Rate My Professor Suzie Cosh

Associate Professor Suzie Cosh serves as Associate Professor in Clinical Psychology and Course Coordinator for Fourth Year Honours in the Faculty of Medicine and Health, School of Psychology at the University of New England. She earned her B.Psych (Hons), M.Psych (Clin)/Ph.D. from the University of Adelaide. Her career trajectory includes a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the University of Bordeaux from 2016 to 2017, a Research Associate position at Ulm University Clinic of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy from 2013, and a role as Medical Professional at Child Protection Services in Australia from 2012 to 2013. A/Prof Cosh maintains a broad research portfolio centered on mental health intersections with sport psychology and climate change. In sport psychology, her investigations cover wellbeing and mental health among elite athletes and coaches, disordered eating, athlete retirement, athlete identity, mental health stigma, and help-seeking behaviors. Her climate change-related work encompasses mental health impacts, eco-anxiety, community resilience, psychological preparedness for extreme weather events, intervention development, and lived experiences of natural disasters and climate distress.

Cosh has garnered recognition for her contributions, receiving the 2024 Research Excellence Award for Mid-Career Researchers from the Faculty of Medicine and Health at the University of New England, the 2023 Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning from the Australian Awards for University Teaching, the 2023 Faculty Citation for Education Excellence for Simulated Placement, and the 2023 School Citation for Education Excellence for Clinical Research Methods. She holds the position of Associate Editor for the International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology. Notable publications include the book chapter 'Athlete identity and Career Transition: implications for retirement outcomes' in Athlete Transitions into Retirement (Routledge, 2021); 'International society of sport psychology position stand: elite athlete mental health revisited' in International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology (2024); 'Under Pressure: A systematic review of the association between blood pressure variability with depression and anxiety' in Cerebral Circulation – Cognition and Behavior (2024); 'Experiences of professional mental health help-seeking and engagement with services among emerging adult men identifying as gay' in Clinical Psychologist (2024); 'Climate change anxiety positively predicts antenatal distress in expectant female parents' in Journal of Anxiety Disorders (2024); and 'A Community Mental Health Integrated Disaster Preparedness Intervention for Bushfire Recovery in Rural Australian Communities' in Journal of Medical Internet Research Protocols (2024). Her scholarship advances understanding and interventions in athlete mental health and climate-related psychological challenges.