Associate Professor Sally Hunt is a Clinical Psychologist, academic and HDR Convenor at the University of Newcastle, Australia where she trains the next generation of psychologists and clinical psychologists.

Associate Professor Hunt has worked both clinically and in a research capacity in the field of mental health for over 20 years, and completed her PhD in 2015.

Associate Professor Hunt’s primary research examines the relationship between alcohol use and mental health disorders, with a focus on developing and disseminating eHealth interventions for these problems. She has a strong research interest in women’s health across the lifespan.

Currently, she is leading research developing, testing and implementing an online intervention to support women’s health and wellbeing and examining the role of birth trauma, domestic violence and other traumas in women’s use of alcohol.