Prof David Lawrence
Professor David Lawrence has extensive experience as a statistician, survey methodologist and social researcher. His research experience covers a range of disciplines including biostatistics and epidemiology, mental health and Indigenous wellbeing.
David led Young Minds Matter: The Second Australian Child and Adolescent Survey of Mental Health and Wellbeing and was on the sample design team for the collection of national data for the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children. David has practical experience in large-scale survey design and an in-depth understanding of cutting-edge statistical techniques in cross-sectional, longitudinal, and linked administrative data designs.
Project leadership
For the first time, a nationwide research project investigated the mental health and wellbeing of Australia’s emergency service staff and volunteers. Beyond Blue in collaboration with the CRC, surveyed 20,000 current and former personnel from 33 police and emergency organisations across Australia about their mental health and risk of suicide.
Research team
| Type | Project | Research team |
|---|---|---|
| Tactical Research Fund | Positive mental health in young adult emergency services personnel | jcocks, slawn, dlawrence, wrikkers, louiseroberts, mashe, amcfarlane, rroberts, pdelfabbro, hcaruso, mvanhooff |
Resources credited
| Type | Released | Title | Download | Key Topics |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HazardNoteEdition | 16 Jun 2021 | How to promote and protect the mental health of young emergency service volunteers |
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mental health, resilience, volunteering |
| Presentation-Slideshow | 18 Sep 2018 | Answering the call- Mental health and wellbeing in the police and emergency services sector. |
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emergency management, multi-hazard |
| Presentation-Slideshow | 18 Apr 2017 | National Survey of Mental Health and Wellbeing of Police and Emergency Services |
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