Health and social care leader awarded inaugural Maureen Brunt Professorial Fellowship
Professor Helen Skouteris
Professor Helen Skouteris from the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine has been awarded an inaugural Maureen Brunt Professorial Fellowship by Monash University, an initiative that intends to support excellence and ambition among Monash’s highly promising women professors.
Named for the University’s first female professor, the fellowship seeks to build on Professor Brunt’s legacy and aims to address the significant disproportion of women applicants to the Australian Research Council Laureate Fellowship schemes at Monash University compared to men, as well as providing a stronger mentorship base for other researchers, especially women applying for fellowships.
Professor Skouteris is a Monash Warwick Alliance Joint Professor of Health and Social Care Improvement and Implementation Science, a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia, Head of the Health and Social Care Unit, and Co-Lead of the Division of Evidence Synthesis, Qualitative and Implementation Methods in the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine.
Trained as a developmental psychologist, Professor Skouteris has a strong track record in longitudinal multi-factorial research, randomised controlled trials, implementation research and higher degree research supervision. Her research is predominantly focused on promoting health and wellbeing across preconception, pregnancy, preschool, and childhood, including adolescence, to create the best start in life for all children.
Professor Skouteris said that she was delighted to receive an inaugural Maureen Brunt Professorial Fellowship. “I am excited to be part of this fabulous group of female research leaders,” she said. “I am also excited about progressing my career aspiration to foster the lives of Australian children, adults and families living with pervasive disadvantage through more equitable health, social and education outcomes, and to do so by building the capacity of our future research and practice-based workforce.”
Congratulations to Professor Skouteris and the other five 2023 Maureen Brunt Fellows across the Science, Arts and Business and Economics faculties. Learn more about them:
Read more from Professor Skouteris on Monash Lens
About Monash University
Monash University is Australia’s largest university with more than 80,000 students. In the 60 years since its foundation, it has developed a reputation for world-leading high-impact research, quality teaching, and inspiring innovation.
With four campuses in Australia and a presence in Malaysia, China, India, Indonesia and Italy, it is one of the most internationalised Australian universities.
As a leading international medical research university with the largest medical faculty in Australia and integration with leading Australian teaching hospitals, we consistently rank in the top 50 universities worldwide for clinical, pre-clinical and health sciences.
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