Dr Georgia Dawson
Dr Georgia Dawson is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Education, University of Melbourne. Georgia has managed a range of complex, multi-year education-based research and evaluation projects spanning mental health, social-emotional learning and literacy and numeracy at the program and policy level. Georgia also lectures in child development, exceptionalities (Autism and ADHD) in the Master of Educational Psychology. As a registered psychologist, Georgia has experience in the primary and tertiary education sectors across a range of needs including psychotherapy and counselling, psychological assessment of learning difficulties, screening and assessment of neurodevelopmental disorders and implementation of educational interventions.
Dr Dawson led the development of the Mental Health in Primary Schools (MHiPS) professional learning program. She has oversight of the delivery of the professional learning program in MHiPS schools across Victoria, and the codesign, adaptation and delivery of the professional learning program in jurisdictions outside of Victoria.
We gratefully acknowledge the Victorian Department of Education, The Ian Potter Foundation, Tim Fairfax Family Foundation, Helen McPherson Smith Trust, SALT Catalyst, Bupa, The Ross Trust, the R.M. Ansett Trust, The Bryan Foundation and the Shepherd Foundation for their support of the MHiPS initiative.