Dr Caley Tapp

Research Fellow

School of Public Health
Faculty of Medicine

Overview

Dr Caley Tapp is a Research Fellow with the School of Public Health at the University of Queensland, based at the Queensland Centre for Mental Health Research.

Caley holds qualifications in psychology and epidemiology. She has a PhD in social psychology and completed a post doctoral fellowship on an ARC funded project examining a disease avoidance basis for stigmatisation.

Caley’s role is with the Analysis and Reporting Component of the Australian Mental Health Outcomes and Classification Network (AMHOCN), which leads the design, analysis and reporting of the National Outcomes and Casemix Collection (http://www.amhocn.org/). In this role she is involved in a range of projects designed to improve the measurement of patient- and service-level outcomes in Australia’s specialised public sector mental health services. She has experience in conducting systematic literature reviews, as well as conducting experimental, quasi-experimental and qualitative studies. Caley’s other research interests include examining the stigmatisation of people with obesity.

Caley is available to supervise honours, Masters and HDR students on a variety of topics; please get in touch to discuss.

Qualifications

  • Masters (Coursework) of Clinical Epidemiology, The University of Queensland
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Griffith University
  • Bachelor of Psychology, Griffith University

Publications

  • Walters, Jared, Occhipinti, Stefano, Duffy, Amanda L., Scrafton, Sharon, Tapp, Caley and Oaten, Megan (2024). Age-related disgust responses to signs of disease. Cognition and Emotion, 1-12. doi: 10.1080/02699931.2023.2300390

  • Arya, Vikas, Page, Andrew, Vijayakumar, Lakshmi, Onie, Sanderson, Tapp, Caley, John, Ann, Pirkis, Jane and Armstrong, Gregory (2023). Changing profile of suicide methods in India: 2014–2021. Journal of Affective Disorders, 340, 420-426. doi: 10.1016/j.jad.2023.08.010

  • McErlean, Gemma, Tapp, Caley, Brice, Lisa, Gilroy, Nicole, Kabir, Masura, Greenwood, Matt, Larsen, Stephen R, Moore, John, Gottlieb, David, Hertzberg, Mark, Brown, Louisa, Hogg, Megan, Huang, Gillian, Ward, Christopher and Kerridge, Ian (2023). Predictors of post traumatic growth in allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation survivors: a cross-sectional survey. BMC Psychology, 11 (1) 235, 1-12. doi: 10.1186/s40359-023-01204-4

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Publications

Book Chapter

  • Occhipinti, Stefano and Tapp, Caley (2019). Data preparation. Advanced research methods for applied psychology: design, analysis and reporting. (pp. 201-210) edited by Paula Brough. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315517971-20

Journal Article

Other Outputs

  • Pirkis, Jane, Currier, Dianne, Harris, Meredith, Mihalopoulos, Cathy, Arya, Vikas, Banfield, Michelle, Bassilios, Bridget, Buchanan, Ben, Butterworth, Peter, Brophy, Lisa, Burgess, Philip, Chatterton, Mary Lou, Chilver, Miranda, Eagar, Kathy, Faller, Jan, Fossey, Ellie, Ftanou, Maria, Gunn, Jane, Kruger, Ariel, Le, Long, Newton, Danielle, Roberts, Leo, Scurrah, Katrina, Scheurer, Roman, Spittal, Matthew, Tapp, Caley, van Gelder, Tim and Williamson, Michelle (2022). Evaluation of the Better Access initiative – final report. Canberra, ACT, Australia: Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care.

  • Harris, Meredith , Tapp, Caley , Arnautovska, Urska , Coombs, Tim , Dickson, Rosemary , Smith, Mark , Jury, Angela , Lai, Jennifer , James, Mick , Painter, Jon and Burgess, Philip (2021). Assessing the content validity of the revised Health of the Nation Outcome Scales 65+: the HoNOS Older Adults. Sydney, Australia: Australian Mental Health Outcomes and Classification Network.

  • Harris, Meredith , Tapp, Caley , Arnautovska, Urska , Coombs, Tim , Dickson, Rosemary , James, Mick , Painter, Jon , Smith, Mark , Jury, Angela , Lai, Jennifer and Burgess, Philip (2021). Assessing the content validity of the revised Health of the Nation Outcome Scales (HoNOS 2018). Sydney, Australia: Australian Mental Health Outcomes and Classification Network.