The Academic Unit for Psychiatry of Old Age (AUPOA) conducts research focusing on mental and cognitive health in older age to advance knowledge, service delivery and care and help reduce stigma and discrimination associated with mental health problems and cognitive impairment in older age.
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Australia
ACCESS research integrates analysis of environment, culture, society and space to identify and analyse the place-based, multi-dimensional challenges and opportunities that emerge as environments, cities, economies and communities are differentially transformed across space and place; and to explore how decision-making and action to address these challenges and opportunities can be imagined and enacted at multiple scales and across institutions and communities.
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Australia
Assessing Psychology Practitioner Competence is a project that aims to design, develop, test, evaluate and refine competency-based assessment tools. This research program is a multisite collaboration initiative that commenced ten years ago, and grew out of a commitment from a small group of clinician researchers to address what was an important, but difficult and enduring problem: objective and valid assessment of practitioner competence in psychology.
The project has grown rapidly, and today includes eleven partner institutions across Australia, New-Zealand and the U.K. The research has made major contributions to the international literature on competence assessment in psychology and other health disciplines, has won major national grant awards, and has been disseminated in multiple national and international conferences. The instruments generated by our group are currently in use by more than 24 universities worldwide, and the research and its impact continue to grow.
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Australia
The Australian Centre for Electromagnetic Bioeffects Research (ACEBR) is a National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Centre of Research Excellence. With over 6 billion mobile phone subscriptions world-wide, the electromagnetic energy (EME) that powers this technology is ubiquitous, as is community concern about the possibility of associated health effects. Responding to this concern, ACEBR was founded in 2013 to promote Australia's EME health, both in the immediate future, and through the development of human research capacity in this field into the future. Since April 2018 ACEBR has been working to a five-year research agenda addressing the most important aspects of the non-ionising EME health debate.
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Australia
Australian Centre for Health Engagement, Evidence and Values do deliberative, qualitative and conceptual research about contentious, controversial or challenging issues in public health and health services. Their areas of speciality include:
Issues in health technology (digital health, artificial intelligence in relation to health, health and the internet-of-things, health technology assessment, data analytics)
Overdiagnosis and overtreatment
Infectious disease control (pandemics, emerging diseases, zoonoses)
Health and the human-animal-environment
Disaster management preparedness for humans and their animals
Aging (technology and aging, animals and the elderly, overdiagnosis and overtreatment of illness in old age)
Health inequalities and inequities (social justice, health justice for culturally and linguistically diverse communities, cultural safety, inclusion and marginalisation)
Methodological research in deliberative democracy and empirical ethics
ACHEEV is an outward-looking research centre. We collaborate with communities, organisations, individuals and other researchers on areas of common interest, locally, nationally and internationally. If you are interested in community engagement, public engagement and research activities related to health and wellbeing, we would love to hear from you.
Scholarships are available to both Domestic and International students;
The Graduate Research School can assist potential PhD students with their application;
If you are looking for an Honours project please contact a team member who has similar interests to discuss the possibility of supervision;
If you are interested in pursuing partnership opportunities, please contact our Director.
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Australia
Bendigo Mental Health Services: provide the Loddon Campaspe Southern Mallee communities of Victoria with high quality mental health care. We work in partnership with the patient, family and carers to assist and support their recovery, personal goals. Care is inclusive, and respectful of each person’s values, beliefs culture and own unique experience. You can find out more under each service area and the resources pages. There is also a Patient Family and Carer Service guide which provides a descriptions of all our services and other useful information. If you are a patient or family members or carer currently receiving service from our Mental Health Services you will be offered our Patient, Family and Carer Survey. We value your comments and suggestions at any time, when timely for you we would appreciate if you could complete our survey. This will be offered around the time of discharge or transfer of care to another unit. If you require support at any stage have questions or require of other information or the survey please ask staff for assistance.
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100 Barnard Street Bendigo VIC 3550
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Australia
Brain Sciences UNSW is a research Institute comprised of researchers from the basic neurosciences, psychiatry, psychology, drug and alcohol, neurology, neurosurgery, biomedical engineering and mathematics. Its constituent members are based in the Faculties of Medicine, Science and Engineering, and a number of UNSW-affiliated independent research institutes:
Brain Sciences UNSW aims to facilitate cross-disciplinary research to enhance understanding of normal and abnormal brain functioning. Disorders of brain functioning, as manifest in mental illness and neurological disorders, one of the leading causes of disease disability and burden in Australia and worldwide.
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Brain Sciences UNSW UNSW Australia UNSW Sydney, NSW 2052
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Australia
The Centre for Emotional Health conducts specialist clinical research to deepen current knowledge of child and adult emotional disorders, as well as improving methods of treatment. Centre for Emotional Health researchers concentrate on the understanding, treatment and prevention of anxiety, depression and related mental health problems. Internationally renowned for our research into anxiety, including several ‘world-first’ findings, we have a special focus on children and families but also conduct research that focuses on emotional disorders and wellbeing across the lifespan.
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Australia
The Centre for Higher Education Research, Innovation and Impact provides access to meaningful and engaging educational experiences is a strategic objective for all universities. Globally, there are many challenges and pressures facing the Higher Education (HE) sector, such as a growing and diverse student profile, diminishing staff-student ratios, and quality imperatives to provide meaningful learning experiences for all students. As education providers, universities need to ensure that teachers employ pedagogical approaches that promote student-centred learning and leverage digital technologies to provide an overall innovative high quality learning experience.
The research foci of this group seek to advance knowledge to inform solutions for these ‘wicked problems’ through its research in a diverse range of complementary areas to ultimately make a positive impact on student engagement and learning. Projects our group are working on include examining the student experience, e.g., how they experience university life, how students learn online, what is the quality of that learning, etc., and investigating the teacher experience, e.g., exploring teaching and design practices.
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Australia
The Centre for Mental Health aims to improve mental health and mitigate the impact of mental illness at a population level. It does this through high quality, collaborative, interdisciplinary research, academic teaching, professional and community education, and mental health system development. The Centre for Mental Health aims to improve mental health and mitigate the impact of mental illness at a population level. It does this through high quality, collaborative, interdisciplinary research, academic teaching, professional and community education, and mental health system development. The Centre contributes to evidence-informed mental health policy and practice in Australia and internationally through the work of its four units:
The Centre’s four units are involved in active and productive collaborations within the University and beyond. These relationships range from not-for-profit agencies like Mind Australia through to international NGOs such as the World Health Organization, and enable us to translate our research into policy and practice.
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Health Hub, Level 1, Brownless Biomedical Library The University of Melbourne (Parkville Campus)
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Australia
The Centre for Women's Mental Health was established to provide expert clinical and therapeutic services for women, undertake research and provide education and training. THeir research is conducted within a population health framework that takes into account the complex influences on mental health, encourages a holistic approach to improving mental health and wellbeing, develops evidence based interventions that meet the identified needs of population groups, and spans the spectrum from prevention to recovery to relapse prevention.
Recognising mental health and mental illness are on a continuum, our research aims to improve mental health as well as reduce the prevalence and burden of mental health problems and mental illness. Our research agenda is informed by current national and international research priorities in women's mental health, identified gaps in research, and areas of clinical activity within the Women's.
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20 Flemington Rd Parkville Victoria
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Australia
The Computational Cognitive Science (CCS) LabOur lab is part of the Complex Human Data Hub at the Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences. Their research focuses on quantitative approaches to higher-order cognition:
Categorisation
Concepts
Language acquisition and evolution,
Decision-making, and
Social learning and transmission.
Thy use mathematical and computational models to understand the why and the what within these topics:
What goals are human learners and reasoners trying to achieve in particular situations?
What constraints (cognitive, informational, environmental) do they operate under?
How do these factors shape their behaviour?
Content is still being added here so this is mostly just a stub, but here are some good resources for learning R at least.
Learning Statistics with R is a great (free) online textbook that was designed to introduce beginning psychology students to statistics using R. As such it is an excellent resource for both statistics (seriously it is one of the clearest intro stats books I know of) and R. Since it was written a while ago it doesn't have much on ggplot or tidyverse, although the author, Danielle Navarro, is creating newer materials more focused on using R, which do incorporate ggplot and tidyverse, here in R for Psychological Science.
Interactive tutorials in R offer introductions to both statistics and R, and are meant to work alongside Andy Field's statistics textbook called An adventure in statistics: The reality enigma. The book is not free but I believe the tutorials are.
R for Data Science is a great (free) online textbook that walks you through using R for data science. The focus isn't on psychological tests but on data wrangling, visualisation, and so forth, with chapters on tidyverse and ggplot2.
RYouWithMe is a collection of introductory learning resources designed specifically for newbies from the fabulous folks at RLadiesSydney, which include ggplot2 and tidyverse. Not finished yet.
Data Skills for Reproducible Science contains the materials from a course which aims to teach students the basic principles of reproducible research and to provide practical training in data processing and analysis in the statistical programming language R. With weekly assignments if that kind of thing helps!
RStudioPrimers looks like a great set of primers on all sorts of important topics, including ggplot2 and tidyverse amongst other things.
Data Visualisation: A practical introduction walks you through how to make nice graphs with R, but also talks about general principles of good visualisation more theoretically.
Data Analysis and Visualisation in R for ecologists says it's for ecologists but most of it is relevant to anybody.
The R cheat sheets are exactly what it sounds like -- great cheat sheets for a lot of useful packages. Not great for teaching yourself but great for reminding yourself. I use them a lot.
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Australia
The Decision Neuroscience Laboratory investigates the neural and cognitive mechanisms underlying perceptual, reward-based, voluntary and change-of-mind decisions, as well as preference formation, decision confidence, health decisions, decision errors, and related cognitive processes. The Decision Neuroscience Lab is aimed at investigating the cognitive and neural basis of decision-making from psychological, neuroscientific, economic, and population health perspectives. They investigate the neural and cognitive basis of decision making in an interdisciplinary fashion. To this end, we integrate a variety of methods from:
Experimental Psychology, including cognitive modelling, laboratory reaction time experiments, measuring response force and other decision behaviour
Cognitive Neuroscience, including functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), electroencephalography (EEG), transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), electrocardiography (ECG), and galvanic skin response (GSR) assessments
Public Health, including online surveys, and assessment of behavioural change
Given the wide spectrum of methods we use, our analysis approaches are diverse. One key approach, is the combination of cognitive modelling with multivariate pattern classification analysis (MVPA) for neural data. The goal of these approaches is to predict the outcome of decision-making processes (and other decision-related features and processes) directly from patterns of brain activity, as measured by fMRI or EEG. For this, we developed a novel multivariate toolbox for MATLAB, the Decision Decoding Toolbox (DDTBOX). They further maintain a variety of collaborations within the school, the university, and other national and international partners:
Decision errors and confidence: Projects involve Prof Jutta Stahl (University of Cologne), Prof Peter Weiss-Blankenhorn, Dr Eva Niessen (Julich Neuroscience Centre) as part of the JUMPA program
Information Seeking: Projects involve Dr Trevor Chong (Monash University), Dr Daniel Bennett (Princeton University), Dr Nicholas Van Dam, A/Prof Luke Smillie (UoM)
Voluntary decision-making: Recent projects involved Prof Patrick Haggard (UCL), Dr Chun Siong Soon (DUKE-NUS), and Prof Ross Cunnington (University of Queensland)
Perceptual decision-making: Projects involve Prof Philip Smith, Dr Simon Lilburn, A/Prof Daniel Little (UoM), Dr David Sewell (University of Queensland)
Perception & Ageing: Projects involve Prof Allison McKendrick, Dr Janet Chan, Dr Bao Nguyen (UoM), Dr Hinze Hoogendorn (UoM)
Health decisions / Obesity: Projects involve Prof Melanie Wakefield, Dr Helen Dixon (Cancer Council Victoria), and Prof Annette Horstmann (Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences Leipzig)
Moral & value-guided decision-making: Projects involve Dr Simon Laham (UoM)
Emotion regulation and decision-making: Projects involve Dr Carmen Morawetz (Technical University Vienna) and Prof Hauke Heekeren (Freie Universität Berlin), Dr Peter Koval (UoM)
Multivariate pattern classification analyses (MVPA): Recent projects involved Dr Alexandra Woolgar (Camebridge University) and Dr Phillip Alday (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen)
Neurocognitive Development: Projects involve A/Prof Katherine Johnson (UoM), Dr Sant-Rayn Pasricha, Dr Leila Larson (WEHI)
Research in the Decision Neuroscience Lab investigates decision situations in which people do not have clear preferences: How are decisions encoded in the brain? How do we make decisions when the choice options are equally likely or valuable? How do we change our mind? How does context bias preferences or judgements outside of the decision-makers' awareness? When do people prefer to sample information? We also investigate the cognitive and neural basis of health decisions and how we can encourage people to make better dietary decisions.These are the main projects currently being undertaken in the lab:
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Australia
The Digital Research Lab brings together researchers in Psychology and Social Sciences to address issues in the online world and to develop online methods for research. The Digital Research Lab Cluster is a grouping of Psychology and Social Science researchers in the School of Psychology based at the Parramatta (Victoria Road) Campus of Western Sydney University who are investigating behaviour and life in the digital world. In addition to PhD students, there are around 20 4th year psychology students working on related topics at any given time. Most of the researchers are located in Building EH where the Digital Research Lab is located. The Digital Lab represents just one of the grouping of researchers working in the digital field at Western Sydney University there are many more, follow the links from the University's Research page. For inquiries about the Digital Research Lab Cluster please contact Professor Craig McGarty.
Forensicare (Victorian Institute of Forensic Mental Health) is the state-wide specialist provider of forensic mental health services in Victoria. Forensicare is the only agency in Victoria that provides clinical forensic mental health services which span all components of the mental health and criminal justice sectors – giving Forensicare a unique perspective on mental health and public safety issues. It is able to provide specialist forensic mental health services tailored to meet the specific needs of both sectors. They provide forensic mental health services for people with a serious mental illness in the criminal justice system, at risk of offending who pose a risk to themselves or others and referred from the general mental health system for specialist advice, support and/or treatment.
Forensicare s Victoria’s leading provider of forensic mental health care. We work to meet the needs of consumers with serious mental illnesses across the justice system, mental health sectors and the community. The deliver a range of mental health programs targeted at patients with different needs at different stages of recovery; from early intervention and prevention, inpatient care, rehabilitation and community transition support. Forensicare’s primary focus is the provision of clinical services within a recovery framework. These services include the effective assessment, treatment and management of forensic patients, prisoners and clients.
A comprehensive research program operates through Swinburne University of Technology’s independent Centre for Forensic Behavioural Science, to support the ongoing development of clinical services. Specialist training and ongoing professional education is also provided to our staff and the broader mental health and justice fields.services. Their services deliver a range of mental health programs targeted at patients with different needs at different stages of recovery; from early intervention and prevention, inpatient care, rehabilitation and community transition support. These services are delivered through:
They also work in partnership with Swinburne University of Technology through the Centre for Forensic Behavioural Science to deliver a forensic mental health research program, specialist training and ongoing professional education.
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Thomas Embling Hospital - Community Forensic Mental Health Service
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Australia
The Foundational Processes of Behaviour (FPB) Research Laboratories host world-class research focused on uncovering the fundamental mechanisms of the human brain and behaviour. Comprising of a team of internationally recognized researchers; the FPB initiative has become one of the most successful and productive research initiatives in the School of Psychology. Foundational Processes of Behaviour researchers utilize a diversity of predominantly experimental methods and seek to study human activity at multiple levels (observable cognitive and social behaviour, brain activity, and autonomic nervous system activity). Their research team is committed to:
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Australia
The FEEL Lab aims to discover how emotions function in the rich and complex environments we encounter in our daily lives. Current Projects include:
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Australia
Melbourne Neuropsychiatry Centre (MNC) is a joint centre of Melbourne Health (North Western Mental Health) and The University of Melbourne (Department of Psychiatry). It comprises the Neuropsychiatry Unit at Royal Melbourne Hospital (RMH), the Cognitive Neuropsychiatry Unit and Adult Mental Health Rehabilitation Unit at Sunshine Hospital, and the Neuropsychiatry Imaging Laboratory located at the Alan Gilbert Building within The University of Melbourne, Parkville campus. This website provides an overview of the major activities, scientific achievements and key publications that led to the creation of the Centre. The goals of MNC are:
Neuropsychiatry is the interface between basic and clinical neuroscience and psychiatry. It includes Neurobiological approaches to the study and treatment of psychiatric disorders (Biological Psychiatry) and the understanding of disorders in which cerebral or systemic pathology contributes to the mental state (Organic Psychiatry). Together with the most recent advances in medical imaging and information technology, we are now better placed to understand the structure and functioning of the brain in health and illness than ever before.
The staff at MNC focus on furthering our understanding of neurobiological, psychiatric and psychological factors involved in mental illnesses, through the application of new knowledge acquired from research in a clinical (patient-based) context. Research innovations are made possible by the specialised approach of MNC researchers across a number of disciplines. This includes fields as diverse as:
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Australia
Melbourne Neuropsychiatry Centre conducts world leading research with focus on specific streams in Psychiatry/Psychology and Neuroscience. An overview of the research interests within the centre and the project work being carried out by our researchers can be found here:
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Australia
Mindful Centre for Training and Research in Developmental Health is the state-wide unit responsible for the delivery of postgraduate courses, training programs, professional development and research programs in child and adolescent mental health. Mindful is jointly auspiced by the University of Melbourne and Monash University and is funded by a Department of Health grant. We are located within the Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry & Health Sciences at the University of Melbourne and based at Travancore.
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Mindful – Centre for Training and Research in Developmental Health Department of Psychiatry, University of Melbourne Building C, 50 Flemington St, Travancore Vic 3032
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Australia
The Moving Ahead Centre of Research Excellence (CRE) in Brain Recovery is the first centre worldwide to take a multidisciplinary, multisite approach to addressing the psychosocial rehabilitation of individuals following TBI.
Moving Ahead brings together key experts from a range of partner universities, hospitals and research institutes in Australia and overseas to address what is a growing problem. The physical, cognitive and emotional impairments that result from TBI can have a profound effect on an individual's quality of life. Severe TBI is associated with fewer employment opportunities, greater risk of depression, family stress, deteriorating relationships, and social isolation. While psychosocial remediation is essential, evidence for existing remediation techniques is limited. Moving Ahead aims to improve outcomes for those with a traumatic brain injury by developing empirically-supported treatments, addressing deficits in social skills, communication, mood, fatigue, self-awareness and self-regulation.
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Australia
Phoenix Australia Centre for Posttraumatic Mental Health is a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to reducing the impact of trauma by building the capability of individuals, organisations and the community to understand, prevent and recover from the adverse mental health effects of trauma. Phoenix Australia is governed by a Board of Management which includes the Director of Phoenix Australia and brings together independent members, representatives of key partners: the Commonwealth Government's Departments of Veterans' Affairs and Defence and the Department of Psychiatry, University of Melbourne.
The team at Phoenix is multi-disciplinary. Staff members are experts in their respective fields, and many are internationally recognised for their work in posttraumatic mental health. Phoenix's work in posttraumatic mental health is organised into three distinct areas: research; policy and service development; and education and training. This breadth of work enables Phoenix to actively integrate learnings from all of these activities, translating knowledge into practice and implementation, and offering clients end-to-end service. Phoenix's expertise ensures that clients and the community benefit from the most up-to-date knowledge of posttraumatic mental health.
World-class research: program of research and evaluation aims to advance the knowledge of trauma and posttraumatic mental health. Our leadership in translating research into education and training initiatives and policy and service development advice promotes the best possible outcomes for people affected by trauma.
Policy and service development: Phoenix Australia Centre for Posttraumatic Mental Health works with organisations that have responsibility for people affected by trauma aims to ensure that proven interventions in posttraumatic mental health are promoted through their policies and practice.
Education and training: research, develop and deliver education and training programs on mental health and posttraumatic mental health.
Events and resources: develop and disseminate information about mental health and posttraumatic mental health through publications, resources, articles, conferences, forums, symposia and informed media commentary
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Level 3, 161 Barry Street Carlton Victoria 3053
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Australia
Psychology & Mental Health Design involve Monash Health psychologists to actively participate and lead research studies and Quality Improvement activities across a range of programs and clinical areas at Monash Health. Patient care is the heart of our service delivery and we aim to improve patient outcomes by undertaking patient journey maps, co-designing techniques with patients and using patient reported outcome and experience measures. Projects include
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The Psychology Department test library is a vital resource for Psychology Department staff and students, and a significant amount of funding is set aside by the Department on an annual basis to ensure that the holdings are up-to-date and extensive. Library resources are used to teach psychological assessment to all levels of students. Library resources are also used by professional Masters students on placement, and for research purposes by Masters and research students and staff.
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4 First Walk, Macquarie University
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Australia
Contact Person / Email
Dr Gina Hammond, Sabrina Iglesias and Jo Simpson
The UNSW Salivary Bioscience Research Centre (SBRC) within the School of Psychology provides researchers and industry with access to high-quality saliva testing services. The minimally-invasive nature of saliva sample collection, and the broad range of potential measurements, enables oral fluids to be employed in a wide range of fields and disciplines.
UNSW SBRC staff provide cutting-edge scientific and technical advice to help researchers incorporate the best and most appropriate salivary bioscience methods into their research. The mission of the SBRC is to expand capability for multidisciplinary salivary bioscience research within UNSW and across Australia by facilitating integration of salivary biomarkers into academic research. The SBRC will support UNSW researchers across diverse academic disciplines in pursuits to incorporate salivary biomarkers (e.g., stress and sex hormones, cytokines) into research activities by providing:
The SBRC Spit Camp provides training in the basics of salivary analytes and related laboratory methods. It is designed for researchers that are new to salivary bioscience research and methods, providing both didactic content to learn basic strategies for incorporating saliva into your research and hand-on, supervised lab training on sample processing.
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General enquiries to sbrc@unsw.edu.au Room 141, UNSW - Mathews Building (F23) Kensington NSW Sydney NSW 2052
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Australia
Southern Synergy is a Faculty Research Centre within the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences at Monash University. The centre sits within the Department of Psychiatry, School of Clinical Sciences at Monash Health, and is substantially supported by Monash Health. The centre works closely with collaborators, particularly those responsible for mental health service delivery in the Monash Health Catchment area. Their programs include:
The centre was jointly established in 2003 with Monash Health and continues to be closely linked with and supported by the Monash Health Mental Health Program. It is based primarily in accommodation at Dandenong Hospital - Monash Health - Adult Mental Health though staff may also be situated from time to time at other accommodation within other campuses of Monash Health and Monash University. Particular strengths of the Centre lie in a unique combination of research, training and clinical academic staff with close linkage to a major mental health care provider. Our multidisciplinary team consists of members from:
If you are thinking of a career in psychiatry, psychology or research into Health Services with a focus on Mental Health, the Southern Synergy Research Centre at the School of Clinical Sciences is a great place to start. We are located in new purpose-built offices at Dandenong Hospital. Designed to optimise translational opportunities for work in mental health care, the centre has close co-location with the key leadership team of Monash Mental Health.
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Monash Health, Adult Mental Health Monash University Southern Synergy Dandenong Hospital 126-128 Cleeland St, Dandenong VIC 3175
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Australia
The St Vincent's Mental Health Research Unit has two broad areas of core research, namely optimizing mental health care, and integrating physical and mental health. The research is aligned with the clinical services. The Academic Unit for Psychiatry of Old Age is part of the St Vincent's Aged Mental Health service and is a significant collaborative partner of the St Vincent's Mental Health Research Unit. We also have strong research links with Swinburne University and the Cardiovascular Research Centre at Australian Catholic University.
The Unit's specific research activities include early psychosis, body image disorders, mental health promotion and prevention, epidemiology, strengths-based models of care, acute psychiatricbased care, psychopharmacology, transcultural mental health, international mental health, neuropsychiatry, psychotherapy (notably mindfulness and its applicability in people with physical
health problems), and psychosocial cancer care. The majority of the Unit's research is underpinned by a multidisciplinary collaborative approach and we are currently engaged in a number of research initiatives with other St Vincent's Departments and external organisations, nationally and internationally.
In addition to comprehensive undergraduate and postgraduate teaching programs, St Vincent's Mental Health Research Unit has a strong commitment to research support, development and training of both clinical and academic staff
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Australia
The Australian Centre for Behavioural Research in Diabetes (ACBRD) explores what it's like to live with diabetes and works to raise awareness of diabetes across Australia. It's a national research centre that provides invaluable resources to clinicians and researchers, and has a significant impact on policy. The Australian Centre for Behavioural Research in Diabetes is the first national research centre in Australia and internationally, dedicated to investigating the behavioural, psychological and social aspects of diabetes. The Centre conducts applied research focused on the behavioural, psychological and social aspects of diabetes. The Centre produces a range of resources relevant to the behavioural and psychosocial aspects of diabetes.
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570 Elizabeth Street Melbourne VIC 3000
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Australia
The Australian Centre for Cannabinoid Clinical and Research Excellence is a National Health and Medical Research Council Centre of Research Excellence. The Australian Centre for Cannabinoid Clinical and Research Excellence is working to develop a national research and policy framework that ensures quality and safety in the implementation of medicinal cannabis use in the community. ACRE is generously funded by the National Health and Medical Research Council through the Centre of Research Excellence scheme.
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Hunter Medical Research Institute C/- The University of Newcastle University Drive Callaghan NSW 2308 Australia
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Australia
The Australian Centre on Quality of Life (ACQol) was established to study evidence-based measures for quality of life. ACQol formed a partnership with Australian Unity in 2001 to develop the Australian Unity Wellbeing Index - a national survey which uses several indicators to measure subjective life quality. The Centre is also home to data from the Australian Unity Longitudinal Wellbeing Study. This study follows-up the samples of Australians who respond to the annual cross-sectional surveys. ACQol also supports the International Wellbeing Group (IWbG) - an international collaborative network of researchers. The collective aim of the IWbG is to develop the Personal Wellbeing Index into a standard, cross-cultural measure of Subjective Wellbeing (SWB). ACQol is committed to:
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Australia
The Baby Lab is non-profit Research Centre for pure and applied infant research on speech perception and language acquisition.
BabyLab at Kingswood is a non-profit Western Sydney University Infant Research Centre for pure and applied infant research on speech perception and language acquisition. We conduct research with infants and children focusing on speech perception, speech production, and related skills such as literacy. Our researchers monitor babies' responses using state of the art equipment including eye tracking, heart rate and EEG technology. These studies provide a window into the mind of young babies acquiring the building blocks of language. BabyLab at Kingswood is a joint collaboration between the School of Social Sciences and Psychology (SSAP) and The MARCS Institute, and therefore all research is conducted in collaboration by SSAP and MARCS researchers.
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Australia
The Brain and Mind Centre is a global leader in research and treatment. In particular, we focus on conditions that affect child development, youth mental health and brain ageing. We aim to understand individual circumstances and to develop solutions that improve the quality of life for both patients and their loved ones. Work at the Centre extends beyond laboratories and clinics to our strong partnerships with industry, government, the community, and other healthcare providers and researchers.
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Australia
The Centre for Brain and Mental Health Research (CBMHR) is focused on increasing our understanding of the brain and mind across the lifespan, in the absence and presence of disease. The Centre hosts three platforms for research:
The Centre for Brain and Mental Health Research (CBMHR) is a cross-disciplinary group of leading researchers from diverse fields, united by a common goal: To understand (and modify) brain function and factors that influence mental health problems at the molecular, cellular, systems, behavioural, and social levels of analysis. CBMHR's three cornerstones are to foster inter-disciplinary research excellence, support, train, and promote the next research leaders and engage the public via open forums.
The CBMHR provides leadership in the integration of basic science and clinical research, to foster the transfer of discoveries from ‘bench to bedside’, and allow clinical questions to drive the focus of basic research. Clinical translation and innovation are the cornerstones of transformative technology and practices, generating both economic and social benefits.
The CBMHR houses a substantial program of community intervention (e.g. through CRRMH and Centre for Resources Health and Safety) creating scope for social and community benefits – improving wellbeing, overcoming barriers to accessing care for mental health conditions – as well as economic benefits such as improved productivity and participation. The CBMHR has been a crucial driver for community engagement by convening community/public forums to raise awareness of the CBMHR’s research, and to discuss important neurological and mental health problems. These forums have provided information to improve health and encourage community participation and support for both basic and clinical research programs.
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Bowman Building, University Drive, Callaghan NSW 2308
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Australia
The Centre for Occupational, Public and Environmental Research in Safety and Health (COPERSH) is a research centre in the School of Health and Society. The vision of the Centre is to address new, emerging and complex health and safety problems in occupational, public and environmental settings through collaborative research with university and industry partners. They aim to address new, emerging and complex health and safety problems in occupational, public and environmental settings. To achieve this vision COPERSH aims to
The Centre is currently undertaking a number of major research projects across a broad range of topics. These include;
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Australia
The Centre for Social and Early Emotional Development (SEED) conducts world-leading research on social development and its origins in early emotional life. The overall objective of SEED is to promote emotional health, from pregnancy through to adulthood and into the next generation. SEED hosts specialist research centres and programs in:
Wellbeing
Attachment
Addiction and
Neurodevelopmental Disorders.
We bring together life course, clinical and public health research and practice to describe the major milestones in emotional life, advise on the most effective approaches to intervening at the earliest opportunities in troubled pathways, and engage systems for translating this knowledge broadly. Research Themes include
Lifecourse Sciences Theme: understanding the developmental origins of mental health and disorder
Intervention Sciences Theme: designing interventions to promote emotional security and social connection
Translation Sciences Theme: harnessing system-based approaches to disseminate effective interventions
Intergenerational-Early Childhood Stream: monitoring and promoting emotional health from infancy to preschool
Childhood to Adolescence Stream: monitoring and promoting emotional health from childhood into adolescence
Adolescent to Young Adulthood Stream: monitoring and promoting emotional health from adolescence into young adulthood
Innovation Hub: understanding the developing social brain
Behavioural Medicine: exploring body, mind and emotion
Data Sciences: data Analytics for Social Sciences
ACQOLSpecialist Research Centre: nderstanding, monitoring and promoting Subjective Wellbeing
DCSCSpecialist Research Centre: supporting children and young people living with neuro-developmental challenges
CEDAARSpecialist Research Centre: monitoring and preventing drug use and violence in young people
To become a SEED research student you need to have a clear vision of what you want to investigate. This could be the origins of social and emotional health, emotional regulation in children, or understanding positive youth development. In just a few steps you could be finding new and better ways to deliver preventative intervention or promoting a secure start to emotional life for all children.
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Deakin University 221 Burwood Highway Burwood VIC 3125
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Australia
Contact Person / Email
Gwyn Morgan
The Clinical and Health Psychology Research Initiative (CaHPRI) aims of CaHPRI is to further understanding of the interaction between psychological, social, and cultural factors in relation to mental and physical healthl evidence based psychological management of mental and physical health conditions; develop evidence as to appropriate training and supervision for psychological practice in relation to physical and mental health conditions Primary areas of interest within CaHPRI are broadly grouped as follows and cover the life-span - from children through to older adults:
Clinical Psychophysiology: examining the interface between psychological disorders/states/conditions and how they are manifested via psychophysiological responses with the aim of improving assessment techniques and treatment outcomes.
Assessment and Understanding of Psychological Illness: developing and examining clinical measurements and approaches to understanding the experience, course and recovery of psychological illness.
Effectiveness of Psychological Therapies: researching the components of psychological interventions that result in recovery from psychological illnesses. Developing and examining individualised treatments to foster most optimal outcomes.
Practitioner Training and Supervision: developing, assessing and evaluating competencies for interns and practising psychologists. Examining how training programs facilitate knowledge, skills, application development and reflective practice.
Country
Australia
The Complex Human Data Hub aims to use technologies to build a new kind of psychological science - one that is intimately tied to the real world. We combine this rich data with sophisticated computational modelling, which enables us to better explain, predict, and influence human behaviour on multiple levels, from individuals to populations. One goal is to produce actionable knowledge and technology for behaviour change in fields ranging from health to national security to sustainability. The Complex Human Data Hub aims to build a more comprehensive, ecologically valid and translationally relevant psychological science by:
Country
Aruba
The Deakin Child Study Centre (DCSC) is a multidisciplinary research centre with a focus on understanding neurodevelopment from the early years of childhood through to adolescence. Through their research and dedication to translating science into practical outcomes, our ultimate goal is to enhance the lives of young people with neurodevelopmental disorders, helping them develop to their full potential. The Deakin Child Study Centre strives to reach the one in five children who have a disability, developmental challenge or vulnerability, to develop practical and sustainable evidence-based strategies. They include all children and create programs that are culturally sensitive and inclusive of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children.
DCSC aim to see the meaningful participation of children with disability or developmental challenges through community-integrated interventions. They place a particular emphasis on providing these children with resources and support to enable meaningful participation and engagement in organised physical activities (OPAs); principally occurring in community settings consistent with the lives of the children and their families. With a focus on developing child-centred interventions, they are dedicated to working with the community to ‘make the world fit for all kids’, where children of all abilities feel secure to thrive socially and emotionally. With access to community-based interventions complementing and enhancing best practice clinical care, our research and pilot studies have shown that children with disabilities and developmental challenges gain developmental, clinical and health benefits.
The aim is to provide the community with training and technological innovations connecting individuals, families and professionals to work together with a common goal: ensuring every child with a disability or developmental challenge has the best possible opportunity to reach their full developmental potential.We combine research, clinical expertise and technology with like-minded partners and peak bodies to create evidence-based, accessible and innovative resources. Key projects include:
AllPlay: the AllPlay programs are supported by a digital development team that uses information and communication technologies to optimise AllPlay research and intervention activity. The AllPlay digital platform leverages the power of web, app, wearables, gaming, virtual reality, social media and software engineering to deliver innovative, engaging and best-practice digital solutions.
Inclusive Sports program: aims to enable children of all abilities and disabilities to participate in sport together, and ultimately enjoy the physical, social, emotional and cognitive benefits of sport and recreation. Generously funded by a grant of $400,000 from the National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA) over one year, the Inclusive Sports program aims to enable children of all abilities to participate in sport together and ultimately enjoy the physical, social, emotional and cognitive benefits of sport and recreation. There are three components to this overall study: a desktop review, community survey and coaches inclusion program.
Comparing the effect of non-invasive brain stimulation on different brain regions for reducing social symptoms in autism spectrum disorder (2017–2018)
The development of the social brain in early childhood (2017–2021)
The neurobiological basis of motor impairment in developmental coordination disorder: Evidence for compromised mirror neuron activity? (2016–2017)
An investigation of neuroplasticity in autism spectrum disorder using brain stimulation and neuroimaging (2016–2017)
Calm Kids – does the treatment of anxiety in children with ADHD improve outcomes?: A large-scale randomised controlled trial (2016–2019)
Sleeping sound with autism spectrum disorder – tailoring a brief sleep intervention for autism: A randomised controlled trial (2016–2019)
Sleeping Sound in Adolescence: A pilot study (2016–2018)
Sleeping sound special needs: A feasibility pilot study (2016–2018)
Impact of sleep intervention in ADHD: Translational randomised trial (2014–2017)
Mindful choices for parents of children with ADHD (2017–2018)
Joy of Moving: Getting children moving: An evaluation of the effectiveness of the "Joy of Moving" program in Australian primary school aged children (2017-2020)
Digital operations platform
Country
Australia
Contact Person / Email
Samantha Lewis
The Deakin University Centre for Drug use, Addictive and Anti-social behaviour Research (CEDAAR) conducts research into the psychological, biological, socio-political, and clinical aspects of Alcohol and other Drug (AOD) use, other addictive behaviours, and consequent harm. The centre conducts federally and state-funded research on substance use, gambling, prevention, treatment, harm reduction and related problem areas such as violence, criminal justice settings, and characteristics of rural addictive behaviours.
They multidisciplinary centre is strongly linked to the Deakin University Centre for Social and Early Emotional Development (SEED), as we look to understand many of the problems associated with addictive behaviours and related harms from a developmentally informed perspective. Our aim is to use these understandings to inform our evidence-based policy, treatment, and prevention interventions, as well as providing service to the community. Their approach is structured around three research questions - What matters in predicting, preventing, and reducing harm from AOD use, other addictive behaviours, and anti-social behaviour? What works to prevent and reduce harm from AOD use, other addictive behaviours, and anti-social behaviour? What translates into sustainable policy, prevention and treatment programs?
Prevention: prevention science applies life-course and developmental systems research to design and evaluate interventions that enhance healthy child and youth development and prevent substance use, gambling, and other addictive behaviours. Program models being designed and evaluated include family (Behaviour Exchange Systems Training), school (Resilient Families) and community interventions (Communities That Care; Smart Generations). The cross-national International Youth Development Study is used to evaluate and advocate for effective state policies.
Epidemiology: this stream examines the prevalence of substance use, gambling, and other addictive behaviours in different groups within the Australian population to determine trends in usage patterns and investigates factors that might influence these trends over time. Understanding trends in the use of alcohol and gambling by Australian adolescents and adults is a key focus in this stream.
Policy, evaluation and monitoring: this stream focuses on understanding and evaluating government and organisational policy as well as monitoring and evaluating the impacts of alcohol, gambling, and other addictive behaviours on the community. Research undertaken by the researchers in this stream aims to positively inform policy at a national and local level.
Psychological and social studies of addiction: the work of this stream is to develop a deep understanding of some of the key underlying psychological and social processes involved in the development, maintenance and treatment of addiction. Factors such as impulse control, emotion dysregulation, reward sensitivity, negative affect, motivation, trait aggression, family processes and social identity are all key candidates. Our group draws on innovative methodologies such as Ecological Momentary Assessment, Eye Tracking, Cognitive-Neuro behavioural tasks to address key research questions that matter.
Treatment: this stream involves the development, evaluation and translation of innovative evidence-based treatments for addiction. Specifically we draw on trans-diagnostic approaches, e technology and cognitive interventions for addiction.
Crime and antisocial behaviour: this stream focuses on research related to the prevention of antisocial behaviour and crime, as well as interventions for those who engage in antisocial and offending behaviour. Researchers in this stream focus on a range of different offence types and associated prevention and intervention strategies, however there is a strong focus on the relationship between aggressive and violent behaviour and addictive behaviours, such as substance use and gambling.
Country
Australia
Contact Person / Email
Peter Miller
The Monash University Centre for Developmental Psychiatry and Psychology (CDPP) is part of the Department of Psychiatry in the School of Clinical Sciences at Monash Health. They provide research and teaching in the field of developmental psychiatry and psychology with a particular focus on child, adolescent, youth and family mental health, and work in close affiliation with the clinical services provided by the Monash Health Early in Life Mental Health Service (ELMHS). Special areas of interest include:
Autism Spectrum Disorder
Behaviour and emotional problems and mental health in children and adults with developmental and intellectual disabilities
Family mental health and wellbeing
School refusal and school attendance problems
Anxiety and trauma
Depression and suicide prevention
Measuring behavioural and emotional problems in infants and toddlers with developmental delay (Kids@Monash)
Screening for autism in children and adolescents with intellectual disability
Stepping Stones Triple P - supports families with special needs
Fragile X Syndrome: An investigation of cognitive motor deficits using ocular-motor paradigms
Language abilities in individuals with high functioning autism and Asperger's Syndrome
Ocular Motor Investigations of autism and Asperger's Syndrome
Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) and electroencephalography (EEG) investigations of autism
Mental Health and Spinal Cord Injury (e-PACT)
Time for a Future: Youth Psychosis Psychotherapy Program (follow up study)
Child Health Psychology Research, contact:
Address
Monash Medical Centre 246 Clayton Rd Clayton, VIC 3168
Country
Australia
The Pyschosocial Research Centre (PRC) is an integral part of North West Area Mental Health Service and is committed to research, education and training, policy and practice development that will improve the wellbeing of people with mental illness and their families. PRC focuses on psychosocial approaches to prevention, treatment and recovery, involving consumers and their families; increasing community participation and improving economic outcomes for people affected by mental illness. The work of PRC is in areas that have historically been neglected by mainstream psychiatry, but which continue to have a great impact on the life of the person experiencing mental illness. The aim of the Psychosocial Research Centre is to collaborate with consumers, their families, practitioners, managers, policy makers, academics and other stakeholders in the wider community in order to:
The Vision of the Psychosocial Research Centre is to generate and foster innovative, practice based psychosocial research, education and training, policy and practice development that will improve the wellbeing of people living with mental illness and the benefit of their families.
Address
Psychosocial Research Centre (PRC) Ground Floor 130 Bell St Coburg VIC 3058
Country
Australia
The Science of Adult Relationships Laboratory (SoAR) focuses on understanding the underlying systems that regulate the way people interact in their relationships. Drawing on some of the major theories in social psychology and personality, SoAR studies relationships across the entire span of adulthood, including the transition to young adulthood. SoAR aims to gain insight into the processes that govern the functioning of close relationships and their outcomes. Using established and cutting-edge methodological approaches, our research targets a wide variety of contexts including important life events, transitions and emerging social issues that can impact on relationships. We are a collaborative group of researchers with interests that reflect the broad diversity of close relationships in contemporary society. We aim to bridge the gap between science and practice by making our research accessible to academic and therapeutic communities, as well as the general public. We guide our research by widely-studied theoretical approaches in the relationship sciences. Specifically, these are:
Attachment theory
Ideal standards model
Interdependence theory
Transactional models of stress-coping
Models of diathesis-stress and stress-buffering.
More recently, we have extended our theoretical lens to include models of approach-avoidance motivation and models of dehumanisation. We have also advanced our own theoretical models in relationship functioning and relationship acceptance. While we integrate various theoretical approaches within our different areas of research, our research is predominantly framed from an attachment theory perspective. Attachment theory (Bowlby, 1969/1982) is a theory of human bonding that was developed to explain how infants and young children adjusted to prolonged separation from, or the loss of, a primary caregiver (often their mother). Since then, attachment theory has been applied to the study of many different types of close relationships and has become one of the most widely applied theories to the study of adult relationships (Gillath, Karantzas, & Fraley, 2016). To this end, attachment theory serves as a rich framework in which to scientifically study adult relationships. Focus areas include:
Evaluating relationship partners: drawing primarily on the ideal standards model of relationships, this research focuses on understanding how people’s perceptions of their romantic partners against their ideals shape the way they think, feel and behave in their relationships. We are especially interested in the factors that predict perceptions of one’s partner as living up to, or falling short of one’s ideals, and the consequences of these perceptions.
The dark side of romantic relationships: this research investigates aspects of romantic relationships that are seen as negative or harmful to both the functioning of a relationship and the wellbeing of romantic partners. Examples of such behaviours include sexual coercion and interpersonal dehumanisation. Although this area of research can include extreme and very explicit instances of negative relationship behaviours, such as physical abuse, we focus more on the subtle expressions of these phenomena. We are interested in the everyday occurrences and outcomes of these negative relationship behaviours, as well as the individual differences and situational factors that affect people’s propensity to either be the perpetrator or victim of negative interpersonal behaviour.
The impact of life transitions: this research focuses on how major life transitions influence people’s romantic, familial and peer relationships. Whether disruptions to relationships, as a function of life transitions, produce particular negative adjustment or mental health outcomes. We are also interested in understanding how life transitions can benefit relationships and the factors that protect against deterioration in relationships as a function of major life transitions and stressors.
Chronic illness and ageing families: this research explores how relationship processes help to explain how individuals, couples and families cope with the stressors and challenges associated with experiencing chronic illness and having to care for an older parent. We place emphasis on understanding how care and support are provided within couples and families, as well as the factors that predict how people respond to giving and receiving support. We also investigate the mental health and relationship consequences of chronic illness and aged care in couples and families. Our research in this area has been funded by beyondblue and, most recently, the Australian Research Council.
The interplay between behavioural systems: this research focuses on how the major systems of behaviour that govern human interaction jointly determine relationship functioning and how people respond to relationship threats and stressors. We specifically focus on how the attachment, caregiving and sexual behavioural systems operate to influence couple's issues related to partner support, conflict and sexual functioning. In recent years we have also begun to investigate how systems associated with managing reward and punishment influence behaviours and motivations in relationships.
Country
Australia
Contact Person / Email
Gery Karantzas
The School of Psychology at the University of New South Wales has a very well-resourced Test Library, which is available to all Psychology Masters coursework and PhD students as well as to qualified staff in the School of Psychology. The Test Library transitioned to an online system in February 2020.
Address
Level 8, Room 825 of the Mathews Building.
Country
Australia
The Westmead Institute for Medical Research (WIMR) exists to enrich the health and wellbeing of people globally by liberating them from the major disease challenges of our time. WIMR is making breakthroughs in medical research and applying these discoveries to some of the world’s most serious diseases. These include illnesses like HIV; diabetes; cancers; heart, kidney and liver issues and deadly viruses.
Country
Australia
The Aged Psychiatry Academic Unit's research focuses on care and improvement of the mental health of the ageing, including those with dementia, behaviour disorders, or in aged care, as well as those who care for them. The unit is a partner of the Commonwealth Government's Dementia Collaborative Research Centre with responsibility for identifying non-pharmacological treatments of the behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia and then mounting trials of their efficacy.
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Australia
The Centre for Elite Performance, Expertise & Training conducts multidisciplinary research designed to address three core problems in the study of elite performance and expertise: understanding its acquisition, its maintenance, and its loss. As well as advancing scholarly knowledge of these three areas, CEPET is equipped to translate experimental findings into real-world applications and tools for training and maintaining expertise, selecting individuals with a propensity for expertise, and providing psychological and social support for individuals who experience a loss of expertise, whether through retirement, injury, or for other reasons.
Address
Macquarie University NSW 210
Country
Australia
The Szalmuk Family Psycho-oncology Research Unit based at Cabrini, strives to achieve real clinical research outcomes that can make a difference to people's lives. The unit's research interests include cancer screening in the general population, treatment decision-making, psychosocial factors that influence adjustment to cancer, unmet needs of cancer patients and their families, psychosocial interventions for people affected by cancer and psychosocial factors in palliative care settings. Currently we are involved in a range of collaborative research projects. Topics include:
Completed research projects include :
Country
Australia
Turning Point is a national addiction treatment centre, dedicated to providing high quality, evidence-based treatment to people adversely affected by alcohol, drugs and gambling, integrated with world-leading research and education. Their team of clinical and social researchers, psychologists, sociologists and public health academics deliver evidence-based translational research that informs policy and service development to improve and expand the range and quality of addiction specialist treatment and support services in Australia. They work in partnership with Monash University and other leading education providers, to empower thousands of professionals in health and other disciplines to effectively respond to addiction and related issues through the provision of evidence-based research, policy advice, high quality post-graduate education. ased in Melbourne, we provide a range of clinical specialist treatment services for people affected by alcohol and other drugs and address behaviour issues including gambling across the full spectrum of addiction. In addition we provide guidance and support around Australia through secondary referrals in Victoria and national telehealth counselling services.
Country
Australia
