Keith Hill was the inaugural Director of the Rehabilitation, Ageing and Independent Living (RAIL) Research Centre at Monash University (from July 2019 - Feb 2024), and is now the Ageing Stream Lead for the RAIL Research Centre. Prior to this he was Head of the School of Physiotherapy and Exercise Science at Curtin Universityfor 6.5 years, and Deputy Pro Vice Chancellor of the Faculty of Health Sciences at Curtin for 1 year. He is a physiotherapist and senior researcher, with particular expertise in falls prevention, exercise for older people, ageing well and rehabilitation. 

Across his research career, Keith has been a Chief Investigator on 131 research grants totalling $48.5million (32 grants totalling $24.5million in past 5 years), has 400 peer reviewed publications (121 in past 5 years), and has supervised 29 PhD students to completion. He currently supervises 7 PhD students (3 international). 

Current  and recent projects include:

• Falls risk among people with intellectual disability living in Specialist Disability Accommodation (Funder: Scope Australia)
• Who carers for the carer: Co-design of a novel service to support the health and wellbeing of older carers of older people (Funder: National Centre for Healthy Ageing)
• Empowering patients to increase the dosage of in-patient rehabilitation: My Therapy (Funder: NHMRC Partnership grant)
• Improving physical activity through a shared decision making approach for people living with mild dementia
• Is there a role for gait aids to improve stability and reduce falls risk for older people with dementia (Funder: Dementia Australia)
• Multi-centre randomised controlled trial: Caregiver, patient and system outcomes from a program supporting informal caregivers of older people discharged home from hospital (Funder: NHMRC Project grant).