Rate My Professor Peter Butterworth

As principal investigator, Butterworth leads key projects such as the Personality & Total Health (PATH) Through Life, a major longitudinal community survey; Social costs of adolescent mental health problems in Australia; Welfare receipt, demoralisation and mental health; and Work Well Being. He contributes as a researcher to initiatives including DYNOPTA, LifeTrack: Understanding Suicidal Transitions, and Translating Research into Practice – Dementia and Public Health (TRIP-DPH). His publication record features over 220 peer-reviewed journal articles and chapters. Notable works include 'Effect of lockdown on mental health in Australia: evidence from a natural experiment analysing a longitudinal probability sample survey' (The Lancet Public Health, 2022), 'Protecting mental health during periods of financial stress: Evidence from the Australian Coronavirus Supplement income support payment' (Social Science & Medicine, 2022), 'The effects of working in a bullying climate on psychological distress and job satisfaction: a multilevel analysis' (Australian Journal of Psychology, 2022), 'Accuracy of the PHQ-2 Alone and in Combination With the PHQ-9 for Screening to Detect Major Depression' (JAMA, 2020), and 'Accuracy of Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) for screening to detect major depression: individual participant data meta-analysis' (BMJ, 2019). Butterworth is funded by an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship (FT13101444) and holds a professorial position at Deakin University School of Psychology.