Associate Professor Allison Milner
BPsych (Hons) MEpi PhD
Allison is a Deputy Director of the Disability and Health Unit, Melbourne School Population and Global Health, the University of Melbourne. Her current areas of research interests include the influence of gender, employment characteristics, quality of work, and occupation as determinants of mental health and suicide. Allison also focuses on specific employed groups that may be particularly likely to face disadvantage, such as blue-collar workers in the manufacturing and construction industry. Allison’s work ranges across a number of externally-funded etiologic and intervention projects. She works with key policy stakeholders to promote research on the link between work and mental health, and is the co-chair for an international panel of researchers aiming to promote workplace suicide prevention.
Research areas:
- Adults
- Suicidal behaviour(suicidal ideation, suicidal risk, suicide attempt)
- Mental health, mental ill health
- Settings (workplaces, mental health services, education, communities)
Available for:
- Research opportunities
- Funding
Notable Research
Suicide by Occupation: A systematic review and meta-analysis
1. Milner A, Spittal MJ, Pirkis J, LaMontagne AD
British Journal of Psychiatry. 203(6): 409-16
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Letters, Green Cards, Telephone calls, and Postcards: A systematic and meta-analytic review of brief contact interventions for reducing self-harm, suicide attempts, and suicide
Milner A, Carter G, Pirkis J, Robinson J, Spittal M
British Journal of Psychiatry. 2015;206(3):184-190.
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Workplace suicide prevention: A systematic review of published and unpublished activities
Milner A, Page K, Spencer-Thomas S, LaMontagne AD
Health Promotion International,30(1) 29-37.
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Psychosocial job stressors and suicidality: A meta-analysis and systematic review
Milner A, Witt K, LaMontagne AD, Niedhammer I
Occupational and Environmental Medicine,75(4) 245-253
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Cause and effect in studies on unemployment, mental health and suicide: A meta-analytic and conceptual review
Milner A, Page A, Lamontagne AD.
Psychological Medicine,44(5) 909-917
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Please note: this is not a complete list of papers this researcher has contributed to. If the research you are interested in is not listed above, please contact the researcher for more information.
Associate Professor Allison Milner
Primary Research Focus:
Suicide Prevention
Works with:
University of Melbourne