Bringing together researchers, lecturers, students, health professionals and other support staff, our diverse team bring a wealth of knowledge and experience to the table with a joint goal of promoting healthy universities.
University of South Australia
I am a Clinical Psychologist and Senior Lecturer in the School of Psychology, Social Work and Social Policy. My research focus is understanding the determinants of mental health in university students and developing and evaluating interventions to promote health and wellbeing.
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UniSA College
I am the Academic Director and Deputy Head of UniSA College. My research interests focus primarily on students’ transition to university, their health and well-being and widening access to university for students who face educational disadvantage.
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University of Leeds
Bridgette is an Associate Professor in Psychological Health and Wellbeing. She has a track record of high quality publications that have aided our understanding of the well-being and drinking behaviour of students and of web-based interventions. I seek to understand how e-health interventions can facilitate early intervention. I continue to develop ways for e-health solutions to support dissemination of tools that enable students to consider their own behaviour and think through their potential to change.
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University of Michigan
I am a Professor at the University of Michigan School of Public Health; as an economist, my main research goal is to understand how to invest most effectively in the wellbeing and mental health of students and other youth populations. I direct the Healthy Minds Network.
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University of Leeds
Lydia is an Associate Professor teaching primarily in the areas of criminal law and criminal justice.
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University of South Australia
I am the Program Director of Service Teaching and a lecturer in Statistics in the School of Information Technology and Mathematical Sciences at the University of South Australia.
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University of South Australia
I am interested in the social-psychological influences on individual well-being. Specifically, my research focuses on how social factors impact individual engagement in health behaviours, such as physical activity. I’m also interested in students’ confidence and abilities to cope with the multiple demands placed on them while attending university, and how these cognitions and behaviours relate to their overall well-being.
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University of Leeds
Jonathan is responsible for leadership and scholarship in student support and paediatric medical education in the University of Leeds.
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Rob’s research interests are generally around mental health and well-being. His research is characterised by an interest in how perceptions of the social environment influence mental and physical health outcomes.
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University of South Australia
I am currently Program Director of the Bachelor Of Social Work(BSW). My teaching and research interests are in cultural diversity and developing cultural competency, social work practice, integration and application of social work theory, student learning in field education placements /practicums and developing social work professional identity.
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The University of Queensland
I am the Director of MD Research, Chair of the Research and Teaching Interface Committee, and Chair of the Faculty of Medicine Low Negligible Risk Ethics Committee at The University of Queensland. My research career has taken me to the USA, UK, Kenya and now Australia. The primary focus of my research is medical education, research training and rural health workforce, with a specific interest in personality and behaviour around student well-being and career choice.
Bond University
I am a Professor of Law at Bond University specialising in legal education and dispute resolution. I founded the Australian Wellness Network for Law and contribute to scholarship and practical initiatives in the area of law student and lawyer well-being.
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University of South Australia
I am a Lecturer in Humanities and Social Science in the School of Education at the University of South Australia. My research interests are social justice, inclusive and special education, bullying, cyber-bullying, bystander behaviours and resilience.
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The University of Newcastle
I am a senior lecturer in the Discipline of Health Behaviour Sciences within the School of Medicine and Public Health. I am a Chief Investigator in the Priority Research Centre in Health Behaviour at the University of Newcastle, and an Associate Investigator in the Priority Research Centre in Physical Activity and Nutrition at the University of Newcastle.
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Queensland University of Technology
I am a Clinical Psychologist and currently lead the Australian Department of Health’s e-Mental Health in Practice project, which rolls out e-mental health nationally in primary care and advises on the future of e-mental health.
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James Cook University
I am the president of the Australian Learning and Teaching Fellows and an Adjunct Professor of Law at James Cook University. My research interests focus particularly on our students’ first year experience of university and how Transition Pedagogy, developed under an Australian Learning & Teaching Council Senior Fellowship, can support diverse students’ learning and success in their first year of university and, consequently, their mental health and wellbeing.
The University of Newcastle
I am an NHMRC Senior Research Fellow (SRF-B) in alcohol-related injury epidemiology and am a professor in the School of Medicine & Public Health where I hold a Senior Brawn Research Fellowship.
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The University of Melbourne
I have particular research interests in issues of subjectivity, autonomy and consent in the regulation of sexual/domestic violence and health care. In the field of legal education, her research concentrates on issues of student engagement, wellbeing and access and equity.
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Boston University
I am an Assistant Professor at Boston University School of Public Health and Associate Director of the Healthy Minds Network. My research focuses primarily on mental health and service utilization in college populations.
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Flinders University
I am a Senior Lecturer in Higher Education at Flinders University. I passionately supports higher education access for all and has been involved in a number of projects that reflect the increased health and well-being issues that students, particularly as they transition into university face.
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University of Alberta
I am an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Physical Education and Recreation at the University of Alberta. I am interested in the promotion of psychological skills and resources that can help facilitate successful and positive sport experiences for athletes, including student-athlete.
University of South Australia
I am a researcher and educator with special interests in mental health, gendered violence and social work education.
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University of South Australia
Dino is a course coordinator at the UniSA College and teach a variety of enabling courses with particular focus on academic essay writing skills and critical thinking. His current research focus is related to the overall wellbeing and consequent success of students enrolled in enabling education.
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University of Southern Queensland
I am a Professor of Higher Education and Pro Vice-Chancellor Students at the University of the Sunshine Coast, a regional university located on the east coast of Australia. My research and practice focus on optimising student engagement and success through curricular and co-curricular strategies that enhance student wellbeing, emotion, belonging and self efficacy.
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The University of Western Australia
Jeneva is a Psychologist and Senior Lecturer in the School of Psychology at the University of Western Australia. She is interested in promoting engagement in mental-health promoting interventions across all ages of youth, including adolescents and young adults.
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UniSA College, Australia
I am a Lecturer at UniSA College currently teaching Communication For Academic Purposes, a Foundation Studies literacies course.
University of South Australia
I am a researcher and educator in the School of Information Technology and Mathematical Sciences . I specialise in data analysis and statistical modelling, with a keen interest in understanding student health, well-being and engagement at university.
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University of South Australia
I coordinate the courses Health Promotion in Physiotherapy and Biopsychosocial Practice. I am particularly interested in the roles of decision making and social support in health and wellbeing.
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Murdoch University
As a lecturer in the Centre for Teaching and Learning, I engage with students and staff across the university and across the year levels. I have a long-standing interest in education as a life-changing and empowering process. I am interested in embedding academic and communication skills in teaching and learning.
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University of South Australia
I am the Program Director for the Regions and Indigenous Participation Program at UniSA College. My research interests focus on student motivation and the use of digital technology to improve health and wellbeing.
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University of Woollongong
I am the Academic Leader: Personal & Professional Development in the Graduate Medicine (GM) MBBS Programme. My research has focussed on help-seeking and suicide prevention and the development of evidence-based interventions to promote effective help-seeking behaviour.
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University of South Australia
With a background in radiography and ultrasound, Brooke has a strong interest in educational practice, particularly in the preparation of allied health students to be ‘industry ready’. Her PhD will investigate the use and accuracy of self-assessment in the development of professional clinical skills awareness in allied health students.
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University of South Australia
Amanda is a PhD candidate in the School of Health Sciences at the University of South Australia. Her PhD research is exploring predictors of first year student success; in particular the influence of students’ personal characteristics and their time use and the way these factors may influence both their academic and health outcomes during the first year. Amanda’s other research interests include the first year experience, first year pedagogies, and student health and wellbeing more generally.
University of Leeds
Daisy Walton is a Doctor of Clinical Psychology student at the University of Leeds. Her thesis is on an evaluation of thedesk program.
University of Leeds
Sarah is a Trainee Clinical Psychologist currently undertaking a doctoral project entitled ‘Brief Intervention for Problematic Smartphone Use in Undergraduate Students: A Systematic Case Series’.
University of South Australia
Manages the day-to-day operations of thedesk. She is also a PhD candidate in the School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences at The University of Queensland.
UQ, Australia
UQ, Australia
UQ, Australia
UQ, Australia
SCU, Australia
SCU, Australia
UNSW, Australia
UNSW, Australia
UNevada, USA
UNevada, USA
JCU, Australia
JCU, Australia
UTAS, Australia
UTAS, Australia
UON, Australia
UON, Australia
UWS, Australia
UWS, Australia
ANU, Australia
ANU, Australia
UTAS, Australia
UTAS, Australia
UniSA, Australia
UniSA, Australia
Southern Cross, Australia
Southern Cross, Australia
UniSA, Australia
UniSA, Australia
Macquarie, Australia
Macquarie, Australia
Monash, Australia
Monash, Australia
TAO Connect, Inc. USA
TAO Connect, Inc. USA
