Dr Amelia Gulliver
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About
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 key at-risk 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 has recently completed the co-design for an online program (‘Helipad’) designed to improve help seeking in workplaces and is 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 as consumers and/or carers/kin 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
Affiliations
- Centre for Mental Health Research, Researcher
- Lived Experience Research Unit, Researcher
Research interests
- Help-seeking in young people
- University student mental health
- Athlete mental health
- e-mental health
- Depression and anxiety disorders
- Suicide prevention
- Lived experience research
- Translation of research into policy and practice
Current student projects
Mengyu (Andy) Lyu (PhD, The Australian National University, Primary Supervisor): Adaptation and evaluation of a suicide gatekeeper training program in China: An international perspective.
Isabelle Yujuico (PhD, The Australian National University, Supervisor): Disclosure of Suicidal Ideation
Dianna Smith (PhD, The Australian National University, Supervisor): Recovery Colleges
Jennifer Wheeler (PhD, The Australian National University, Supervisor): Growing beyond trauma – promoting Post Traumatic Growth literacy and outcomes in cohorts exposed to trauma.
Past student projects
Jiajun Sun: (Science Internship, The Australian National University, Primary Supervisor): Exploring Cancer Survivorship for Individuals with Breast and/or Colorectal Cancer.
Chutian Wang: (Science Internship, The Australian National University, ANU Academic Supervisor): The ties that bind: exploring the impact of workplace relationships on employee well-being and productivity
Betina Ferreira (Medical student, The Australian National University, Supervisor): Impacts of COVID-19 on mental health, functioning, and transition to university among first-year students.
Taliah Wysoke (Medical student, The Australian National University, Primary Supervisor): Examining helpseeking in a longitudinal cohort study of mental wellbeing in Australian university students as they transition into university.
Sheryl Liu [Master of Public Health (Advanced), Primary Supervisor, The Australian National University, 2022]: Help-seeking behavior for sexual health concerns among university students in Australia.
Chantelle Jones: (Honours, University of Canberra, Advisor, 2021): Sports Injury in Athletes: Exploring psychological help seeking and the effect of an online educational intervention (1st Class).
Brendan Loo Gee (PhD, The Australian National University, Supervisor, 2018): The Development and Evaluation of an Ecological Momentary Intervention for Social Anxiety.
Projects
- Mental health of university students, Supervisor
- Co-Creating Safe Spaces, Researcher
- Development of a Post-Traumatic Growth (PTG) literacy scale in Navy, Researcher
- Disclosing suicidal ideation , Researcher
- The Helipad Trial: Brief online training to support workplace mental health , Researcher
- Uni Virtual Clinic, Researcher
Location
Room 1.22B, Building 63