2022
Articles
15 December 2022
2022: another successful year for PREMISE
2022 has been another successful year for PREMISE, with support schemes awarded and valuable opportunities for collaboration across institutions. Our Youth Advisory Board, Consumer Research Group, early- and mid-career researchers, and PhD students all had outstanding achievements.
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.
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.
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.
14 October 2022
Young people and experts share 'positive actions' they take to manage feelings of climate distress
On Tuesday 11 October, the Matilda Centre and Net Zero Initiative hosted an online panel discussion 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.
04 October 2022
MDMA and mood: starting the PhD journey
We sat down with PhD student, Zachary Bryant, to chat about his research in understanding the relationship between MDMA (ecstasy), mental health, and addiction; and the implications for novel psychedelic treatments. Zac also shares some of the items in his 'mental health and well being toolkit' and his love of football.
04 October 2022
Digital intervention engagement: reducing chronic disease risk and improving mental health
We spoke to research fellow Dr Louise Thornton, program lead in digital interventions and engagement at the Matilda Centre about her switch from opera singing to research, generating ideas, and addressing the low adoption and adherence of digital health interventions.
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.
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.