Rate My Professor Sarah Liddle

Sarah Liddle is a Lecturer, researcher, and Clinical Psychologist in the School of Psychological Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, at Monash University. She earned a PhD in Clinical Psychology from the University of Wollongong in 2022, where her thesis focused on mental health literacy to promote help-seeking in adolescent male sport participants, leading to the development of Help Out a Mate, a brief sports-based mental health literacy and help-seeking intervention for adolescent males that has been adopted nationally and internationally. She also holds a Bachelor of Psychology (Honours Class 1) from the same institution, awarded in 2014. In her current role, she teaches across postgraduate clinical psychology programs, coordinates Master of Clinical Psychology placements, and supervises postgraduate students and higher degree researchers in suicide prevention, professional psychology education, and applied mental health research. Alongside her academic position, she maintains a part-time private practice as a Clinical Psychologist, primarily supporting adults with anxiety-related difficulties and attachment concerns. As a Research Fellow in the Kylie King Lab at the Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health, she contributes to projects enhancing psychologist competencies in public mental health and suicide prevention training.

Liddle's research centers on strengthening suicide prevention and mental health responses through evidence-based, lived-experience-informed education and the development of competent psychology professionals. Her interests include competency-based education, professional capability development, suicide-responsive training, mental health, help-seeking, particularly among males and in sport settings, program evaluation, and psychology workforce capability across health and community settings. Key publications include Profiles of mental health help seeking among Australian adolescent males (Journal of Adolescence, 2021), A Brief Sports-Based Mental Health Literacy Program for Male Adolescents: A Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial (Journal of Applied Sport Psychology, 2021), Attitudes about mental illness and help seeking among adolescent males (Psychiatry Research, 2021), Influences on the mental health and well-being of retired professional athletes from high contact team sports: A mixed methods systematic review (British Journal of Sports Medicine, 2026), and A Qualitative Analysis of Stakeholders and Workers' Views of the Impact of a Suicide Prevention Program for the Australian Construction Industry (Health Promotion Journal of Australia, 2025). She has received the Monash Psychology Postgraduate Training Excellence Award (2025), Monash University Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences Early Career Researcher Travel Grant (2023), and a part scholarship for the Graduate Certificate in Health Professions Education (2024). Her contributions extend to peer reviewing for journals such as Clinical Psychologist and delivering public lectures, including on her career journey as a clinical psychologist and researcher.