Park Centre for Mental Health

Big data and psychiatry: advances, constraints and future directions.

Early work in psychiatry research, often involving single sites, small samples, and limited variables, has shifted to contemporary research involving multiple sites, large samples, and many variables. Such research raises important questions, including concerns about data quality...

Media, police shootings and mental illness: Is stigma a problem?

Objectives: Fatal police shootings in Australia have increased in recent years, with a substantial portion of these incidents involving individuals with mental illness and often attracting extensive media coverage. This study investigates whether mainstream newspaper reporting us...