Rate My Professor Leanne Hides

Professor Leanne Hides is a Professor in the School of Psychology at the University of Queensland, holding the Lives Lived Well Chair in Alcohol, Drugs and Mental Health. She is a clinical psychologist with over 25 years of experience in alcohol and other drug clinical research and practice. Hides serves as Director of the NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence on Meaningful Outcomes in Substance Use Treatment and Deputy Director of the National Centre for Youth Substance Use Research. She completed her Doctor of Philosophy at Griffith University.

Since 2010, she has held research-only positions funded by fellowships such as the NHMRC Senior Research Fellowship (2017-2021), ARC Future Fellowship (2012-2016), and Vice Chancellor’s Senior Research Fellowship at Queensland University of Technology (2010-2013). Hides has attracted $46 million in research grants, including 15 NHMRC grants with $14.5 million. Her research specializes in youth substance use and mental health comorbidity, developing new models, strengths-based treatments, digital interventions like QuikFix, Ray’s Night Out, and music eScape, and routine outcome monitoring. As Chief Investigator on over 40 randomized controlled trials on substance use and mental health, she has published over 248 works, garnering more than 10,000 citations. Notable publications include “Telephone-based motivational interviewing enhanced with individualised personality-specific coping skills training for young people with alcohol-related injuries and illnesses accessing emergency or rest/recovery services: a randomized controlled trial (QuikFix)” (2021), “Health4Life e-health intervention for modifying lifestyle risk behaviours of adolescents: secondary outcomes of a cluster randomised controlled trial” (2023), and “Direction of the relationship between methamphetamine use and positive psychotic symptoms in regular methamphetamine users: evidence from a prospective cohort study” (2020). Through partnerships with AOD services, her translational research implements evidence-based practices, including a digital system for core outcome measures used by over 20,000 clients.