Dr. Melanie Zimmer-Gembeck and the Zlab
Current and Past Research Projects
CURRENT RESEARCH FUNDING
New!! 2024-2028 NHMRC Partnership Project.
The Tracking Cube: Improving health equity by screening for fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) in primary healthcare.
Dianne Shanley, Erinn Hawkins, Ngiare Brown, Kurt Towers, CIE Melanie Zimmer-Gembeck, Robert Ware, Joshua Byrnes, Natasha Reid, Sheena Reilly, Doug Shelton.
2023-2024 Australian Sports Commission Participation Grant Round.
The RISE Rugby League Development Program.
Hinchey, J., Lawry, C., Castle, M.
Griffith University Life-Fit Team of Allison Waters, Rachel Sluis, Lara Farrell, Caroline Donovan, Kathryn Modecki, Melanie Zimmer-Gembeck.
2023 Griffith Centre for Mental Health Areas of Strategic Investment.
Neglect, Hostile Environments, and Child Development.
Kathryn Modecki, Jacqueline Allen, Silke Meyer, Ned Chandler-Mather, Katherine Reid, Michola Sheeran, Matthew Gullo, Matthew McKenzie, Paul Harnett, Mark Kebbell, Sharon Dawe, Melanie Zimmer-Gembeck.
2023 Griffith Centre for Mental Health Grant Development Scheme.
Protective Factors in Mental Health: Identifying Cognitive and Social Factors that can Reduce the Negative Impact of Upward Social Comparisons Online.
Melanie Zimmer-Gembeck.
2023 School of Applied Psychology (Griffith University) Research Development Scheme.
Approaches to supporting school media literacy education among adolescents.
Riley Scott, Melanie Zimmer-Gembeck, Sarah Prestridge, Jaimee Stuart.
2023 School of Applied Psychology (Griffith University) Research Development Scheme.
Closing the gap: A randomized controlled trial of staged- care treatment for children and young people with obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Lara Farrell, Allison Waters, Caroline Donovan, Melanie Zimmer-Gembeck, Matthew McKenzie, Gabrielle Simcock.
2023-2024 Growing Minds Australia Nonresponder Trial
Testing follow-up pharmacotherapy for anxious children who do not respond to first-line psychological treatment
Ron Rapee, Allison Waters, Emma Sciberras, Frances Doyle, Valsamma Eapen, Cathrine Mihalopoulos, Melanie Zimmer-Gembeck et al.
2022-2024 Australian Research Council Discovery Project
Parenting in an unsteady world across nations
Melanie Zimmer-Gembeck, Jaimee Stuart, Stijn Van Petegem, Bart Soenens, Gregoire Zimmerman
2021-2026 NHMRC Partnership Project Grant
A tiered approach to the diagnosis of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder in Remote Indigenous Primary Care Settings
Dianne Shanley, Melanie Zimmer-Gembeck, Karen Moritz, Sheena Reilly, Rob Ware, Joshua Byrnes, Sharon Rundle-Thiele, Amanda Wheeler, Kerryann Walsh
2019-2023 National Health & Medical Research Council Project Grant
Increasing access to low-intensity, evidence-based interventions for childhood anxiety disorders: A nationwide randomised controlled trial
Allison Waters, Melanie Zimmer-Gembeck, Michelle Craske, Danny Pine, Caroline Donovan, Sue Spence, Lara Farrell, Downes
2018-2023 National Health & Medical Research Council Project Grant
One-session treatment for specific phobias in pre-school children: Improving access and long-term mental health outcomes – The POP trial
Lara Farrell, Tom Ollendick, Caroline Donovan, Allison Waters, Sue Spence, Melanie Zimmer-Gembeck
2003-2025 Queensland (Australia) Department of Child Safety, Youth and Women
www.familyinteractionprogram.com.au
The Family Interaction Program: Research and service to improve parent-child relationships
Melanie Zimmer-Gembeck, Director
PAST RESEARCH FUNDING (SINCE 2012)
2019-2023 Australian Research Council Discovery Project
Uncovering the Toolbox for Youth Resilience: Flexible Coping Responses to Stress
Melanie Zimmer-Gembeck, Kathryn Modecki, Allison Waters, Amanda Duffy, Lara Farrell, David Shum, Ellen Skinner
2022 Griffith University Health Group Seed Grant
Am I not attractive enough? Pathways, perpetuating factors, and protective behaviours in response to appearance-based cybervictimisation in young adults
Veya Seekis, Amanda Duffy, Melanie Zimmer-Gembeck
2019-2021 Rotary Mental Health Grant
Improving the mental health of young Australians in sport: A partnership project with the National Rugby League
Allison Waters, Wayne Usher, Lara Farrell, Caroline Donovan, Kathryn Modecki,
Melanie Zimmer-Gembeck, Ron Castle, Mike Hinchey
2019-2020 Griffith University and The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Collaborative Research Grant
Development of a novel imagery intervention to change implicit theories about willpower: Evaluation in Australian and Chinese university students
Kyra Hamilton, Jacob Keech, Martin Hagger, Melanie Zimmer-Gembeck, and Zhu Tsang
2018-2019 Griffith University and The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Collaborative Research Grant
Mindsets, individual differences, coping, and health: An investigation among Australian and Hong Kong university students
Kyra Hamilton, Melanie Zimmer-Gembeck, and Zhu Tsang
2018-2020 Australian Federal Government FASD Diagnostic Services and Models of Care Grant Opportunity
Development and delivery of evidence-based models of care in communities at high risk of FASD
Sharon Dawe, Doug Shelton, Webster, Featherstone, Kruske, Burns, Paul Harnett, Mary Katsikitis, Frances O’Callaghan, Melanie Zimmer-Gembeck
2019 Dutch University Visiting Travel Fellowship
Nederlands Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research)
Melanie Zimmer-Gembeck & Susan Branje
2017-2019 Australian Research Council Discovery Project
Dissatisfied, Preoccupied, and Distressed about Appearance: Teasing and Victimisation as Toxic to Adolescents
Melanie Zimmer-Gembeck, Allison Waters, Haley Webb, Lara Farrell, Drew Nesdale, Geraldine Downey, Wyndol Furman
2013-2017 Australian Research Council, Linkage Grant
Empowering and protecting children by enhancing knowledge, skills and well-being: A randomised trial of Learn to BE SAFE with Emmy™
Melanie Zimmer-Gembeck, Dianne Shanley, Kerryann Walsh, Russell Hawkins, Katrina Lines, ACT for Kids
2014-2016 National Health and Medical Research Council Project Grant
Improving outcomes of evidence-based behaviour therapy for paediatric obsessive-compulsive disorder: a translational efficacy trial of d-cycloserine augmented intensive behaviour therapy
Lara Farrell, Allison Waters, Eric Storch, Brett McDermott, Harry McConnell, Jennifer Hudson, Daniel Geller, Thomas Ollendick, Melanie Zimmer-Gembeck, Evelin Tiralongo
2014-2016 Australian Rotary Mental Health Grant Scheme
Helping young Australians to “Look for Good”: A school-based trial of positive attention training to increase children’s emotional health and prevent anxiety and depression
Allison Waters, Melanie Zimmer-Gembeck, Karin Mogg, Brendan Bradley, Michelle Craske
2013-2015 Australian Research Council Discovery Project
Appearance-based Rejection Sensitivity from Childhood to Adolescence: Victimisation, Mental Health Consequences, and Rejection Resilience
Melanie Zimmer-Gembeck, Allison Waters, Drew Nesdale, Lara Farrell, Geraldine Downey
2012-2014 Australian Research Council Discovery Project
The Future of Childhood Anxiety Treatment: Translating Cognitive-Neuroscience Insights into Clinical Practice
Allison Waters, Melanie Zimmer-Gembeck, Daniel Pine, Michelle Craske, Karin Mogg, Brendan Bradley
2012-2013 Funded by Areas of Strategic Investment, Griffith Health Institute, Griffith University
Enhancing outcomes for children with anxiety disorders: An interdisciplinary approach to innovative treatments
Allison Waters, Lara Farrell, Laetitia Hattingh, Harry McConnell, Melanie Zimmer-Gembeck, Caroline Donovan, Thomas Ollendick
2010-2012 Australian Research Council Discovery Project
Rejection Sensitivity in Children and Adolescents: Antecedents, Consequences, and the Promotion of Rejection Resilience
Drew Nesdale, Melanie J Zimmer-Gembeck, Geraldine Downey