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Dr Chloe Gordon

Research Fellow
Institute for Positive Psychology and Education

Areas of expertise: media literacy; wellbeing; program development and evaluation; autism; mixed-methods research; systematic reviews

Phone: +61 03 9230 8346

Email: chloe.gordon@acu.edu.au

Location: ACU Melbourne Campus

ORCID ID: 0000-0002-3648-8349

Chloe is a Research Fellow at the Melbourne Campus. Her expertise lies in media literacy, school-based research and systematic reviews, with particular strengths in developing, implementing and evaluating theoretically-driven interventions using mixed methods. She is an interdisciplinary researcher, drawing upon theories in education, psychology and public health to push the boundaries of media literacy education. Specific areas include alcohol harm prevention, body image dissatisfaction and autism inclusion. Chloe seeks to involve community partners in all stages of research to achieve real-world impact.

Select publications

• Who’s most at risk of poor body image? Identifying subgroups of adolescent social media users over the course of a year.
• Representation of autism in fictional media: A systematic review of media content and its impact on viewer knowledge and understanding of autism.
• A systematic meta-analysis and meta-synthesis of the impact of service-learning programs on university students’ empathy
• Outcomes of a cluster randomized controlled trial of the SoMe social media literacy program for improving body image-related outcomes in adolescent boys and girls.
• Clinically significant body dissatisfaction: prevalence and association with depressive symptoms in adolescent boys and girls
• Autism in Australia: Community Knowledge and Autistic People’s Experiences
• Inclusion, Exclusion and Isolation of Autistic People: Community Attitudes and Autistic People’s Experiences
• Children and tutor’s perspectives on a homework support program in Melbourne: A university–school partnership
• An Australian study on the benefits of pastoral care to aged care residents in Christian affiliated homes
• A Biopsychosocial Model of Social Media Use and Body Image Concerns, Disordered Eating, and Muscle-Building Behaviors among Adolescent Girls and Boys
• A cluster randomized controlled trial of the SoMe social media literacy body image and wellbeing program for adolescent boys and girls: Study protocol
• ‘You could get sick, disgusting’: an analysis of alcohol counter-advertisements created by children
• “I see so much in them”: Australian Chaplains telling an alternative narrative of adolescents in the justice system
• A systematic review of children's alcohol-related knowledge, attitudes and expectancies
• Evaluation of an Australian alcohol media literacy program

Projects

• 2023 Gordon CS, Evaluation of the I CAN Network's Transition Programs in Victoria, Commissioning agency: I CAN Network ($18,700)
• 2021 Jones SC, Gordon CS, Akram M, Autism: Community attitudes and experiences research (Wave 2), Commissioning agency: Amaze ($24,300)
• 2020 Gordon CS, Jones SC, Mizzi S, Raising awareness of unhealthy industry, political, policy and marketing tactics among young people: A rapid evidence review; commissioning agency: VicHealth ($27,135, May-July 2020).
• 2019 Ciarrochi J, Jones SC, Gordon CS, Evidence review on "Learning resilience", SAX institute; commissioning agency: Beyond Blue ($25,000)
• 2017 Brennan L, Gordon CS, Murphy N, Evidence Check - rapid review on "Energy balance promotion and awareness in young people", SAX institute; commissioning agency: NSW Ministry of Health ($25,850)

Appointments and Affiliations

• Research Fellow, Institute for Positive Psychology and Education (July 2023 - present)
• Research Fellow, Research Impact Unit, Office of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research and Enterprise), Australian Catholic University (Jan 2022 - June 2023)
• Research Associate, Community Engagement, Office of the Vice Present, Australian Catholic University (Nov 2017 - Dec 2021)
• Curriculum Consultant, The Butterfly Foundation (Feb - March 2020)
• Postdoctoral Research Fellow, School of Psychology and Public Health, La Trobe University (Oct 2017 - June 2020)