OUR TEAM

Professor Monique Crane is the founder of Resilience Research and Training Systems. She is a registered psychologist, member of the Australian Psychological Society, and academic member of the College of Organisational Psychologists. She directs a program of research seeking to understand human resilience. Prof Crane has developed a new generation of resilience training based on accumulating research and theoretical advancements. 

 Jasmine Bhatia is a registered psychologist with a Organisational Psychology at Macquarie University. She is currently completing a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD).  Jasmine's interest in leadership has motivated her research pursuits to investigate the role of leaders' health-oriented behaviours on employee mental health and wellbeing outcomes in the workplace. Jasmine also brings industry-based skills in organisational transformation and change, linking evidence-based approaches to people-focused initiatives. 

 Seth Coetzee is a registered psychologist with a Organisational Psychology at Macquarie University. He is currently completing a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD). His research is oriented around investigating the factors which promote team resilience, with a particular focus on the role of interpersonal emotion regulation strategies and developing a team after-action-review protocol which draws on collective experiences of psychological demands. Seth also brings a keen interest in complex systems science/philosophy and people analytics.  

  Lucy is a registered psychologist, member of the Australian Psychological Society and Doctor of Philosophy candidate in Organisational Psychology at Macquarie University. Drawing on her previous career as a lawyer, her research interests include developing effective resilience training to help lawyers cope with the pressures of legal practice. She recently adapted the Resilience Research and Training System Team's structured self-reflection training program for the legal sector and delivered it to over 200 lawyers as the Mental Fitness in the Law Program. Lucy's research examines how self-reflective writing activities can be refined to strengthen the development of resilient beliefs, and the learnings that emerge through structured reflective practice.

Dr Eyal Karin is an statistician and data scientist with a background in psychology. He specialises in clinical measurement and clinical evidence. Dr Karin's expertise in complex statistical methods and AI supports the team to establish the evidence-base for developing resilience training programs.

Dr Marjorie Li is a researcher affiliated with the Performance and Expertise Research Centre at Macquarie University. Her work focuses on culturally informed approaches to mental health, wellbeing, and resilience, examining how people develop the emotional flexibility and capacities of resilience to cope with life’s challenges. She also brings together music, psychology, and culture in approaches to psychosocial wellbeing, informed by her lived experience as a musician in both Western and Chinese traditions. Prior to academia, she spent over 20 years managing complex, large-scale IT and digital innovation projects across government and finance.