Mental Illness Grants Awarded for 2012

A high volume of Grants were awarded over the years for interesting and significant areas of research.  In 2012 Grants totalled $975,000. These included 16 Mental Health Research Grants, 7 Ian Scott PhD Scholarships and 1 Postdoctoral Fellowship.

2011

MENTAL HEALTH RESEARCH GRANTS – $705,649 

Associate Professor Eoin Killackey

Co Investigators: Professor Henry Jackson & Dr Sue Cotton

Orygen Research Centre/University of Melbourne, Vic

Amount Awarded: $15,885
Vocational recovery in young people with first episode psychosis: A randomised controlled intervention trial examining vocational, health, economic and social outcomes

 

Professor Frank Deane          

Co Investigators: Dr Angela White & Dr Trevor Crowe

University of Wollongong, NSW

Amount Awarded: $14,521  

Family Connections: A randomised controlled trial of correspondence-based support for families of individuals recently diagnosed with psychosis

   
Dr Pamela Marsh
Co Investigators: Dr Robyn Langdon & Professor Max Coltheart
Macquarie University, NSW
Amount Awarded: $43,617
Remediation of mental-state reasoning and emotion recognition in schizophrenia: Theoretical and clinical implications
 

Dr Eugen Mattes
Co Investigators: Professor Martha Hickey, Professor Ian McKeague, Professor Michael Sawyer & Professor Ezra Susser

University of Western Australia
Amount Awarded: $40,359
Prenatal androgen exposure and its influence on mental health in children and adolescents

Dr Christopher Lee

Co Investigators: Professor Peter Drummond, Professor Arnoud Arntz & Assistant Professor Joan Farrell
Murdoch University, WA
Amount Awarded: $60,430
Multi-site randomised controlled trial of group schema therapy for borderline personality disorder
 
Professor Ron Rapee
Co Investigators: none
Macquarie University, NSW 
Amount Awarded: “in-kind”
Preventing anxiety and depression across childhood
 
Co Investigators: Mr William Gye & Dr Marie Antoinette Redoblado Hodge
University of Sydney, NSW
Amount Awarded: $64,629
Does cognitive remediation improve employment prospects for people with a mental illness returning to work?
 
Professor Jeannette Milgrom
Co Investigator: Dr Charlene Schembri
Austin Health, Vic
Amount Awarded: $66,369
Help-seeking for postnatal depression as a major public health problem: A Cluster Randomised Controlled Trial of Motivational Interviewing
 
Co Investigators: Dr James Bennett-Levy, Professor David Kavanagh & Dr Cameron Hurst
University of Queensland, Qld
Amount Awarded: $69,947
A randomised trial of low intensity intervention model within a university health service to improve the mental health of students
 
University of Wollongong, NSW
Co Investigators: Dr Frances Kay-Lambkin, Professor Amanda Baker & Professor Frank Deane
Amount Awarded: $52,029
Improving co-morbidity treatment within residential substance abuse: A randomised trial of a computer-based depression and substance abuse intervention
 
National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre/University of New South Wales, NSW
Co Investigators: Professor Jackob Najman, Associate Professor Kypros Kypri, Dr Tim Slade, Dr Laura Vogl, Dr Delyse Hutchinson, Dr Raimondo Bruno and Monika Wadolowski
Amount Awarded: $68,059
Young people, drinking and the parental supply of alcohol: a longitudinal cohort study
 
University of Melbourne, Vic
Co Investigators: Professor Tony Jorm & Associate Professor Eoin Killackey
Amount Awarded: $55,000
Guidelines for tertiary education institutions on how to support students with mental health problems
 
Centre for Rural and Remote Mental Health, University of Newcastle, NSW
Co Investigators: Dr Leanne Hides, Dr Christopher Jackson, Professor Rhoshel Lenroot, Dr Georgie Paulik, Professor Amanda Baker & Professor Patrick McElduff
Amount Awarded: $63,784
Improving social engagement of rural ‘at risk’ youth: A randomised effectiveness trial of a telephone delivered Cognitive and Dialectical Behaviour Therapy intervention
 
Dr Kristin Laurens
University of New South Wales, NSW
Co Investigator: Dr Melissa Green
Amount Awarded: $68,377
Identifying targets and timing for early intervention: A NSW population record-linkage study to detect childhood indicators of risk for mental illness 

A/Professor Jenny Bowman
Co Investigators: A/Professor Amanda Baker, A/Professor John Wiggers & Professor Vaughan Carr
University of Newcastle, NSW
Amount Awarded: $23,300
Integrated smoking care linking mental health inpatients to community services: A randomised controlled trial


 

POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS - $75,000 


Colin Dodds Post Doctoral Fellowship

Telethon Institute for Child Health Research/University of Western Australia, WA
Amount Awarded $75,000
Early life influences on child and adolescent mental health problems: A life-course approach to prevention and intervention