Your impact

Every year, the RANZCP Foundation invests around $250,000 in grants and scholarships to nurture the next generation of psychiatric researchers and strengthen the academic foundations of our profession. We are also proud to support Indigenous leadership programs, helping to build capacity and foster inclusive excellence.

Since 2018, the Foundation has awarded more than one hundred grants, scholarships, and awards. Your donations make a meaningful and lasting impact—advancing psychiatric research and practice, driving innovation, and supporting projects that deliver real-world benefits.

Hear from grant recipients in the short video below, explore their research projects, or read our latest Annual Review.

Listen to the full podcast here.

Dr Jacqueline Huber — Psychiatric Emergency Care Centers: what are they good for?

Dr Sean Halstead — Exploration of the health burden of multiple chronic physical conditions in people living with severe mental illness.

Dr Lillian Ng — The 100-women study: health characteristics of women with severe mental illness

Dr Izaak Lim — The role of fathers in the development of childhood anxiety

Dr Jai Nathani — Why don’t I take my meds? Enhancing Medication Adherence through CBT

Dr Ruwanthi De Alwis Seneviratne — Identification of a novel biomarker to predict future treatment resistance in early psychosis.

Dr V. Lakmi Seneviratne — Psychotherapy for out-patients with treatment resistant depression

Dr Yoon Kwon Choi — Barriers in accessing health care and support for Korean speaking people in Australia with intellectual disability or autism spectrum disorder

Dr Hannah Suh — Parents’ experiences of Family-Based Treatment for Anorexia Nervosa in East Asian adolescents in New Zealand.

Dr Joanna Blades — Understanding consumer experiences of perinatal mental health outcomes

Dr Yun Ming Yong — Evaluation of a novel intervention for people with hoarding and squalor

Dr Luba Sominsky — Identifying biological mechanisms and targets for prevention of perinatal depression.

Dr Chiranth Bhagavan — Pilot study of Psilocybin-assisted Psychiatric care and specialist Physiotherapy for refractory motor Functional Neurological Disorder

Dr Chloe Boateng — LinkED: Exploring reasons why children and adolescents accessing emergency mental health services fall through the gaps in follow up and how this can be addressed

Dr Sarangan Ketheesan — Stress, Allostatic Load and Substance Use in Defence Force Veterans with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

Dr Andrew Wilson — Exploring the reasons behind increasing involuntary psychiatric treatment in Queensland: exploring the perspectives of the legal profession through focus groups

Dr Matthew Kang — he effect of electroconvulsive therapy on blood-based biomarkers of glial activity and neuronal injury

Dr Dhamidhu Eratne — MiND the Gap: fast tracking implementation of brain health and dementia diagnosis and risk prediction blood tests in Australia

2024 Impact Report

2023 Impact Report

2022 Impact Report

Our grants programs

Every year, the RANZCP Foundation makes grant funding available to Fellows and trainees for psychiatric research, clinical work, meaningful initiatives, scholarships and innovative projects that improve mental health.

Browse available grants