Dr. Sam McKay is a postdoctoral researcher at Orygen and the Centre for Youth Mental Health, University of Melbourne, where he currently leads the education stream in the suicide prevention research unit. His research interests centre on youth mental health and factors that promote healthy development during emerging adulthood.
Alison Clarke is currently a Psychologist in Clinical Training at University College Cork, Ireland. Her previous areas of research include suicide and self-harm, suicidality in people with intellectual disabilities, and paediatric psycho-oncology.
Michelle is the program manager of the suicide prevention research unit at Orygen, University of Melbourne. She is completing her PhD in social neuroscience at the Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health at Monash University. Her research interests are in individual differences that may confer either risk or resilience to various social and mental health outcomes in young people.
Maria has been working as a research assistant since 2015, in the areas of young people’s mental health, parenting, and early childhood education. She is currently part of the suicide prevention research team at Orygen. Maria's research skills include data collection and management, recruitment, manuscript writing, and performing literature reviews.
Jo Robinson is an Associate Professor at Orygen, Centre for Youth Mental Health, The University of Melbourne, where she leads the suicide prevention research unit. Her work focuses on the development and rigorous testing of novel interventions that specifically target at-risk youth across settings, on evidence synthesis, and on the translation of research evidence into practice and policy.
She is a member of the Self-injury Advisory Group for Facebook, and was a member of the Advisory Board for the Oprah Winfrey docuseries 'The Me You Can’t See'. She is also an Associate Editor of the journal Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, and is a Vice President of the International Association of Suicide Prevention.
