2 December 2005
Healthcare professional Professor Carol Morse has been appointed Director of Health and Wellbeing Research at Monash University's Peninsula campus.
Professor Morse is a health psychologist and psychotherapy practitioner. She previously held a personal chair in women's health at RMIT University and in 1999 was appointed to a personal chair in adult development and ageing at Victoria University, where she was also Dean of the Faculty of Human Development.
In her new position, Professor Morse will bring together research groups at the Peninsula campus that are working in health and wellbeing.
The position will target all areas of the health sciences as well as information technology, business and economics and early childhood development.
Professor Morse said the position was aimed at increasing research activity across the Peninsula campus and focusing on a few key areas of national and local importance.
"There appears to be considerable energy waiting to be harnessed and utilised across the campus," she said. "People have been engaged in research, but in the past it hasn't been focused on health and wellbeing.
"This is an area of prime focus for the campus, and, rather than having scores of people across the university researching this area independently, I will be helping to build those connections."
Professor Morse has spent the past five years looking into the experiences of different ageing ethnic groups in Victoria. She has also carried out several studies exploring the transition to parenthood and associated mood disorders in men and women from pregnancy into the first postnatal year.
She is a member of the Australian Psychological Society, the International Menopause Society, the World Association of Women's Mental Health, the Global Ageing Research Network and the Human Research Ethics Committee of the Victorian Department of Human Services. Professor Morse also serves on the editorial boards of four international peer-reviewed journals.
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