Tasha Stanton

Tasha completed her training as a clinical Physiotherapist in 2002 and after two years of clinical work, she returned to pursue her Master of Science in spinal biomechanics with Prof Greg Kawchuk at the University of Alberta, Canada, completing in 2007. She then received a highly competitive PhD recruitment scholarship – the University of Sydney International Research Scholarship – and relocated overseas to complete her PhD, studying low back pain and clinical prediction, with Prof Chris Maher, Prof Jane Latimer, and Associate Prof Mark Hancock at the University of Sydney/The George Institute for Global Health.

Tasha has published over 40 peer-reviewed journal articles and has been a keynote or invited speaker at 22 national/international conferences. She has been fortunate enough to win some posh awards: In 2016, she won the Ronald Dubner Research Prize from the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP), the most prestigious trainee award that recognizes the best series of papers in pain, including all research areas. She also won the Inaugural Rising Star Award from the Australia Pain Society. In 2015, she was named the South Australia Young Tall Poppy of the Year (Australian Institute for Policy and Science), an award that recognises excellence in science and its communication. She also received the Best New Investigator Award at the National Australian Physiotherapy Association Congress in 2015.

Her research focusses on clinical pain neuroscience and she is specifically interested in cortical body representation, multisensory integration, multimodal illusion, somatosensation, and pain.

She is a Commissioning Editor for the Body in Mind Research Blog and is a founding member and editor for the International Collaboration of Early Career Researchers (theICECReam). If you have any idea for a blog post, please contact her.

She is currently looking for Honour’s and PhD students.