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Dr Rowan Brookes on David Whyte

  • May 13, 2018

Dr Rowan Brookes is the Director of Education in the School of Biological Sciences at Monash University. Rowan has over a decade of experience in teaching and leading educational change initiatives in higher education and the not-for-profit sector.  Her absolute love is the creation of whole-hearted education programs for science students. She sits on the Women’s Advisory Roundtable for the Minister for Jobs and Innovation and is the co-lead on the Women in STEM side-by-side program. Rowan is an endurance athlete with her most recent event being the completion of the 243km Coast to Coast race in New Zealand. She’s also the mum of three ridiculously awesome children.

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