Dr Geoffrey Waghorn                             

Adjunct Senior Lecturer,

The School of Population Health, The University of Queensland.

Geoff is a graduate of the University of Waikato, New Zealand (Bachelor of Social Sciences (majoring in Psychology and Philosophy). He also holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Psychology (with distinction) and a PhD from The University of Queensland, in the field vocational rehabilitation of people with schizophrenia. He is Head of the Social Inclusion and Translational Research Group at QCMHR, and has an adjunct appointment as Senior Lecturer in the School of Population Health (UQ). He has worked in the field of psychiatric disabilities in several roles, as a researcher for the past ten years, previously as a clinical psychologist and rehabilitation consultant, and prior to that as a disability officer for a large Commonwealth Department. Geoff leads a program of research into the functional recovery of people with mental illness and psychiatric disabilities, with a focus on translating research evidence in to real world practice, especially in the domain of vocational rehabilitation.