{"id":6657,"date":"2018-05-06T01:44:25","date_gmt":"2018-05-05T17:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/researchers-focus-professor-simone-pettigrew\/"},"modified":"2022-12-07T13:08:30","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T05:08:30","slug":"researchers-focus-professor-simone-pettigrew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/researchers-focus-professor-simone-pettigrew\/","title":{"rendered":"Researchers in focus: Professor Simone Pettigrew"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Professor Simone Pettigrew, whose work in researching how to encourage people to adopt healthy lifestyle behaviours, such as quitting smoking, drinking less alcohol and doing more exercise, has seen her awarded the title of John Curtin Distinguished Professor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn many people\u2019s eyes that makes us the fun police, but we like a challenge and working in this space allows us to put theory into practice every day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Watch our interview:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Professor Simone Pettigrew | Convincing us to do what\u2019s good for us!\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/E2JehbSBp7A?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Simone Pettigrew&#8217;s work in researching how to encourage people to adopt healthy lifestyle behaviours has seen her awarded the title of John Curtin Distinguished Professor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4275,"featured_media":5114,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"_oasis_task_priority":"","_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"8098,5734,4654,4864,4906,7328","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_research-areas":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"research-areas":[],"class_list":["post-6657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-medical-science"],"acf":{"post_options":{"":null,"additional_content":{"title":"About John Curtin Distinguished Professors","content":"<p>The title of <a href=\"https:\/\/secretariat.curtin.edu.au\/awards\/distinguished-visiting-professor.cfm\">John Curtin Distinguished Professor<\/a> is Curtin\u2019s highest honour for academic staff. 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