Michelle H. Lim BA, MPsych, PhD

Dr Michelle Lim is the chief scientific advisor for the Australian Coalition to End Loneliness, a national Australia network made up of 10 universities and 20 industry partners. She is also a Senior Lecturer in the Clinical Psychology Swinburne University of Technology. Dr Lim is the head of the Social Health and Wellbeing Laboratory. The aim of her research is to generate rigorous research related to loneliness. Specifically, the aim of the research is to develop and design evidence-based and consumer relevant interventions that can effectively target loneliness.

She is considered the leading Australian expert in loneliness, with over 20 national media appearances to date. She has also written online articles for the conversation, which generated high readership of over 300, 000 readers. An example is A deadly truth about loneliness. Dr Lim is the associate editor of an upcoming issue on loneliness, title, “Loneliness: contemporary insights on causes, correlates, and consequences” for the Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology journal.