Prof Mike Kyrios
Emeritus Prof Mike Kyrios
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Emeritus Professor Mike Kyrios is a clinical psychologist specialising in mental health and wellbeing. He is currently an Emeritus Professor at Flinders University where he was previously Vice President and Executive Dean in the College of Education, Psychology and Social Work. He also holds honorary positions at other universities (Australian National University, University of Melbourne, Swinburne University of Technology) and the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute (SAHMRI).
Mike specialises in the study and management of Obsessive-Compulsive, Anxiety and Mood disorders and behavioural addictions, and has leading expertise in wellbeing, psychological treatments, including those that are delivered digitally, and psychological aspects of medical illness.
While maintaining clinical roles throughout his career (e.g., Royal Melbourne Hospital, Albert Road Clinic, private practice), in later years Mike worked mostly within university settings in teaching, research and administrative roles. His university administrative roles have included research centre director, head of school, and senior university executive at Flinders University where he was Vice President and Executive Dean in the College of Education, Psychology and Social Work. Mike has maintained consultancy roles to various government bodies, community and consumer groups, and industry partners. He has set up major mental health and wellbeing research centres at Swinburne and Flinders universities. Although recently retired from a full-time academic position, he is currently involved in an international students startup initiative and continues to undertake research in the area of mental health and wellbeing.
Mike has been associated with over $34 million in research funding as a primary investigator and has over 180 publications, including a Cambridge University Press edited book on the self in psychological disorders and a recent Nature Human Behaviour paper. He has undertaken editorial responsibilities for leading journals, including Behavior Therapy, Frontiers in Psychiatry, Frontiers in Psychology, Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders, Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy, PLOS ONE, and the International Journal of Psychology. He has sat on review panels for national (National Health and Medical Research Council, Medical Research Futures Fund, Million Minds initiative) and has reviewed for international research funding bodies. Mike has sat on multiple local, national and international conference committees and was Scientific Chair for the 2010 International Congress of Applied Psychology and the 2016 World Congress of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies.
Mike received the 2013 Ian M Campbell Memorial Prize in Clinical Psychology from the Australian Psychological Society (APS) and awards for publications from the American Psychological Association. He was elected a Fellow of the APS in 2007 and an Inaugural Fellow of the Australian Association of Cognitive and Behavioral Therapy in 2016. Finally, Mike is a former President of the Australian Psychological Society (APS), former National Chair of the APS College of Clinical Psychologists, and currently sits on the Orygen Youth Mental Health Research Committee.