Australian National University
I am a Clinical Psychologist and Professor (PhD Psychology, M Clinical Psych) at the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, the Australian National University. In 2011 I was awarded an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship investigating time as a resource for health. I lead the work and family component of the Federally funded Longitudinal Study of Australian Children, a study of 10,000 families, and have or currently do serve as a scientific consultant to Government, both Federal and Local, I also collaborate with NGO organisations for Australian families.
My research focuses on contemporary predicaments of work and care and their health and equity consequences, viewing health as inter-linked within families. More recently I have been developing theory on time as a social determinant of health and seeking to highlight the significance of time as a resource, like money, which not only structures power relations and gender inequality but also peoples’ capacity to be healthy.
Time scarcity is a slippery slope to inactivity
Dec 09, 2016 03:49 am UTC| Life Health
Even though most Australians know we need to exercise more, many of us dont. Our recent study suggests this is often due to diminishing availability of time. We found that among otherwise healthy people, becoming time...
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