Steve Zubrick is an Emeritus Professor and Senior Honorary Research Fellow in the Faculty of Health and Medical Science at the University of Western Australia and a Senior Advisor and Emeritus Fellow at the Telethon Kids Institute. Prior to joining the University of Western Australia, he spent 12 years as Head of the Division of Population Science at the Telethon Kids Institute and is a former Head of the Brain and Behaviour Reseach Focus Area at the Institute. His qualifications are in the fields of clinical psychology, neuropsychology and speech and hearing science. Steve had a lengthy career in Western Australia as an Assistant Principal Clinical Psychologist and was based at the Neurosciences Unit, where he assessed and managed children with complex developmental disorders. Steve now specialises in creating and executing large-scale state and national cross-sectional and longitudinal studies of child and family development. From 2001 through 2018 he chaired the Consortium Advisory Group responsible for the ongoing conduct of the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children, and is currently a member of the Steering Committee of the Longitudinal Study of Indigenous Children. In 2017 he became a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Medicine and Health Sciences.