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2026-2024

  • Elwyn, R., Zirnsak, T.-M., Sherrin, M., Burge, M., Dasvarma, A., Drake, J., English, L., Jiggins, D., Reid, H. L. P., Rayner, A., Spencer, L., Roberts, R., & Maylea, C. (2026). Co-Design of a Systematic Review: A Shared Reflection. Critical Public Health, 36(1).
  • Karanikolas, P., Maylea, C., Brasier, C., Gill, N., Stavert, J., & Gooding, P. (2026). A Human Rights Indicator for the Mental Health Context: A Scoping Review and Analysis. International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, 107, 102220.
  • Maylea, C., Karanikolas, P., Le Couteur, E., Cook, J., Stevens, Z., Kennedy, H., & Stewart, S. (2026). Are Mental Health Consumers Asked How They Want Legal Services Provided? International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, 107, 102207.
  • Maylea, C., Zirnsak, T.-M., Edan, V., Armitage, P., Robert, H., & Brophy, L. (2026). Ensuring Compulsory Treatment Is Used as a Last Resort: A Narrative Review of the Knowledge about Community Treatment Orders. Psychiatry, Psychology and Law, 33(3), 583–602.

  • Gooding, P., & Pink, G. (2025). Regulating Digital Mental Health Services in Australia: Strengthening Oversight and Clarifying Complaints Mechanisms. Australian Journal of Public Administration.
  • Kisely, S., Bull, C., Zirnsak, T., Edan, V., Gould, M., Lawn, S., Light, E., et al. (2025). Variations Between, and Within, Jurisdictions in the Use of Community Treatment Orders and Other Compulsory Community Treatment: A Study of 402,060 People Across Four Australian States. BJPsych Open, 11(2), e57.
  • Zirnsak, T.-M., Elwyn, R., Sherrin, M., Spencer, L., Burge, M., Dasvarma, A., Drake, J., et al. (2025). The Usefulness of Healthcare Resources for People with Mental and Physical Health Concerns: A Systematic Review Using Co-Design Principles. Critical Public Health, 35(1).

  • Brophy, L., Fletcher, J., Dawadi, S., Reece, J., Edan, V., Enticott, J., et al. (2024). A Longitudinal Study of the Impacts of a Stay in a Prevention and Recovery Care Service in Victoria, Australia. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 58(7), 615–626.
  • Galderisi, S., Appelbaum, P., Gill, N., Gooding, P., Herrman, H., et al. (2024). Ethical Challenges in Contemporary Psychiatry: An Overview and an Appraisal of Possible Strategies and Research Needs. World Psychiatry, 23(3), 364–386.
  • Kisely, S., Zirnsak, T., Maylea, C., Bull, C., & Brophy, L. (2024). Latest Findings Highlight the Continuing Uncertainty over the Utility of Compulsory Psychiatric Treatment in the Community. BJPsych Open, 10(5), e133.
  • Randall, R., Kennedy, H., Karanikolas, P., Bashfield, L., Rayner, A., Nguyen, F., Wu, L., Martin, R., Thomas, S., & Maylea, C. (2024). "I Was Having an Anxiety Attack and They Pepper Sprayed Me": Police Apprehension in Mental Health Contexts in Australia. Policing and Society, 1–16.
  • Wilson, K., Maker, Y., Gooding, P., & Walvisch, J. (Eds.). (2024). The Future of Mental Health, Disability and Criminal Law. Routledge.
  • Zirnsak, T.-M. (2024). Reflections From the Wrong Side of the Glass: Lived Experience of Conducting Research in a Mental Health Ward. Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, 32(1), 252–255.
  • Zirnsak, T.-M., Ng, A. H., Brasier, C., & Gray, R. (2024). Public Involvement in Australian Clinical Trials: A Systematic Review. Clinical Trials, 21(4), 507–515.
  • Zirnsak, T., Elwyn, R., McLoughlan, G., Le Couteur, E., Green, C., Hill, N., Roberts, R., & Maylea, C. "I Have to Fight for Them to Investigate Things": A Qualitative Exploration of Physical and Mental Healthcare for Women Diagnosed with Mental Illness. Frontiers in Public Health, 12:1360561.

2023-2019

  • Maylea, C. (2023). Does New Mental Health Legislation in Victoria, Australia, Advance Human Rights? Health and Human Rights Journal, 25(1), 149–160.
  • Maylea, C., Bashfield, L., Thomas, S., Kuyini, B., Fitt, K., & Buchanan, R. (2023). Advocacy as a Human Rights Enabler for Parents in the Child Protection System. Ethics and Social Welfare, 1–20.
  • Maylea, C., Le Couteur, E., Cashman, L., Leon, R., Sherrin, M., Edan, V., Linnane, D., Rayner, A., Karanikolas, P., & Gooding, P. (2023). With You Toolkit: Empowering Trauma-Informed Rights-Based Organisations. Commissioned by Legal Aid New South Wales.
  • McSherry, B., Gooding, P., & Maker, Y. (2023). Human Rights Promotion and the 'Geneva Impasse' in Mental Healthcare: Scoping Review. BJPsych Open, 9(3), e58.

  • Karanikolas, P., & Zirnsak, T.-M. (2022). Vulnerable to the State? The Indefinite Imprisonment of People with Intellectual Disability Under Forensic Mental Health Law as Structural Violence. Australian Feminist Law Journal, 48(1), 11–30.
  • Killaspy, H., Harvey, C., Brasier, C., Brophy, L., Ennals, P., Fletcher, J., & Hamilton, B. (2022). Community-Based Social Interventions for People with Severe Mental Illness: A Systematic Review and Narrative Synthesis of Recent Evidence. World Psychiatry, 21(1), 96–123.
  • Zirnsak, T.-M., & Habib, B. (2022). Learning from Each Other: An Autoethnographic Dialogue on Being Mad in the Academy. In Disability and the Academic Job Market (pp. 3–30). Vernon Press.

  • Maylea, C., Katterl, S., Johnson, B., Alvarez-Vasquez, S., Hill, N., & Weller, P. (2021). Consumers' Experiences of Rights-Based Mental Health Laws: Lessons from Victoria, Australia. International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, 78, 101737.
  • Oostermeijer, S., Brasier, C., Harvey, C., Hamilton, B., Roper, C., Martel, A., et al. (2021). Design Features That Reduce the Use of Seclusion and Restraint in Mental Health Facilities: A Rapid Systematic Review. BMJ Open, 11(7), e046647.

  • Gooding, P., McSherry, B., & Roper, C. (2020). Preventing and Reducing Coercion in Mental Health Services: An International Scoping Review of English-Language Studies. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 142(1), 27–39.

  • Gooding, P. (2019). Mapping the Rise of Digital Mental Health Technologies: Emerging Issues for Law and Society. International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, 67, 101498.
  • Meadows, G., Brophy, L., Shawyer, F., Enticott, J. C., Fossey, E., Thornton, C. D., Weller, P. J., Wilson-Evered, E., Edan, V., & Slade, M. (2019). REFOCUS-PULSAR Recovery-Oriented Practice Training in Specialist Mental Health Care: A Stepped-Wedge Cluster Randomised Controlled Trial. The Lancet Psychiatry, 6(2), 103–114.
  • Weller, P., Alvarez-Vasquez, S., Dale, M., Hill, N., Johnson, B., Martin, J., Maylea, C., & Thomas, S. (2019). The Need for Independent Advocacy for People Subject to Mental Health Community Treatment Orders. International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, 66, 101452.

2018-2012

  • Kokanović, R., Brophy, L., McSherry, B., Flore, J., & Moeller-Saxone, K. (2018). Supported Decision-Making from the Perspectives of Mental Health Service Users, Family Members Supporting Them and Mental Health Practitioners. Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 52(9), 826–833.

  • Fletcher, J., Spittal, M., Brophy, L., Tibble, H., Kinner, S., Elsom, S., & Hamilton, B. (2017). Outcomes of the Victorian Safewards Trial in 13 Wards: Impact on Seclusion Rates and Fidelity Measurement. International Journal of Mental Health Nursing, 26(5), 461–471.
  • Gooding, P. (2017). A New Era for Mental Health Law and Policy: Supported Decision-Making and the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Cambridge University Press.
  • Gooding, P., Arstein-Kerslake, A., Andrews, L., & McSherry, B. (2017). Unfitness to Stand Trial and the Indefinite Detention of People with Cognitive Disability in Australia: Human Rights Challenges and Proposals for Change. Melbourne University Law Review, 40(3), 816–866.

  • Brophy, L. M., Roper, C. E., Hamilton, B. E., Tellez, J. J., & McSherry, B. M. (2016). Consumers and Their Supporters' Perspectives on Poor Practice and the Use of Seclusion and Restraint in Mental Health Settings: Results from Australian Focus Groups. International Journal of Mental Health Systems, 10(1).
  • Davidson, G., Brophy, L., Campbell, J., Farrell, S. J., Gooding, P., & O'Brien, A. M. (2016). An International Comparison of Legal Frameworks for Supported and Substitute Decision-Making in Mental Health Services. International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, 44, 30–40.

  • Brophy, L., Bruxner, A., Wilson, E., Cocks, N., & Stylianou, M. (2015). How Social Work Can Contribute in the Shift to Personalised, Recovery-Oriented Psycho-Social Disability Support Services. British Journal of Social Work, 45(Suppl. 1), i98–i116.
  • Gooding, P. (2015). Navigating the "Flashing Amber Lights" of the Right to Legal Capacity in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Responding to Major Concerns. Human Rights Law Review, 15(1), 45–71.

  • Gooding, P. (2012). Supported Decision-Making: A Rights-Based Disability Concept and Its Implications for Mental Health Law. Psychiatry, Psychology and Law, 20(3), 431–451.

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