Bianca Whiteside
PhD candidate; Research Assistant
Working groups
Background
Bianca is an early career researcher having completed a Bachelor of Public Health and Health Promotion (Honours) in 2020 at Deakin University. During her Honours year, Bianca conducted a qualitative media analysis focusing on Victoria’s first medically supervised injecting room and was subsequently published.
Bianca has been with Burnet as a research assistant since March 2022 where she has been working on multiple projects focused on injecting drug use. Bianca is works as a casual academic at Deakin conducting research on women who use performance and image enhancing drugs.
A recipient of a Deakin Burnet Research Partnership Scholarship, Bianca commenced her PhD in mid-2022. Her project explores the public amenity and drug consumption rooms. Currently, Bianca is undertaking structured observations in the area particular to the North Richmond Medically Supervised Injecting Room.
Qualifications
- 2020: Bachelor of Public Health and Health Promotion (Honours), Deakin University
Positions
- 2022–current: Research Assistant – Alcohol and Other Drugs, Burnet Institute
- 2020–current: Research Assistant, Deakin University
Awards
- 2025: National Travel Fellowship
Burnet publications
What is the prevalence of anabolic‐androgenic steroid use among women? A systematic review
Addiction
Bianca Whiteside
“Am I Really Living or Just Getting by?” Financial Security and Health-Related Decisions among International Students in Australia
Journal of Studies in International Education
Bianca Whiteside
The print media's construction of the ‘drug problem’ in Victorian newspapers: The case of North Richmond Community Health's medically supervised injecting room
Drug and Alcohol Review
Bianca Whiteside
Current projects
View 1 moreVictorian Drug Trends
The Drugs Trends Program includes the Illicit Drug Reporting System (IDRS) and the Ecstasy and Related Drugs Reporting System (EDRS).
Methamphetamine use in Melbourne and rural Victoria: the VMAX cohort study
The VMAX cohort study follows 850 people who use methamphetamine recruited from metropolitan Melbourne and 3 regions of rural Victoria.
Methamphetamine and injecting drug use cohort studies: MIXMAX
MIXMAX is the largest active cohort study of people who use drugs in Australia. It combines 2 pre-existing studies: SuperMIX and VMAX.
