Weaving Wellbeing – new episodes for QLD Mental Health Week 2025

For QLD Mental health week we hear from:

• Tasha Winsor Okeefe: With lived experience of ADHD, Tasha has researched parenting of ADHD youth and in her PhD looks at mental health of people with ADHD.
• Dr Aastha Malhotra: “Pracademic” and Senior lecture in social work and human services, UniSQ. Aastha talks about her interest in social enterprises research and how people come together to do good in their communities through collaborative organisations and businesses.
• Associate Professor Melissa Forbes:  from the School of Creative Arts shares the joys of singing for mental wellness and connection, no matter how bad (or good) you are at it!
• Tarra Excell:  Tarra is an ally who as a research master’s student who evaluated the effectiveness of an intervention to improve workers knowledge and practice working with LGBTQI+ people at Lifeline Darling Downs. She is now starting a PhD looking at how to improve life for people who were born intersex.
• Amber Johnson: Mental Health Social Worker, advocate and ‘accidental’ research student, Amber is in the final year of a PhD in Psychology at UniSQ.  Amber’s research examines the mental health of ‘plurisexual’ (multi-gender attracted) young Australians. She shares with us her survival tips for a Phd and how she moved into social work.