Georgina is a postdoctoral fellow with the Centre for Ageing Research and Translation (CARAT), Faculty of Health, University of Canberra. She is chief investigator on a Dementia Australia Research Foundation grant (2026-2028) to conduct a feasibility pilot of parkrun social prescriptions by health professionals for people with dementia. The mixed-methods study draws on formative evidence from international literature and stakeholder consultation. She is also a co-investigator for the evaluation of the ‘SPICE program’ - a 10week multidisciplinary program for people living with dementia and their care partners delivered by Canberra Health Services in the Australian Capital Territory. Georgina combines her professional and academic skills with her living experience as a carer for a person living with dementia to engage people with dementia and their care partners in the SPICE program, co-ordinating enrolments, participant logistics, and data collection. She is a certified MOCA assessor (AUCHEGE710828036-01, June 2025) and a trained CST facilitator (April 2025). Georgina is leading two scientific publications for the SPICE program documenting the process evaluation, and participant experiences from the first 30 months of the program.

Georgina has experience in research and project co-ordination within fields of dementia caregiving, digital health and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health through roles at Dementia Training Australia, Australian eHealth Research Centre (CSIRO), University of Queensland and Queensland Aboriginal and Islander Health Council (QAIHC).

Georgina completed a PhD that established the need for a best practice framework to guide research and deployment of digital health with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, including persons living with dementia. Georgina led the publication of the scientific protocol to develop the framework, as a key output of collaborative and ongoing work led by CSIRO.