In 2013, Ali graduated with first class Honours in Psychology at Victoria University. His fourth year thesis investigated sleep and mood factors as predictors of insomnia and the effects of sleep disturbance on cognitive performance in adults. As further evidence of the quality of Ali’s Honours research project, he successfully converted the thesis into a high quality conference publication at the Australasian Chronobiology Society Conference.
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After completing her 4th year Psychology thesis in 2006 on the effect of resilience and hope on adolescent academic engagement, Mandy Gibson worked with the Department of Communities Qld, and Child and Youth Mental Health Services (Qld Health). Mandy has over a decade of clinical experience as a Psychologist providing suicide risk assessments to young people following near lethal attempts and treatment to young people experiencing suicidality, complex trauma, self-harm and other mental health issues.
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I have been studying and working in disciplines, pathology, biotechnology and scientific research for 10 years. I find these areas interesting because of their broad range of techniques, applications and outcomes to the community, health and science.
I am a country Australian and have travelled to study/work in Wagga Wagga, Canberra and Sydney. I wish to use my knowledge, qualifications and skills to provide an understanding of disease pathology and biology, specifically in the neurodegenerative disease, motor neuron disease. I believe that understanding disease pathology is vital to improve patient/clinician/carer support and care by determining diagnostic and prognostic techniques.
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Laura is currently managing the evaluation of the National Suicide Prevention Trial in Tasmania and has research interests working alongside people in regional and rural areas, including people with lived experience of mental illness and suicide, youth, and children. Laura has worked in research and project roles in government departments across Australia, including the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse and the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare.
Laura has studied psychology, philosophy, and public health, and has interests in the use of mixed-methods and action research approaches to inform research questions, policy decisions, and program evaluations.
I am a first-generation Vietnamese-Australian PhD Student studying at the University of Sydney. I am passionate about contributing to scientific and medical research, which also allows my analytical and creative side to prosper. Currently, I am in the Bosch Young Investigators Committee, which is a postgraduate student-run committee to manage events for other postgraduate research students, from academia-related such as conferences to social.
I am also a member of the Australasian Society for Stem Cell Research with other academics who specialise in stem-cell research. On the side, I love playing piano, video games, dodgeball and producing digital art.
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Dr Erin Kelly is a Clinical Psychologist at The Matilda Centre, University of Sydney. She completed her PhD at the University of New South Wales, for which she was awarded the Australian Rotary Health and the Alliance for the Prevention of Mental Disorders for Research Excellence Award, PhD Researcher Award (2018). Her research interest is prevention and early intervention for substance use and mental disorders, with a particular focus on adolescents.
She is the lead trainer of the Preventure program in Australia, a personality-focused brief intervention for preventing substance use and mental disorders in adolescents.
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