Associate Professor in Behavioural Health
College of Medicine and Public Health
Associate Professor Anthony Venning is a registered psychologist, and former Discipline lead of Behavioural Health (2023-2025) and Course Coordinator for the Singapore and Domestic Counselling suite of post-graduate programs (2021-2024). Associate Professor Venning leads a translational research program focused on the development, evaluation, and implementation of scalable, low-intensity and digitally enabled cognitive behavioural and behaviour-change interventions to improve mental health, wellbeing, and functional outcomes. His research is grounded in health psychology and implementation science and addresses persistent gaps in access to care through the testing of pragmatic interventions in real-world health, community, and workplace settings. Associate Professor Venning has established and sustained partnerships with health services, government, and industry to deliver practice-ready evidence that informs service design, supports sustainable models of care, and achieves measurable impact for priority populations, including improved wellbeing, engagement, and return-to-work outcomes.
Bachelor of Social Science (2004)
Bachelor of Health Sciences (2005)
Master of Psychology (Clinical) (2009)
Doctor of Philosophy (2009)
2022 Flinders CMPH Student-led Teaching Award
Funding
- Status Employment: $25,000
- Australian Unity: $119,298
- Department for Veterans Affairs: $270,040
- South Australian Mental Health Commission: $16,023
- The Road Home Foundation: $60,000
- Clevertar: $71,965
- Veterans and Veterans Families Counselling Services: $145,201
- Department for Veterans Affairs: $83,489
Chair Flinders Student Appeals Committee (alternate)
Placement coordination (Counselling programs)
My research and teaching involves four integrated lines of interest (a) accurately measuring and describing the wellbeing of individuals (health promotion), (b) how character strengths can be developed in populations deemed to be ‘at-risk’ of future psychological distress to build a sustainable state of wellbeing, (c) the benefits of a strength-based compared to a deficit approach to treating mental illness, and (d) the practice of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT).
I have been a member of the Australian Health Practitioners Regulation Agency since 2009, I was the chair of the Positive Psychology course development Advisory Group for TAFE SA , have provided consultation and expert mental health advice to a broad range of agencies (e.g., University of Malaya, South Australian Catholic Schools Association, Department for Education, The Adelaide Football Club, and YMCA Australia), and my research has featured in press atticles (Advertiser, Sydney Morning Herald), radio interviews and podcasts (ABC radio), and national television programs (Weekend Sunrise). I am also an elected member of the Holdfast Bay Council (Brighton Ward).