Rate My Professor Trentham Furness

Associate Professor Trentham Furness serves as Adjunct Associate Professor at Swinburne University of Technology's Centre for Forensic Behavioural Science within the Faculty of Health, Arts and Design. He is also Research Manager at Forensicare, Victoria's specialist forensic mental health service, which partners with the Centre to advance research and training. Furness earned his PhD in Exercise Science from Australian Catholic University (ACU), Melbourne, completing his doctoral studies from March 2008 to August 2012 at the Centre of Physical Activity Across the Lifespan. Prior to his current roles, he worked as Research Assistant in the Department of Medicine at Monash University from July 2012 to May 2013. Since May 2013, he has held the position of Research Associate in ACU's Faculty of Health Sciences, integrated with NorthWestern Mental Health at The Royal Melbourne Hospital.

Trentham Furness's research interests include forensic mental health services, workplace culture and resilience in mental health nursing, physical health interventions and behaviours for people with psychosis and severe mental illness, violence risk assessment and management, procedural justice and coercion in mental health crises and police responses, sensory modulation, trauma-informed care, and rehabilitation applications of whole-body vibration exercises for conditions like stroke, cancer morbidities, metabolic syndrome, and COPD. He co-leads the forensic mental health research stream at the Centre and contributes to initiatives such as the adaptation of Safewards Secure for mental health prison units, graduate nursing programs in forensic settings, and development of the Forensic Mental Health Nursing Clinical Risk Assessment and Management Profile. Furness has produced 81 publications, amassing 2,721 citations. Select key works are 'Workplace culture for forensic mental health services: a mixed methods descriptive study' (2024, BMC Health Services Research); 'Perceptions of Procedural Justice and Coercion during Community-Based Mental Health Crisis: A Comparison Study' (2016, Policing); 'Nurse-led physical health interventions for people with mental illness: an integrative review' (2024); 'Development and Adoption of the Forensic Mental Health Nursing Standards of Practice' (2025); 'Strengthening mental health nurses' resilience through a workplace resilience programme: A qualitative inquiry' (2018); 'On PAR: A feasibility study of the Promoting Adult Resilience programme with mental health nurses' (2018); and guest editor for 'Interventional Strategies for Enhancing Quality of Life and Health Span in Older Adults' (2020 and 2022, Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience). His contributions enhance clinical practices, policy, and service delivery in forensic and community mental health.