Dr Kim Kiely
Dr Kim Kiely is an honorary senior research fellow in the Ageing Futures Institute, Faculty of Science, UNSW Sydney. He holds a conjoint appointment with Neuroscience Research Australia (NeuRA).
Awards and Prizes
Dr Kiely has held fellowships from the NHMRC (Early Career Fellowship) and the Alzheimer's Australia Dementia Research Foundation, and has been a recipient of the Australian Psychological Society (APS) Prize and the Australian Association of Gerontology (AAG) RM Gibson Award.
Research
Dr Kiely's research adopts a contextualised perspective to human development across the life-course and spans the fields of life-course epidemiology, social psychiatry, and gero-psychology. His primary research interests cover aspects of healthy and productive ageing, focusing the following main themes:
- behavioural and social determinants of mental health across the life-course,
- the social, functional and cognitive impacts of sensory loss in late life,
- dementia prevention, and
- social inequalities in healthy life expectancy.
- Publications
- Media
- Grants
- Awards
- Research Activities
- Engagement
- Teaching and Supervision
Ageing drivers: Cognitive ageing and technology
Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage Project (LP190100519)
Co-investigator
2020-2024
Healthy and working life expectancies in an ageing Australia
Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Project (DP190100459)
Lead Investigator
2019-2021
Driving longer and better: Evidence-based interventions for older drivers
National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Project Grant (1156940)
Co-investigator
2019-2024
Making sense of hearing-related neurocognitive impairment: The Auditory Ageing and Cognitive Impairment Study (AUDACIOUS)
Dementia Australia Research Foundation (DARF) Project Grant
Lead Investigator
2019-2020
Translating the evidence on dementia risk reduction to generate assessments, advice and training for health professionals, policy makers, patients and public
National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Boosting Dementia Grant (1156940)
Co-investigator
2019-2024
Estimating and alleviating the impacts of age-related sensory decline
National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Early Career Fellowship (1088313)
Lead Investigator
2015-2019
The impact of sensory impairment on cognitive decline and dementia
Alzheimer’s Australia Dementia Research Foundation (AADRF) Fellowship
Lead Investigator
2013-2015
My Research Supervision
James Lian
Joint primary supervisor, Psychology – UNSW
“Childhood Adversity and Healthy Ageing”
Abigail Hanson
Secondary Supervisor, Psychology – UNSW
“The impact of age-related changes in trust and social cognition on older drivers’ interaction with ADAS”
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