Rate My Professor Greer Bennett

Dr Greer Bennett is a Conjoint Lecturer in the School of Biomedical Sciences and Pharmacy, College of Health, Medicine and Wellbeing at the University of Newcastle, Australia. She earned a Bachelor of Biomedical Science with First Class Honours and a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Newcastle, supported by an Australian Postgraduate Award during her doctoral studies completed in 2015. Her PhD, undertaken with the Mothers and Babies Research Centre (Priority Research Centre for Pregnancy and Reproduction), examined the effects of maternal stress on perinatal neurodevelopment and behaviour using guinea pig models. Bennett has authored several peer-reviewed publications in prominent journals, including 'Prenatal Stress Alters Hippocampal Neuroglia and Increases Anxiety in Childhood' (Developmental Neuroscience, 2015), 'Effects of Prenatal Stress on Fetal Neurodevelopment and Responses to Maternal Neurosteroid Treatment in Guinea Pigs' (Developmental Neuroscience, 2013), 'Severity and Timing: How Prenatal Stress Exposure Affects Glial Developmental, Emotional Behavioural and Plasma Neurosteroid Responses in Guinea Pig Offspring' (Psychoneuroendocrinology, 2016), 'Maternal Stress in Pregnancy Affects Myelination and Neurosteroid Regulatory Pathways in the Guinea Pig Cerebellum' (Stress: The International Journal on the Biology of Stress, 2017), and a book chapter 'Models of Perinatal Compromises in the Guinea Pig: Their Use in Showing the Role of Neurosteroids in Pregnancy and the Newborn' (2016). She presented her research at over a dozen national and international conferences, including in South America, the Netherlands, and Singapore, and received a Travel Award from the Australian Neuroscience Society in 2013.

Currently, Dr Bennett serves as Senior Project Officer with the Hunter Institute of Mental Health since November 2015, leading the Start Well project to enhance resilience and wellbeing in early career school teachers and contributing to the Response Ability project promoting mental wellbeing among pre-service teachers and educators. Her prior roles include Scientific and Research Liaison at the Hunter Medical Research Institute (2015-2016), where she developed content for the HMRI website; Convenor of the Newcastle branch of the Australian Society for Medical Research (2013-2014), organizing networking events and the inaugural ASMR Scientific Meeting in Newcastle; and Casual Tutor in the Faculty of Health and Medicine (2014-2015). Additional honours include the Mothers and Babies Research Centre Summer Scholarship (2011) and Deputy Vice-Chancellor Honours Scholarship (2010). Her work bridges basic neuroscience with population-based mental health research to promote early intervention and prevent mental illness.