DAS Lab News
DAS Lab goes to SMHR25!
A/Prof Susanne Schweizer, Dr Lucy Zhang and PhD student Weike Wang went to SHMR 2025 in Adelaide to present research on perinatal mental health, adolescent risk-taking, and intolerance of uncertainty
Podcast on Perinatal OCD: When ‘the happiest time of your life’ turns dark
This podcast episode discusses perinatal OCD and intrusive thoughts — experiences which are common for both mothers and fathers in the perinatal period and yet not often spoken about.
What it's like to live with intrusive thoughts, illustrated
NPR published a comic about perinatal intrusive thoughts, including some tips for coping with them
Dark thoughts before and after giving birth are almost universal
Read A/Prof Susanne Schweizer and Prof Bronwyn Graham’s new focus article on perinatal intrusions.
Shedding light on the dark side of pregnancy
A/Prof Susanne Schweizer was awarded an $8.1 million Wellcome grant to study the factors which contribute to the heightened vulnerability women experience during pregnancy.
DAS Lab on the ACAMH Podcast
A/Prof Susanne Schweizer spoke on The Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health podcast about a recent paper
Savannah is now Dr Minihan!
Congratulations to Savannah for graduating from her PhD program!
Talking about uncertainty with the Naked Scientists
A/Prof Susanne Schweizer recently spoke to the Naked Scientists - a team of doctors, scientists and passionate communicators based at the University of Cambridge, discussing uncertainty as a potential driver of the youth mental health crisis.
DAS Lab talking about mental health
A/Prof Susanne Schweizer talked to the attendees of the
World Economic Forum 2019 in Dalian about mental
health.
DAS Lab goes to SMHR23
A/Prof Susanne Schweizer and PhD students Karina Grunewald, Savannah Minihan and Weike Wang went to SHMR 2023 in Perth to present cutting edge research on emotion regulation and adolescent mental health
Savannah is representing UNSW
PhD student Savannah Minihan is representing UNSW as a Woman in Maths and Science Champion this year
Annabel wins two awards
Dr Annabel Songco, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, has successfully received two UNSW Early Career Academic awards.
Mental health and COVID-19 in the news
A/Prof Susanne Schweizer spoke to the ABC about the mental health consequences of lockdown and COVID-19.
Emotion regulation in the news
Susanne Schweizer spoke to BBC about emotion suppression. LA Times and Psychology Today wrote about our Emotion Regulation Study.