Overview
Mark Liu is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow focusing on the potential for clinical trials to affect change on a larger, longer-term scale. He was the interning early-career researcher for a multidisciplinary patient safety trial conducted at eight hospitals across Sydney, Melbourne and regional New South Wales. His doctoral research program involved physical activity for cancer patients, with an emphasis on creating long-term behaviour change for underserved groups.
Methodological expertise:
- Implementing trials in real-world contexts
- Behaviour change theory
- Consumer involvement
- Leveraging routinely collected healthcare data for research
- Other areas of interest: supportive care for people with cancer, inequities in healthcare
Research Interests
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Implementation Science
The use of implementation science to enhance the success of randomised controlled trials. Special interests in human and organisational behaviour change, and health inequities due to cultural, language, geographical and socioeconomic barriers. -
Physical activity and cancer
The science behind health behaviours for individuals living with cancer, in particular, metastatic disease.
Qualifications
- Doctor of Philosophy of Physiotherapy, University of Sydney
- Bachelor (Honours) of Exercise Physiology, University of Sydney
