Leon Straker

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John Curtin Distinguished Professor

Curtin University

Australia

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Leon Straker is a John Curtin Distinguished Professor at Curtin University in Australia. His research focuses on the characterization of physical behaviors, work paradigms, and health outcomes related to various physical tasks and technologies. Recent articles include studies on wearables, the goldilocks work paradigm, and health behavior profiles in young adults, highlighting his commitment to improving musculoskeletal health and understanding cardiovascular risks.

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'Just right' job design: A new model using the Goldilocks paradigm

Open Date: 2020-01-01

Close Date: 2022-12-31

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ARC Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child

Open Date: 2020-01-01

Close Date: 2026-12-31

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The health, social and economic implications of risk-taking in adolescence over the life-course: a data linkage study of the Raine cohort.

Open Date: 2019-01-01

Close Date: 2023-12-01

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The Goldilocks principle: can work be designed to make it healthier to do it?

Open Date: 2019-01-01

Close Date: 2022-01-01

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Developmental origins of adult myocardial structure and function: Heart health and the Raine cohort

Open Date: 2019-01-01

Close Date: 2019-12-01

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Joanne A McVeigh

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A Feasibility Study of the “Motus” System for Wearable-Based Movement Behaviors at Scale

Methods for Characterization of Day-to-Day Intra-Individual Variation in 24-Hour Physical Behaviors

The Goldilocks Work Paradigm: Conception, Experience, Refinement, and Future

Work tasks drive the physical behaviors of passenger train drivers

Are we ready for wearable-based global physical activity surveillance?

Effectiveness of a Goldilocks work intervention to promote musculoskeletal health among industrial workers – A cluster randomized controlled trial

Comparison of physiological and behavioral nutrition-related factors in people with and without adolescent idiopathic scoliosis, from cohort data at 8 to 20 years

Measurement Method Options to Investigate Digital Screen Technology Use by Children and Adolescents: A Narrative Review

Standing in the shadows: is standing a tonic or a toxin for cardiometabolic health?

Parental practices and perspectives on health and digital technology use information seeking for children aged 0–36 months

What’s Your Poison? Is Sitting Always Health Hindering and Moving Always Health Promoting?

Evaluation of the ActiMotus Software to Accurately Classify Postures and Movements in Children Aged 3–14

Device-measured stationary behaviour and cardiovascular and orthostatic circulatory disease incidence

Results from the Australian 2022 Report Card on physical activity for children and young people

Device assessed activity behaviours in patients with indwelling pleural catheter: A sub‐study of the Australasian Malignant PLeural Effusion (AMPLE)‐2 randomized trial

Can occupational health professionals successfully apply the Goldilocks Work Paradigm in a simulated work redesign?

Advancing Use of DEXA Scans to Quantitatively and Qualitatively Evaluate Lateral Spinal Curves, for Preliminary Identification of Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis

“It helps and it doesn’t help”: maternal perspectives on how the use of smartphones and tablet computers influences parent-infant attachment

An Exploration of the Influence of Non-Biomechanical Factors on Lifting-Related LBP

Health behaviour profiles in young Australian adults in relation to physical and mental health: The Raine Study

Objective Measurement of Posture and Movement in Young Children Using Wearable Sensors and Customised Mathematical Approaches: A Systematic Review

A Novel System for the Device-Based Measurement of Physical Activity, Sedentary Behavior, and Sleep (Motus): Usability Evaluation

‘There’s good and bad’: parent perspectives on the influence of mobile touch screen device use on prenatal attachment

Relationship between TV watching during childhood and adolescence and fitness in adulthood in the Raine Study cohort.

Evaluation of an exercise and ergonomics intervention for the prevention of neck pain in office workers: exploratory analysis of a cluster randomised trial

Designing industrial work to be ‘just right’ to promote health - a study protocol for a goldilocks work intervention

Collaborators (26)

Joanne A McVeigh

Andrew L. Rohl

Ding Ding

Anjum Naweed

Therese O'Sullivan

Peter O’Sullivan

Sarah Mills

Venerina Johnston

Markus Melloh

Carolyn Peddle-McIntyre

Juliana Zabatiero

Andrew Haynes

Yun Chor Gary Lee

Robert Newton

Simon Smith

Corneel Vandelanotte

Peter Kent

Amber Beynon

Kylie Hesketh

Kylie Tucker

Karen Søgaard

Nicola Ridgers

Verity Cleland

Maree Izatt

Mette Aadahl

Stephen R. Zubrick

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