Overview
Background
Dr Mike Trott is a Research Fellow with the Queensland Centre for Mental Health Research (QCMHR), The University of Queensland, where he serves as Section Head of Epidemiology and Biostatistics within the Physical and Mental Health Research Group. He specialises in lifestyle psychiatry, clinical trials, and psychiatric epidemiology, with a particular focus on addressing the physical health inequities faced by people with schizophrenia and other severe mental illnesses.
His current research program addresses three major themes:
- Physical activity and sedentary behaviour – understanding their impact on mental and physical health and developing interventions, including the effectiveness of movement breaks to reduce sedentary time and cardiometabolic risk in people with schizophrenia, and the risk profiles of different types of sedentary behaviours.
- Clinical trials – leading the methodological and statistical aspects of a national platform of several schizophrenia clinical trials to find strategies to improve mental and physical health in this population
- Pharmacoepidemiology - using statewide and national linked data to determine the comparative effectiveness of clozapine augmentation strategies for treatment-resistant schizophrenia, as well as examining the mortality gap in several mental illness vs the general population.
Availability
- Dr Mike Trott is:
- Available for supervision
- Media expert
Fields of research
Qualifications
- Masters (Coursework) of Exercise and Sport Science, Anglia Ruskin University
- Doctor of Philosophy of Exercise and Sport Science, Anglia Ruskin University
- Masters (Coursework) of Statistics, University College London
Research interests
-
Mental health clinical trials
Statistical analysis and planning of complex clinical trials within mental health, including platform trials and Bayesian statistics.
-
Physical activity promotion in mental illness
Reduction of sedentary behaviours, novel techniques to promote physical activity in severe mental illness.
-
Mental health epidemiology
Including administrative linkage of large datasets pertaining to mental health
-
Lifestyle psychiatry
The relationships between lifestyle behaviours and severe mental illness outcomes, including cognitively active vs cognitively passive behaviours.
Research impacts
Dr Trott has published extensively in the field of psychiatric research, having authored >130 peer reviewed publications, with >4k citations (h-index 28) and two book chapters.
His research is distinguished by a consistent pathway from evidence to practice. As well as an ongoing translation pipeline for subsidised GLP-1 access for people on weight-inducing medications, his previous has been cited in over 120 policy documents worldwide, including the WHO, NICE, UNSECO, and several national government reports from the EU, UK, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, Quebec, Spain, and The Netherlands. Additionally, his research on mitigating children’s screentime resulted in several policy changes in the UK, and recently informed the EU Digital Services Act.
Hei is a Senior Associate Editor for Epidemiological and Psychiatric Sciences (EPS), and Associate Editor for the Australia New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry (ANZJP), a member of the Gold Coast Hospital Human Research Ethics Comittee (HREC) board, and a member of several DSMBs (two as Chair). He also serves as specialist statistical review at The Lancet Psychiatry and statistial consulatnat at the Mental Health Australia General Clinical Trials Network (MAGNET).
Works
Search Professor Mike Trott’s works on UQ eSpace
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
2025
Journal Article
Associations between self-reported and agency-reported child maltreatment and mental illness in later life: results from the CALM study
Trott, Mike, Bull, Claudia, Najman, Jake M. and Kisely, Steve (2025). Associations between self-reported and agency-reported child maltreatment and mental illness in later life: results from the CALM study. Child Abuse and Neglect, 163 107433, 107433. doi: 10.1016/j.chiabu.2025.107433
2025
Journal Article
Unclean cooking fuel use and all health outcomes, a systematic review and meta-analysis
Pizzol, Damiano, Trott, Mike, Yon, Dong Keon, Rahmati, Masoud, Shin, Jae Il, Kamholz, Barbara, Karmacharya, Biraj, Shrestha, Prabha, Underwood, Benjamin R., Butler, Laurie, Barnett, Yvonne, Veronese, Nicola, Soysal, Pinar, Gomez, Guillermo, Mortara, Simone, Malfatti, Eugenio, Ahluwalia, Sanjiv, Concari, Alice, Corinaldi, Alice, Marrufo, Tatiana, Uberti, Filippo, López Sánchez, Guillermo F. and Smith, Lee (2025). Unclean cooking fuel use and all health outcomes, a systematic review and meta-analysis. Health Interactions, 1 (1) 2463654, 1-8. doi: 10.1080/29963257.2025.2463654
2025
Journal Article
Addressing the challenges of child maltreatment measurement: Examining the types of data we use and how we use them
Bull, Claudia, Trott, Mike and Kisely, Steve (2025). Addressing the challenges of child maltreatment measurement: Examining the types of data we use and how we use them. Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 59 (4), 48674251320308-303. doi: 10.1177/00048674251320308
2025
Journal Article
Cognitive behavioural therapy versus other interventions on mental health in people with sensory impairments: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Trott, M., Koblitz, A. and Pardhan, S. (2025). Cognitive behavioural therapy versus other interventions on mental health in people with sensory impairments: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 189 111998, 1-13. doi: 10.1016/j.jpsychores.2024.111998
2025
Journal Article
A systematic review of international literature on the gender of unpaid carers attending group-based physical activity with people with dementia
Horne, Joanna, Kentzer, Nichola, Smith, Lee, Trott, Mike and Vseteckova, Jitka (2025). A systematic review of international literature on the gender of unpaid carers attending group-based physical activity with people with dementia. International Journal of Care and Caring, 9 (2), 316-340. doi: 10.1332/23978821Y2024D000000099
2025
Book Chapter
Global levels and correlates of sedentary behaviour in clinical populations
Caputo, Eduardo L., Trott, Mike and Schuch, Felipe B. (2025). Global levels and correlates of sedentary behaviour in clinical populations. Routledge handbook of sedentary behaviour. (pp. 29-42) London, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003380702-7
2025
Journal Article
Prevalence of the risk of exercise addiction based on a new classification: a cross-sectional study in 15 countries
Chhabra, Bhavya, Granziol, Umberto, Griffiths, Mark D., Zandonai, Thomas, Landolfi, Emilio, Solmi, Marco, Zou, Liye, Yang, Peiying, Lichtenstein, Mia Beck, Stoll, Oliver, Akimoto, Takayuki, Cantù-Berrueto, Abril, Larios, Angelica, Egorov, Aleksei Y., de la Vega Marcos, Ricardo, Alpay, Merve, Nazlıgül, Merve Denizci, Yildirim, Mustafa, Trott, Mike, Portman, Robert M. and Szabo, Attila (2025). Prevalence of the risk of exercise addiction based on a new classification: a cross-sectional study in 15 countries. International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction, 23 (5), 3815-3836. doi: 10.1007/s11469-024-01322-z
2025
Journal Article
Urban environment exposures and cognitive health: an evidence gap map of systematic reviews
Trott, Mike, Cleland, Claire L., Akaraci, Selin, Valson, Joanna S, O’Kane, Niamh, Kee, Frank, McGuinness, Bernadette and Hunter, Ruth F. (2025). Urban environment exposures and cognitive health: an evidence gap map of systematic reviews. Cities and Health, 9 (1), 129-159. doi: 10.1080/23748834.2024.2395141
2024
Journal Article
Risk factors associated with child maltreatment in the second generation of a prospective longitudinal Australian birth cohort: a MUSP study
Bull, Claudia, Trott, Mike, Najman, Jake Moses, Reid, Natasha and Kisely, Steve (2024). Risk factors associated with child maltreatment in the second generation of a prospective longitudinal Australian birth cohort: a MUSP study. Social Science and Medicine, 362 117402, 117402. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2024.117402
2024
Journal Article
Integrating accelerometry, GPS, GIS and molecular data to investigate mechanistic pathways of the urban environmental exposome and cognitive outcomes in older adults: a longitudinal study protocol
Hunter, Ruth F, Cleland, Claire, Trott, Mike, O’Neill, Sean, Küçükali, Hüseyin, Mullineaux, Shay, Kee, Frank, McKinley, Jennifer M, Neville, Charlotte, O'Hara, Leeanne, Marr, Calum, McAlinden, Michael, Ellis, Geraint, McKnight, Amy, Schipperijn, Jasper, McHugh Power, Joanna, Duong, Trung and McGuinness, Bernadette (2024). Integrating accelerometry, GPS, GIS and molecular data to investigate mechanistic pathways of the urban environmental exposome and cognitive outcomes in older adults: a longitudinal study protocol. BMJ Open, 14 (12) e085318, e085318-12. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2024-085318
2024
Journal Article
Emergency department presentations and admission for common mental disorders following agency-notified child maltreatment at 40-year follow-up: results from the Childhood Adversity and Lifetime Morbidity study
Kisely, Steve, Bull, Claudia, Trott, Mike, Arnautovska, Urska, Siskind, Dan, Warren, Nicola and Najman, Jake Moses (2024). Emergency department presentations and admission for common mental disorders following agency-notified child maltreatment at 40-year follow-up: results from the Childhood Adversity and Lifetime Morbidity study. BJPsych Open, 10 (6) e220, 1-7. doi: 10.1192/bjo.2024.776
2024
Journal Article
A randomised controlled trial of interventions to promote adoption of physical activity in adults with severe mental illness
Chapman, Justin J., Miatke, Aaron, Dumuid, Dorothea, Migueles, Jairo, Suetani, Shuichi, Korman, Nicole, Trott, Mike, Byrne, Jacqueline, Siskind, Dan, Johnston, Donni, Sewell, Jeanette, Breakspear, Michael and Patterson, Sue (2024). A randomised controlled trial of interventions to promote adoption of physical activity in adults with severe mental illness. Mental Health and Physical Activity, 27 100652, 1-11. doi: 10.1016/j.mhpa.2024.100652
2024
Journal Article
Protocol for Cancloz: multicentre randomised, placebo-controlled, double-blind, parallel-group adaptive trial of cannabidiol for clozapine-resistant schizophrenia
Siskind, Dan, Bull, Claudia, Suetani, Shuichi, Warren, Nicola, Suraev, Anastasia, McGregor, Iain, Kisely, Steve, De Monte, Veronica, Trott, Mike, Shine, Manju, Moudgil, Vikas, Robinson, Gail, Parker, Stephen, Krishnaiah, Ravikumar, Stedman, Terry, Drummond, Allan, Medland, Sarah, Iyer, Ravi and Baker, Andrea (2024). Protocol for Cancloz: multicentre randomised, placebo-controlled, double-blind, parallel-group adaptive trial of cannabidiol for clozapine-resistant schizophrenia. BJPsych Open, 10 (5) e156, 1-7. doi: 10.1192/bjo.2024.748
2024
Journal Article
GLP-1 receptor agonists and weight loss in schizophrenia – past, present, and future
Trott, Mike, Arnautovska, Urska and Siskind, Dan (2024). GLP-1 receptor agonists and weight loss in schizophrenia – past, present, and future. Current Opinion in Psychiatry, 37 (5), 363-369. doi: 10.1097/yco.0000000000000952
2024
Journal Article
The role of human involvement and support in digital mental health interventions for people with schizophrenia spectrum disorders: a critical review
Arnautovska, Urska, Milton, Alyssa, Trott, Mike, Soole, Rebecca and Siskind, Dan (2024). The role of human involvement and support in digital mental health interventions for people with schizophrenia spectrum disorders: a critical review. Current Opinion in Psychiatry, 37 (5), 356-362. doi: 10.1097/yco.0000000000000957
2024
Journal Article
Papillomavirus infection and male infertility: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Garolla, Andrea, Mereu, Silvia, Pizzol, Damiano, Yon, Dong Keon, Rahmati, Masoud, Soysal, Pinar, Ilie, Petre Cristian, Bertoldo, Alessandro, Trott, Mike and Smith, Lee (2024). Papillomavirus infection and male infertility: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Health Science Reports, 7 (9) e70048, e70048. doi: 10.1002/hsr2.70048
2024
Journal Article
Hospital admissions and community health service contacts for mental illness following self-reported child maltreatment: results from the Childhood Adversity and Lifetime Morbidity (CALM) study
Trott, Mike, Bull, Claudia, Najman, Jake Moses, Arnautovska, Urska, Siskind, Dan, Warren, Nicola and Kisely, Steve (2024). Hospital admissions and community health service contacts for mental illness following self-reported child maltreatment: results from the Childhood Adversity and Lifetime Morbidity (CALM) study. Child Abuse and Neglect, 154 106912, 106912. doi: 10.1016/j.chiabu.2024.106912
2024
Journal Article
Treatments for delayed ejaculation: a narrative review
Pizzol, Damiano, Trott, Mike, Wilson, Jason J., Tully, Mark A., Shah, Sam, Pratsides, Luke, Ilie, Petre Cristian, Lopez Sanchez, Guillermo F. and Smith, Lee (2024). Treatments for delayed ejaculation: a narrative review. Trends in Urology and Mens Health, 15 (4), 13-17. doi: 10.1002/tre.970
2024
Journal Article
Associations between total physical activity levels and academic performance in adults: A systematic review and meta-analysis
Trott, Mike, Kentzer, Nichola, Horne, Joanna, Langdown, Ben and Smith, Lee (2024). Associations between total physical activity levels and academic performance in adults: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Journal of Education and Health Promotion, 13 (1) 273, 273. doi: 10.4103/jehp.jehp_1618_23
Funding
Current funding
Supervision
Availability
- Dr Mike Trott is:
- Available for supervision
Looking for a supervisor? Read our advice on how to choose a supervisor.
Supervision history
Current supervision
-
Master Philosophy
A quantitative and qualitative study of forensic orders in Queensland
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Dan Siskind, Professor Steve Kisely, Dr Claudia Bull
-
Doctor Philosophy
How can exercise be used in the holistic rehabilitation of people with severe mental illness?
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Ed Heffernan
Media
Enquiries
Contact Dr Mike Trott directly for media enquiries about:
- child maltreatment
- epidemiology
- physical activity
- sedentary behaviour
- statistics
Need help?
For help with finding experts, story ideas and media enquiries, contact our Media team: