By Dr Donna Lu

Journal articles

Lu D; Clarsen B; Whalan M; Serner A; Duffield R; Fulcher M; Reid D; Toohey L; Veith S; Wilke C; Mosler A, 2026, 'Injury, illness, and mental health problems during the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup', Science and Medicine in Football, 10, pp. 203 - 213, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/24733938.2025.2524168

Leonard G; Lu D; Jones M; Whalan M; Duffield R, 2025, 'Injury epidemiology in Australian women's professional football', Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport, 28, pp. 358 - 364, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jsams.2024.11.012

Schwarz E; Duffield R; Lu D; Fullagar H; Aus Der Fünten K; Skorski S; Tröß T; Hadji A; Meyer T, 2025, 'Associations between injury occurrence and environmental temperatures in the Australian and German professional football leagues', Environmental Epidemiology, 9, pp. e364, http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/EE9.0000000000000364

Lu D; Clarsen B; Whalan M; Serner A; Duffield R; Fulcher M; Reid D; Toohey L; Veith S; Wilke C; Mosler A, 2025, 'Injury, illness, and mental health problems during the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup', Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport, 28, pp. S63 - S64, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jsams.2025.07.141

Waldén M; Mountjoy M; McCall A; Serner A; Massey A; Tol JL; Bahr R; D'Hooghe M; Bittencourt N; Della Villa F; Dohi M; Dupont G; Fulcher M; Janse Van Rensburg DC; Lu D; Andersen TE, 2023, 'Football-specific extension of the IOC consensus statement: Methods for recording and reporting of epidemiological data on injury and illness in sport 2020', British Journal of Sports Medicine, 57, pp. 1341 - 1350, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bjsports-2022-106405

Clements E; Ehrmann F; Clark A; Jones M; Lu D; Duffield R, 2023, 'The type and extent of travel for professional footballers undertaking national team duties for a national football federation', Biology of Sport, 40, pp. 707 - 713, http://dx.doi.org/10.5114/biolsport.2023.119288

Lu D; McCall A; Jones M; Duffield R, 2022, 'The relationship between team-level and league-level injury rate, type and location in a professional football league', Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport, 25, pp. 564 - 568, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jsams.2022.03.017

Fullagar H; Notley SR; Fransen J; Richardson A; Stadnyk A; Lu D; Brown G; Duffield R, 2022, 'Cooling strategies for firefighters: Effects on physiological, physical, and visuo-motor outcomes following fire-fighting tasks in the heat', Journal of Thermal Biology, 106, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jtherbio.2022.103236

Fullagar HHK; Schwarz E; Richardson A; Notley SR; Lu D; Duffield R, 2021, 'Australian firefighters perceptions of heat stress, fatigue and recovery practices during fire-fighting tasks in extreme environments', Applied Ergonomics, 95, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apergo.2021.103449

Sparkes M; Demming A; Whyte C; McNamara A; Crane L; Revell T; Wilson C; Lu D; Cossins D, 2021, 'The algorithms that run your life', NEW SCIENTIST, 245, pp. 34 - 39

Lu D, 2021, 'Field notes Conservation', NEW SCIENTIST, 245, pp. 13 - 13

Lu D, 2021, 'Global warming is damaging cave art', NEW SCIENTIST, 245, pp. 19 - 19

Lu D, 2021, 'Children's immunity at risk', NEW SCIENTIST, 245, pp. 8 - 9

Lu D; McCall A; Jones M; Steinweg J; Gelis L; Fransen J; Duffield R, 2021, 'The financial and performance cost of injuries to teams in Australian professional soccer', Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport, 24, pp. 463 - 467, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jsams.2020.11.004

Lu D, 2021, 'A way to predict the strength of the next Asian monsoon', NEW SCIENTIST, 245, pp. 17 - 17

Lu D, 2021, 'Bushfires warmed the stratosphere by 1°C for six months', NEW SCIENTIST, 245, pp. 14 - 14

Lu D, 2021, 'Evolution A plant gene crossed into insects and helps them feed', NEW SCIENTIST, 245, pp. 13 - 13

Lu D, 2021, 'Snoozing octopuses seem to slip in and out of dreams', NEW SCIENTIST, 245, pp. 19 - 19

Lu D, 2021, 'Biomedicine Skin cells to help study infertility', NEW SCIENTIST, 245, pp. 19 - 19

Lu D, 2021, 'Environment Bush fires choked the skies with pollution for months', NEW SCIENTIST, 245, pp. 20 - 20

Lu D, 2021, 'Archaeology Bringing up the bodies', NEW SCIENTIST, 245, pp. 14 - 14

Lu D, 2021, 'Guarding the guardians', NEW SCIENTIST, 245, pp. 41 - 45

Lu D, 2021, 'Virus elimination The border problem', NEW SCIENTIST, 245, pp. 8 - 8

Lu D, 2021, 'England's quarantine hotels won't stop variants', NEW SCIENTIST, 245, pp. 11 - 11

Lu D, 2021, 'Climate may undermine food security efforts', NEW SCIENTIST, 245, pp. 13 - 13

Lu D, 2021, 'Extreme drought set to rise steeply by 2100', NEW SCIENTIST, 245, pp. 12 - 12

Lu D, 2021, 'Rare cancers jumped from mother to child', NEW SCIENTIST, 245, pp. 20 - 20

Lu D; Vaughan A, 2021, 'UK variant spreads in US', NEW SCIENTIST, 245, pp. 7 - 7

Lu D, 2021, 'Animals Birth control helps koalas avoid death by starvation', NEW SCIENTIST, 245, pp. 12 - 12

Lu D, 2021, 'Climate change Fish are shrinking as they feel the heat of warmer waters', NEW SCIENTIST, 245, pp. 15 - 15

Lu D, 2021, 'Reviving the Great Barrier Reef', NEW SCIENTIST, 245, pp. 28 - 30

Lawton G; Le Page M; Lu D; Wilson C; Vaughan A, 2021, 'When will life return to normal?', NEW SCIENTIST, 245, pp. 8 - 11

Lu D, 2020, 'A time for universal basic income?', NEW SCIENTIST, 245, pp. 25 - 25

Lu D, 2020, 'Computers party like it's 1920', NEW SCIENTIST, 245, pp. 29 - 29

Lu D, 2020, 'Tech titan tussles', NEW SCIENTIST, 245, pp. 30 - 30

Lu D, 2020, 'Armoured liquid marbles connected to form long chains', NEW SCIENTIST, 245, pp. 14 - 14

Lu D, 2020, 'How China is beating covid-19', NEW SCIENTIST, 245, pp. 10 - 11

Lu D, 2020, 'What Stars Are Made Of', NEW SCIENTIST, 245, pp. 31 - 31

Lu D, 2020, 'Illegal bushmeat found for sale in Belgium', NEW SCIENTIST, 245, pp. 11 - 11

Lu D, 2020, 'To the moon and back', NEW SCIENTIST, 245, pp. 8 - 9

Lu D, 2020, 'Hearts of darkness', NEW SCIENTIST, 245, pp. 31 - 31

Lu D, 2020, 'Most whales may have ingested plastic', NEW SCIENTIST, 245, pp. 17 - 17

Lu D, 2020, 'Biobank will house corals to restore reefs', NEW SCIENTIST, 245, pp. 22 - 22

Lu D, 2020, 'Climate change China's climate goal needs negative emissions tech', NEW SCIENTIST, 245, pp. 20 - 20

Lu D, 2020, 'Australia Melbourne lockdown lifts', NEW SCIENTIST, 245, pp. 7 - 7

Lu D, 2020, 'Disease Cats cost Australia A$6 billion a year', NEW SCIENTIST, 245, pp. 20 - 20

Lu D, 2020, 'Human evolution Did climate change wipe out early human species?', NEW SCIENTIST, 245, pp. 13 - 13

Lu D, 2020, 'We are the product', NEW SCIENTIST, 245, pp. 30 - 30

Hamzelou J; Lawton G; Le Page M; Lu D; Vaughan A, 2020, 'Your questions answered', NEW SCIENTIST, 245, pp. 12 - 15

Lu D, 2020, 'Quarantine diary Strict policies in Australia seem to have worked', NEW SCIENTIST, 245, pp. 9 - 9

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