Yenny Bae is a Data Scientist at the Graduate School of Health at University of Technology Sydney. She has expertise in Python programming, deep learning, and computer vision, with a focus on applications in the medical field. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Physics and Statistics from the University of Auckland, completed teacher training, and previously worked as a Physics teacher in New Zealand. She later completed her Master's degree in Science in Analytics at Georgia Institute of Technology. Her current projects involve developing computer vision models for medical applications, including segmentation and classification, for diseases such as glaucoma.

Professor Phoebe Bailey is Director of Studies, leading the design and delivery of UTS’s first undergraduate and graduate diploma psychology programs. Recruited to UTS in 2021 to establish these programs from the ground up, she has overseen the development of the curriculum, team, and supporting infrastructure required to deliver psychology education at scale. The graduate diploma programs launched in 2022, followed by a staged roll-out of the undergraduate programs commencing in 2024.

Prior to joining UTS, Phoebe spent a decade at Western Sydney University, where she served as Director of Academic Programs in Psychology and, briefly, Acting Deputy Dean (Academic) in the School of Social Sciences and Psychology. She worked in investment banking for seven years in Sydney, London, and Dublin, before entering academia.

Alongside her academic leadership role, Phoebe maintains an active research program. Funded by an Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Project grant, she is investigating decisional isolation among solo agers in Australia. This follows two earlier ARC Discovery Projects investigating how older Australians use advice, and the role of trust in the financial exploitation of older adults. Phoebe has published more than 60 peer-reviewed journal articles and five book chapters. She is Consulting Editor at Psychology and Aging and The Journals of Gerontology: Psychology Sciences, and was Associate Editor at Cognition and Emotion for four years.

Dr Joanne Beames is a Clinical Psychologist and expert in digital mental health. She leads international collaborative research across Europe and Australia on the design, evaluation, and implementation of scalable digital tools in schools and mental health services. Her work aims to improve the prevention and early intervention of mental health difficulties, including depression, anxiety, and psychosis. One of her methodological interests is experience sampling methodology, which she uses to examine transdiagnostic processes as they unfold in daily life, particularly anhedonia. Across her work, she emphasises co-design and the integration of lived experience perspectives to ensure that digital mental health tools are person-centred and clinically meaningful. 

A/Prof Helen Benson is an experienced consultant pharmacist who works as a lecturer in Pharmacy Practice and Therapeutics.

In 2021, she won the UTS Learning and Teaching Award for Individual Teaching and has since been the recipient of a Faculty of Health Teaching and Learning Scholarship, a 2024 Team Teaching award and most recently a 2025 AAUT Team Teaching citation.

“I like sharing my passion for my profession and I hope my students can see how rewarding it is,” Helen said.

“It’s a really valuable job – you make a real difference to people, and you contribute to society.”

Helen’s varied and exciting career has included working in hospital, military and community pharmacy including as a community pharmacy owner from 2010 until 2013.

Helen has a particular interest in medication review and improving quality use of medicines for patients and continues to practice as a consultant pharmacist.

Immediately before arriving at UTS in 2016 as part-time pharmacist teacher, she worked in medication review and improving quality use of medicines for patients.

She continues to practice as a consultant pharmacist and is also involved in several interdisciplinary teaching roles.

Helen teaches
• pharmacology to Master of Clinical Psychology Students in two subjects,
• as part of the Stroke Interprofessional Learning group and
• pharmacology and antimicrobial stewardship for nurse practitioners.
• Across 60 per cent of the UTS Masters of Pharmacy degree

In 2019, with staff from UTS Postgraduate Futures and the WentWest GP Pharmacist Education Program project team, Helen helped design and develop the Graduate Certificate in Advanced Pharmacy Practice which had its first intake of students in 2020.

“I started at UTS as a practitioner teacher and then discovered that I love teaching,” she said.

“Over the last eleven years, I have transitioned from a pharmacist teacher to an accomplished university educator with a passion for providing high quality authentic learning experiences for my students. In 2025 I was thrilled to be recognised as a Senior Fellow of Advanced HE for my leading role in facilitating the teaching of my colleagues."

“I look forward to continuing to grow and improve in the years to come and can’t wait to see where the students I teach take their careers.”

David has worked as a clinical psychologist in a variety of community-based and inpatient mental health settings since 2001, and he has particular experience in the treatment of anxiety disorders. He has conducted numerous research projects in clinical settings and was a Senior Research Fellow in trauma and mental health in the School of Psychiatry UNSW and St John of God Health Care - Richmond hospital before commencing his current role.

His research aims to optimise treatment outcomes for people with posttraumatic and anxiety disorders by focusing on the translation of research findings to routine clinical practice.

David was a National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Early Career Fellow (2017-2020) and in recent years has been a chief investigator of numerous projects funded by the Australian Research Council (ARC) and Australian Rotary Health. He is an endorsed clinical psychologist and supervisor with the Psychology Board of Australia and also supervises postgraduate research projects.

David is not currently in a position to provide supervision to additional postgraduate research students.

Chinmayee is a part-time higher degree research student at UTS, Australia and works as a genetic counsellor at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, USA. She has experience in multiple genetic counselling specialties; molecular diagnostics, neuromuscular conditions and pediatric oncology. She has also been extensively involved with training and supervision of graduate students, residents and fellows through lectures, clinical rotations and research mentoring. Through her doctoral work, Chinmayee is hoping to hone her research skills and contribute to the field of genetic counselling globally. 

Dr Helen L. Blake is an Adjunct Fellow in speech pathology at University of Technology, Sydney. A certified practicing speech pathologist, she is a member of the working party that developed Speech Pathology Australia’s national position paper and clinical guidelines for Working in a Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Society and a member of the International Expert Panel on Multilingual Children’s Speech. Helen’s research focuses on English proficiency, intelligibility, and participation of multilingual speakers in Australia. Helen has previously led the Speech Intelligibility Clinic, University of Newcastle. Helen’s work in Intelligibility Enhancement in multilingual speakers is informed by her previous role as a standardisation officer in Air Traffic Control.

Caroline Bowen AM PhD CPSP is a retired Australian Speech-Language Pathologist. She is an Adjunct Fellow (Academic) in Speech Pathology in the Graduate School of Health at the University of Technology (UTS) in Sydney Australia, and an Honorary Research Fellow in the School of Health Sciences (Speech-Language Pathology) at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban South Africa. As well, she is a Certified Practicing Member of Speech Pathology Australia, a Fellow of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, a Life Member of Speech Pathology Australia, and an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists.

Dr Bowen is interested in evidence-based practice and research translation; implementation science; children's speech, language, and reading development and disorders; families’ role in SLP/SLT intervention; applications of information and communication technology in allied health; and the impacts of science and pseudoscience on clinical and education practice.

Since 2005 she has presented child-speech related Continuing Professional Development (CPD) events nationally within Australia, and internationally in many locations.

She was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) on January 26, 2018.

Personal website https://www.speech-language-therapy.com/

Dr Lucy Bryant is a Senior Lecturer in Speech Pathology at UTS, and a certified practising speech pathologist. She has over a decade of experience working with children and adults across community, private practice and university clinics, supporting them to develop their communication. Her passion grew from a belief that everyone should have access to the basic human right of communication, and all that comes with it in terms of social, educational, and workplace opportunities. She has a particular interest in langugae development and rehabilitation across the lifespan, and how people process, understand, and express meaning. Her work has a significant focus on technology and the opportunities for communication access and inclusion that come from new and evolving communication and information technologies. 

Lucy completed her PhD at the University of Newcastle, Australia (July 2018), examining the implementation of discourse (language sample) analysis in clinical practice for people with aphasia following stroke. In her clinical practice and research, she has focused on how we understand and formulate messages and meaning in the brain, especially after brain injury, stroke or other disability. Her work in this space helped to launch the international collaboration Focusing on the Quality of Spoken Discourse in Aphasia (FOQUS Aphasia) with colleagues in the USA and UK.

Lucy has a strong clinical and research interest in the role of technology in society and communication, and is exploring developments in technology, particularly Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality. Her work with technology teams at UTS and through industry has led to innovative new applications to support language learning, recovery, and access for people with communication disability across the lifespan. Lucy is the Theme Lead for Professional Practice and Education in the UTS INSIGHT Digital Health Collaborative. Her role relates to collaborative approaches to upskilling health students and professionals in the effective use of technology in their roles, to benefit all Australians who access the health system.

Her current work is split between teaching, research and working in the speech pathology clinic at UTS that gives free treatment to the public and provides students with clinical experience. Lucy’s intersecting roles across these domains give her the unique opportunity to conduct clinically meaningful research and educate the next generation of speech pathologists to support language learning, and use technology in ways that will improve access to communication.

I am a Senior Clinical Psychologist with nearly 20 years of clinical experience. I worked in the public sector for 18 years working with the LGBTQ+ community in the context of HIV and sexual health, and currently operate a clinical practice in the Sydney CBD. I also teach and supervise clinical and research students in the Master of Clinical Psychology in the Graduate School of Health at the University of Technology Sydney.

My passion is the improvement of mental health and quality of life for marginalised and vulnerable populations/communities, through both my clinical work and translational research projects. I strongly advocate bringing together clinical practice and translational research, as I believe evidence should inform clinical practice and practice should guide the evidence-base. During my time in NSW Health, I chaired a committee to strengthen the research capacity of psychologists who are employed clinically in South East Sydney LHD, and was a senior member of staff involved in service redesign projects.

In 2019, I was awarded a Health Education and Training Institute (HETI) Mental Health Research Award to facilitate the completion of my PhD.

Rachelle is a pharmacist and senior lecturer at the School of Clinical and Health  Sciences, Discipline of Pharmacy at UTS. She has a PhD in health economics and pharmacy practice research where she explored the economic impact of medication non-adherence and the financial effect this has on national and international healthcare systems. She has expertise in a variety of areas including implementation science, change management, medication adherence, health economics and service design and feasibility.

Saoirse is a cognitive psychologist who investigates how people think and form beliefs, especially in determining which information to trust. Her primary focus is on how individuals use cues like the reliability of the source, the frequency of exposure to information, and the level of agreement or disagreement among different sources. She examines how these factors influence individuals' perceptions of the intentions and expertise of information sources, as well as how they contribute to the acceptance of claims made by those sources.

To explore these ideas, she conducts experiments to examine how indicators of credibility and agreement impact decision-making in real-world contexts. Her findings are crucial for understanding misinformation, especially in legal, health, and political contexts. They also aid in developing strategies to mitigate the effects of misinformation.

Originally from the UK, Saoirse earned her PhD from City, University of London, in 2018. Her doctoral research focused on why people continue to believe misinformation even after it has been corrected. After completing her PhD, she worked at the University of New South Wales and the University of Sydney, where she explored how beliefs about the generation of evidence affect our perceptions of information. She has also been exploring the prevalence and impact of misleading information related to sexual and reproductive health.

Deb Mitchison is a clinical psychologist, researcher and educator. She has specialised in eating disorders since 2009. According to ScholarGPS, Deb is the #10 ranked eating disorder scholar globally, based on the productivity and citations of her work over the past 5 years. Deb's research focuses on understanding the prevalence, distribution, determinants, and health service use associated with eating disorders and related concerns. Primary methodological approaches that she employs includes population-based cohort studies, registry-based research, and program evaluations. Noteworthy research programs Deb has led/is leading include:

• The TrEAT Registry, which is the first registry for community-based eating disorder treatment registered on the Australian Register of Clinical Registries (ACSQHC-ARCR-279). This registry is a partnership with clinical leaders across eating disorder speciality clinics in Australia and New Zealand. Information collected in the registry is fed back to clinicians and services to support treatment monitoring, and the de-identified database is used by researchers. 

• The EveryBODY Study, a cohort study investigating eating disorders and associated risk factors among 5000 NSW adolescents over ther period 2017-2020. This longitudinal dataset has been used in 30 publications to date, including studies that have documented the prevalence of diverse eating disorders and muscle dysmorphia, and examined risk factors for developing eating disorders such as social media use and social fears.       

Matt is a Lecturer and ARC-DECRA fellow in the Discipline of Psychology at the School of Clinical and Health Sciences.

He is an internationally recognised cognitive neuroscientist and early-career researcher specialising in the neuroscience of consciousness. His research interests span how changes in brain activity, structure and function impact our behaviour and subjective experience. He is an expert in experimental psychology and electroencephalography (EEG), receiving his PhD from Monash University, and completing two post-doctoral fellowships at the University of Oxford (UK) and University of Sydney.

As a postdoc at the University of Oxford his research investigated human-decision making using brain-computer-interfaces and human-machine teaming. Recently, at the University of Sydney, he developed a wireless virtual reality and mobile-EEG protocol for testing active perception while walking in naturalistic environments.

His research has been published in numerous prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, eLife, NeuroImage and PLOS Biology, and has reached a large national audience through plain-language summaries and appearances on public and commercial radio.

He is currently investigating how the brain, body, and environment co-create our subjective experience, with a focus on dynamic changes in perception that occur within the stride-cycle.

At UTS, he is the subject coordinator for 96633 Research Methods in Psychology in the undergraduate Bachelor of Psychology programs.