A5089725461- Disaster Response and Management
- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research
- Resilience and Mental Health
- Disaster Management and Resilience
- Innovative Teaching and Learning Methods
- Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
- EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning
- Complex Network Analysis Techniques
- Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence
- Migration, Health and Trauma
- Community Health and Development
- Social Capital and Networks
- COVID-19 epidemiological studies
- Multilingual Education and Policy
- Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior
- Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
- scientometrics and bibliometrics research
- Social Representations and Identity
- Aviation Industry Analysis and Trends
- Gait Recognition and Analysis
- Long-Term Effects of COVID-19
- Facial Nerve Paralysis Treatment and Research
- Health Policy Implementation Science
- Innovation and Knowledge Management
The University of Sydney
2016-2025
Royal Prince Alfred Hospital
2025
Sydney Local Health District
2025
Swinburne University of Technology
2016-2024
Melbourne Health
2024
The University of Melbourne
2014-2024
Flinders University
2016
UNSW Sydney
2016
University of Nottingham
2012
We aimed to map the prevalence and predictors of psychological outcomes in affected communities 3-4 years after Black Saturday bushfires state Victoria, Australia.Baseline assessment a longitudinal cohort study high-, medium-, low-affected Victoria. Participants included 1017 residents fire communities. were surveyed by means telephone web-based interview between December 2011 January 2013. The survey measures fire-related post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) general PTSD from other...
Social disruption caused by natural disasters often interrupts educational opportunities for children. However, little is known about children's learning in the following years. This study examined change academic scores children variably exposed to a major bushfire Australia. Comparisons were made between attending high, medium, and low disaster-affected primary schools 2-4 years after disaster (n = 24,642; 9-12 years). The results showed that reading numeracy expected gains from Year 3 5...
Although disasters are a major cause of mental health problems and typically affect large numbers people communities, little is known about how social structures after disaster. The authors assessed the extent to which outcomes disaster associated with network structures.In community-based cohort study survivors bushfire disaster, participants (N=558) were for probable posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) depression. Social networks by asking nominate whom they felt personally close. These...
Although much research has focused on the influence of second language (L2) proficiency L2 use and outcomes intercultural adaptation, these two strands have remained largely separate. This study examines impact willingness to communicate in (L2 WTC) daily hassles stress international students, with aim demonstrating a conceptual overlap WTC model theories cross-cultural adaptation that focus transactional person–environment fit. Participants included 104 Chinese-speaking students attending...
To map the changing prevalence and predictors of psychological outcomes in affected communities 5 years following Black Saturday bushfires Victoria.Follow-up assessment longitudinal cohort study high, medium non-affected Victoria, Australia. Participants included 1017 respondents (Wave 1) interviewed via telephone web-based survey between December 2011 January 2013, 735 (76.1%) eligible participants were retested July November 2014 2). The measures fire-related subsequent stressful events,...
Natural disasters represent an increasing threat both in terms of incidence and severity as a result climate change. Although much is known about individual responses to disasters, less the social contextual response how this interacts with trajectories mental health, wellbeing connectedness. The 2009 bushfires Victoria, Australia caused loss life, property destruction, community disturbance. In order progress future preparedness, recovery, it crucial measure understand impact at levels....
Disasters pose a documented risk to mental health, with range of peri- and post-disaster factors (both pre-existing disaster-precipitated) linked adverse outcomes. Among these, increasing empirical attention is being paid the relation between disasters violence.This study examined self-reported experiences assault or violence victimisation among communities affected by high, medium, low disaster severity following 2009 bushfires in Victoria, Australia. The association violence, health...
Objectives: To profile the long-term mental health outcomes of those affected by 2009 Black Saturday bushfires and to document course since disaster. Method: The longitudinal Beyond Bushfires study included 1017 respondents (Wave 1; 3–4 years after fires), 736 (76.1%) at Wave 2 (5 fires) 525 (51.6%) 3 (10 fires). survey indexed fire-related subsequent stressful events, probable posttraumatic stress disorder, major depressive alcohol use, severe distress receipt services for problems....
Abstract Rationale Both topiramate and naltrexone have been shown to affect neural alcohol cue reactivity in use disorder (AUD). However, their comparative effects on are unknown. Moreover, while has found normalize hyperactive localized network connectivity implicated AUD, no studies examined the effect of intrinsic functional or compared between these two widely used medications. Objective This study versus cue-elicited brain activation patients with disorder. Methods Forty-seven...
The clandestine nature of covert networks makes reliable data difficult to obtain and leads concerns with missing data. We explore the use network models represent missingness mechanisms. Exponential random graph provide a flexible way parameterising departures from conventional assumptions management practices. demonstrate effects model specification, true structure, different not-at-random mechanisms across six empirical networks. Our framework for modelling realistic investigates...
Research has established the mental health sequelae following disaster, with studies now focused on understanding factors that mediate these outcomes. This study anger, alcohol, subsequent life stressors and traumatic events as mediators in development of disorders 2009 Black Saturday Bushfires, Australia's worst natural disaster over 100 years.This examined data from 1017 (M = 404, F 613) adult residents across 25 communities differentially affected by fires participating Beyond Bushfires...
Abstract Short‐term separation from close family members during a disaster is highly salient event for those involved. Yet, its subsequent impact on mental health has received little empirical attention. One relevant factor may be attachment style, which influences patterns of support‐seeking under threatening conditions. Individuals ( N = 914) affected by the 2009 Victorian bushfires in southeastern Australia were assessed experiences, depression, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)...
Abstract Anger is an important dimension of affect and a prominent feature posttraumatic mental health, but it commonly overlooked in postdisaster settings. We aimed to examine the distribution implications significant anger problems aftermath natural disaster, via analyses Beyond Bushfires survey data from 736 residents rural communities 5 years after 2009 Black Saturday bushfires Victoria, Australia. Assessments included five‐item Dimensions Reaction (DAR‐5) scale along with measures PTSD,...
Background Although much is known about psychopathology such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and depression following bushfire (also wildfire), little prevalence, trajectory impacts for those experiencing general adjustment difficulties exposure to these now-common events. Aims This was an exploratory analysis of a large cohort study that examined the risk factors probable over 10-year period exposure. Method The Beyond Bushfires assessed individuals exposed deadly across three time...
Longitudinal studies can provide timely and accurate information to evaluate inform COVID-19 control mitigation strategies future pandemic preparedness. The Optimise Study is a multidisciplinary research platform established in the Australian state of Victoria September 2020 collect epidemiological, social, psychological behavioural data from priority populations. It aims understand changing public attitudes, behaviours experiences epidemic modelling support responsive government policy....
As part of the shift within second language acquisition (SLA) research toward complex systems thinking, researchers have called for investigations social network structure. One strand analysis yet to receive attention in SLA is statistical models, whereby networks are explained terms smaller substructures ties. This article offers an overview and instructive demonstration exponential random graph models as applied a cohort English Academic Purposes students ( N = 75) their willingness...
Challenges in changing school system functioning to orient them towards health are commonly underestimated. Understanding the social interactions of staff from a complex systems perspective may provide valuable insight into how dynamics impede or facilitate promotion and wellbeing. Ego network analysis was employed with wellbeing leads within four diverse case study schools identify variability embeddedness roles. This variation, as well broader context, then explored through semi-structured...
Many studies show that long-term poor mental health outcomes for disaster-affected people are predicted by postdisaster stressors. Despite this finding, existing recovery frameworks vary in how these stressors conceptualised. This paper examines community members' subjective perceptions of what they found problematic and useful their recoveries after the Australian 2009 Black Saturday bushfires, considers them light frameworks. We report findings from responses to semi-structured survey...
In the disaster literature, psycho-social recovery is conceptualised typically as alleviation of traumatic stress, with disaster-related grief a less prominent part this. Yet, incorporating understandings into conceptualisations post important. This paper explores these by analysing participants' bereavement experiences following Black Saturday bushfires. It draws on data from Beyond Bushfires, mixed-methods study (n = 1,016) in which survey and interview relating to individual loss were...
Research on mental health following disasters has led to the identification of many individual protective and risk factors for postdisaster health. However, there is little understanding exact influence that have functioning intimate relationships. Especially relevant are attachment styles, which likely play an important role in provision perception social support between partners, subsequent outcomes. Heterosexual couples (N = 127) affected by 2009 Victorian "Black Saturday" Bushfires...
Abstract University–industry (U–I) collaboration takes on many forms, from research services, teaching and training, to curiosity-led research. In the chemical industries, academic chemists generate new knowledge, address novel problems faced by industry, train future workforce in cutting-edge methods. this study, we examine dynamic structures of collaborative contracts grants between industry partners over a 5-year period within research-intensive Australian university. We reconstruct...
This paper presents a case study of Beyond Bushfires, large, multisite, mixed method the psychosocial impacts major bushfires in Victoria, Australia. A participatory approach was employed throughout which led by team academic investigators partnership with service providers and government representatives used on-site visits multiple methods communication communities across state to inform decision-making study. The ethics conducting adapting within post-disaster context will be discussed...
Previous studies of the impact post-trauma research participation indicate that while experience may be emotional, it can still valued by participants. This paper describes participant experiences Australian post-bushfire study–Beyond Bushfires. It examines relationships between distress during participation, probable mental health conditions, and satisfaction with over time. A range strategies was incorporated into study, including a risk assessment referral protocol, to minimise any harm...