2016 SMHR ECR Project Grant Award Winners
The Society for Mental Health Research is proud to announce the winners of the 2016 ECR Project Grants:
Research Only:
Dr Trevor Chong - Costs and Benefits: Defining the neurobiology of apathy in Parkinson's disease
Dr Janette Tong - Advancing biomarker discovery in Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Dr Gregory Armstrong - Preventing suicide in India by improving media reporting of suicides.
Dr Timothy Schofield - The effects of media portrayals on stigmatizing stereotypes and mental health
Dr Tamsyn Van Rheenen - Characterising cross--‐diagnostic cognitive subgroups in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder
Dr Gabrielle Campbell - Suicide and chronic pain in Australia: a retrospective mortality study.
Dr Michelle Tye - Exploring early pathways to mental illness and related harms: An implementation feasibility and acceptability study
Dr Yann Quide - Impact of childhood trauma exposure on inflammatory and stress responses among affective and non-affective psychotic disorders
Dr Liana Leach- Identifying the psychosocial conditions of ‘work at home’ caring for an infant? What are the potential links with postnatal depression and anxiety?
Dr Louise Farrer - Keep it clever? Keep it healthy! Piloting a new method to treat mental health problems in young people at university
Dr Magenta Simmons - Development of a theoretically and empirically driven framework for peer work in youth mental health.
Dr Deborah Mitchison - Prevalence of Eating and Body Image Disorders in Adolescent Australians: Toward Diagnostic Reform
Clinical/Academic:
Dr Tracy Burrows - A personality based intervention for treatment of addicitve eating behaviours
Dr Heather Francis - Diet, inflammation and mood: An intervention study and a causal analysis of physiological mechanisms
Dr Shuichi Suetani - A comparison study of three physical activity measurement tools examining acceptability in people with psychotic disorders
Dr Oliver Schubert - Genomic and Proteomic validation of a gene expression module associated with poor response to lithium in Bipolar Affective Disorder