Professor Lisa McDaid, Director of the Institute for Social Science Research

Areas of responsibility

Professor McDaid is the Director of the Institute for Social Science Research (ISSR) and is responsible for its strategic directions, scientific appointments, budgets, performance, representation and reporting to stakeholders. 

As Director, she leads multi-disciplinary teams of talented researchers and aims to provide a rich training environment for ISSR's PhD students. At ISSR, they investigate important social, economic and environmental questions and evaluate and analyse policies and programs for their partners and clients in government, industry and the community sector. Their research aims to provide a strong evidence-base for effective decision making and to be part of the solution to global and local challenges. 

Biography

Lisa McDaid is Director of the Institute for Social Science Research (ISSR) and Professor of Social Sciences and Health at The University of Queensland. Lisa has an international reputation grounded in knowledge exchange and partnership. Her research has made significant contributions to identifying solutions to health inequalities among the most disadvantaged and marginalised in our society. Lisa is experienced in how to engage communities at high risk of poor health and wellbeing in health improvement research and in developing new methods of co-production for intervention development.

Lisa is a Social Scientist and obtained her PhD in Medical Sociology from the University of Glasgow in 2007. She has been Chief-Investigator on research grants c.AU$100M and has authored over 100 publications. Lisa is also an Associate Director of the Centre for Research on Families and Relationships, a consortium research centre based at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland.