Flinders University Institute for Mental Health and Wellbeing

We are improving mental health and wellbeing

Inspired by the strength and resilience of those with lived experience, we bring together world leading researchers, service providers and communities to develop evidence-based solutions that create meaningful change.

We invest in our people and work collaboratively to achieve our vision of mentally healthy and resilient communities.

We partner with people and organisations that share our vision of improving mental health and wellbeing.

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Who we are

We are a multi-disciplinary research institute improving mental health and wellbeing.

We bring together world leading researchers across psychology, social science, public health and education. Partnering with service providers, we develop mental health and wellbeing solutions for our communities.

Our research themes encompass:

Enhancing resilience in children and young people
Interventions for disordered eating
Increasing resilience and reducing the impact of trauma across the lifespan
Achieving wellbeing through sport and physical activity
Improving the health and wellbeing of older people

Taking a whole-of-person approach across the lifespan, we incorporate research from educational and preventative science, to service delivery models and experience in health systems.

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Acknowledgement of Country

Flinders University was established on the lands of the Kaurna nation, with the first University campus, Bedford Park, located on the ancestral body of Ngannu near Warriparinga. Warriparinga is a significant site in the complex and multi-layered Dreaming of the Kaurna ancestor, Tjilbruke. For the Kaurna nation, Tjilbruke was a keeper of the fire and a peace maker/law maker. Tjilbruke is part of the living culture and traditions of the Kaurna people. His spirit lives in the Land and Waters, in the Kaurna people and in the glossy ibis (known as Tjilbruke for the Kaurna). Through Tjilbruke, the Kaurna people continue their creative relationship with their Country, its spirituality and its stories.

Flinders University acknowledges the Traditional Owners and Custodians, both past and present, of the various locations the University operates on, and recognises their continued relationship and responsibility to these Lands and waters.

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South Australia 5042

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