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Professor Andrea Lamont-Mills

Professor Andrea Lamont-Mills
Name Andrea Lamont-Mills
Pronoun She/Her/Hers
Position Associate Dean (Research)
Section Academic Affairs Administration
Office I323
Location Ipswich Campus
Phone +61 7 3812 6159
Extension 6159
Email
Qualifications BA(Hons) Tas , PhD USQ
Homepage https://research.usq.edu.au/researcher/80z72/prof-andrea-lamont-mills
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Executive Support

  • Human Movement and Sports Science not elsewhere classified ( 110699 )
  • Mental Health ( 111714 )
  • Psychology ( 170100 )
  • Mental Health Services ( 420313 )
  • Health Services And Systems ( 420300 )
  • Clinical Psychology ( 520302 )
  • Applied And Developmental Psychology ( 520100 )
  • Clinical And Health Psychology ( 520300 )
  • Sport And Exercise Psychology ( 520107 )
  • Health Psychology ( 520304 )
  • Counselling Psychology ( 520303 )

I am leading a program of research investigating how individuals with lived experience of suicide are kept safe. There are two broad research areas we are investigating:

- keeping safe online

- keeping safe when an individual has moved into a suicide readiness state

Our focus is on those who have survived a suicide attempt as survivors are often an overlooked population for suicide research yet they are most at risk of taking their own life.

The keeping safe online is the largest research area and our interest is on who uses online spaces for suicide related reasons and how do they use these online spaces. We are interested in what occurs in these spaces, how these can be safe spaces or made safe, and how are those at risk moved to a place of safety. Our interest is not on whether the space is a risky place to talk about suicide but on how they can be safe places to talk about suicidal experiences and how are these spaces being used to talk about suicide.

We use real-life data to investigate the above phenomena and adopt a variety of research frameworks that include Ecological Momentary Assessment, Conversation Analysis, Discursive Psychology, Narrative Analysis, Thematic Analysis, Survey Designs, Scoping Reviews, and Membership Category Analysis.


Registered Psychologist
Member of the Australian Psychological Society
Affiliate Member of the Queensland Counselling Association


Member of the Australasian Telehealth Society
Member of the Society for Mental Health Research
Member of the Transcript and Analysis Group
Member of the UQ QualHealth Researchers Network
Member of the International Society for Conversation Analysis Research
Member of Suicide Prevention Australia
Member of the Australian and New Zealand Mental Health Association
Member of the National Tertiary Education Union


  • Institute for Resilient Regions (IRR)
  • Centre for Health, Informatics and Economic Research (CHIER)

22 Years


Associate Dean, Research, Faculty of Health, Engineering and Sciences


  • Human Movement and Sports Science not elsewhere classified ( 110699 )
  • Mental Health ( 111714 )
  • Mental Health Services ( 420313 )
  • Health Services And Systems ( 420300 )
  • Clinical Psychology ( 520302 )
  • Applied And Developmental Psychology ( 520100 )
  • Clinical And Health Psychology ( 520300 )
  • Sport And Exercise Psychology ( 520107 )
  • Health Psychology ( 520304 )
  • Counselling Psychology ( 520303 )