ProfessorSteven Allender

Deakin Distinguished Professor

Faculty of Health/School of Health and Social Development/Institute for Health Transformation

  • Deakin Distinguished Professor
    Faculty of Health/School of Health and Social Development/Institute for Health Transformation
  • Geelong Waterfront Campus, 1 Gheringhap Street Geelong, Victoria 3220

TEACHING EXPERTISE

Teaching Interests

Professor Allender focuses  on supervision of research students: PhD, Doctoral, Masters, and fourth year students.

TEACHING ACTIVITIES

  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Community Action Through Systems Thinking: Defining and Achieving Success
    Tiana Felmingham - School of Health and Social Development
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Climate change & human health utilising systems thinking in local government.
    Nicole Lisa Bruges - School of Health and Social Development
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Exploring socio-cultural determinants and consequences of obesity for at-risk adolescents in Ghana
    Emmanuel Osei Bonsu - School of Medicine
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    What does it take to make a Systems Change in Public Health?
    Veronica Anne Mary Graham - School of Health and Social Development
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Applying a self-determination lens to interrogate the systems of youth engagement in government decision-making
    Carina Mammone - School of Health and Social Development
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Community-based obesity prevention in children
    Lynne Millar - School of Health and Social Development - 2013
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Can a rural Australian community lead and sustain obesity prevention?
    Jillian Maree Whelan - School of Medicine - 2019
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Transition, School, Friends and Obesity Risk Models (The TranSFORM Study)
    Jennifer Marks - School of Health and Social Development - 2016
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Health Systems and Social Transition in Asia
    John Joseph Grundy - School of Health and Social Development - 2015
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Adolescent Lifestyle and Depressive Symptoms: Associations and Complex Community Determinants
    Joshua Hayward - School of Health and Social Development - 2017
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Obesogenic risk and depression: patterns and prevention among adolescents
    Erin Hoare - School of Health and Social Development - 2016
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Monitoring the corporate political activity of the food industry
    Melissa Amina Madeleine Cavallo Mialon - School of Health and Social Development - 2017
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Policy priorities to reduce disparities in ischaemic heart disease among rural Australians
    Laura Veronica Alston - School of Health and Social Development - 2019
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Mobile Health Technology for the Prevention of Type 2 Diabetes
    Shruti Muralidharan - School of Health and Social Development - 2020
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    CHILDHOOD OBESITY AND SLEEP: A MULTI-DIMENSIONAL ISSUE
    Bridget Morrissey - School of Health and Social Development - 2021
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    The Use of Network Analysis to Evaluate Community-Based Obesity Prevention Interventions
    Jaimie McGlashan - School of Health and Social Development - 2019
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Diet and mental health during emerging adulthood: evidence from Australia
    Sam Collins - School of Medicine - 2022
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Socio-economic and regional variation in childhood obesity prevalence and determinants
    Jane Jacobs - School of Health and Social Development - 2021
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    The Australian Food Outlet, Obesity and Diet (FOOD) Study
    Cindy Needham - School of Health and Social Development - 2021
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Community Engagement: Recognising Oscillating Systems in Prevention Strategies
    Andrew Dwight Brown - School of Health and Social Development - 2024
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Addressing and Monitoring Malnutrition and Climate Change in Childhood
    Carolina Isabel Marie Venegas Hargous - School of Medicine - 2024
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    The Theory and Practice of Co-creation to Develop Health-Enabling Initiatives: a Food Retail Perspective
    Maria del Carmen Vargas Ares - School of Health and Social Development - 2023