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Executive Director of the Institute for Health and Sport, Professor of Physical Activity and Mental Health, Victoria University

Alex Parker is the Executive Director of the Institute for Health and Sport at Victoria University and is a clinical researcher who specialises in physical activity and mental health. Her research aims to measure, understand, and promote exercise and physical activity to optimise mental wellbeing and prevent and treat mental disorders, with a focus on young people with depression. She also works as a sessional clinical psychologist in a youth mental health service.

Experience

  • –present
    Professor of Physical Activity and Mental Health, Victoria University
  • –present
    Executive Director, Institute for Health and Sport, Victoria University

Education

  • 2007 
    The University of Melbourne, Masters of Psychology (Clinical)/PhD