Director
Ben is a veteran whose research focuses on the health and wellbeing of both veterans and serving personnel. He studies veteran self-harm and suicidality as well as institutional abuse in the ADF and DVA from a sociological and criminological perspective. Ben also studies the transition from the military to the civilian world, especially the creation of post-secondary career pathways for veterans to start their new lives. Ben advocates for early identification of veteran and family needs and the prevention of health and lifestyle issues before they become problematic. He approaches veteran and family wellbeing from a social health perspective.
Associate Professor Belinda Lange
Deputy Director
Associate Professor Belinda Lange is a physiotherapist, educator and digital health researcher, with 20-years of experience in co-design and evaluation of digital health technologies. Belinda is passionate about partnering with clinicians, consumers, and industry to build digital health capacity and explore how interactive technologies can enhance clinical practice, training, wellness. She has international experience in co-design, development, and evaluation of programs to support rehabilitation, training, and wellbeing of veterans of the United States Armed Forces. Belinda has published over 100 peer-reviewed papers and book chapters, and has led or been a co-researcher in over $5 million in funding for projects that developed and clinically evaluated virtual reality and interactive tools for healthy aging and neurological rehabilitation.
Lived Experience and Co-design Lead
Sharon has undertaken a broad range of mental health research at Flinders including in smoking cessation, chronic condition self-management, healthcare workforce, health services research, veteran transition and suicide research, coercive practices, mental health peer workforce, and consumer and family experiences within systems of healthcare.
Clinical Research Lead
Professor Nixon has been involved in the research and treatment of PTSD and it’s co-occurring problems for over 20 years. He regularly provides training and supervision in evidence-based therapies for PTSD. This has included community mental health services and victim agencies, as well as Open Arms and the Australian Defence Force. At Flinders he leads a group of psychologists and provisional psychologists who specialise in helping individuals recover from trauma. He's currently the Interim Director for the Flinders University Institute for Mental Health and Wellbeing.
Deputy Chair, National Advisory Committee for Open Arms – Veterans & Families Counselling
Board Member, Australian War Memorial
Expertise: intellectual history, history of ideas, ethics of war, geopolitical affairs
Associate Professor Amy Hamilton
Expertise: de-camouflaging the military, visual arts, arts practice-based research, painting, printmaking
Associate Professor Ann-Louise Hordacre
Expertise: project and relationship management, psychosocial, cultural, health work and industry research
Senior Research Fellow
Expertise: knowledge translation, implementation science, development and wellbeing
Associate Professor Jason Mills
Expertise: palliative care, health promotion, mental health, lived experience
Senior Research Fellow
Expertise: social determinants, implementation science, co-design, qualitative and mixed methods research
Expertise: qualitative research with emergency first responders and veterans, mental health and peer support
Expertise: clinical cognition, trauma and memory
Associate Professor Selina Tually
Expertise: housing, homelessness and community development
Expertise: archeology, conservation, anthropological research and veteran's health and wellbeing through archeology. Daryl is also a member of the Northern Territory Governments Heritage Council
Vice-President and Executive Dean, College of Education, Psychology and Social Work
Expertise: social work, sociology, transition to education, veteran higher education and veteran wellbeing
Expertise: social psychology, wellbeing of veterans, mixed methodologies
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