DoctorLarissa Bartlett

Dr Larissa Bartlett is the Postdoctoral Research Fellow (ParkinsonNet, Australia) at the Menzies Institute for Medical Research, and an ongoing Research Fellow (Mental Health) at the Wicking Dementia Research and Education Centre. She is also a registered mindfulness teacher (MTIA, MBSR Teacher, Level II) and draws on a wide range of high-level skills and experience working in business, government and research prior to her academic career.

MAJOR ACHIEVEMENTS

• During her doctoral studies, Larissa was awarded the American Psychological Association's Student Award at the 2017 Work, Stress and Health Conference in Minneapolis. 
• Volunteering to establish The Mind Games Race for Research, a corporate fundraising event that raised over $300,000 to support workplace mental health research at Menzies.
• Larissa was instrumental in establishing the ISLAND Project research cohort, which has seen a 25% reduction in modifiable dementia risk. 
• She initiated the ISLAND consumer advisory group and procedures for enabling ISLAND sub-studies (e.g. piloting the TASTest protocol, REM Sleep Disorder study) which have gone on to achieve high impact.
• In 2024, Larissa co-led the Working Well Tasmania workplace mental health benchmarking study, to inform the State Government's Workplace Mental Health Framework.

Larissa has extensive community engagement experience and plays an active role in communicating research outputs on behalf of the University, including media interviews, MC-ing and presenting her own work at Island of Ideas events. She has been an invited speaker at the Beaker Street Festival and the St Lukes health hubs, as well as many community organisations across Tasmania.