The RID Trial Team
Investigators
Project Staff
Kylie Bennett, Anthony Bennett, Andrew Saunders, Sheryll Malthus, Karen Knightbridge, Tamara Dixon, Heather Yates, Nandika Currey and Megan Fidler have all contributed to the project to date.Dr Shyamala Nada-Raja
Dr Shyamala Nada-Raja is a Senior Research Fellow and Principal Investigator for RID and is based in the the Department of Preventive and Social Medicine. She has overall scientific and administrative responsibility for all aspects of this project. She leads the study with respect to its initiation, organisation and direction, including study design, data collection, analyses, preparation of scientific papers and reports, and dissemination of findings. Shyamala’s expertise and scientific publications are in the areas of youth mental health, self-harm, and violence via longitudinal studies she leads in these areas of research. She is also developing her research expertise in positive psychology via these studies.
Professor Rob McGee
Professor Rob McGee is based in the Department of Preventive and Social Medicine and is a co-investigator for RID. His expertise is in youth mental health and health promotion and he has published extensively and leads studies in these areas.
Emeritus Professor John Langley
Emeritus Professor John Langley is based at the Injury Prevention Research Unit in the Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, and is a co-investigator for RID (funded from 2006 - 2010). His expertise is in injury control and he has published extensively and leads studies in this area.
Dr Dannette Marie
Dr Dannette Marie is a Teaching Fellow based at the School of Psychology, University of Aberdeen. She is a founding member of Te Runanga o Nga Maata Waka’s Research Advisory Board and is a co-investigator for RID (funded from 2006 - 2009). Her expertise is in theoretical psychology and abnormal psychology and she continues to publish and lead studies in these areas.
Professor Helen Christensen
Professor Helen Christensen is the new Executive Director (from 2012) of the Black Dog Institute in Sydney, Australia, and is a co-investigator for RID. Prior to 2012 she was the Director of the Centre for Mental Health Research at the Australian National University in Canberra. She and her colleagues developed and conducted the first randomised controlled study on delivering online self-help therapies for depression in Australasia. Her expertise is in mental health and e-mental health and she is internationally renowned for her extensive record of publications and as lead investigator for studies in these areas.
Professor Andrew Mackinnon
Professor Andrew Mackinnon is a Professorial Fellow at the Centre for Youth Mental Health at the University of Melbourne, heads the Statistics Unit at the Orygen Youth Health Research Centre, and is a co-investigator for RID. His expertise is methodology and biostatistics. He has published extensively and leads studies and trials on anxiety, depression and cognitive change as well as the analysis of trials and longitudinal data using structural equation modelling and mixed models.
Project staff
Karen Knightbridge, Tamara Dixon, Heather Yates, Nandika Currey and Megan Fidler have all contributed to the project to date in their role as Assistant Research Fellows. They came to the project trained in the disciplines of marketing, sociology, psychology and zoology. Since working on the RID trial, two project staff members enrolled for a diploma in public health to facilitate their training in this area and have now successfully completed their courses. One project staff member has extended her doctoral research to examine the usability of national depression websites via five different methods and will compare a community sample's responses with those of a student sample. This research will complement the work we are involved in for this trial.
We are very grateful to Kylie Bennett and Anthony Bennett from the Centre for Mental Health Research at the Australian National University for developing and managing the information technology systems that are used to deliver the online assessments to trial participants for the duration of the trial.
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