Senior Research Fellow
Edith is a Senior Research Fellow (PhD) at the ACBRD. Edith was awarded a prestigious National Health and Medical Research Council Emerging Leadership Investigator Grant (2025-29) to establish a national mental health and diabetes monitoring system and develop a mental health and diabetes resource hub.
Edith has extensive experience working across a range of chronic conditions, including diabetes, oncology and eye health. Her principal research interests focus on the implementation of evidence-based interventions into practice to support the mental health and wellbeing of adults living with diabetes. She has developed novel methods for evaluating the delivery, implementation, and sustainability of interventions in practice.
Since commencing at the ACBRD in 2018, Edith has established a leadership role co-leading one of the ACBRD’s research themes: ‘Emotional Health’. Within this theme she is lead CI on two research programs. ‘Mental Health IN Diabetes Monitoring and Pathways (MIND-MAP)’ supported by a Deakin Executive Dean Health Research Fellowship (2022-25) and an NHMRC Emerging Leadership Fellowship (2025-29) and the Low-Intensity mental health Support via a Telehealth Enabled Network (LISTEN) trial supported by the MRFF Targeted Translation Research Accelerator scheme (2021-2024). Her research programs build directly on her expertise in mental health and chronic conditions, cohort studies, randomised controlled trials, intervention development, qualitative research and community engagement and are supported by over $2.5 million in funding.
Edith supervisors and mentors several staff and students at the ACBRD/Deakin.