Details
- Close date
- Tuesday, 4 December 2018
- Academic background
- Sciences, Health Sciences
- Host campus
- Wellington
- Qualifications
- Master's, Honours
- Department
- Paediatrics and Child Health (Wellington)
- Supervisor
- Dr Max Berry
Overview
The Department of Paediatrics and Child Health is research active in a number of different aspects of child health and disease.
We have opportunities for postgraduate research that would suit students from a number of disciplines – particularly basic science, health sciences and psychology.
Dr Max Berry
In 2008, Dr Berry was awarded an HRC Fellowship for PhD studies; during the course of her PhD she examined the long-term effects of preterm birth, early nutrition and antenatal corticosteroid exposure on cardiometabolic outcomes in sheep. Dr Berry's research interests include the impact of preterm birth on cardiac autonomic function, vascular function and the development of regional adiposity. In particular, Dr Berry has an interest in translational biomedical research, and the integration of basic sciences with advances in perinatal care. In 2013 Dr Berry was awarded first prize in the Richard Richard Stewart Memorial Prizes for Excellence in Research Presentation by Emerging New Investigators.