Dr. Alex Clark

Alex Clark is a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader and former Associate Vice President (Research) and Professor at the University of Alberta. His advocacy and other contributions for research, mentorship and leadership skills in academia have been featured in the Guardian, Nature, Times Higher Education and numerous professional journals. With Bailey Sousa, he writes a monthly column in University Affairs and co-wrote the 2018 SAGE book: "How to be a Happy Academic". He had or continues to hold positions as Chair of a range of tri-agency and provincial funding bodies. A complexity theorist drawing on realism by background, his research on heart disease has influenced practice, guidelines and policy, globally and been in some of the world’s most influential journals, including: The Lancet, British Medical Journal, Journal of Advanced Nursing, Journal of American College of Cardiology and Social Science & Medicine.

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Research interests

• Psychosocial & behavioural aspects of heart health and disease
• Academic work, workers, and workplaces
• Complexity and realist theory and methods

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Educational credentials

• PhD, Department of Nursing & Community Health, Glasgow Caledonian University
• BA (Hons) First Class Honours, Department of Nursing & Community Health, Glasgow Caledonian University

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Professional affiliations

• World Economic Forum Young Global Leader / Young Scientist
• Fellow Canadian Academy of Health Sciences
• Distinguished Scholar, International Institute for Qualitative Methodology
• Visiting Professor, School of Health and Life Sciences, Glasgow Caledonian University, UK
• Benjamin Meaker Visiting Professorship, Population Health Sciences, University of Bristol, UK
• Honorary Professor, University of Sydney, Australia
• Honorary Professorial Fellow, Cardiovascular Division, The George Institute for Global Health,
• Sydney Australia
• Visiting Professor, School of Nursing, Midwifery and Health Systems, University College Dublin, Ireland

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