Dr Gulliver is a senior research fellow at the Centre for Mental Health Research, The Australian National University. Her PhD study investigated mental health and help-seeking in young elite athletes. Dr Gulliver’s research focuses on finding practical solutions to improve mental health in specific population groups. Dr Gulliver’s primary research interests include lived experience research, the promotion of mental health help-seeking, and the development, evaluation, and implementation of mental health and suicide prevention programs.

Dr Gulliver’s work for the Translational e-Mental Health Research Unit focuses on how to improve engagement with online mental health programs. She recently completed the co-design for an online program (‘Helipad’) designed to improve help seeking in workplaces and was the clinical trial coordinator for the randomised controlled trial.

Dr Gulliver also works within the Lived Experience Research Unit, on projects that aim to involve people with lived experience of mental health problems in the research process and conduct research relevant to their needs. Dr Gulliver was also a CI on a recent project funded by Suicide Prevention Australia: Co-Creating Safe Spaces: a national research project looking at safe spaces for people experiencing emotional distress.

Dr Gulliver is also interested in the improvement of mental health in university students. She completed a project funded by the Young and Well Cooperative Research Centre in 2016 to develop a virtual mental health clinic designed specifically for tertiary student populations (The Uni Virtual Clinic). The pilot trial evaluating the feasibility and acceptability of the UVC has been completed. Dr Gulliver was also a CI on a recent trial to investigate the effectiveness of a transdiagnostic online program for university student mental health funded by Australian Rotary Health.

Areas of expertise

• Mental Health
• Public Health And Health Services
• Health And Community Services
• Health Promotion