Conversations with the people running Australia's current health and mental health studies, in plain language. Including the ones looking for everyday people to take part.
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Each entry links to the official registry listing, which is always the authority on eligibility and how to join. We explain the research. The researchers run it.
Professor Gery Karantzas, Science of Adult Relationships Lab, Deakin University
A free online program for couples where alcohol or other drugs have started affecting the relationship, run with Odyssey. Gery explains what the program involves, why treating substance use as an individual problem leaves couples stuck, and how much of relationship distress comes down to how badly we read each other.
The register grows with every episode. New entries are added as each conversation goes to air.
I'm Leah Veenhuizen. I'm a registered nurse and a Master of Counselling student, and across more than a decade in hospitals and community health I watched the same thing happen over and over. People waiting months, and paying more than they could afford, for support that researchers up the road were offering for free to anyone who joined their study.
This is not a new interest. For a year I hosted Just A Thought with Leah V on 94.7 The Pulse in Geelong, a program about normalising conversations in mental health and wellbeing, where I interviewed researchers from across Australia about the work they had underway. Those conversations were the best part of the job, and they were always too short.
Almost nobody hears about that research until years after it finishes. Emerging Evidence exists to close that gap: to sit down with the people running current Australian studies, ask them what they are actually trying to find out, and put it in language that makes sense to the rest of us.
The show is editorial, not recruitment. If you are a researcher, or you work in communications for a university or institute, our editorial policy sets out exactly how we handle research, what we will and will not say on air, and how to get in touch.
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