Experience
strategic insights analyst
Callaghan Innovation
2023–present
HEAD OF INTELLIGENCE - ACTING (2023)
TEAM LEader - Knowledge Edge (2019-2023)
SENIOR INSIGHTS RESEARCHER (2018-2019)
High Performance Sport New Zealand
2018–2023
Research Fellow
Geelong Cats Football Club & Deakin University
2015–2017
Research Assistant & Casual Academic
Deakin University
2009, 2011–2015
Mentor & Sports Science Consultant
BioLAB: The Victorian Bioscience Education Centre
2011–2017
Corrective Exercise Practitioner
Inspire Fitness for Wellbeing
2008–2011
Education
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
Thesis title: 'Monitoring training loads and athlete wellness: Relationships with rowing performance'
Deakin University | Degree conferred October 2015
B. EXERCISE & SPORT SCIENCE (1st CLASS HONOURS)
Thesis title: 'Validation of accelerometer data in field team sports activities'
Deakin University | Degree conferred April 2010
B. EXERCISE & SPORT SCIENCE
Major: Exercise Physiology
Deakin University | Degree conferred April 2009
Recent publications & presentations
Hoffman, D.T., Dwyer, D.B., Tran, J., Clifton, P., & Gastin, P.B. (2019). Australian Football League injury characteristics differ between matches and training: A longitudinal analysis of changes in the setting, site, and time span from 1997 to 2016. Orthopaedic Journal of Sports Medicine, 7(4).
Young, C.M., Luo, W., Gastin, P., Tran, J., & Dwyer, D.B. (2019). The relationship between match performance indicators and outcome in Australian football. Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport, 22(4), 467–471.
Lalor, B.J., Halson, S.L., Tran, J., Kemp, J.G., & Cormack, S.J. (2018). No compromise of competition sleep compared with habitual sleep in elite Australian footballers. International Journal of Sports Physiology and Performance, 13(1), 29–36.
Tran, J. & Letter, R. (2017). Scoring dynamics in the Australian Football League: Analysis of the 2008–2016 seasons. Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport, 20(Suppl. 3), 31.
Robertson, S., Kremer, P., Aisbett, B., Tran, J., & Cerin, E. (2017). Consensus on measurement properties and feasibility of performance tests for the exercise and sport sciences: a Delphi study. Sports Medicine - Open, 3(2).
Gallo, T., Cormack, S.J., Gabbett, T.J., Tran, J., & Lorenzen, C.H. (2016). The influence of internal load measures and athlete self-reported wellness on match performance in Australian football. Presented at the 2nd Aspire Academy Sport Science Conference, 23–25 February, Doha, Qatar.
Cant, O., Tran, J., Menaspà, M., Drew, M.K., & Gastin, P.B. (2016). Predicting illness and injury risk in elite female water polo: Is there an optimal way to calculate acute-chronic workload ratio? Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport, 20(Suppl.), e59.
Tran, J., Rice, A.J., Main, L.C., & Gastin, P.B. (2015). Profiling the training practices and performances of elite rowers. International Journal of Sports Physiology and Performance, 10(5), 572–580.