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Senior Lecturer and Research Fellow, Victoria University

Dr Kyli Hedrick is a practising psychologist; a senior lecturer in psychology in the College of Sport, Health, and Engineering, Victoria University; and an honorary research fellow at the Centre for Mental Health, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne. Her practice, research, and teaching interests lie at the intersection of health and human rights. Kyli's PhD (undertaken at the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health) examined the epidemiology of self-harm among asylum seekers in both detained and community-based populations.

During 2022-2023, Kyli spent 12 months as a postdoctoral research fellow in refugee health at Uppsala University, Sweden - part of the Nordic Refugee Determination: Advancing Science in Migration Law (NordASIL) project.

Experience

  • 2017–present
    Director, Community-Minded Psychological Services
  • 2021–present
    Honorary research fellow, Justice Health Unit, Centre for Health Equity, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health
  • 2023–present
    Senior lecturer, Victoria University, Australia
  • 2022–2023
    Postdoctoral research fellow, Department of Public Health, Upppsala University, Sweden
  • 2021–2022
    Lecturer, School of Psychology, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
  • 2017–2021
    Psychologist and public health researcher, Centre for Mental Health, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health
  • 2014–2017
    Psychologist, Victorian Foundation for Survivors of Torture
  • 2017–2017
    Sessional Lecturer, School of Education and Counselling, Monash University
  • 2011–2013
    Sessional Lecturer, School of Psychology, Victoria University
  • 2011–2011
    Counsellor Advocate, Victorian Foundation for Survivors of Torture
  • 2008–2010
    Sessional Lecturer, School of Psychology, and School of Nursing and Midwifery, Flinders University

Education

  • 2021 
    PhD, University of Melbourne
  • 2014 
    Master of Applied Psychology (Community Psychology), Victoria University
  • 2007 
    BA (Hons) (Psychology), Flinders University
  • 2006 
    Graduate Diploma (Psychology), Flinders University
  • 1998 
    Post-Graduate Diploma (SocSci), La Trobe
  • 1997 
    Bachelor of Arts , La Trobe