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Jodie Cochrane Wilkie

Senior Lecturer, Edith Cowan University

Dr Jodie Cochrane Wilkie graduated with a Bachelor of Physical and Health Education (with 1st Class Honours) in 1998 and a PhD from the University of Western Australia in 2007. She is currently a Senior Lecturer at Edith Cowan University (ECU). Prior to her appointment at ECU, Dr Cochrane Wilkie was a Senior Biomechanist at the Australian Institute of Sport for 5 years and then a Senior Talent Identification and Development Coordinator at the Australian Sports Commission for several years, working with elite and developing athletes in kayaking, netball, football, gymnastics, boxing, skeleton, pistol shooting, taekwondo and badminton. Dr Wilkie was the Sport Scientist at the 2008 Olympic Games, Beijing, for the Australian Taekwondo Team, and she was the Sport Science and Medicine Coordinator for the Australian Skeleton Team in the preparation for the 2010 Winter Olympics Games, Vancouver. She is currently the High Performance Sport Science and Medicine Coordinator and Pathway Consultant for Badminton Australia. Dr Cochrane Wilkie’s research focuses on movement analysis, neuromuscular training and injury prevention. She has many publications (under maiden name of Cochrane) and conference presentations and is co-author of two book chapters. She received the New Investigator Award at the International Symposium on Biomechanics in Sport in 2006, other awards at conferences for her papers, as well as her research group also receiving an Australian Football League Research Award in recognition of outstanding research.

Experience

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    Senior Lecturer in Biomechanics, Edith Cowan University