hunter New England Local Health District
Melbourne University
New South Wales Department of Premier and Cabinet Behavioural Insights Unit
Queensland University
South West Sydney Local Health District
Singapore
JurongHealth Campus
New Zealand
Auckland University
Myanmar
MyJustice
- Consultancy
Macquarie University
University Centre for Rural Health
University of Technology Sydney
- Key Publications
- Jacobs, C., Turbitt, E., McEwen, A., & Atkins, L. (2022). Australasian Genetic Counselors' Perceptions of Their Role in Supporting Clients' Behavior Change. Journal of Personalized Medicine, 13 (1), 30. doi:10.3390/jpm13010030
- Gould, G. S., Ryan, N. M., Kumar, R., Stevenson, L. C., Carson-Chahhoud, K. V., Oldmeadow, C., . . . Clarke, M. (2022). SISTAQUIT: training health care providers to help pregnant Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women quit smoking. A cluster randomised controlled trial. Medical Journal of Australia, 217 (1), 36-42. doi:10.5694/mja2.51604
- Barnes, L. A. J., Longman, J., Adams, C., Paul, C., Atkins, L., Bonevski, B., . . . Passey, M. (2022). The MOHMQuit (Midwives and Obstetricians Helping Mothers to Quit Smoking) Trial: protocol for a stepped-wedge implementation trial to improve best practice smoking cessation support in public antenatal care services. Implementation Science, 17 (1), 79. doi:10.1186/s13012-022-01250-3
- Passey, M. E., Adams, C., Paul, C., Atkins, L., & Longman, J. M. (2021). Improving implementation of smoking cessation guidelines in pregnancy care: development of an intervention to address system, maternity service leader and clinician factors. Implementation Science Communications, 2 (1), 128. doi:10.1186/s43058-021-00235-5
- Egerton, T., Hinman, R. S., Hunter, D. J., Bowden, J. L., Nicolson, P. J. A., Atkins, L., . . . Bennell, K. L. (2020). PARTNER: a service delivery model to implement optimal primary care management of people with knee osteoarthritis: description of development. BMJ Open, 10 (10), e040423. doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2020-040423
- Nelligan, R. K., Hinman, R. S., Atkins, L., & Bennell, K. L. (2019). A Short Message Service Intervention to Support Adherence to Home-Based Strengthening Exercise for People With Knee Osteoarthritis: Intervention Design Applying the Behavior Change Wheel. JMIR Mhealth Uhealth, 7 (10), ARTN e14619. doi:10.2196/14619
- Nelligan, R. K., Hinman, R. S., Kasza, J., Schwartz, S., Kimp, A., Atkins, L., & Bennell, K. L. (2019). Effect of a short message service (SMS) intervention on adherence to a physiotherapist-prescribed home exercise program for people with knee osteoarthritis and obesity: protocol for the ADHERE randomised controlled trial. BMC MUSCULOSKELETAL DISORDERS, 20 (1), ARTN 428. doi:10.1186/s12891-019-2801-z
- Gould, G. S., Bovill, M., Pollock, L., Bonevski, B., Gruppetta, M., Atkins, L., . . . Bar-Zeev, Y. (2019). Feasibility and acceptability of Indigenous Counselling and Nicotine (ICAN) QUIT in Pregnancy multicomponent implementation intervention and study design for Australian Indigenous pregnant women: A pilot cluster randomised step-wedge trial. Addict Behav, 90, 176-190. doi:10.1016/j.addbeh.2018.10.036
- Bar-Zeev, Y., Bovill, M., Bonevski, B., Gruppetta, M., Oldmeadow, C., Palazzi, K., . . . Orcher, L. (2019). Improving smoking cessation care in pregnancy at Aboriginal Medical Services: 'ICAN QUIT in Pregnancy' step-wedge cluster randomised study. BMJ OPEN, 9 (6), ARTN e025293. doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2018-025293
- Bar-Zeev, Y., Bonevski, B., Gruppetta, M., Twyman, L., Atkins, L., Palazzi, K., . . . Gould, G. S. (2018). Clinician factors associated with prescribing nicotine replacement therapy in pregnancy: A cross-sectional survey of Australian obstetricians and general practitioners. AUSTRALIAN & NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF OBSTETRICS & GYNAECOLOGY, 58 (3), 366-370. doi:10.1111/ajo.12751
- Gould, G., Bovill, M., Pollock, L., Bonevski, B., Gruppetta, M., Atkins, L., . . . Bar-Zeev, Y. (2018). Feasibility and Acceptability of ICAN QUIT in Pregnancy Multicomponent Implementation Intervention and Research Design for Australian Indigenous Pregnant Women: A Pilot Cluster Randomized Step-Wedge Trial.
- Egerton, T., Nelligan, R. K., Setchell, J., Atkins, L., & Bennell, K. L. (2018). General practitioners' views on managing knee osteoarthritis: a thematic analysis of factors influencing clinical practice guideline implementation in primary care. BMC Rheumatology, 2, 30. doi:10.1186/s41927-018-0037-4
- Gould, G. S., Bar-Zeev, Y., Bovill, M., Atkins, L., Gruppetta, M., Clarke, M. J., & Bonevski, B. (2017). Designing an implementation intervention with the Behaviour Change Wheel for health provider smoking cessation care for Australian Indigenous pregnant women. Implementation Science : IS, 12 (1), 114. doi:10.1186/s13012-017-0645-1
- Egerton, T., Nelligan, R., Setchell, J., Atkins, L., & Bennell, K. L. (2017). General practitioners' perspectives on a proposed new model of service delivery for primary care management of knee osteoarthritis: a qualitative study. BMC family practice, 18 (1), 85. doi:10.1186/s12875-017-0656-7
- Curtis, K., Van, C., Lam, M., Asha, S., Unsworth, A., Clements, A., & Atkins, L. (2017). Implementation evaluation and refinement of an intervention to improve blunt chest injury management - a mixed methods study. J Clin Nurs. doi:10.1111/jocn.13782
- Zeev, Y. B., Bonevski, B., Twyman, L., Watt, K., Atkins, L., Palazzi, K., . . . Gould, G. S. (2017). Opportunities Missed: A Cross-Sectional Survey of the Provision of Smoking Cessation Care to Pregnant Women by Australian General Practitioners and Obstetricians. Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco, 19 (5), 636-641. doi:10.1093/ntr/ntw331
- Munroe, B., Curtis, K., Buckley, T., Lewis, M., & Atkins, L. (2017). Optimising implementation of a patient-assessment framework for emergency nurses: a mixed-method study. Journal of clinical nursing. doi:10.1111/jocn.13932
- Bar-Zeev, Y., Bonevski, B., Bovill, M., Gruppetta, M., Oldmeadow, C., Palazzi, K., . . . Gould, G. S. (2017). The Indigenous Counselling and Nicotine (ICAN) QUIT in Pregnancy Pilot Study protocol: a feasibility step-wedge cluster randomised trial to improve health providers' management of smoking during pregnancy. BMJ open, 7 (8), e016095. doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2017-016095
- Related Organisations
Behaviour Works Australia, Monash University
Leading behaviour change research enterprise within the Monash Sustainable Development Institute.
Melbourne Centre for Behaviour Change, The University of Melbourne
Harnessing research and education to produce sustainable, durable changes in behaviours, policies, and practices that will enhance lives, livelihoods, and environments.
Membership
To discuss research collaborations, bespoke behaviour change training courses and consultancy, email the AusHub leader Dr Lou Atkins.