ProfessorStephanie Short

Honorary Professor Stephanie Short completed her Physiotherapy Studies at the former Cumberland College of Health Sciences (now the University of Sydney School of Health Sciences) in 1976. She then worked as a Resident Physiotherapist at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital and as a locum physiotherapist in twelve rural and urban settings in NSW and Queensland whilst completing full-time studies towards a Bachelor of Arts degree, from which she graduated in 1983, with first class honours in Sociology. She embarked on an academic career in Medical Sociology, having been awarded the Sir John Gellibrand Memorial Scholarship to complete her Master of Science degree in Sociology as Applied to Medicine at the University of London and a Commonwealth Scholarship to complete PhD studies in Sociology under the supervision of Emeritus Professor Michal Pusey at UNSW. Hon Prof Stephanie Short was appointed to a chair in Medical Sociology at the University of Sydney in 2009. She served as Associate Dean Postgraduate from 2009-2012 and Head of the Discipline of Behavioural and and Social Science in Health from 2013-2016. She then served as Deputy Director of the Sydney Asia Pacific Migration Centre (SAPMIC) fn the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences from 2016, and Director from 2019, until her formal retirement in 2021.