Meet the Team

A/Prof Bridget Hamilton is the Director of the CentreMHN, leading the team of clinical nurse academics and consumer academics. Bridget is a registered mental health nurse with a 30 plus year career working as a clinician, manager, educator and researcher in public sector services.

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Vrinda Edan is the Senior Consumer Academic

Cath Roper is a Senior Consumer Academic at Centre for MHN. Cath has held the pioneering role of consumer academic at the CentreMHN since 2000. Using perspectives arising from lived experience of mental health services, Cath develops and co-delivers training across specialist mental health service setting.

Cathie Miller is a Mental Health Nurse Academic at Centre MHN. Cathie is a mental health nurse who has worked for the past 14+ years in a variety of clinical service settings within the ACT and Victoria. More recently she has moved to an education role where she is proud to support the development of current and new generations of mental health nurses.

Dr Teresa Kelly is a Mental Health Nurse Academic at CentreMHN. Teresa is a mental health nurse who holds academic qualifications in Gestalt therapy and Health Information Management and commenced at the CentreMHN in October 2017.  Teresa’s PhD research project was supported by a 2014 NHMRC/ National Heart Foundation Postgraduate Scholarship.

Roshani Prematunga is a Research Assistant at CentreMHN. Roshani has been at the CentreMHN since June 2009.
As a core part of the research team at the CentreMHN, Roshani has been involved in numerous research projects and her background in Public Health statistics and economic analysis brings valuable research skills to the CentreMHN.

Megan Porter is the Programs, Events and Communications Officer at the CentreMHN. Megan joined the team in January 2019 and communicates and promotes the CentreMHN through social media, website and other digital/non-digital channels.

Indigo Daya is a Consumer Academic at the CentreMHN, and an Honorary Fellow at the Melbourne Social Equity Institute. Indigo has lived experience as a survivor of childhood trauma, madness and coercive mental health services.

Hamilton Kennedy is a Consumer Academic at the CentreMHN. They have a lived experience of madness and psychiatric hospitalisation which informs their work. This work centres on safety and improving the experience of mental health consumers in services.

Wanda Bennetts is a Consumer Academic at the CentreMHN. Wanda has a background in education and a lived experience of mental health services.Wanda's worked in a variety of consumer perspective roles since 2000, mostly at a systemic level.The roles have included Consumer Consultant, consumer researcher, educator, senior advisor, freelance worker and Senior Policy Advisor - consumer portfolio holder at DHHS

Nina Joffee-Kohn is a Consumer Academic at the CentreMHN

Natasha Swigler is a Consumer Academic at the CentreMHN