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Miss Tegan Stettaford

Miss Tegan Stettaford

Senior Lecturer

Doctor of Philosophy (Science - Psychology) - University of Newcastle, submitted 2025

Bachelor of Psychology (Honours) - University of Newcastle, 2020

Medicine & Health
School of Health Sciences

Tegan is a Lecturer in Health Behaviour Change - Exercise and Sport Psychology in the School of Health Sciences at the University of New South Wales, and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA). Her research interests are in Health Behaviour Change particularly for mental health populations, as well as tertiary education development and student experience.

Tegan's PhD research (submitted October 2025 at the University of Newcastle), involved a Cluster RCT to improve lifestyle risk factors (tobacco smoking, poor nutrition, alcohol overconsumption, physical inactivity, and overweight/obesity) amongst community mental health service clients via the implementation of a specialist preventive care clinician model.
During her PhD studies, Tegan was actively employed in various roles including as an Associate Lecturer across 3 schools at the University of Newcastle and as a Unit Coordinator at Victoria University Online.
Phone
+61-2-9348-0855
E-mail
t.stettaford@unsw.edu.au

2023 Dean’s Excellence award – Graduate Research, University of Newcastle

2023 Teaching award – LDTI, University of Newcastle

Publications

  1. D., Banfield, M., Tapp, C., Tjung, C., Stettaford, T., Stewart, V., ... & Palmer, V. J. (2025). Capacity-building strategy for next-generation mental health research: embedding a national network infrastructure to grow mental health researcher capabilities and mental health lived-experience research leaders. BMJ mental health, 28(1). https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjment-2025-301554
  2. Stettaford, T., Fehily, F., Campbell, E., Barker, D., Oldmeadow, C., McKeon, E., Love, S., Lawn, S., Castle, D., & Bowman, J. (2024). Risk prevalence, readiness and confidence to change lifestyle risk factors among clients of community mental health services. Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry. https://doi.org/10.1177/00048674241257751Jazayeri,
  3. Taheri, M., Harding, N., Stettaford, T., Fitzpatrick, S., & McCormack, L. (2024). Female-specific refugee trauma impacting psychological wellbeing post-settlement: A scoping review of research. Journal of Loss and Trauma, 1-30. https://doi.org/10.1080/15325024.2024.2325077
  4. Fehily, C., Jackson, B., Hansen, V., Stettaford, T., Bartlem, K., Clancy, R., & Bowman, J. (2023). Increasing chronic disease preventive care in community mental health services: clinician-generated strategies. BMC psychiatry, 23(1), 933. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12888-023-05311-9
  5. Fehily, C.; McKeon, E.; Stettaford, T.; Campbell, E.; Lodge, S.; Dray, J.; Bartlem, K.; Reeves, P.; Oldmeadow, C.; Castle, D.; Lawn, S.; Bowman, J. The Effectiveness and Cost of an Intervention to Increase the Provision of Preventive Care in Community Mental Health Services: Protocol for a Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19, 3119. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19053119

My Teaching

Course Convenor for HLTH3000 (T1, 2026) & EXPT3220 (T2, 2026)