Dr Gareth Furber

Howdy! I received my PhD (Clinical Psychology) in 2007. I then worked in child and adolescent mental health, primarily as a researcher. My research topics included evaluation of intensive long-term parent-child psychotherapy, service benchmarking, mental health workforce estimation, and the use of technology in service delivery. Google Scholar has a pretty up-to-date list of my publications.

I left that all behind when I came to work here at Flinders University where I put my practitioner psychologist hat 🎓 back on and joined the excellent team here at Health, Counselling and Disability Services.

My first job was to set-up some digital channels through which the teams at Health, Counselling and Disability (HCD) and OASIS could communicate with the student population. That led to the revised HCD website, OASIS website, HCD newsletter and HCD blog. Digital content then opened up opportunities for giving seminars and workshops. Before I knew it, there was an actual strategy built around my position. 

Now my time is focused on writing about and teaching on the topics of mental health, wellbeing, productivity, self-care and behaviour change. I make the assumption that all of us in the Flinders community (students and staff) want to be productive, happy (whatever that term means for you) and feel like we belong. As I learn more about how people achieve those things from the psychological literature and beyond, I share that via our different communication channels.

I never thought that I wanted to teach, but it turns out it is what I like doing most :)