April

Articles

24 March 2022

PREMISE Lived Experience Partnership Grants Awarded

The Matilda Centre and PREMISE recently awarded two grants to support researchers to undertake research in partnership with the PREMISE and Matilda Youth Advisory Board (YAB), the Matilda Centre Lived Experience Research Network (LEARN), and other lived experience researchers.
24 March 2022

The 2021 Matilda Centre Awards

The 'Matilda Centre Awards' recognises outstanding achievement in activities that promoted the values and aims of the Matilda Centre in 2021.
24 March 2022

Researcher Spotlight with Dr Ewa Siedlecka

We spoke to Dr Ewa Siedlecka about her current work on the National Comorbidity Guidelines and her journey from PhD to Postdoctoral Researcher at the Matilda Centre.
29 March 2022

Introducing Learning with FASD

Researchers at the University of Sydney's Matilda Centre have launched 'Learning with FASD' to assist primary school teaching and support staff to understand and support children with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) in Australian schools.

09 August 2022

Opportunity for young LGBTQ+ people to join a Youth Advisory Committee

The Matilda Centre has a unique opportunity for gender and/or sexuality diverse (LGBTQ+) young people aged 16-20 years to join a Youth Advisory Committee to advise a PhD project.
05 August 2022

Winners announced for the Matilda Viz competition

Meet the winners of the 2022 Matilda Viz competition and learn about the visual data representations they created.
21 November 2022

Reducing alcohol-related harm in young Australians

Personality-focussed programs that provide coping skills relevant to individual personality characteristics can have a long-lasting effect and reduce alcohol-related harm into early adulthood, study finds.
23 September 2022

Positive Action: Science and psychology to support young Australians with climate distress

The Matilda Centre and Net Zero Initiative bring you "Positive Action: Science and psychology to support young Australians with climate distress" to discuss the mental health impacts of climate change, arm young people with practical coping strategies, and discover Net Zero solutions that industry can implement to bring about change.
14 December 2022

Addressing health inequities of gender and sexuality diverse youth

Leslie Peters shares their journey to starting a PhD at the Matilda Centre looking at mental health and substance use in gender and sexuality diverse (LGBTQ+) young people.
15 December 2022

PREMISE awards another two Lived Experience Partnership Grants

The Matilda Centre and PREMISE recently announced the recipients of the second round of 'Lived Experience Partnerships Grants'. The two recipients will receive funding of up to $10,000 each in 2023 to support collaboration and co-design with people with lived experience.