Rate My Professor Ketrina Sly

Dr Ketrina Sly is a Conjoint Associate Lecturer in the School of Medicine and Public Health within the College of Health, Medicine and Wellbeing at the University of Newcastle, Australia. A qualified Clinical Psychologist, she earned her Doctor of Philosophy in Clinical Psychology from the University of Newcastle, focusing on the impact of psychopathy traits on facial expression processing in individuals with psychotic disorders, associations with symptomatology, emotion regulation, and cognitive functioning. She also holds a Bachelor of Science (Psychology) Honours Class II Division 1 from the same institution. Currently, Dr Sly serves as the Allied Health Research Leader - Mental Health for the Mental Health - Research Evaluation Analysis and Dissemination (MH-READ) unit at Hunter New England Mental Health (HNEMH), affiliated with the University of Newcastle's Priority Research Centre for Brain & Mental Health Research (CBMHR). In this role, she has spent 18 years managing research consultation, project development, implementation, data analysis, grant and ethics preparation, and dissemination activities. Previously, she spent 6 years with the Discipline of Psychiatry at the University of Newcastle and has been actively involved in mental health research since 1995, accumulating over 25 years of experience.

Dr Sly's research specializations include mental health recovery-focused interventions, psychosis, suicide prevention, co-existing mental health and substance use disorders, best practice implementation and translation, and the integration of digital technologies in mental health services. She leads strategic translational and service evaluation projects, building collaborations across Hunter New England Health staff, Hunter Medical Research Institute (HMRI) clinician-researchers, and University of Newcastle academics to enhance clinical research capacity and evidence-based practices. Her scholarly output features over 24 peer-reviewed publications, garnering 1,352 citations. Notable works include "A 10-year Multisite Evaluation of an Individual Placement and Support (IPS) Employment Program Based in an Australian Community Mental Health Service" (2026, Community Mental Health Journal), "The Experience of Participating in Individual Placement and Support (IPS) Employment Program: Perspectives of Four Individuals with Borderline Personality Disorder" (2025, Community Mental Health Journal), "Care pathways, engagement and outcomes associated with a recovery-oriented intermediate stay mental health program" (2020, Psychiatry Research), "Implementation of a recovery-oriented model in a sub-acute Intermediate Stay Mental Health Unit (ISMHU)" (2017, BMC Health Services Research), "An Integrated Recovery-oriented Model (IRM) for mental health services: evolution and challenges" (2017, BMC Psychiatry), and "Utility of risk-status for predicting psychosis and related outcomes: evaluation of a 10-year cohort" (2017, Psychiatry Research). In recognition of her contributions, she received the 2022 Researcher of the Year award at the Hunter New England Local Health District Psychology Conference.