Briony Hill completed her PhD in Health Psychology in 2015 at Deakin University, Australia, exploring a psychosocial and behaviour change approach to preventing excessive gestational weight gain. For her thesis, she was awarded an Alfred Deakin Medal for Doctoral Thesis and an Australian Psychological Society (APS) Health College Award for Excellent Higher Degree Thesis in Health Psychology. Briony received an Alfred Deakin Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in 2016 and is currently an NHMRC Early Career Fellow in the area of preconception wellbeing based at the Monash Centre for Health Research and Implementation at Monash University. Her research interests include maternal wellbeing - in particular, encouraging healthy weight, obesity prevention, healthy lifestyle behaviours and psychosocial wellbeing during the preconception, antenatal and postpartum periods.