Our PHD student Savannah Minihan graduated from her PHD program, and is now, Dr Minihan! Her PHD thesis titled “Socio-affective influences on adolescent mental health problems”, explored the impact of socio-affective factors on adolescent depression and anxiety disorders using various experimental studies, and culminated in the development of a novel mental health app targeted toward improving emotion regulation in young people. Congratulations Savannah!

A/Prof Susanne Schweizer recently spoke on “The Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health” podcast about a recent paper - “The relationship between cognitive and affective control and adolescent mental health“ which was published in “The Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry”.

Listen to the podcast episode here!

A/Prof Susanne Schweizer and PHD students Karina Grunewald, Savannah Minihan and Weike Wang went to SHMR 2023 - hosted in beautiful Perth, Australia.

At the conference, the team presented cutting edge research on emotion regulation and adolescent mental health!

Read more here!

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.

Listen here!

Dr Annabel Songco, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, has successfully received two UNSW Early Career Academic awards. Thanks to the UNSW Science ECAN Small Seeding Grant Scheme and the Early Career Academic COVID-19 Scheme, the funding has helped Annabel to develop a research program in child and adolescent global mental health.

Dr Susanne Schweizer spoke to the ABC about the mental health consequences of lockdown and COVID-19. Listen here!

We talked to the ABC Radio National Drive show. Listen here.

We also talked to Radio ABC Illawarra, Eastside FM and Sydney's Radio 2SM. Find write ups here by UNSW Newsroom, UCL News, MedicalDevice-network.com, OpenGov.

Throughout the 12-month program, Savannah will participate in a series of career development workshops and outreach events, to encourage and inspire girls and women to pursue a career in maths and science. Read more about the UNSW Women in Maths and Science Champions Program here.

Dr Susanne Schweizer talked to the attendees of the World Economic Forum 2019 in Dalian about mental health.

Find out more here! Watch the talk here!

Dr Susanne Schweizer spoke to the BBC about emotion suppression.

LA Times and Psychology Today writing about our Emotion Regulation Training study.