Rate My Professor Jillian Broadbear

Jillian Broadbear is an Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor in the Eastern Health Clinical School Research at Monash University in the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences. She is the Head of Research and Innovation at Spectrum Personality Disorder and Complex Trauma Service, Eastern Health, and Senior Research Fellow there since 2 December 2013. Broadbear began her academic career at Monash University with a BSc in Psychology and Pharmacology. She completed an MSc and PhD in Behavioural Pharmacology at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, earning her PhD on 10 May 1999 with the thesis "Cocaine Self-Administration and Hypothalamic-Adrenal-Pituitary (HPA) Axis Activity in Rhesus Monkeys". Postdoctoral work followed at the University of Michigan and then in Physiology at Monash University. She served as a Lecturer in the School of Psychology at Monash, teaching undergraduate and postgraduate courses and convening the Bachelor of Behavioural Neuroscience degree. Her early role was as a research assistant in Clinical Pharmacology at Austin Hospital, Heidelberg, VIC.

Her research interests center on brain and behaviour, specializing in mental health, psychopharmacology, neuroendocrinology, and substance use, with a commitment to personality disorder and complex trauma research. At Spectrum, she leads efforts on treatment efficacy, screening tools, suicide risk assessment, and recovery in borderline personality disorder. Key publications include "Development and Preliminary Evaluation of a Rapid Screening Tool for Detecting Borderline Personality Disorder in People Aged over 60 Years" (2025), "Talking about borderline personality disorder, shaping care: the multiple doings of narratives" (2024), "Experiences of consumers, carers and clinicians during borderline personality disorder presentations to the emergency department—An integrative review" (2024), "Assessment of suicide risk in people with borderline personality disorder: a qualitative analysis of risk protocols" (2024), "Borderline personality disorder, substance abuse and disordered eating: perceptions of treatment and recovery within community mental health" (2023), and "Coroners’ investigations of suicide in Australia: The hidden toll of borderline personality disorder" (2020). She has secured funding for projects such as the NHMRC Standard Equipment Grant (2007) and research on oxytocin's role in MDMA effects (2007). Broadbear accepts PhD students via Monash's supervisor connect and contributes to clinical education and advocacy.