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Our aim
The Centre for Social and Early Emotional Development (SEED) conducts world-leading research on social development and its origins in early emotional life. We bring together life course, clinical and public health research and practice to describe the major milestones in emotional life, advise on the most effective approaches to intervening at the earliest opportunities in troubled pathways, and engage systems for translating this knowledge broadly.
SEED hosts specialist research centres and programs in Wellbeing, Attachment, Addiction and Neurodevelopmental Disorders.
Our research
Lifecourse Sciences
What matters?
Understanding the developmental origins of mental health and disorder
Intervention Sciences
What works?
Designing interventions to promote emotional security and social connection
Neurosciences
What embeds?
Understanding the developing social brain
Wellbeing
Preventing mental disorder and promoting wellbeing in the general population
Loss and recovery
Preventing mental disorder and promoting wellbeing in high risk populations
Mental health care
Preventing mental disorder & promoting wellbeing in clinical populations
Data Sciences
Bringing science and art together to make data accessible
Systematic review hub
Synthesising the global evidence on effective mental health promotion interventions
CEDAAR
Monitoring and preventing drug use and violence in young people
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Join our research team
To become a SEED research student you need to have a clear vision of what you want to investigate. This could be the origins of social and emotional health, emotional regulation in children, or understanding positive youth development.
In just a few steps you could be finding new and better ways to deliver preventative intervention or promoting a secure start to emotional life for all children.
Contact us
Centre for Social and Early Emotional Development (SEED)
Email Paula De’Ath
Deakin University
221 Burwood Highway
Burwood VIC 3125
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