Alexandra Parker

Alex Parker is the Executive Director of the Institute for Health and Sport at Victoria University and is a clinical researcher who specialises in physical activity and mental health. Her research aims to promote exercise and physical activity to optimise mental wellbeing and prevent and treat mental disorders, with a focus on young people with depression and safeguarding in community sport, with a focus on trauma-informed responses. She also works as a sessional clinical psychologist in a youth mental health service.