Dr John Mingoia is an Online Lecturer for the Psychology programs at UniSA Online. He is responsible for the delivery of high-quality online teaching for undergraduate students as well as the supervision of Honours and postgraduate research students. He completed his PhD (Psychology) at UniSA in 2018 on cancer prevention, with a focus on sociocultural pressures related to appearance modification and developed a social media intervention to target tanning attitudes and intentions as risk factors for skin cancer development in young adults. He is also a member of the Behaviour-Brain-Body Research Centre, with his primary research interests in body image, cancer prevention, and health promotion. This includes sociocultural pressures for appearance modification (e.g., social media), body image disturbance, the influence of media on determinants of health, as well the award of UniSA Online Research Incentive Grants in 2022 and 2023 to investigate tertiary student wellbeing and academic performance.
Dr John Mingoia was the recipient of the University of South Australia Medal in 2013 for graduating in the top 0.5% of his academic unit, regular Chancellor’s Commendations from 2012-2014, and was recognised by The Australian in 2020 as one of the top 5 researchers from Australian universities and research institutions in his discipline area who were less than 10 years into their career. He was also awarded a place in the UniSA Early Career Researcher Academy in 2022. Dr Mingoia’s research has been published in quartile 1 journals, is widely cited, has been presented at national and international conferences, and has been featured across media formats including television, newspaper, and radio.