Andrew Williams

An Associate Professor of exercise sports science at the University of Tasmania, Andrew Williams is a senior lecturer, accredited exercise physiologist and coordinator of the Bachelor of Exercise Physiology (professional honours) in the School of Health Sciences.

Associate Professor Williams graduated with a Bachelor Applied Science degree from the University of South Australia in 1996, and a BSc Honours degree from Flinders University in 1998 before moving to Melbourne to complete a PhD at Victoria University.

He moved to Tasmania in 2003, joining the team at UTAS and establishing himself as an accomplished academic with a passion for teaching and research.

In 2021 Associate Professor Williams obtained a medical research grant from the Clifford Craig Foundation for a project examining the early detection of airway abnormalities in smokers.

Other Clifford Craig funded research projects Associate Professor Williams has been involved with over the years include:

• Zinc activation of enzymes responsible for insulin signalling and glucose homeostasis in type 2 diabetes (2019). Collaboration with Dr SA Myers; Dr SS Sohal; Dr S Sonda; Mr JA Adulcikas

• Improving physical activity, pain and function in patients waiting for hip and knee Arthroplasty by combining targeted exercise training with behaviour change counselling (2017). Collaboration with Dr ML Bird; Mr J Mulford; AssocProf JW Fell; Dr JA O'Brien

• Manual handling in child care: an investigation of spinal joint laxity, work and lower back disorder in pregnant women (2013). Collaboration with Dr DC Visentin; Dr IK Robertson