Rate My Professor Kealagh Robinson

Dr. Kealagh Robinson serves as Adjunct Senior Lecturer in the Curtin School of Population Health within the Faculty of Health Sciences at Curtin University. She is also Senior Lecturer in Psychology at Massey University, where she leads a team of postgraduate research students. Her academic journey includes a Doctor of Philosophy in Psychology from Victoria University of Wellington in 2021, a Master of Science in 2017, a Bachelor of Science with Honours in 2015, and a Bachelor of Science in 2015 from the same university. Professionally, Robinson held a Research Fellow position in Curtin University's School of Population Health starting in 2022, was Lecturer in the School of Psychology at Massey University from 2017 to 2019, and worked in the School of Psychology at Victoria University of Wellington from 2019 to 2022. She contributes to international collaborations, including the COMPAS team focused on mental health alternatives to suicide and serves as an Associate Investigator on the Managing Emotion project.

Robinson's research employs experimental and longitudinal methods to explore nonsuicidal self-injury, suicide among youth and emerging adults, emotion regulation, and mental health in educational settings. Notable awards include the International Society for the Study of Self-Injury's Rising Star award in 2025 and a Marsden Fund Fast-Start Grant investigating emotional functioning in families. Her team efforts earned a 2022 Curtinnovation International Prize for developing a predictive algorithm and telehealth intervention for suicidal behavior. Key publications encompass 'Development and evaluation of a predictive algorithm and telehealth intervention to reduce suicidal behavior among university students' (Psychological Medicine, 2024), 'Emotion dysregulation in nonsuicidal self-injury: Dissociations between global self-reports and real-time responses to emotional challenge' (Journal of Affective Disorders, 2024), 'Who are we missing? Self-selection bias in nonsuicidal self-injury research' (Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 2023), 'Emotional responding to overt and subtle social exclusion among young women who engage in nonsuicidal self-injury' (Royal Society Open Science, 2023), and 'Nonsuicidal self-injury thoughts and behavioural characteristics: Associations with suicidal thoughts and behaviours among community adolescents' (Journal of Affective Disorders, 2021). With over 1,300 citations, her scholarship advances prevention strategies and informs interventions in youth mental health.