Professor Anna Chur-Hansen is a Registered Psychologist with Endorsement in Health, and a Fellow of the Australian Psychological Society's College of Health Psychologists. In October 2013 she left the School of Medicine Discipline of Psychiatry, when she was employed since 1987, to become the Head of the School of Psychology. She holds a PhD in Medical Education. Her research is principally in Health Professional Education and Health Psychology. In the latter area she has a particular interest in companion animals and human mental and physical health.

Professor Marita McCabe is a highly regarded academic who conducts theoretical and applied research in the areas of body image disorders, aging, depression, sexual health and the mental health and wellbeing of Indigenous people across the lifespan. She has published more than 400 refereed articles in these areas. Professor Marita McCabe is the Team Leader of the Health and Ageing Research Group at Swinburne University of Technology. She has conducted a range of research studies to address depression and behavioural problems associated with dementia among older people. Her research team and postgraduate students have investigated the prevalence of depression among older people in both residential and community care and have developed and evaluated a staff training program to assist them to detect depression among older people. These projects have been supported by research grants from beyondblue and Australian Research Council and National Health and Medical Research Council. Professor McCabe has also led a research team of staff and postgraduate students to implement and evaluate a staff training program to assist them to better manage behavioural problems associated with dementia. This program both reduced the behavioural problems, as well as staff burnout. These projects have been supported by funding from NHMRC, ARC, Alzheimer’s Australia and beyondblue. Most recently, professor McCabe has been conducting research to improve the physical and mental health of family carers of people with dementia in the community, as well as developing training programs for staff to promote resident choice and control (i.e. Consumer Directed Care) in residential aged care facilities. In the last 10 years she has obtained more than $12 million in Category One research funding. She is a Fellow of the Australian Psychological Society (APS) and a member of the Clinical, Health and Forensics Colleges of the APS. She is Associate Editor of Journal of Sexual Medicine and Body Image and on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Sex Research as well as two other Journals.

Completed a Bachelor of Psychological Science (Honours) in 2017 at Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia. Currently, a PhD candidate in the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Psychology), Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia.

Grant Dewar, a Health Psychologist, was a late starter in the world of psychology gaining his registration at the age of 51 through the Master of Psychology (Health). He has Masters degree in Education and has graduated in 2017 with a PhD and Master of Psychology (Clinical). He implements the scientist-practitioner model of service delivery practice in the delivery of psychological skills to the needs of individuals, families and communities. He has a particular interest in developing new approaches allowing the effective application of psychological skills to real-life settings - one such area is self-forgiveness. He has addressed a series of ACBS world conference workshops and symposia on the work he is doing to join self-forgiveness research with contextual behavioural science. His practice as a Health Psychologist has a focus on: health promotion, treatment of chronic diseases, the treatment of anxiety, depression, and the treatment of alcohol and drug use.