Our Team

The Refugee Trauma and Recovery Program is staffed by an experienced team of clinicians and researchers.

Professor Angela Nickerson RTRP Program Director

Professor Angela Nickerson
RTRP Program Director

Dr Belinda Liddell Deputy Director

Professor Belinda Liddell
Deputy Director

Dr Philippa Specker
Clinical Psychologist and Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Sarah Funnell
Clinical Psychologist

Dr Melissa Freire
Senior Research Associate

Natalie Mastrogiovanni
Provisional Psychologist and PhD/Master of Clinical Psychology Candidate

Vivian Mai
Provisional Psychologist and PhD/Master of Clinical Psychology Candidate

Stephanie Murphy
Research Officer

Anna Camilleri
Research Assistant

Jenny Im
Research Assistant

Marta Gurzeda
Research Assistant

Lab Alumni

Collaborators and visiting scholars

Professor Richard Bryant
Professor Ulrich Schnyder
Dr Naser Morina
Dr Lonneke Lenferink
Tobias Spiller

post-doctoral researchers and clinical psychologists

Dr. Yulisha Byrow
Dr. Joel Hoffman
Avalon Tissue
Dr. Shraddha Kashyap
Dr. Lillian Le
Shivani Uppal
Rosanna Pajak
Dr. Susan Li
Dr. Miriam Den
Dr. Ola Ahmed
Dr. Jessica Cheung
Dr. Ly Huynh
Ben Garber

Research Assistants

Kiarne Humphreys
Joshua Wong
Isabelle Shaw
Candy Liu
Alice Kim
Savannah Minihan
Daniela Peiris
Amber Hamilton
Emma Doolan