Dr Chloe Fletcher
Research Fellow
School of Allied Health and Human Performance
College of Health
Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD (as Co-Supervisor) - email supervisor to discuss availability.
Chloe is a mental health researcher and practitioner, with broad research interests in mental health and suicide prevention, psychosocial disability, chronic illness, and stress and coping. Embedded within her work is a strong commitment to co-design approaches to intervention development that centre lived experience. She has a keen interest in implementation science to ensure that evidence-based interventions and research findings can be integrated into routine practice and systems.
Chloe's PhD was conferred in January 2021. Her doctoral research explored illness perceptions among adolescents and young adults with a parent with cancer, with a focus on how different types of illness perceptions were associated with mental health outcomes. She developed and conducted an initial validation of a quantitative measure that could be used to assess illness perceptions (see: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/pon.6168), with the aim of informing therapeutic intervention. She has published three papers describing this research.
Chloe currently works in the Department of Rural Health at the University of South Australia and is involved in a range of research projects. These include ongoing work related to www.ifarmwell.com.au (e.g., development, delivery and evaluation of supportive interventions for farmers and rural people) and the co-design, implementation, and evaluation of www.icanactnow.com.au (a freely available, self-guided wellbeing resource for the general population).
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Farmer-Focused, Evidence-Informed Mental Health and Wellbeing Campaign, SA Dept of Primary Industries and Regions, 01/07/2025 - 30/09/2026
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Leveraging ‘Kick off ya Boots’ screenings to create greater resilience amongst the wider Ag communities around regional South Australia, SA Research and Development Institute (SARDI), 25/08/2025 - 31/05/2026
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Hearing Distressing Voices Simulation Workshop for regional and rural health and mental health workers: a feasibility Clinical
Trial/Teletrial, MRFF - Clinical Trials and Registries, 27/02/2025 - 27/02/2026
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Strengthening wellbeing and deepening social support in a drought-affected, agricultural-dependent community with the help of ‘Wellbeing Warriors’ to promote health and wellbeing within their networks, Foundation for Rural and Regional Renewal, 01/02/2022 - 31/01/2023