The Centre for Research and Knowledge Exchange in Psychological Wellbeing (CREW) brings together the School of Psychology’s unique disciplinary composition and expertise, spanning experimental and developmental psychology, cognitive neuroscience, counselling psychology, and arts and play therapies.

Our multidisciplinary approach seeks to improve the understanding of factors that influence health, mental health, and wellbeing; and to develop strategies and interventions to improve mental health and wellbeing in adults and adolescents. Collectively, members within CREW, and their collaborators, are working to enhance our understanding of the social, psychological, and biological mechanisms that affect mental health and wellbeing. CREW also aims to strengthen and broaden our School’s knowledge exchange to better reflect and utilise the multidisciplinary strengths of our researchers and staff engaged in professional practice activities. 

CREW works as a strategic coordinating body for our four disciplinary themes in:

• Applied Research and Assessment in Child and Adolescent Well-being (CARACAW)
• International Research in the Arts and Play Therapies (CIRAPT)
• Research in Cognition, Neuroscience, and Neuroimaging (CNNI)
• Research in Social and Psychological Transformation (CREST)