Current Research Grants
Past Research Grants (2012 to 2010)
Current Research Grants
Preventing early internalising problems in the preschool setting: randomised controlled trial
Recipients: Bayer JK, Rapee R, Hiscock H, Wake M, Ukoumunne OU, Mihalopoulous C, (AI) Cleary J.
Scheme: NHMRC Project Grant 607302
Funding: $748,075
Duration: 2010 - 2013
Transdiagnostic treatment of internalizing disorders
Recipients: Nickolai Titov, Michelle Craske, Peter McEvoy
Scheme: NHMRC
Funding: $584, 375
Duration: 2010 - 2014
Closing the Gap: Early Childhood Sustained Home Visiting for families of Aboriginal infants in an urban community
Recipients: Dr Lynn Kemp, A/Pr Elizabeth Comino, Pr Lisa Jackson Pulver, Dr Catherine McMahon, Ms Elizabeth Harris, Prof Mark Harris
Scheme: NHMRC 630520
Funding: $2,135,875
Duration: 2010 - 2014
The Wellbeing Program: Internet based education programs for anxiety and depression in older adults
Recipients: Nickolai Titov, Blake Dear
Scheme: beyondblue: The National Depression Initiative
Funding: $560, 020
Duration: 2010 - 2014
A randomised controlled trial of two psychosocial group treatment programs for comorbid anxiety and depression in older adults
Recipients: Viviana Wuthrich & Ron Rapee
Scheme: NHMRC
Funding: $496,510.00
Duration: 2011-2013
Using magnetoencephalography (MEG) to examine neurological activation during emotion processing in anxious children
Recipients: Jennie Hudson, Suzanne Broeren, Blake Johnson (Cog Sci) & Helen Dodd (University of East Anglia)
Scheme: MQRDG scheme
Funding: $44,840
Duration: 2012-2013
Cognitive, environmental and genetic factors associated with the development of anxiety and depression in children and adolescents
Recipients: Jennie Hudson, Carol Newall
Scheme: Enterprise Partnership Scheme
Funding: $30,000 (MQ) and $30,000 (Queenwood)
Duration: 2012-2013
Understanding genetic and environmental risks of emotional disorders in childhood and adolescence
Recipients: Hudson J.L.
Scheme: MQ Future fellowship start up grant
Funding: $200,000
Duration: 2012-2014
Enhancing cognitive behavioural treatment outcomes for social phobia
Recipients: Lorna Peters, Ron Rapee & Andrew Baillie
Scheme: NHMRC
Funding: $332,354
Duration: 2012-2014
Never fear the Jabberwock…or the Screaming Lady! An examination of fear extinction in children and adults via two learning pathways
Recipients: Carol Newall, Ron Rapee & Rick Richardson (UNSW)
Scheme: MQRDG
Funding: $48,298
Duration: 2012-2014
Towards effective dissemination of a low intensity chronic pain management course
Recipients: Dear BF, Titov N, Nicholson Perry K, Sharpe L, Nicholas M
Scheme: Motor Accidents Authority
Funding: $266,000
Duration: 2012-2014
Low-intensity, early intervention for pain and trauma following motor vehicle accident
Recipients: Nicholson Perry K, Dear BF, Girosi F, Nicholas M, Blyth F
Scheme: Motor Accidents Authority
Funding: $281,983
Duration: 2012-2014
An open-trial, randomised controlled trial, and pragmatic evaluation of an internet-delivered intervention for reducing symptoms of depression and anxiety in young adults aged 18-24 years
Recipients: Titov, N., Rapee, R., Dear, B. F., & Lorian, C.
Scheme: beyondblue: the national depression initiative
Funding: $315,000
Duration: 2012-2014
A stepped care approach for the management of childhood anxiety disorders: a randomised controlled trial
Recipients: Ron Rapee, Jennie Hudson, Heidi Lyneham, Viviana Wuthrich, Maria Kangas & Catherine Mihalopoulos (Deakin University)
Scheme: NHMRC
Funding: $896,651
Duration: 2012-2015
Establishment of a National Virtual Clinic
Recipients: Titov, N., Rapee, R.M., Klein, B., Bennett- Levy, J., & Shann, C
Scheme: Department of Health and Ageing
Funding: $16,400,000
Duration: 2012 - 2015
A randomised controlled trial of dizziness interventions based on a multidisciplinary assessment in older people: towards the development of a multiple profile assessment of dizziness – the MPA-D
Recipients: Professor Stephen Lord, Dr Jasmine Menant, Dr Americo Migliaccio, A/Prof Nickolai Titov, A/Prof Jacqueline Close, Dr Kim Delbaere
Scheme: NHMRC
Funding: $589,772
Duration: 2012 - 2015
Cognitive factors in youth that increase vulnerability to social phobia
Recipients: Quincy Wong
Scheme: NHMRC Early Career Fellowship
Funding: $294,892
Duration: 2012 - 2015
Early predictors of temperament factors linked to anxiety in children: Genes and the pre- and postnatal environments
Recipients: Kerry-Ann Grant
Scheme: Macquarie University Research Fellowship
Funding: $50,000
Duration: 2012 - 2015
Understanding genetic and environmental risks of emotional disorders in childhood and adolescence
Recipients: Hudson, J.L.
Scheme: ARC Future Fellowship
Funding: $790,000
Duration: 2012 - 2016
The Gudaga Study: Describing the health, development, early education, family environment and service context of Aboriginal children aged five to nine years in an urban location
Recipients: Cathy McMahon and UNSW
Scheme: NHMRC
Funding: $1,525,060.00
Duration: 2012 - 2016
Centre of Research Excellence in Mental Health and Substance Use: Translating Innovative Prevention and Treatment
Recipients: Professor Maree Teesson (NDARC UNSW); Professor Amanda Baker, (University of Newcastle), Dr Katherine Mills (NDARC UNSW), Dr Frances Kay-Lambkin (NDARC UNSW), Professor Paul Haber (University of Sydney); Associate Professor Andrew Baillie (Macquarie University); Professor Helen Christensen (UNSW); Professor Max Birchwood (University of Birmingham UK); Professor Bonnie Spring (Northwestern University Medical School, USA), Professor Kathleen Brady (Medical University of South Carolina, USA).
Scheme: NHMRC
Funding: $2,500,000
Duration: 2012 - 2017
Mental Health of School-Age Children Who Stutter
Recipients: Lisa Iverach
Scheme: NHMRC Early Career Fellowship
Funding: $149, 782
Duration: 2013-2015
Past Research Grants (2010-2012)
Randomised controlled trial of treatment for alcohol use problems and social phobia
Recipients: Dr Andrew Baillie, Dr Claudia Sannibale, A/Pr Maree Teesson, Prof Ronald Rapee, Prof Paul Haber
Scheme: National Health and Medical Research Council Project 488508
Funding: $605,750
Duration: 2008 - 2011
Training benign interpretations in anxious children and adolescents
Recipients: Rapee, RM, Wuthrich, V, Kangas, M, Lyneham, HJ, Hudson, JL, Gaston, J & Schniering, CA.
Scheme: Australian Rotary Health
Funding: $36,437
Duration: 2010
Impact of CBT on cognitive mechanisms that maintain social phobia
Recipients: Dr Lexine Stapinski
Scheme: FOHS publishing grant
Funding: $2,000
Duration: 2010
Cognitive biases in older adults with depression and anxiety
Recipients: Dr Viviana Wuthrich
Scheme: FOHS publishing grant
Funding: $2,000
Duration: 2010
Development of a brief diagnostic screening measure
Recipients: Prof Ron Rapee
Scheme: CEH Internal Grant
Funding: $3,680
Duration: 2010
RA assistance on Pilot trial of BRECONDA decisional support tool for women considering breast reconstruction following mastectomy
Recipients: Dr Kerry Sherman
Scheme: CEH Internal Grant
Funding: $3,500
Duration: 2010
Pilot trial of Motivational Interviewing (MI) prior to CBT for Social Phobia
Recipients: Dr Lorna Peters
Scheme: CEH Internal Grant
Funding: $4,600
Duration: 2010
Efficacy of motivational interviewing prior to cognitive behavioural treatment for social phobia
Recipients: Dr Lorna Peters
Scheme: Macquarie University Safety Net Grants Scheme
Funding: $20,000
Duration: 2010
Bio behavioural Regulation in Infants
Recipients: Dr Kerry-Ann Grant
Scheme: CEH Internal Grant
Funding: $2,760
Duration: 2010
Decluttering Program: Developmental of a group CBT program for compulsive hoarding
Recipients: Dr Lexine Stapinski
Scheme: CEH Internal Grant
Funding: $4,940
Duration: 2010
Sociocognitive Processes Associated with Adolescent Bullying and Victimisation
Recipients: A/Prof Kay Bussey
Scheme: CEH Internal Grant
Funding: $3,015
Duration: 2010
1. Peer victimisation and psychogical maladjustment: the mediating role of coping self-efficacy.
2. Child anxiety rural outreach: enhancing efficacy of bilbliotherapy for rural children with anxiety disorders using child-therapist contact
Recipients: Dr Puneet Singh
Scheme: CEH Internal Grant
Funding: $1,867
Duration: 2010
Cognitive biases in older adults with comorbid depression and anxiety
Recipients: Dr Viviana Wuthrich
Scheme: CEH Internal Grant
Funding: $4,600
Duration: 2010
Treating anxiety disorders across the lifespan
Recipients: Hudson, J., Rapee, R., Baillie, A, Kangas, M., McMahon, C., Lyneham, H., Wuthrich, V
Scheme: Macquarie University Research Infrastructure Block Grant
Funding: $36,000
Duration: 2010
Drinking over shyness: Experimental study into the vicious cycle of social phobia and alcohol use problems
Recipients: Baillie, A., Stapinski, L., & Teesson (UNSW)
Scheme: Macquarie University research development grant
Funding: $32,941
Duration: 2010-2012
Maternal anxiety in pregnancy and infant bio-behavioural regulations: testing the foetal programming hypothesis
Recipients: McMahon, C. Austin, Rapee, Jones, Donald, Grant
Scheme: NHMRC
Funding: $556,650
Duration: 2010-2012
Sialyltransferase in the bipolar and schizophrenic brain: examining the role of a novel generalised susceptibility gene
Recipients: Prof Peter Schofield, Dr Janice Fullerton, Prof Cynthia Shannon Weickert, A/Pr Jennifer Donald
Scheme: NHMRC 630574
Funding: $494,500
Duration: 2010 - 2012
Augmentation of fear extinction in anxious children through the use of D-Cycloserine
Recipients: Rapee, RM, Hudson, JL, Mahli, G, Jones, M.
Scheme: Australian Research Council DP1095162
Funding: $180,000
Duration: 2010 - 2012
Developmental analysis on loss of fear: are children more resilient to relapse of fear than adults?
Recipients: Carol Newall
Scheme: Macquarie University New Staff Grant
Funding: $19,836
Duration: 2011 - July 2012
Treatment of Anxiety and Depression in Distressed Carers for Persons with Dementia-related Conditions
Recipients: Dr Maria Kangas (Centre for Emotional Health), and Professor Skye McDonald (University of New South Wales).
Scheme: Alzheimer’s Australia – Hazel Hawke Research Grant in Dementia Care
Funding: $25,000
Duration: February 2011 – June 2012
Psychological Treatment for Anxiety and Depression in Adults with Brain Tumours
Recipients: Dr Maria Kangas (Centre for Emotional Health), and Professor Skye McDonald (University of New South Wales).
Scheme: Macquarie University Safety Net Scheme
Funding: $25,000
Duration: February 2011 – December 2012
Treatment of anxiety and depression in distressed carers for persons with acquired brain impairments (ABIs)
Recipients: Dr Maria Kangas (Centre for Emotional Health), and Professor Skye McDonald (University of New South Wales).
Scheme: Macquarie University Safety Net Scheme
Funding: $17,200
Duration: February 2011 – December 2012
Expanding the capacity for large scale internet and mobile-phone-delivered research and treatment at the Centre for Emotional Health
Recipients: Nick Titov
Scheme: Beyondblue, Strategic Research Grant
Funding: $315,340
Duration: 2012
The development, evaluation, and use of Mood Mechanic: An internet-and smart phone-accessible education program to help young adults learnt o master symptoms of depression and anxiety
Recipients: Titov, N., Rapee, R., Dear, B.F., & Lorian C.
Scheme: ARC Linkage Projects
Funding: $55,000
Duration: 2012
Tobii eye-tracker for testing infants and young children
Recipients: Katherine Demuth, Kerry-Ann Grant, Catherine McMahon, Stephen CrainRosalind Thornton, Mridula Sharma, Felicity Cox, Kimiko Tsukada, Peng Zhou, Vincenzo Moscati
Scheme: RGIB
Funding: $49,150
Duration: 2012
Expanding the capacity of treatment at the Centre for Emotional Health: Internet and mobile treatment of mental disorders
Recipients: Titov, N., Dear, B. F., Rapee, R., & Hudson, J.
Scheme: Macquarie University Research, Infrastructure Block Grants
Funding: $55,000
Duration: 2012
Two portable Tobii eye-trackers for research in the Faculty of Human Sciences
Recipients: Wiggins, M., Newall, C., Grant, K., McMahon, C., Griffin, B., Peters, L., Hudson, J., Rapee, R., Ang, L., Hellmann, A., Rich, A., Wyver, S., Downey, G., Lyneham, H.
Scheme: Macquarie Strategic Infrastructure Scheme
Funding: $107,930
Duration: 2012
What works, what is safe, and for whom? A pragmatic randomised controlled trial comparing 5 models of support during trans-diagnostic internet treatment for anxiety and depression
Recipients: Titov, N., Klein, B., Bennett-Levy, J., Knight, R. G., & Dear, B. F.
Scheme: Macquarie University Safety Net Grants Scheme
Funding: $25,000
Duration: 2012
Bullies, Victims, and Defenders: Online and offline
Recipients: Kay Bussey
Scheme: Macquarie University Safety Net Grants Scheme
Funding: $15,000
Duration: 2012