News & Events
- Michael Saling and Nicholas Allen have been promoted to Professor with effect from 1 January 2010.
- Professor Pip Pattison has been appointed as Pro Vice-Chancellor (Learning and Teaching). In this role she will chair the Melbourne Model Committee, which has academic oversight of the University's New Generation degrees.
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Professor Henry Jackson published the second edition of “The Recognition and Management of Early
Psychosis: A Preventive Approach” (Cambridge University Press) with Professor Patrick McGorry of the Department of Psychiatry and ORYGEN. The new edition of this popular and influential book presents a stage-specific model of the clinical and biological factors associated with risk for and development of psychotic illness, and discusses the best treatments available for each stage. The book offers practitioners and researchers concrete guidance in appropriate management strategies for treatment and prevention. - Dr Sarah Wilson has been promoted to Associate Professor and Reader with effect from 1 January 2009.
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Dr Eoin Killackey won the Schering-Plough Organon Award from the Australasian Society for Psychiatric Research in late 2008. The award is “intended for ASPR researchers whose work is beginning to make a significant impact on the national and international scene, reflecting either scientific excellence or public impact (or both) - the “rising stars” in mental health research”. Eoin is also the successful recipient of the Ronald Phillip Griffith Fellowship which is a MDHS Faculty Fellowship for research relevant to elucidation of the causes and alleviation of schizophrenia.
Congratulations to all the following staff for their success in obtaining ARC Discovery Projects research grants in 2009:
Commencing in 2010
- Prof M Olekalns; Prof PL Smith in "Currencies of Exchange: Social Utility Functions and Strategic Decisions in Negotiation" ($220,000 over three years)
- Prof Y Kashima; Dr SM Laham; Prof Nick Haslam; Prof EA Sonenberg; A/Prof F Dignum for "Implicit transmission of embodied culture" ($347,000 over three years)
- A/Prof NB Allen; Dr S Whittle; Dr MB Yap; Dr LB Sheeber; Dr DL Foley; Dr P Dudgeon; Dr AM Chanen; Prof C Pantelis in "Genes, neuroanatomy and family process: Predicting adolescent anxiety and depression" ($379,400 over four years)
- Dr RL Hester for "Neural and cognitive studies of reward sensitivity and its influence on addiction-related behaviour" ($120,000 over three years)
- Cheryl Dissanayake, Edith Bavin, Margot Prior and Evan Kidd for "Language processing in children with high functioning autism: Evidence from eye tracking" ($150,000 over 3 yrs)
Congratulations to all the following staff for their success in obtaining research grants in 2008:
Commencing in 2009
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Prof Pip Pattison; A/P Garry Robins; Dr E McBryde; A/Prof M Hellard have obtained an ARC grant of $550,000 (2009- 2012) for their project on "The structure and dynamics of social contact for human disease transmission models".
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A/Prof Mike Nicholls and Prof JL Bradshaw have obtained an ARC grant of $327,500 (2009- 2012) for their project on "Left of centre: Attentional distortions in the mental representation of space in healthy and clinical populations".
- Prof Margot Prior with colleagues have obtained an ARC grant of $334,000 (2009- 2011) for the project: "Stuttering in childhood: Patterns of recovery and persistence"
- Prof John Trinder and Amy Jordan have won an NHMRC grant for their research entitled: "The Influence of Sleep on Upper Airway Muscles"
- Dr Sarah Wilson and partners have won an NHMRC grant for their project "Clinical Presentation of Autism Spectrum Disorders in Families"
- A/P Mary Ainley has successfully obtained a $12,000 Visiting Scholar Award from the University of Melbourne. The award will be used to host an extended visit to the University of Melbourne by Professor Robert Coplan, a distinguished developmental psychologist.
- A/P John Gleeson and colleagues have won another grant from the Australian Rotary Health Research Fund. The grant is for Phase 2 of "Bibliotherapy for primary caregivers of family members with first-episode psychosis: A randomised controlled trial."
News, Outstanding Achievements, and Grants & Awards in 2008
News, Outstanding Achievements, and Grants & Awards in 2007