Leadership with Prof Fiona Stanley- Leading Paediatric Epidemiologist

Send us Fan MailToday we have former Australian of the Year and Australian Living Treasure, Professor Fiona Stanley on the show!  Fiona is patron of the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research in Western Australia, a Distinguished Research Professor at the University of Western Australia and an Honorary Professorial Fellow at the University of Melbourne. She is here to talk about her passion for leadership and science in this, the first of 2 episodes. She’s sharing her bedrock principles for great leadership. If you want to understand how to become a great leader in academia then this episode is for you. Here’s what we talk about.  Be passionate and good at what you doRead widely to be interesting and interested Be generous and support others around youLook after yourself and your physical well beingLead in every aspect of what you do We also get into balancing passion for your research with advocating for changes in public policy.  The Lead Candidate Toolkit https://www.telethonkids.org.au/contact-us/our-people/s/fiona-stanley/https://findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/profile/391440-fiona-stanleyhttps://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-05-23/fiona-stanley-woman-behind-folate-to-stop-spina-bifida/12276118https://www.science.org.au/learning/general-audience/history/interviews-australian-scientists/professor-fiona-stanleyhttps://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31545-2/fulltext  The Lead CandidateWeb: TheLeadCandidate.com Twitter: @LeadCandidate  Instagram: @theleadcandidate