Our people

I am a Associate Professor and registered Clinical Psychologist in the School of Psychological Sciences, and currently hold an NHMRC Emerging Leader Fellowship. I am the Deputy Director of Research in the newly established Macquarie University Lifespan Health & Wellbeing Research Centre (website under development). This centre brings together two established centres; the Centre for Ageing, Cognition and Wellbeing  https://www.mq.edu.au/research/research-centres-groups-and-facilities/healthy-people/centres/centre-for-ageing-cognition-and-wellbeing and the Centre for Emotional Health https://www.mq.edu.au/research/research-centres-groups-and-facilities/healthy-people/centres/centre-for-emotional-health-ceh to join with colleagues from Psychology, Law, Business, Medicine, Education, Linguistics and others.  My research examines the mechanisms underlying anxiety (and related) disorders in children, adolescents and older adults, and uses those mechanisms to optimise treatment. These int

I am Director of My Mind Check, a new free and voluntary digital mental health and wellbeing screening tool for all Australian schools, funded by the Federal Department of Education. I am also Co-Deputy Director of the Lifespan Health and Wellbeing Research Centre. My research aims to use technology to remove barriers to families accessing good quality assessment and treatment for youth mental health. I focus on applied research that works to include and serve as many Australian families as possible across a range of context (including in education). I have developed online interventions that have been used by Australian families, in Australian public schools, and internationally in Norway, Denmark and United States.

I was appointed Dean at Macquarie Law School in July 2022, having previously served as Deputy Dean (2019 - 2021) and Director of Education (2015-2021). I joined MLS in 2005 from a professional background working in mediation and Youth Justice Conferencing and have taught undergraduate and postgraduate courses in Legal Ethics and Alternative Dispute Resolution.  I also provide advice and training to lawyers, mediators and other professionals working with older Australians. My research focusses on the intersection between Law and Ageing, with a particular focus on the rights of older Australians and the legal decision-making capacity of older people, including those with a diagnosis of dementia. My PhD examined how lawyers assess the legal decision-making capacity of their clients and included empirical research centred on complaints made to the NSW Office of the Legal Services Commission. My current research is centered on the topics of substitute decision-making, guardianship, powers o

Alice Chik is an Associate Professor and the Graduate Research Training Director in the School of Education, Faculty of Arts. She serves as the Associate Director of Multilingualism Research Centre, Faculty of Medicine, Health and Human Sciences.  Her primary area of research examines language learning and multilingual literacies in digital environments. She is especially interested in exploring how language learners construct and direct their autonomous learning in informal contexts. She also has a particular interest in multilingualism is public discourse, representation, and narratives of everyday multilingual experience. She is the lead co-editor of Multilingual Sydney (Routledge, 2019) and lead author of 'Languages of Sydney: The people and the passion' (Candlin & Mynard, 2019). Her recent projects can be found on www.multilingualsydney.org.

Jonas is an Associate Professor at the Macquarie University Centre for the Health Economy (MUCHE) with a focus on mental health and the study of older adults and ageing. He was previously a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for the Business and Economics of Health at the University of Queensland, a researcher at the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, and a Senior Associate at KPMG. His research aims to enable healthcare organisations to introduce new and review existing policies and programs to deliver healthcare efficiently, effectively, and equitably. His research is at the intersection of health, economics, and psychology, he regularly works in interdisciplinary teams from those three disciplines and with other clinical researchers. Two of his primary research interests are the role of health as a determinant of economic productivity, for example, how stress and the management of stress affects worker performance, and the study of economic decisions of older adults

I am a clinical psychologist and Senior Research Fellow at the eCentreClinic (www.ecentreclinic.org) in the School of Psychological Sciences. My applied clinical research aims to improve the mental health and psychological care of people living with neurological disorders, such as epilepsy, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease and acquired brain injury. As an emerging researcher, I have developed several streams of research in this area, spanning mental health detection, epidemiology, treatment and policy work. I have developed a transdiagnostic internet-delivered self-management program for neurological disorders, the Wellbeing Neuro Course. This innovative program combines psychological treatment components for mental health and cognitive rehabilitation and is suitable for a variety of neurological disorders. I am currently conducting research funded by a Postdoctoral Fellowship from MS Australia entitled Examining the real world effectiveness and potential of a remotely-delivered

Rebecca's research interests lie in the area of organisational behaviour, includinghealth and wellbeing at work, team dynamics, leadership and social identity in organizations, particularly (but not exclusively) healthcare organisations. Rebecca’s current research programs focus on resilience and wellbeing at work. She is also interested in the impact of gender at work as well as team performance, particularly team innovation. Rebecca is also researching in the area of leadership. She is actively researching how transformational leadership can increase the effectiveness of teams, particularly multidisciplinary teams. She is also investigating shared leadership in teams and its potential to increase team innovation. Rebecca has published in numerous top tier internationally recognised journals including the Journal of Organizational Behavior (ABDC A*), Human Resource Management (US) (ABDC A*), Human Relations (ABDC A*), Journal of Business Research (ABDC A), Journal of Occupational and

I am a Distinguished Professor of Psychology , an Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow, and the Founding Director of the Centre for Emotional Health. I have a background in clinical psychology, especially the understanding and development of mental disorders. I have a history of developing treatment programs and evaluating their efficacy through clinical trials. Foremost among these has been the Cool Kids suite of programs. The Cool Kids programs are now translated into over 25 languages and used in over 30 countries.

Sandie Wong (Doctor of Philosophy in Early Childhood Macquarie University, 2006; Bachelor of Education [Early Childhood Education] [Hons 1] [Macquarie University, 2000]) is a Professor in Early Childhood, Co-Deputy Director of the Centre for Research in Early Childhood at the Macquarie School of Education, and Excutive Member of the Lifepsan Health & Wellbeing Research Centre at Macquarie University. Sandie has worked as an academic, manager, researcher, evaluator, educator, consultant and nurse, within a range of early childhood, academic and health organisations. She held a Research Fellowship with Goodstart Early Learning from 2016-2023. Sandie’s research is driven by a concern with the role early childhood education has in ameliorating disadvantage and reducing marginalisation both contemporaneously and historically. She is committed to working in collaborative, strengths-based ways, with academics from a range of disciplines, early childhood organisations and practitioners, an