Congratulations Professor Craig Olsson on the Alfred Deakin Professorship  

Last week Prof Craig Olsson was awarded the Alfred Deakin Professorship, which is the most prestigious honour that the University can bestow on its staff.

This award recognises Craig’s outstanding and sustained contribution to furthering Deakin’s research and scholarship aims. Congratulations Craig!

Professor Craig Olsson is a Developmental Psychologist with expertise in lifecourse epidemiology and human genetics. He directs one of Australia’s oldest running longitudinal studies of social-emotional development, The Australian Temperament Project Generation 3 Study and is Director of the Strategic Research Centre for Social and Early Emotional Development (SEED) in the School of Psychology. He is actively involved in a number of Australasian cohort studies and is National Convenor of the Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth (ARACY) Longitudinal Studies Network.

Professor Olsson’s primary research interests are in mapping the major milestones in social and emotional development from infancy to adulthood and into the next generation and translating these into usable developmental indices capable of guiding targeted preventive and health promotion interventions in clinical and public health settings.

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