Dr Lucy Simmonds is a Senior Lecturer in Marketing and Health Care Management. She holds a PhD in marketing, a Bachelor of Health Sciences (Honours) and postgraduate qualifications in communication. Lucy's industry background is as a marketing communciations practitioner with experience in organisations such as the Australian Science Media Centre and the Department for Health. As a researcher, she is particularly interested in marketing communications, consumer behaviour, health communications and implementation science.

Lucy is a chief investigator on over $1.4 million of research projects. She is a Endeavour Research Fellowship recipient (Australian government award) at the University of Texas at Austin, USA. She is a on the editorial review board for International Journal of Advertising and is a review editor for Frontiers in Communication. 

Lucy is the Course Program Coordinator, Bachelor of Business (Marketing), Bachelor of Business (International Business) and Bachelor of Business (Sports Management). As an educator, Lucy has a decade of experience at both the undergraduate and postgraduate level and teaches consumer behaviour, marketing communications and research methods. 

Lucy is Adjunct Research Fellow at the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute (SAHMRI) and Affiliate Researcher at the Centre for Social Impact. Lucy is passionate about making research accessible for the community and has published 15 articles in the mainstream press, including The Conversation and The West Australian.

Qualifications

PhD, Ehrenberg-Bass Institute

Graduate Diploma in Science Communication, The Australian National University

Graduate Certificate in Marketing, University of South Australia

Bachelor of Health Sciences (Honours) (First Class), University of Adelaide

Bachelor of Science in Genetics (Major), University of Adelaide

Diploma in Languages (Japanese), University of Adelaide

Awards

Psychology & Marketing Top Citations Award

Health Translation SA Research Translation Award

Research Excellence Award for an Early Career Researcher, College of Business Government and Law

SAHMRI High Impact Publication Award

Endeavour Research Award

Vice Chancellor and President’s Scholarship

Australian Postgraduate Award

The Australian National University Shell Questacon Scholarship

Most Outstanding Honours Student in the Discipline of Paediatrics, University of Adelaide

Children’s Health Research Institute Honours Scholarship

• PJ Tan - Flinders Best Higher Degree by Research Student Publication Prize 2022