Researcher

Associate Professor Michelle Helen Tye

Fields of Research (FoR)

Public Health and Health Services, Epidemiology, Mental Health

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Biography

Dr Michelle Tye is an Associate Professor at the Black Dog Institute (UNSW) and a NHMRC Emerging Leader 2 Investigator. She is the lead of an innovative, interdisciplinary, translational research lab at the Black Dog Institute that aims to impact the lives of young Australians through the development of new ways of understanding and preventing suicidal thoughts and behaviours. Her vision is to develop an 'eco-system' approach for youth suicide...view more

Dr Michelle Tye is an Associate Professor at the Black Dog Institute (UNSW) and a NHMRC Emerging Leader 2 Investigator. She is the lead of an innovative, interdisciplinary, translational research lab at the Black Dog Institute that aims to impact the lives of young Australians through the development of new ways of understanding and preventing suicidal thoughts and behaviours. Her vision is to develop an 'eco-system' approach for youth suicide prevention which ensures that effective interventions are delivered to young people in the right settings, at scale, and early enough to prevent suicidal crisis. She was the Deputy Director of the LifeSpan suicide prevention trial, which represents the first multi-strategy approach to suicide prevention ever to be tested in Australia. She is currently the principal investigator of a body of research on digital solutions for young people who experience suicidal ideation, and is working with the NSW Department of Education to embed early childhood universal prevention programs for mental health and wellbeing into primary schools. She has worked in academic research settings at UNSW for over 18 years (2005 to 2015: at the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre; 2015 - present: Black Dog Institute) and had a leadership role of a number of epidemiological and clinical studies in both addiction and suicidology. She has a strong publication track record (>105 papers; H-index: 22), and has been named on more than $24 million of funding since  being awarded her PhD in September 2015. Her supervisory experience to date includes 4 PhD candidates and over 14 ILP students. She has a strong focus on the development of students and emerging researchers, and founded a training and development group for PhD candidates and early career researchers at the Black Dog Institute. She is a founding member of the SHAPE network, a national capacity building program for early-mid career researchers working across social sciences, arts, and humanities.  

 


My Grants

 

  • Shand, F., Larsen, M., Tye, M. Rapid review of aftercare. Sax Institute. Value $25,000.
  • Torok, M. Cyberbullying and suicide prevention. Black Dog Foundation. Value: $75,000
  • CIs: O’Dea, B., Larsen, M., MacKinnon, A., Glozier, N. AIs: Werner-Seidler, A., Torok, M. Using social media data to identify markers of depression risk among individuals: A longitudinal cohort study (APP1165233). NHMRC Project Grant. Value: $324,452.40
  • Torok, M. The Good Behaviour Game. IMPACT Philanthropy Application Program. Value: $27,456.
  • Cockayne, N., Eliff, K., Torok, M., Christensen, H. Development of an app for managing suicide risk in youth. SVA Diversified Impact Fund. Value: $165,400.
  • Centre for Research Excellence in Suicide Prevention: CRESP II. National Health and Medical Research Council Centre for Research Excellence (APP1152952). Chief Investigators:  Christensen, H., Venkatesh, S., Boydell, K., Shand, F., Harvey, S., Batterham, P., Calear, A., Carter, G., Larsen, M., Robinson, J. Associate Investigators: Teesson, M., O'Dea, B., Shaw, F., Cutler, H., Huckvale, K., Torok, M., Boonstra, T., Ooie, J., Proudfoot, J., Li, A., Epps, J. Value: $2.46M
  • Torok, M., Cockayne, N. Anika Foundation Scholarship for PhD in Suicide Prevention. $105,000. Anika Foundation.
  • Torok, M. National Health and Medical Research Council Early Career Fellowship (APP1138710): A developmental approach to suicide prevention and related harm among Australian youth. Value: $327,952.00.
  • Chief Investigators: Christensen, H., Venkatesh, S., Werner-Seidler, A., Calear, A., Mackinnon, A., Hudson, J., Oei, J-L., Larsen, M., Batterham, P. Associate Investigators: Torok, M., Patton, G., Ratcliffe, J., Shaw, F., Simpson, S., Skinner, S., Steinbeck, K., Teesson, M. A RCT of depression prevention in adolescents: The Future Proofing trial (APP1138405), NHMRC Project Grant (Category 1), Value: $2.18M
  • Torok, M. Society for Mental Health Research Early Career Scholar project grant for Exploring early pathways to mental illness and related harms. An implementation, feasibility, and acceptability study, Value; $20,000.
  • Torok, M. Black Dog Institute Seed Funding for Exploring early pathways to mental illness and related harms. An implementation, feasibility, and acceptability study, Value; $20,000
  • Christensen, H., Torok, M., Shand, F., Cockayne, Batterham, Calear. Paul Ramsay Foundation for the systems approach to suicide prevention (philanthropic grant). Value: $14.76m.
  • Christensen, H., Torok, M., Shand, F., Cockayne, N. Department of Health tender for the provision of a supporting resource for primary health networks on evidence-based suicide prevention strategies (Health/060/1516), Value: $98,000.00.

 


My Qualifications

PhD in Public Health and Community Medicine: Awarded September 2015, without emendation, UNSW

Masters of Social Science (Criminology): 2011, Charles Sturt University 

Bachelor of Social Science (Criminology), Honours: 2004, UNSW


My Awards

  • Tye, M. (2023). Tom Trauer Research and Evaluation Award for the LifeSpan team, led by A/Prof M Tye and A/Prof F Shand. The Mental Health Services Network. 
  • Tye, M. (2022). The Mid-Career "Rising Star" Award. Society for Mental Health Research. 
  • Tye, M. (2020). Paul Bourke Medal for early career research excellence. The Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. 
  • Tye, M. (2019). Early Career Research Award – Innovation. The Mental Health Services Awards.
  • Tye, M. (2018). NSW Young Tall Poppy. Australian Institute of Policy and Science.
  • Tye, M. (2018). Academic Women in Leadership Program (AWIL), UNSW.
  • Digital Dog team. (2017). UNSW Innovation of the Year Award - Black Dog Institute's Digital Dog, UNSW.
  • Torok, M. (2016). Black Dog Institute Travel Award to attend the International Association for Suicide Prevention Annual meeting, Tokyo, Japan: $3,500.00
  • Torok, M. Best poster presentation (runner up) at the Brain Sciences Symposium, Sydney: $250.00
  • Torok, M. Introductory Analysis of Linked Data (PUBH5215) Course, University of Sydney.
  • CRESP Research Group. Research Focus Award 2015 awarded to the NHMRC Centre of Research Exellence in Suicide Prevention for influential and enduring contribution to the evidence base for suicide prevention, The Mental Health Services (TheMHS).
  • CRESP Research Group. LiFE Award for Excellence in Research for the NHMRC Centre for Research Excellence in Suicide Prevention, Suicide Prevention Australia.
  • Torok, M. Recipient of the Faculty of Medicine Dean’s List Award for Outstanding Research, UNSW. 
  • Torok, M. UNSW Faculty of Medicine Postgraduate Research Travel Scheme to present at the Society for Prevention Research 21st Annual Meeting, $2, 500. 

My Research Supervision


Supervision keywords


Areas of supervision

Suicide prevention

Mental health

Young people

Criminology (violence)

Epidemiology 


Currently supervising

3 PhD candidates - joint supervisor

1 PhD candidate - secondary supervisor

2 ILP students

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Location

Black Dog Institute, Prince of Wales Hospital, Randwick NSW

Contact

+61-2-9065 9152