Dr Emma Morton

Committee member

Dr Emma Morton is a Senior Lecturer at Monash University, School of Psychological Sciences and Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health. She completed her PhD (Clinical Psychology) at Swinburne University, and then took up a position at the University of British Columbia (Canada), supported by a prestigious Canadian Institutes of Health Research Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship. Her research aims to optimize the quality of life of individuals living with mood disorders, with particular emphasis on bipolar disorders, psychological interventions, digital health tools, and psilocybin therapies, conducted within a community-based participatory research framework. Dr. Morton is recognised as an emerging leader in mood disorders research: she was awarded the Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance Gerald L. Klerman Young Investigator Award, and the International Society for Bipolar Disorders Samuel Gershon Junior Investigator Award.