Our industry and end-user partners

We partner with organisations and groups across multiple sectors, including:

  • the Commonwealth Department of Health
  • the Department of Veterans' Affairs
  • the Department of Health and Human Services Victoria
  • interstate health and human services departments
  • clinical service providers
  • the disability sector
  • mental health consumer and patient groups
  • families and carers
  • pharmaceutical and health device industries
  • health information and communication technology industries
  • health practitioners in independent practice.

Our primary international associations include organisations in the USA (University of California Berkeley, Harvard University and National Institute of Mental Health), Canada (University of British Columbia and CREST.BD), Israel, the Netherlands and the UK (Spectrum Centre).

Our collaborators

We collaborate with leading organisations across Australia and overseas.

National

Victoria

Our major university collaborations are within Victoria, which include:

  • Australian Catholic University
  • Deakin University
  • Florey Institute
  • La Trobe University
  • Monash University
  • RMIT University
  • University of Melbourne
  • Victoria University.
Interstate

We also collaborate nationally – the most significant include:

  • Curtin University
  • Macquarie University
  • Murdoch University
  • University of New South Wales
  • University of Newcastle
  • University of Western Australia.

Mental health services in Victoria are run by a number of hospital-based services. Over the past years, we have established research relationships, particularly with St Vincent's Health and Alfred Health.

St Vincent’s Health 

We collaborate on research into mental health across multiple projects in psychiatry, psychology, neurology and neurosurgery. These projects include:  

  • the psychological and neurobiological processes in body image disorders
  • the efficacy of psychological therapies for serious mental illness and chronic medical conditions
  • novel pharmacological and brain stimulation therapies for mental health conditions. 

Alfred Health 

We are partners in the Monash Alfred Psychiatry Research Centre, which facilitates recruitment of clinical populations. Within the centre, we also run the Voices Clinic, which supports our hallucinations research program and provides placements for postgraduate clinical psychology students to work with serious mental illness.  

Our research relationship has also strengthened Swinburne's health teaching by establishing an exclusive partnership with Alfred Health for its clinical psychology student placements. 

Access Health and Community (Inner East Community Service) and headspace Hawthorn 

Swinburne has longstanding research and clinical placement memoranda with Inner East Community Health. It is the lead agency for headspace Hawthorn, whose consortium committee is chaired by Professor Greg Murray.

These relatively new linkages have significant potential for recruitment, translational research, partnership grants and student training experiences.

Our researchers are currently leading one mental health research project through headspace Hawthorn. Research throughout these services is vital for recruitment and long-term dissemination of research findings.

Sites where we have conducted clinical trials will be encouraged to adopt evidence-based novel therapies. Researchers will also provide support and training. 

Other services

We have also established research relationships with other services in metropolitan Melbourne, including:

  • Austin Health
  • Eastern Health
  • Mercy Health
  • Monash Health
  • North Western Mental Health
  • Peninsula Health.

A growth component of Victoria's mental health services is the non-government organisation-run mental health community support service (MHCSS) sector, which provides recovery and rehabilitation services to people with chronic mental health problems. Our research in mental health recovery and peer support is closely aligned with the values of this sector.

We have relationships with MHCSS providers in every local government area of Melbourne, including Mental Illness Fellowship – our partner in the Self-Management and Recovery Technology research program – and Uniting Care (Prahran Mission) – our partner in hallucinations research which runs the Voices Vic peer support program for voice-hearers.

We have also established research relationships with other major providers including:

  • Anxiety Disorders Association Victoria
  • Anxiety Recovery Centre Victoria
  • cohealth
  • Each
  • Mind Australia
  • Neami
  • UnitingCare Australia
  • Wellways Australia.

International

  • Concordia University, Canada
  • Harvard University, USA
  • Florida State University, USA
  • Northwestern University, USA
  • Obsessive Compulsive Disorders Clinical Study Center, Canada
  • University of British Columbia, Canada
  • University of California Berkeley, USA
  • Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India
  • University of Auckland, New Zealand
  • University of Otago, New Zealand
  • Aalborg University, Denmark
  • Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany
  • Durham University, UK
  • King's College London, UK
  • Northumbria University, UK
  • Ruhr University Bochum, Germany
  • Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
  • Teesside University, UK
  • University College London, UK
  • University of Copenhagen, Denmark
  • University of East Anglia, UK
  • University of Glasgow, UK
  • University of Groningen, Netherlands
  • University of Leuven, Belgium
  • University of Lübeck, Germany
  • University of Manchester, UK
  • University of Reading, UK
  • University of Sussex, UK
  • University of York, UK
  • Utrecht University, Netherlands
  • Wörwag Pharma, Germany

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Contact the Centre for Mental Health and Brain Sciences

We work with academia, industry and government to form meaningful and impactful partnerships. For more information, please email cmhbs@swinburne.edu.au.

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