Xiaoyun Zhou

Dr Xiaoyun Zhou is a Senior Research Fellow at the COE Centre for Indigenous Futures and Faculty of Business, Econimics and Law, The University of Queensland. She has a multidisciplinary background spanning psychology, mental health, and digital health, with a strong research focus on digital mental health interventions for children and adolescents. Dr Zhou holds a PhD in Health and Behavioural Sciences from UQ, where she developed and evaluated a culturally tailored digital mental health intervention for Chinese adolescents. Her doctoral work employed mixed methods, including a cluster randomized controlled trial, and was supported by multiple competitive awards, including the UQ Research Training Program Scholarship. Her research expertise includes both quantitative and qualitative methodologies. She has extensive experience working with large national datasets, such as Census and Medicare data, and linked datasets. She has also led several studies related to child and adolescent mental health. Dr Zhou is a member of the Australasian Institute of Digital Health (AIDH), Chinese Psychological Society (CPS) and the American Psychological Association (APA).