Felicity's interest in teaching the cycle to school girls sparked when she was working clinically as an accredited ACNFP educator. Women would exclaim, “I should’ve been taught this stuff at school”. As a secondary school guest facilitator of relationships and sexuality education programs, she noticed that even after puberty lessons students had not grasped basics like ovulation. As a rite of passage trainer, she observed teachers feeling uncomfortable teaching the cycle. Felicity obtained her PhD from the School of Public Health, Curtin University, for her research into how to make teaching the cycle easier and how to help girls’ learning last a lifetime. She has published several academic papers, which her PhD examiners acknowledged as having made an original contribution to this field. She is working towards her accreditation as a BOM educator. She continues to find ways to promote MyVitalCycles™ .
Sharyn is Co-Director of Curtin University’s Collaboration for Evidence, Research and Impact in Public Health and Chair of Curtin’s Human Research Ethics Committee. She has expertise in planning, implementing and evaluating health promotion interventions, specifically targeting adolescents, parents and school staff. Her mixed methods research specifically focuses on translational intervention-based research in sexual and mental health, such as the Relationships and Sexuality Education Project. She has a long-term involvement as a reference group member and advisor with the Western Australian’s School Standards and Curriculum Authority. During Felicity's PhD, Sharyn had oversight of My Vital Cycles™ overall progress and its ethics' compliance.
Jun is a biostatistician at the Curtin University’s School of Public Health. Her research area is on the relationship between lifestyle factors and health, both physical and mental. During Felicity's PhD, Jun had oversight of the rigour with which evidence was gathered and published for My Vital Cycles™.
Jacqui is based at Curtin University’s Collaboration for Evidence, Research and Impact in Public Health as the Project Manager for the Relationships and Sexuality Education Project. She provides training to pre-service and in-service teachers in relationship and sexuality education, and supports schools in this area. During Felicity's PHD, Jacqui had oversight of the alignment of My Vital Cycles™ with best practice for relationship and sexuality education programs.