Overview
Background
Urska Arnautovska is an early career clinical academic, working as a Research Fellow at the University of Queensland, Faculty of Medicine and as a general psychologist in private practice. Following her professional training in Slovenia, she focused her research on suicide which led her to receiving an appointment at the Australian Institute for Suicide Research and Prevention (AISRAP), a World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centre for Research and Training in Suicide Prevention and, since 2008, a National Centre of Excellence in Suicide Prevention. In addition to her research work, she acted as a research coordinator of the Life Promotion Clinic and was involved in the management and analysis of clinical data pertaining to the patients of the clinic, which presented with complex mental health problems and suicidal thoughts and behaviour. Her subsequent research remained focused on mental health, and in more recent years, become dedicated to improving health outcomes in people with severe mental illness. Her PhD, for which she received a competitive Griffith University International Postgraduate Research Scholarship (2012-2016), investigated the motivational processes underlying physical activity in older adults and was awarded the Australian Psychology Society (APS) Award for Excellent Higher Degree Thesis in Health Psychology. She has 48 peer-reviewed publications and has over $8.5 million in competitive research funding, with leading (CIA) roles on projects related to digital health interventions for people living with schizophrenia.
Availability
- Dr Urska Arnautovska is:
- Available for supervision
- Media expert
Fields of research
Qualifications
- Masters (Research) of Clinical Psychology, University of Ljubljana
Research interests
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Health behaviour change
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Severe mental illness
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Physical health co-morbidity
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Digital interventions
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Physical activity and exercise
Research impacts
Dr Arnautovska’s research work has been cited in a range of subject areas which expand over three times beyond the subject areas she had published in. Among the citing institutions are Health Education and Training Institute Higher Education, Ministry of Education China, Ministry for the Family, Italian Psychogeriatric Association, and Harvard Medical School. Her contribution to the evaluation of Queensland Community Care Units was cited in the report on models of care for Victorians living with severe and persistent mental illness, commissioned by the Royal Commission into Victoria’s Mental Health System (2020).
Works
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2010
Journal Article
Attitudes toward suicide in the adolescent population
Arnautovska, Urska and Grad, Onja (2010). Attitudes toward suicide in the adolescent population. Crisis – The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention, 31 (1), 21-28. doi: 10.1027/0227-5910/a000009
Supervision
Availability
- Dr Urska Arnautovska is:
- Available for supervision
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Supervision history
Current supervision
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Master Philosophy
Food insecurity among people living with schizophrenia
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Dan Siskind
Media
Enquiries
Contact Dr Urska Arnautovska directly for media enquiries about:
- adaptive platform trials
- clinical designs
- co-design
- diabetes and mental health
- digital health
- health behaviour change
- holistic care
- lifestyle interventions
- motivation for physical activity
- physical comorbidity
- schizophrenia
- severe mental illness
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