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
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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.
Victorian 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.
