Our Projects

• Live4Life – Community level prevention models within schools and whole of community (Funded from Special Initiative in Mental Health Funds for ALIVE National NHMRC GNT2002047)
• A Part of the Crowd (Funded by Medibank Better Health Research Hub)
• A Citizen Science Project to co-create ‘BigaagARri’ a Preventive Experiential, Arts, Cultural Evidence (PEACE) model for implementing at-scale in primary care and community (Funded by 2021 MRFF Consumer-Led Research (Stream 2))
• The Long Conversation (TLC) – the who what where and how of lived-experience researchers (Funded from Special Initiative in Mental Health Funds for ALIVE National NHMRC GNT2002047)
• Co-designed Roadmap for Mental Health Research Translation: implementation and impact evaluation (Funded from Special Initiative in Mental Health Funds for ALIVE National NHMRC GNT2002047)
• Whose Care? Our Care! A multi-level collective strategy to address structural inequalities in new models of care with priority populations (Funded by Million Minds Mission Mental Health Targeted Research Grant as part of the Medical Research Future Fund (2024-2029))

• Cardiovascular Risk Estimation for people with severe mental ill-health (Funded from Special Initiative in Mental Health Funds for ALIVE National NHMRC GNT2002047) – COMPLETED
• The impacts of COVID-19 Vaccinations (Funded from Special Initiative in Mental Health Funds for ALIVE National NHMRC GNT2002047) – COMPLETED
• Understanding personal recovery among individuals with gambling harm and co-occurring issues and their families and friends in the Northern Territory (funded by Northern Territory Government, Community Benefit Fund Gambling Research Grant – LNT2022/1921-0001) – COMPLETED
• Medicare Mental Health Centres Implementation Co-Evaluation (service-research co-partnership, Funded by Neami National) – COMPLETED
• Monash Health Co-Design of Southern Melbourne’s Child and Family Local (funded by Monash Health) – COMPLETED

• Project CODE: Harnessing a CO-production approach to build a framework for the Design and delivery of Early psychosis functional recovery groups (Alyssa Milton, University of Sydney)
• Co-developing an intervention to build the capacity of mental health peer-workers to provide support for chronic disease risk behaviours (Caitlin Fehily, University of Newcastle)
• On the right foot: Co-designing a brief mental health literacy and stigma reduction educational program for mass-media journalists (Amelia Gulliver, Australian National University)
• We live in our own world: Exploring and prioritising the experiences and care needs of young people who support a sibling with mental illness (Alyssa Morse, Australian National University)
• Secondary and Vicarious Trauma: Support for Lived-Experience Early Career Researchers (Renee Fiolet, Deakin University)
• Towards Better Access and Equity in Digital Mental Health: Understanding and Addressing the Impacts of Health Literacy in Treatment (Alana Fisher, Macquarie University)
• Co-Design in Preventative Mental Health Interventions for Youth: A Realist Review and Participant Co-Inquiry Study (Lakshmi Neelakantan, University of Melbourne)
• Understanding the Family/Carer Lived-Experience Workforce in the Queensland Mental Health System (Katherine Reid, Griffith University)

View the Research Showcase here.

• Co-Creating Safe Spaces (Michelle Banfield, Alyssa Morse, Amelia Gulliver, Heather Lamb, ANU)
• ACACIA: The ACT Consumer and Carer Mental Health Research Unit (Michelle Banfield, ANU)
• A mental health literacy program for teachers and schools: Evaluating the feasibility and effectiveness of Decode Mental Health & Wellbeing (Simone Darling, MCRI)
• The Childhood Adversity and Lifetime Morbidity (MUSP-CALM) study: A 40-year study of child maltreatment over the early life course predicting psychiatric morbidity, using linked birth cohort and administrative health data (Steve Kisely, UQ)
• Colorectal cancer Outcomes in people with Severe Mental Illness Cohort (COSMIC): An Australian retrospective cohort using linked administrative data (Steve Kisely, Claudia Bull, UQ)
• An exploration of variations in community treatment orders across Australia (FACTORS) (Lisa Brophy, La Trobe University)
• Mental health experiences in the Emergency Department: A systematic mixed studies review (Claudia Bull, Steve Kisely, UQ)
• Understanding the oral health of Queenslanders with mental illness: A population-based linked administrative data project (Steve Kisely, Claudia Bull, UQ)
• A pilot implementation study of a co-design model for end-to-end research design to translation in Addictions and Mental Health Services (2023 Metro South Health Research Support Scheme – Co-Funded Collaboration Grants)
• Mapping Youth Sleep, LifestylE, and Emotions Project (MYSLEEP): combining lived experience, community partnerships and research to improve models of and interventions for sleep health in youth depression and anxiety during the transition out of secondary school (Monika Raniti, UoM and MCRI, funded by the Wellcome Trust Mental Health Award 2024-2029)
• The Intergenerational Childhood Adversity and Lifetime Morbidity (I-CALM) study (Claudia Bull, UQ)