Professor Peter Butterworth

Professorial Research Fellow (HILDA Survey) and ARC Future Fellow

Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research and Melbourne School of Population and Global Health

Contact details

Phone: +61 3 8344 0080
Fax: +61 3 8344 2111
Email: [email protected]


Curriculum Vitae (pdf 142KB)

Location

Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research
Level 5, Faculty of Business and Economics Building, 111 Barry Street, The University of Melbourne

Biography

Peter Butterworth is a Professorial Fellow and ARC Future Fellow at the University of Melbourne where he has a joint appointment with the HILDA team in the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research and the Centre for Mental Health in the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health. He holds a BA (Hons) and PhD in psychology from the University of Queensland and an MBiostats from the University of Sydney. Prior to commencing his current position in December 2015, Peter had worked for over a decade in population mental health research at the Australian National University in Canberra. He also has several years’ experience working in social policy research and development within the Commonwealth public sector. Peter has authored over 170 publications, including 121 peer-review journals articles, books and chapters and 26 commissioned reports. He has been a Chief Investigator on research grants, fellowships and consultancies worth $14 million, including almost $4 million as CIA or sole CI.

Research interests and current projects

Peter’s broad research interests are in the social causes and social consequences of common mental disorders across the lifecourse, with a focus on employment, job quality and welfare dependency. He has published extensively using HILDA Survey data. He is currently supported by an Australian Research Council (ARC) Future Fellowship (considering psychosocial job quality and workforce participation), and leads an ARC Discovery Project (investigating the prevalence, causes and consequences of welfare stigma) and an National Health and Medical Research Council Project grant (collecting the 5th wave of data in the youngest cohort of the Personality and Total Health (PATH) through Life project and investigate trajectories of depression and anxiety from early adulthood through to midlife). .