Craig is a Developmental Psychologist with expertise in lifecourse epidemiology and human genetics. He was awarded an NHMRC Investigator Grant, commencing 2020 and is a former recipient of an Australian Research Council Discovery Outstanding Researcher Award.
Craig directs one of Australia's longest running longitudinal studies of social-emotional development, The Australian Temperament Project Generation 3 Study. 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. He has been based at the Melbourne Royal Children's Hospital since 1994, completed his PhD through the University of Melbourne in 2000, and currently holds appointments in lifecourse epidemiology at the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute (Royal Children's Hospital) and Deakin University. He is founding convener of the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute LifeCourse initiative, Director of the Deakin Centre for Social and Early Emotional Development, and has an active interest in helping researchers gain a better understanding of cohort studies run on campus, population and clinical, and how they might be used to advance understanding of social-emotional development, from infancy to adulthood and into the next generation.
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The Victorian Intergenerational Health Cohort Study (VIHCS): Study design of a preconception cohort from parent adolescence to offspring childhood
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Melbourne School Of Psychological Sciences
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Melbourne School Of Psychological Sciences
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Paediatrics Royal Children'S Hospital
Education
Psychology
University of Melbourne
Psychology
University of Melbourne