Dr Stanley is an Adjunct Associate Professor/Project Manager - UWA Medical School, Psychiatry. She also works on projects with Perron Institute and Curtin University in WA, and The George Institute for Global Health and St Vincent’s Hospital Sydney nationally. Her areas of research interest are the genetic metabolism of mental health medications; the impact of Covid-19 on primary healthcare workers; primary care in mental health and the development of clinical guidelines for primary care clinicians, a consumer diary, a carer handbook, and a website and app for self and shared health monitoring; examining theories of suicide to develop a vulnerability index; the use of clozapine for people with treatment-resistant schizophrenia; polypharmacy in people with severe mental disorders; and Assertive Community Treatment programmes in mental health services.