Australian Eating Disorders Research and Translation Centre

The Australian Eating Disorders Research and Translation Centre’s IgnitED Fund is intended to support the creation of new partnerships and genuinely co-designed testing of new ideas that have the potential to help solve the problem of eating disorders. All IgnitED Fund projects are co-designed with research and lived experience expertise (at a minimum).

The first round of the IgnitED Fund was launched in May 2022 and a total of 84 applications were received. The Australian Eating Disorders Research and Translation Centre awarded nine IgnitED Fund Grants in this initial round, with a funding allocation of $250,000.

2022 Recipients

The Development of a Digital Education and Professional Development Platform for Peer Mentors in Eating Disorders - Peer MentorED

Ms Rachel Duck

Eating Disorders Victoria, La Trobe University

Co-designed parent-led CBT for perfectionism for adolescents with eating disorders

Miss Jamie Neal

Curtin University

Genetic and Environmental Contributions to Risk of Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder

Dr Morgan Sidari

QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, University of Sydney, Metro North Health

Lost in Transition - Understanding the Perspectives of Consumers, Carers, and Clinicians on Transitions from Child and Adolescent to Adult Eating Disorder Services (TraCED)

Ms Sarah Giles

Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, University of Melbourne

Strengthening the eating disorder treatment arsenal - Development of a novel therapeutic approach targeting trauma-related complex eating disorders and associated comorbidities

Dr Phillip Aouad

InsideOut Institute, University of Sydney

Supporting healthy eating and exercise behaviours in trans communities

Dr Bonnie Furzer

University of Western Australia, Thriving Exercise Rehabilitation Inc, Fremantle Hospital Mental Health Service, Telethon Kids Institute

We are only as strong as our weakest link - Improving the transition from hospital to home for adults with eating disorders

Dr Kylie Matthews-Rensch

Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, University of Western Sydney

Psilocybin-assisted psychotherapy for body image disturbance - an embodied solution to an embodied problem

Ms Claire Finkelstein

Swinburne University of Technology

Eating disorder in the peripartum - Creation and evaluation of an online module for health professionals and peer workers

Associate Professor Grace Branjerdporn

Gold Coast Hospital & Health Service

Acknowledgements

The Australian Eating Disorders Research and Translation Centre is supported by funding from the Australian Government under the National Leadership in Mental Health program. The Ignited Fund is jointly sponsored by the Australian Eating Disorders Research and Translation Centre and NSW Department of Health.