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Flinders University Institute for Mental Health and Wellbeing

We are improving mental health and wellbeing

Inspired by the strength and resilience of those with lived experience, we bring together world leading researchers, service providers and communities to develop evidence-based solutions that create meaningful change.

We invest in our people and work collaboratively to achieve our vision of mentally healthy and resilient communities.

We partner with people and organisations that share our vision of improving mental health and wellbeing.

Who we are

We are a multi-disciplinary research institute improving mental health and wellbeing.

We bring together world leading researchers across psychology, social science, public health and education. Partnering with service providers, we develop mental health and wellbeing solutions for our communities.

Our research themes encompass:

  • Enhancing resilience in children and young people
  • Interventions for disordered eating
  • Increasing resilience and reducing the impact of trauma across the lifespan
  • Achieving wellbeing through sport and physical activity
  • Improving the health and wellbeing of older people

Taking a whole-of-person approach across the lifespan, we incorporate research from educational and preventative science, to service delivery models and experience in health systems.

Learn more about our research

Partner with us

We are hiring. Join our Institute. 

The Flinders University Institute for Mental Health and Wellbeing are looking for a Little Heroes Professor of Child and Adolescent Mental Health to join our team. This person will be responsible for leading a research program in child and youth mental health across prevention, early intervention, and treatment. 

  • This position will be offered as a 5-year fixed-term contract initially and will be converted to continuing
  • Academic Level E
  • Location: Bedford Park
  • Applications close on 18 October, 2023

Apply now or learn more

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Our researchers

Institute members
  • Professor Tracey Wade, Institute Director
  • Associate Professor Sarah Cohen-Woods
  • Professor Eva Kemps
  • Professor Ben Wadham
  • Professor Reg Nixon
  • Dr Monica Cations
  • Associate Professor Lydia Woodyatt
  • Associate Professor Lisa Beatty
  • Professor Phillip Slee
  • Dr Kate Ridley
  • Professor Murray Drummond
  • Associate Professor Sam Elliott
  • Associate Professor Deb Agnew
  • Dr Ryan Balzan
  • Associate Professor Kerry Bissaker
  • Dr Laura Edney
  • Associate Professor Lorna Hallahan
  • Dr Catherine Johnson
  • Associate Professor Daniel King
  • Associate Professor Helen McLaren
  • Associate Professor Jessica Paterson
  • Professor Marika Tiggemann
  • Dr Simon Wilksch
  • Dr Julie McMillan
  • Dr Mia Pellizzer
  • Associate Professor Shane Pill
  • Professor Damien Riggs
  • Dr Grace Skrzypiec
  • Professor Melanie Takarangi
  • Dr Mirella Wyra
  • Associate Professor Tim Windsor
  • Dr Stephanie Wong
  • Professor Robyn Young

Our research initiatives

Blackbird

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Effective research to combat disordered eating
 

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Open Door

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Understanding and supporting service personel and their families

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Generations

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Research to promote late-life health and wellbeing
 

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A focus on both mental health and wellbeing makes us different

Hear from Director Professor Tracey Wade about how the Flinders University Institute for Mental Health and Wellbeing is making a difference. 

Professor Phillip Slee and Associate Professor Shane Pill also discuss how the Big Talks for Little People program is helping in the early prevention and detection of mental health and wellbeing issues in young people, and will soon be incorporated into sport and physical education settings. This initiative has been created in partnership with the Breakthrough Mental Health Research Foundation and the Little Heroes Foundation

Big Talks for Little People case study

How you can support us

Our research helps people get the best out of life. With 44% of Australians experiencing mental illness during their lifetime, our work has never been more important. 

Your donation will fund impactful research that revolutionises how we understand, address and prevent mental illness and promote wellbeing – across the life span.

Join us in our mission to foster mentally healthy and resilient communities.

Donations of $2 or more are tax deductible.

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     Sport, Health, Activity, Performance and Exercise Research Centre  Social Work Innovation Research Living Space  Blackbird Initiative to combat disordered eating  Veteran transition, integration and wellbeing

Acknowledgement of Country

Flinders University was established on the lands of the Kaurna nation, with the first University campus, Bedford Park, located on the ancestral body of Ngannu near Warriparinga. Warriparinga is a significant site in the complex and multi-layered Dreaming of the Kaurna ancestor, Tjilbruke. For the Kaurna nation, Tjilbruke was a keeper of the fire and a peace maker/law maker. Tjilbruke is part of the living culture and traditions of the Kaurna people. His spirit lives in the Land and Waters, in the Kaurna people and in the glossy ibis (known as Tjilbruke for the Kaurna). Through Tjilbruke, the Kaurna people continue their creative relationship with their Country, its spirituality and its stories.

Flinders University acknowledges the Traditional Owners and Custodians, both past and present, of the various locations the University operates on, and recognises their continued relationship and responsibility to these Lands and waters.

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