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Dr Stuart Leske
Dr

Stuart Leske

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Overview

Background

Dr Stuart Leske is a Senior Research Fellow and Program Manager of a Centre of Research Excellence in Urban Indigenous Health at UQ Poche Centre for Indigenous Health and Adjunct Research Fellow at the Australian Institute for Suicide Research and Prevention (AISRAP).

Stuart currently endeavours to support Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait researchers by seeking to provide more in technical (e.g., literature review, writing, editing, data interpretation and visualisation) and leadership skills then he takes in cultural knowledge from Indigenous staff.

Stuart has reviewed 27 times for the Lancet Group journals (13 x The Lancet Public Health, 7 x The Lancet Regional Health - Western Pacific, 5 x The Lancet Psychiatry, 2 x The Lancet Regional Health - Americas and 1 x eClinicalMedicine).

Stuart enjoys two-way learning with all people he works with.

Availability

Dr Stuart Leske is:
Available for supervision

Qualifications

  • Bachelor of Psychology, University of Southern Queensland
  • Doctor of Philosophy of Health, Clinical and Counselling Psychology, Queensland University of Technology

Research impacts

Data that Dr Stuart Leske published and shared with governments during the COVID-19 pandemic helped to avert public and media concerns that the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic would lead to large increases in suicide deaths.

Works

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45 works between 2012 and 2025

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Featured

2022

Other Outputs

Suicide in Queensland: annual report 2022

Leske, Stuart, Adam, Ghazala, Catakovic, Amra, Weir, Bridget and Kõlves, Kairi (2022). Suicide in Queensland: annual report 2022. Brisbane, QLD Australia: Australian Institute for Suicide Research and Prevention.

Suicide in Queensland: annual report 2022

Featured

2022

Other Outputs

Suicide in Queensland: annual report 2021

Leske, Stuart, Schrader, Ina, Adam, Ghazala, Catakovic, Amra, Weir, Bridget and Kõlves, Kairi (2022). Suicide in Queensland: annual report 2021. Brisbane, QLD Australia: Australian Institute for Suicide Research and Prevention.

Suicide in Queensland: annual report 2021

Featured

2021

Journal Article

Real-time suicide mortality data from police reports in Queensland, Australia, during the COVID-19 pandemic: an interrupted time-series analysis

Leske, Stuart, Kõlves, Kairi, Crompton, David, Arensman, Ella and de Leo, Diego (2021). Real-time suicide mortality data from police reports in Queensland, Australia, during the COVID-19 pandemic: an interrupted time-series analysis. The Lancet Psychiatry, 8 (1), 58-63. doi: 10.1016/S2215-0366(20)30435-1

Real-time suicide mortality data from police reports in Queensland, Australia, during the COVID-19 pandemic: an interrupted time-series analysis

Featured

2020

Other Outputs

Suicide in Queensland: Annual Report 2020

Stuart Leske, Ghazala Adam, Ina Schrader, Amra Catakovic, Bridget Weir and David Crompton (2020). Suicide in Queensland: Annual Report 2020. Brisbane, Queensland: Australian Institute for Suicide Research and Prevention, Griffith University.

Suicide in Queensland: Annual Report 2020

Featured

2019

Other Outputs

Suicide in Queensland: Annual Report 2019

Leske, Stuart , Kõlves, Kairi and Crompton, David (2019). Suicide in Queensland: Annual Report 2019. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: Griffith University.

Suicide in Queensland: Annual Report 2019

2025

Journal Article

Suicide methods and severe mental illness: a systematic review and meta‐analysis

Trott, M., Suetani, S., Arnautovska, U., Kisely, S., Kar Ray, M., Theodoros, T., Le, V., Leske, S., Lu, M., Soole, R., Warren, N. and Siskind, D. (2025). Suicide methods and severe mental illness: a systematic review and meta‐analysis. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 151 (4), 467-484. doi: 10.1111/acps.13759

Suicide methods and severe mental illness: a systematic review and meta‐analysis

2024

Journal Article

Racial discrimination and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander suicide mortality rates in Queensland

Gibson, M., Leske, S., Ward, R., Rachow, A. and Kolves, K. (2024). Racial discrimination and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander suicide mortality rates in Queensland. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology. doi: 10.1007/s00127-024-02786-z

Racial discrimination and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander suicide mortality rates in Queensland

2024

Journal Article

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander youth suicide mortality and previous mental health, suicidality and service use in Queensland, Australia, from 2001 to 2021

Gibson, M., Leske, S., Ward, R., Weir, B., Russell, K. and Kolves, K. (2024). Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander youth suicide mortality and previous mental health, suicidality and service use in Queensland, Australia, from 2001 to 2021. Journal of Affective Disorders, 354, 55-61. doi: 10.1016/j.jad.2024.03.013

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander youth suicide mortality and previous mental health, suicidality and service use in Queensland, Australia, from 2001 to 2021

2024

Conference Publication

Frailty And Severe Mental Illness In The UK Biobank

Warren, N., Leske, S., Arnautovska, U., Northwood, K., Kisely, S. and Siskind, D. (2024). Frailty And Severe Mental Illness In The UK Biobank. RANZCP 2024 Congress, Canberra, ACT Australia, 19-24 May 2023. London, United Kingdom: SAGE Publications.

Frailty And Severe Mental Illness In The UK Biobank

2024

Journal Article

Research needed on urban Indigenous health inequalities

Mamun, Abdullah A., Kanmiki, Edmund Wedam, Leske, Stuart, Stajic, Janet and Ward, James (2024). Research needed on urban Indigenous health inequalities. Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 102 (2), 146-148. doi: 10.2471/BLT.23.290868

Research needed on urban Indigenous health inequalities

2024

Journal Article

Why do we agree to disagree? Agreement and reasons for disagreement in judgements of intentional self-harm from coroners and a suicide register in Queensland, Australia, from 2001 to 2015

Leske, Stuart, Weir, Bridget, Adam, Ghazala and Kõlves, Kairi (2024). Why do we agree to disagree? Agreement and reasons for disagreement in judgements of intentional self-harm from coroners and a suicide register in Queensland, Australia, from 2001 to 2015. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 21 (1) 52, 1-14. doi: 10.3390/ijerph21010052

Why do we agree to disagree? Agreement and reasons for disagreement in judgements of intentional self-harm from coroners and a suicide register in Queensland, Australia, from 2001 to 2015

2024

Journal Article

A longitudinal birth cohort study of child maltreatment and mental disorders using linked statewide child protection and administrative health data for 83,050 Queensland residents from 1983 to 2014

Kisely, Steve, Leske, Stuart, Ogilvie, James, Thompson, Carleen, Siskind, Dan and Allard, Troy (2024). A longitudinal birth cohort study of child maltreatment and mental disorders using linked statewide child protection and administrative health data for 83,050 Queensland residents from 1983 to 2014. Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences, 33 e69, e77. doi: 10.1017/s204579602400074x

A longitudinal birth cohort study of child maltreatment and mental disorders using linked statewide child protection and administrative health data for 83,050 Queensland residents from 1983 to 2014

2023

Journal Article

Prevalence of frailty in severe mental illness: findings from the UK Biobank

Warren, Nicola, Leske, Stuart, Arnautovska, Urska, Northwood, Korinne, Kisely, Steve and Siskind, Dan (2023). Prevalence of frailty in severe mental illness: findings from the UK Biobank. BJPsych Open, 9 (6) e185, 1-7. doi: 10.1192/bjo.2023.580

Prevalence of frailty in severe mental illness: findings from the UK Biobank

2023

Journal Article

From suicide surveillance to restricting access to means: A time series study of suicide prevention at the Story Bridge

Kõlves, Kairi, Leske, Stuart and De Leo, Diego (2023). From suicide surveillance to restricting access to means: A time series study of suicide prevention at the Story Bridge. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 57 (8), 1184-1186. doi: 10.1177/00048674231177960

From suicide surveillance to restricting access to means: A time series study of suicide prevention at the Story Bridge

2023

Other Outputs

Road transport suicide prevention

Rivera-Gonzalez, Jennifer, Paton, Elizabeth, Wishart, Darren, Gai, Sheetal, Sheppard, Lily, Hassall, Kim, Gibson, Adam, Tay, Richard, Wilson, David, Wilson, Sally, Weir, Bridget, Leske, Stuart and Crompton, David (2023). Road transport suicide prevention. Road Safety Sydney, NSW, Australia: Austroads.

Road transport suicide prevention

2023

Journal Article

A 40-year study of child maltreatment over the early life course predicting psychiatric morbidity, using linked birth cohort and administrative health data: protocol for the Childhood Adversity and Lifetime Morbidity (CALM) study

Kisely, Steve, Leske, Stuart, Arnautovska, Urska, Siskind, Dan, Northwood, Korinne, Warren, Nicola, Suetani, Shuichi and Najman, Jake Moses (2023). A 40-year study of child maltreatment over the early life course predicting psychiatric morbidity, using linked birth cohort and administrative health data: protocol for the Childhood Adversity and Lifetime Morbidity (CALM) study. BJPsych Open, 9 (2) e50, e50. doi: 10.1192/bjo.2023.29

A 40-year study of child maltreatment over the early life course predicting psychiatric morbidity, using linked birth cohort and administrative health data: protocol for the Childhood Adversity and Lifetime Morbidity (CALM) study

2022

Journal Article

It is official, they are different – discrepancies between national statistical agency and register-based state suicide mortality statistics in Australia

Leske, Stuart, Garrett, Andrew and Dwyer, Jeremy (2022). It is official, they are different – discrepancies between national statistical agency and register-based state suicide mortality statistics in Australia. Crisis, 44 (5), 1-9. doi: 10.1027/0227-5910/a000889

It is official, they are different – discrepancies between national statistical agency and register-based state suicide mortality statistics in Australia

2022

Journal Article

Real-time suicide surveillance: comparison of international surveillance systems and recommended best practice

Benson, R., Rigby, J., Brunsdon, C., Corcoran, P., Dodd, P., Ryan, M., Cassidy, E., Colchester, D., Hawton, K., Lascelles, K., de Leo, D., Crompton, D., Kõlves, K., Leske, S., Dwyer, J., Pirkis, J., Shave, R., Fortune, S. and Arensman, E. (2022). Real-time suicide surveillance: comparison of international surveillance systems and recommended best practice. Archives of Suicide Research, 27 (4), 1312-1338. doi: 10.1080/13811118.2022.2131489

Real-time suicide surveillance: comparison of international surveillance systems and recommended best practice

2022

Journal Article

Police-reported suicides during the first 16 months of the COVID-19 pandemic in Ecuador: A time-series analysis of trends and risk factors until June 2021

Gerstner, Rebekka M., Narváez, Freddy, Leske, Stuart, Troya, M. Isabela, Analuisa-Aguilar, Pablo, Spittal, Matthew J. and Gunnell, David (2022). Police-reported suicides during the first 16 months of the COVID-19 pandemic in Ecuador: A time-series analysis of trends and risk factors until June 2021. The Lancet Regional Health - Americas, 14 100324, 1-10. doi: 10.1016/j.lana.2022.100324

Police-reported suicides during the first 16 months of the COVID-19 pandemic in Ecuador: A time-series analysis of trends and risk factors until June 2021

2022

Journal Article

Suicide numbers during the first 9-15 months of the COVID-19 pandemic compared with pre-existing trends: An interrupted time series analysis in 33 countries

Pirkis, Jane, Gunnell, David, Shin, Sangsoo, Del Pozo-Banos, Marcos, Arya, Vikas, Aguilar, Pablo Analuisa, Appleby, Louis, Arafat, S. M. Yasir, Arensman, Ella, Ayuso-Mateos, Jose Luis, Balhara, Yatan Pal Singh, Bantjes, Jason, Baran, Anna, Behera, Chittaranjan, Bertolote, Jose, Borges, Guilherme, Bray, Michael, Brečić, Petrana, Caine, Eric, Calati, Raffaella, Carli, Vladimir, Castelpietra, Giulio, Chan, Lai Fong, Chang, Shu-Sen, Colchester, David, Coss-Guzmán, Maria, Crompton, David, Ćurković, Marko, Dandona, Rakhi ... Spittal, Matthew J. (2022). Suicide numbers during the first 9-15 months of the COVID-19 pandemic compared with pre-existing trends: An interrupted time series analysis in 33 countries. eClinicalMedicine, 51 101573, 1-19. doi: 10.1016/j.eclinm.2022.101573

Suicide numbers during the first 9-15 months of the COVID-19 pandemic compared with pre-existing trends: An interrupted time series analysis in 33 countries

Supervision

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