Health, Disability and Lifespan Development Research Unit

Welcome!

The Health, Disability and Lifespan Development Research Unit (HDLD) is designed to provide a focus for research in health psychology, disability, rehabilitation and health service delivery, and healthy development across the lifespan.

It represents a coalescence of the School's existing Disabilities Research Unit directed by Dr Neil Kirby, and the Primary Mental Health Care Research Unit directed by Professor Helen Winefield and Professor Deborah Turnbull, with colleague School of Psychology researchers whose interests focus on human health and wellbeing through the lifespan, from birth to old age. These fields are linked by a common interest in the assessment and theoretical explanation of the determinants of individual well-being, both physical and psychosocial, how these are affected by age, gender, socioeconomic status and psychological variables, the evaluation of interventions to promote health and wellbeing, and the health policy implications of all these matters.

Please use the menu to the left to navigate through the HDLD research unit website.

To read more about HDLD goals and seminars please view the HDLD flier.