Professor Lyndall Strazdins

Professor Strazdins is a world-recognised leader in work, family and health. She has authored or co-authored more than 150 peer reviewed journal papers, commissioned reports, or discussion papers. She has been a lead or co-lead on competitive grants, consultancies and partnerships totalling $7.8 million, awarded an ARC Future Fellowship in 2011 and the EU Marie Skłodowska-Curie International Fellowship Seal of Excellence in 2017. Her papers have been ranked in the top published in their year in the work and family field.

Professor Strazdins leads research on time as a determinant of health. Lack of time is the most common reason for not eating healthy food or being physically active and her work shows why time is a problem and for whom. Most recently she has been using new methods to reveal the health harms of long work hours, which are also reinforcing gender inequity.