Ms Ashleigh Tickell
Research Associate
2018 PhD Doctor of Philosophy (Medicine), The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
2015 MPhil Master of Philosophy (Upgraded to PhD), The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
2005 BSc Bachelor of Science (Psychology), The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Medicine & Health
School of Clinical Medicine
Dr Ashleigh Tickell is the coordinator of the Youth Integration Resource Kit Evaluation, which will be delivering, implementing and investigating a digital interventions potential to improve service integration in Australian youth mental health services. Ashleigh is an early career researcher and neuroscientist in youth mental health and translational research at UNSW. She has extensive experience in collaborative youth mental health projects in mood and affective disorders, cognitive function and impairment, and has led significant initiatives and changes to standard clinical care in varying research, community-health and hospital settings.
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Translational Research, Youth Mental Health
Population Child Health Research Group
School of Clinical Medicine, UNSW Medicine & Health
Building C29, Health Translation Hub, Level 3
55 Botany St
Kensington 2033 NSW
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Associate Investigator (AI) on three NHMRC grants Brain and Mind Centre, University of Sydney.
Postgraduate Scholarship (PhD), Ritchie Scholarship, University of Sydney
2016 Schizophrenia Fellowship, NSW Young Researcher Bursary Award, Society for Mental Health (SMHR)
I joined the Population Child Health Research Group, within the School of Clinical Medicine at UNSW Sydney as a Research Fellow in August 2025. I was employed as an early career researcher in youth mental health. Over this time, I have coordinated the Youth Integration Project Resource Kit Evaluation. This includes understanding and delivering integrated models of care in complex youth mental health systems. Further aims include delivering training and education on improving integration between services, understanding the patient experiences, barriers and enablers, and improving personalised referral processes, and informing state and national policy.
I was awarded a Ritchie Scholarship from the University of Sydney, Sydney Medical School, between the Brain & Mind Centre (BMC) and St Vincent’s Private Hospital, Young Adult Mental Health Unit (Uspace). My early research career is highlighted by key strengths in collaborative research, facilitating and leading a strong research, clinical and governance relationship. I have led significant initiatives and changes to standard clinical care with my research was directly translated into clinical practice. My research outcomes demonstrated the importance of personalised intervention, translation of research into informing policy and procedure in implementing new standard clinical care, and in a broader context, strengthened the feasibility and application of this change of policy.
My research skills and experience include neuropsychological assessment (full assessment and CANTAB), experience in imaging modalities (fMRI and spectroscopy), circadian testing (EEG and actigraphy), regression modelling, cluster analysis, and mixed effects modelling, clinical assessment (SCID semi-structured interviews), and clinical staging.