Dr Joanna Fardell

Dr Joanna Fardell

Senior Research Fellow

B Sc (Hons -Psychology, 1st Class)

M Clin Neuropsychology

PhD (Psychology)

Medicine & Health
School of Clinical Medicine

Dr Joanna Fardell is a Senior Research Fellow, for Maridulu Budyari Gumal (SPHERE) Cancer Clinical Academic Group, working in the Living Better with and After Cancer area of focus. She is also Deputy Director of Australia’s largest psycho-oncology research groups - The Behavioural Sciences Unit, part of the Kids Cancer Centre at Sydney Children's Hospital. Please see www.behaviouralsciencesunit.org. She also holds a clinical appointment as Neuropsychologist for the Western Sydney Youth Canc...

E-mail
j.fardell@unsw.edu.au

  • Australian Psychological Society, Excellent Psychology PhD awarded in 2013.
  • H Tasman Lovell Memorial Medallion for Psychology, The University of Sydney, 2013
  • Best International Young Researcher Award, International Cognition and Cancer Taskforce, 2012
  • International Psycho-Oncology Society (IPOS) Hiroomi Kawano New Investigator Award, 2020/2021
  • Clinical Oncology Society of Australia (COSA) Phyllis Butow New Investigator in Psycho-Oncology Award, 2021

My Research Supervision

Current student projects include:

  • social outcomes (including social anxiety and bullying) of children and adolescents with cancer
  • education outcomes for children with chronic illnesses and supporting education engagement for children with chronic illness (including cancer)
  • models of care for childhood cancer survivors
  • quality of life, physical activity and health behaviours among childhood cancer survivors