Staff
Associate
Professor Kaarin Anstey
BA(Hons) (Syd), PhD (Qld)
Kaarin's interests are in cognitive ageing, neuroimaging,
depression and wellbeing, driving, predictors of longevity. and longitudinal
methods. Kaarin is Director of the Ageing
Research Unit.
T.
+61-2-6125 8410 E.
Kaarin.Anstey@anu.edu.au
Lisa Barney
BAppPsych(Hons) (UC)
Lisa is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Depression & Anxiety Consumer Research Unit.
Lisa’s research interests include using qualitative and quantitative methodology to investigate
the use of online support for depression, stigma about depression and help-seeking, and the
development and evaluation of interventions to reduce stigma."
T. +61 2 6125 1029 E. Lisa.Barney@anu.edu.au
Lauren Bartsch
BPsych (Hons)(SCU)
Lauren is a Research Assistant within the Ageing Research Unit. She is currently working on the Dynamic Analyses to Optimize Ageing (DYNOPTA) project.
T.
+61-2-6125 1610 E.
Lauren.Bartsch@anu.edu.au
Phil Batterham
BSc (Psych)(Hons) (UNSW), MPH (UCLA)
Phil is a Research Assistant currently working in the areas of cognitive ageing, online interventions for depression and anxiety, and consumer perceptions of depression treatments.
T.
+61-2-6125 1031 E.
Phil.Batterham@anu.edu.au
Anthony Bennett
BAppSc (RMIT)
Anthony is the IT manager of
e-hub's e-prevention project. He also provides IT support for other
e-hub projects, including BluePages.
T. +61-2-6125 9721 E.
Anthony.Bennett@anu.edu.au
Kylie Bennett
BSc, BA(Hons) (ANU)
Kylie is the e-hub Development Manager, and undertakes project development and management within
the Centre's e-mental health and consumer informatics research program.
T. +61-2-6125 8405 E.
Kylie.Bennett@anu.edu.au
David Berriman
BSc (ANU)
David is a Programmer on the e-hub project.
T. +61-2-6125 2428 E. David.Berriman@anu.edu.au
Nicole Burgess
BSc(Hons) (USQ)
Nicole is a trial manager for a collaborative
project with Lifeline Australia. Nicole is located at the Lifeline Community
Care Queensland office.
T: +61-7-3250 1914 E:Nicole.Burgess@anu.edu.au
Richard Burns
(B.Mus, B.Arts, P.G.D.E., M.Sc.)
Having come to the centre with a diverse background in music, education and counselling, Richard primarily works on the DYNOPTA project for Assoc. Prof. Anstey, as well as other projects within the Ageing Research Unit. Richard is currently completing his PhD (USQ) which he hopes will challenge established models of well-being within organisational and life-events paradigms, and has recently co-authored his first textbook.
T.
+61-2-6125 1456 E.
Richard.Burns@anu.edu.au
Dr Janie Busby Grant
B.Sc (UQ) PhD (UQ)
Janie is a Postdoctoral Researcher with an interest in cognitive psychology, neuropsychology and statistical research techniques.
T. +61-2-6125 0542 E. Janie.BusbyGrant@anu.edu.au
Dr Peter Butterworth
PhD (UQ)
Peter's research interests are in the areas of social
exclusion, employment, receipt of welfare and mental health. He works
on a number of projects collaboratively with the Commonwealth Department
of Family Services. Peter's research interests also include memory and
cognition, particularly the interactions between episodic, implicit
and semantic memory.
T. +61-2-6125 8097 E.
Peter.Butterworth@anu.edu.au
Dr Nicolas Cherbuin
BA(Hons) (UNSW/ANU), PhD (ANU)
Nicolas is a postdoctoral research fellow working in a collaborative
research project between Alzheimer Australia Research and the Centre.
His research interests are in cognitive ageing, mild cognitive impairment
and dementia. Nicolas is particularly interested in relating health
and environmental factors to structural brain changes detected in the
ageing process and their behavioural and cognitive consequences. He
is also interested in functional and anatomical cerebral lateralisation
and handedness.
T. +61-2-6125 3858
E. Nicolas.Cherbuin@anu.edu.au
Prof Helen Christensen - Director
BA(Hons) (Syd), MPsych, PhD
(NSW), FASSA
Helen's research interests
are cognitive changes in normal ageing and dementia, individual differences
in intelligence, the epidemiology of the common mental disorders, methods
to analyze longitudinal data, mental health literacy and the use of
the Internet in the prevention of mental disorders.
T. +61-2-6125
8409 E. Helen.Christensen@anu.edu.au
Gaea Cornelius
B.Asian Studies (UNE)
Gaea is the Centre Administrator.
T. +61-2-6125
2741 E. Gaea.Cornelius@anu.edu.au
Dimity Crisp
M.Sc. Research (UC)
Dimity works on the Beyond Ageing and Wellbeing projects.
T. +61-2-6125
1033 E. Dimity.Crisp@anu.edu.au
Amy Dawel
BA Psych
Amy is a research assistant in the Ageing Research Unit within the Centre. She is working on a project investigating cognitive ageing and its effect on hazard perception in older drivers.
T. +61-2-6125
9724 E. Amy.Dawel@anu.edu.au
Assoc Prof Kathy Griffiths
BSc(Hons), PhD (ANU)
Kathy's research interests include e-mental health
(including the development and evaluation of Internet interventions
and the development and validation of website quality indicators), self
help and help seeking for mental disorders, stigma, mental health literacy
and mental health promotion and prevention. Kathy is an Associate Professor
and Director of the Depression & Anxiety
Consumer Research Unit.
T. +61-2-6125 9723 E. Kathy.Griffiths@anu.edu.au
Fiona Hurley
Fiona is a Project Officer for the Centre.
T. +61-2-6125 1450 E. Fiona.Hurley@anu.edu.au
Trish Jacomb
BSc(Hons) (Syd), MSc (ANU)
Trish's research interests relate to methodological aspects of survey
research including the use of computer-assisted interviewing, response
and refusals. She is a key person in the PATH project. She deals with
software and hardware maintenance and is the data manager for the project.
T. +61-2-6125 8408 E.
Patricia.Jacomb@anu.edu.au
Kim Kiely
B.Lib (Hons) (Syd)
Kim is a Research Assistant working on the ‘Dynamic Analyses to Optimise Ageing’ (DYNOPTA) Project. His general research interests lie within the areas of cognition and cognitive neuro-psychology; including memory, attention, perception, problem solving, cognitive development through the lifespan, assessment and impairment. Since beginning work on DYNOPTA, he has also developed an interest in longitudinal research methods.
T.
+61-2-6125 7884 E.
Kim.Kiely@anu.edu.au
Dr Elspeth Macdonald
BOccThy (UQ), PhD (LaTrobe)
Elspeth's research interests include consumer and practitioner participation
in research, recovery and mental health promotion and prevention, subjective
experiences of mental health problems, and coping and social support.
Elspeth is currently involved in the What Works for Us online depression
survey.
T. +61-2-6125 8412 E.
Elspeth.Macdonald@anu.edu.au
Dr Holly Mack
BS, PhD (Penn State)
Holly is a postdoctoral fellow at the Dementia Collaborative Research Centres (ANU Medical School) and collaborates with researchers at CMHR (where her office is located). Her research interests include individual differences in adult development and ageing with emphasis on cognition, dementia risk factors, the genetics of aging and functional capacity. She is also interested in longitudinal and developmental methods, genetic epidemiology, and the application of quantitative genetic models in the study of complex traits related to ageing and health.
T. +61-2-6125 8967 E.
Holly.Mack@anu.edu.au
Karen Maxwell
Karen Maxwell is the survey manager for a number of our ongoing surveys
including the Canberra Interview for the Elderly, the Stress and Well
Being Study and the PATH Through Life Project. Karen also is the contract
person for the PAS, and administrates the paperwork for part-time interviewers.
T. +61 2 6125 8417, +61 2 6125 2741 E.
Karen.Maxwell@anu.edu.au
Dr Chantal Meslin
Dr Chantal Réglade-Meslin is a Neurologist.She provides medical examination and cognitive assessment to the participants in the Path Through Life Project. She also does manual segmentation of brain areas on the MRI scanners.
T. +61 2 6125 9225
E. Chantal.Meslin@anu.edu.au
Mark Petricevic
B.Psych (ANU), Grad Dip Applied Psych (UC)
Mark is a Research Assistant within the Ageing Research Unit.
T. +61 2 6125 1456 E. Mark.Petricevic@anu.edu.au
Dr Lesley Ross-Meadows
BA (University Honors), MEd., MA, PhD.
Lesley’s training and interests are cognitive aging, interventions to maintain cognitive and everyday functioning, driving, and longitudinal research analysis and methods. She has worked on projects such as: ACTIVE (Advanced Cognitive Training for Independent and Vital Elderly), SKILL (Staying Keen in Later Life), PACES (Physical And Cognitive Exercise Study) and the Maryland Motor Vehicles Administration Project for Safety and Mobility Assessment in Older Adults. Lesley has joined us from the University of Alabama at Birmingham and is excited to now be working on DYNOPTA (Dynamic Analyses to Optimize Ageing).
T. +61 2 6125 0713 E. Lesley.Ross@anu.edu.au
Dr Agus Salim
BSc (Hons) (Bogor, Indonesia); PhD (Cork, Ireland)
Agus is an NHMRC research fellow currently working on improving methodology
for handling dropouts in longitudinal mental health studies. His interest
includes design issues in health-related studies, receiver operating
characteristic (ROC) curve methodology, misclassification and measurement
error
in community studies and multilevel modeling in mental health research.
T. +61-2-6125 2741 E.
Agus.Salim@anu.edu.au
Jola Samoc
BPsych (Hons) (ANU)
Jola is a Project Officer for the e-hub group, and helps undertake web development for the MoodGYM and e-couch web programs.
T. +61-2-6125 3479 E.
Jolanta.Samoc@anu.edu.au
Ada Tam
BSc(Hons) (UNSW), Grad Dip Sci Comm (ANU)
Ada is the Web Content Research Assistant for the e-hub web programs. Ada is particularly involved in preparing content for the BluePages Depression Information website.
T.
+61-2-6125 9724 E.
Ada.Tam@anu.edu.au
Dr Janine Walker
BA(Hons), MA (Melb), PhD (Melb)
Janine is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Anxiety & Depression
Consumer Research Unit, and a clinical psychologist who submitted her
PhD thesis that examined the adjustment process in young women to rheumatic
conditions. Janine's research interests include: psychosocial aspects
of chronic illness: the impact of stigma on individuals with physical
medical conditions; bio-psychosocial investigations of the stress response
system; the definition and measurement of disability; and, the measurement
of outcomes in mental health research.
T. +61 2 6125 3079 E.
Janine.Walker@anu.edu.au
Jenni Wilks
Jenni is the Executive Officer for the Centre and is responsible for
all administrative and financial operations.
T. +61-2-6125 9705 E. Jenni.Wilks@anu.edu.au
Dr Tim Windsor
BA(Hons) (UNE), PhD (UNE)
Tim is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Ageing Research Unit.
His research interests include social cognitive development throughout
the life course, relationships between substance use and health, driving
cessation among older adults and casual attribution theory.
T. +61-2-6125 8407 E.
Tim.Windsor@anu.edu.au
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