Our projects

Treatment trials for youth emotional health

• Overcoming fears of public speaking in children.
• Reducing cyberbullying.
• Reaching vulnerable children with anxiety through a new school-based online program; Cool Kids Online at School.
• Helping anxious children and adolescents who do not respond fully to standard cognitive behaviour therapy.
• Study Without Stress online student platform.

Learn more about all our projects for children.

Understanding emotional health in adults

• Creating an empirically based classification system for mental illness.
• Hoarding and compulsive buying in adults.
• What works to shift diet quality and physical activity in psychological interventions for cardiovascular risk? A systematic review and meta-analysis.
• The Early Childhood Educators’ Wellbeing Project (ECEWP).
• Facilitating decision-making for hearing health.
• Exploring the emotional dynamics of online communication through Twitter data analysis: A cross-cultural investigation of Australians and Thais.
• Preventing suicide from going Under the Radar: Understanding men's preferences for prevention services to increase uptake & effectiveness.

Treatment trials for adult emotional health

• A randomised controlled trial of an online single-session online treatment for depression and anxiety.
• A bandit-based response adaptive trial to evaluate the effectiveness of brief self-guided digital interventions for reducing psychological distress in university students: the Vibe Up study.
• Investigating the impact of an online course for adults on buying and saving behaviour: A pilot randomised controlled trial.
• Improving mental health outcomes and reducing suicide across the emergency services sector.
• MicroDep: A double-blind randomised controlled trial of microdosing with psilocybin to treat moderate depression.

Emotional health and chronic illness

• The Wellbeing Neuro Course: A randomised controlled trial of an online treatment program for adults with multiple sclerosis.
• Examining the effect of the Wellbeing Neuro Course on symptoms of depression, anxiety and disability in patients with multiple sclerosis at Multiple Sclerosis Clinic – Royal North Shore Hospital (MSC-RNSH).
• A comparative effectiveness trial of digital mental health care models for adults with epilepsy.
• Understanding adjustment to chronic disease: who wants, needs and benefits from treatment, and when?
• Let's Talk about Sex: The development of communication tools for people living with endometriosis.

Learn more about our projects for adults.

Understanding anxiety and OCD in older adults

• Fear learning in late-life anxiety disorders: can we reduce fear and prevent it from returning?
• Understanding and treating OCD in older adults.

Treatment trials for late-life anxiety and depression

• A randomised controlled trial of tailored acceptance and commitment therapy for older people with treatment-resistant generalised anxiety disorder (CONTACT-GAD).
• Stepped care effectiveness trial for ageing adults.
• Improving mental health and social participation outcomes in older adults with depression and anxiety.
• Reducing fear of falling in older adults.
• Long-term remission and relapse after CBT for late-life anxiety and depression.
• Developing evidence-based interventions for older adults with depression and anxiety in inpatient services: A pilot trial.
• Ageing Wisely Online.
• Examining the automatic thoughts underlying loneliness in older adults.
• Social and emotional wellbeing in older adults.
• Understanding the features of social relationships that influence cognition: A longitudinal study (60 years and older).
• Changes in mechanisms underlying distress in later life: A longitudinal study (40-70 years old).

Learn more about our projects for older adults.

• The AUstralian multidomain Approach to Reduce dementia Risk by prOtecting brain health With lifestyle intervention (AU-ARROW) study.
• The Australian Dementia Network (ADNeT): Screening for trials and longitudinal research on trials ready cohort (TRC).
• ToTAL (Testosterone-Omega Three (DHA) - Amyloid Lowering) Study.
• Sydney Memory and Ageing Study 2.
• Screening and Risk Reduction for Dementia in Primary Care.
• Primary care screening tool to detect, prevent and treat mental health issues for older Australians.

• Barriers and enablers to social participation in people with mild cognitive impairment/early dementia and their supporters.
• Tailored Intervention for Reducing Falls after Stroke Trial (FAST).
• Effectiveness of very high dosage mobility boosters (Hi-Walk) in long-term community stroke rehabilitation
• From isolation to inclusion: Increasing access to social participation for older Australians with mild cognitive impairment or early dementia and their supporters.

• Cognitive decline and financial literacy.
• Do older Australians and their carers make optimal payment decisions when entering residential aged care? A survey and assessment.

• Facilitating decision making for hearing health.
• Language inclusion: supporting people with intellectual disability and their carers from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.
• Targeting mechanisms underlying loneliness in chronic conditions.
• Perspectives on social wellbeing programs: adults with dual sensory impairment and their communication partners.

• Reducing cyberbullying.
• The power of teacher-student relationships to optimise student outcomes.
• STEM-ing the gap: understanding STEM motivation and engagement among secondary school girls.

• An evidence-based systems approach to suicide prevention: guidance on planning, commissioning and monitoring – LifeSpan.
• Resilience and Mental Health in Mining.

• Improving Work Health and Safety (WHS) of in-home disability and aged care workers.
• Gender equity in MedTech.
• Menopause, Women and Work.
• Designing a Holistic Model of Advice to Improve Retirement Planning.
• PROMOTE: A Cluster-Randomised Implementation Trial to Promote Evidence Use.