Our research
Our research focus
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Addiction is a major community problem which impacts many Australians both personally and professionally.
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Body image is a widespread preoccupation, leading to the potential for a significant increase in negative body image.
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Our study of the criminal justice system focuses on three areas; law enforcement, corrections, and the courts system.
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Through social-emotional development, we research the origins of mental health and disorder, within and across generations.
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Addresses the three key areas of neurodevelopmental disorders – conceptualisation, diagnostics, and practice.
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Pregnancy and the postpartum focusing on gestational weight gain, and maternal and paternal psychosocial health and wellbeing.
Research centres and studies
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Promoting emotional health, from pregnancy through to adulthood and into the next generation.
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Striving to provide the latest understandings in social, cognitive and affective human neuroscience.
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Multidisciplinary research with a focus on understanding neurodevelopment from the early years of childhood through to adolescence.
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Preventing and reducing harm from alcohol and other drug use, and addictive and anti-social behaviours
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Ongoing research on evidence-based measures for quality of life.
Useful links
Lab bookings – book one of our cognitive neuropsychology labs for testing.