Professor Jo Badcock is the Vice Chairperson and Deputy Scientific Chair of Ending Loneliness Together and a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science. Her research examines the assessment, mechanisms, and impact of loneliness on health and wellbeing across a range of clinical groups and in healthcare providers. A major focus of her current work involves knowledge translation and communication to government, policymakers, community organizations and clinicians, to ensure that research evidence is accessible, understandable and of benefit to knowledge users.

Professor Badcock serves as a scientific consultant and advisor for state, national and international organizations tackling social isolation and loneliness, and is a co-Founder of the Global Initiative on Loneliness and Connection.

* Member, Steering Committee, Global Initiative on Loneliness and Connection

*  Co-Chair, Scientific Advisory Council, Global Initiative on Loneliness and   Connection

* Vice Chair, Ending Loneliness Together

* Deputy Chair, Scientific Advisory Council, Ending Loneliness Together

* Research Consultant

* Examining the training needs and resources for healthcare providers tackling loneliness 

* Developing strategies to address loneliness and social isolation in Western Australia

* Improving methods to disseminate research evidence on loneliness into public policy

Project funding:

Developing an online directory of services for loneliness and social connection (Perpetual Impact Funding)

A self-care toolkit for managing loneliness in healthcare providers (Corporate Sponsorship)

Research Professor, School of Psychology, UWA.
Adjunct A/Professor, School of Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, UWA.
Research Professor, Edith Cowan University.
Senior Clinical Psychologist, Clinical Research Centre, North Metropolitan Health Service -Mental Health.

1) Loneliness and perceptual anomalies in healthy older adults.

2) Improving the social, emotional and communication functioning of adults with hearing loss.

3) Developing an National Outcomes Measurement Framework to assist community organizations tackling loneliness to evaluate service effectiveness.

Global policies and frameworks for tackling loneliness - https://www.gilc.global/about-us

Perth Voices Clinic www.perthvoicesclinic.com.au

• Graduate supervision.

• Understanding social determinants of health and wellbeing for clinicians.

* Loneliness and social factors in mental health and wellbeing.

* Neurobehavioural phenotypes of social isolation and loneliness in serious mental illness

* Stigma and misconceptions about loneliness.

* A scoping review of contemporary social work research on loneliness.