Dr Brian Moore is a senior lecturer and researcher at the University of Wollongong whose research promotes mental health and wellbeing. With a professional background as a psychologist and educator, Brian has significant experience working with children, adolescents, and their families. He is committed to promoting youth mental health as an important outcome in its own right and due to the impact mental health has on related factors including educational achievement.

Brian’s most recent work examined a martial arts-based psychosocial intervention with adolescents. This work has been translated in an international collaboration with researchers in regional India. Additionally, Brian is leading an international study examining community expectations regarding teachers supporting student mental health and is piloting an intervention using cooperative electronic gaming to improve conflict related to school-based bullying.

Brian gained a Bachelor of Arts from The University of Sydney, has multiple postgraduate qualifications in education and psychology, and was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy by Macquarie University. He is an executive committee member of the School Counsellor and Psychology Association NSW, an advisory committee member for the Australian and New Zealand Mental Health Association, and is a Special Advisory Group member of UNESCO’s International Centre of Martial Arts for Youth Development and Engagement.