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ProfessorGenevieve Pepin

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Professor

Faculty of Health/School of Health and Social Development/HOME

Orcid identifier0000-0002-8382-160X (opens in a new tab)⁠
  • Professor
    Faculty of Health/School of Health and Social Development/HOME
  • +61 3 522 78462 (Work)
  • Geelong Waterfront Campus, 1 Gheringhap Street Geelong, Victoria 3220

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Professor Pepin believes in multidisciplinary approaches to understand eating disorders and co-produced research and interventions. She believes in best practice and is interested in emerging knowledge and interventions about eating disorders. She is particularly interested in understanding the impact of eating disorders on function and the daily occupations of those with an eating disorder and their family, and the development of innovative interventions promoting best health outcomes. She is interested in better understanding the role of sensory processing in the development, treatment, and recovery of people with an eating disorder.
Her research also focuses on understanding the impact of mental illness on engagement and participation in meaningful occupations and important life roles. Professor Pepin is also interested and advancing occupational therapy practice, education, and research in mental health. Other research interests include the impact of COVID and long COVID on function and the nexus between built environment, wellbeing, and mental health.

GRANTS

  • INTERNAL GRANT
    Connecting to Home: Designing Integrated Health and Knowledge-Sharing Systems for Regional Homelessness Services (opens in a new tab)⁠
    Deakin Science and Society Network2 Mar 2026 - 31 Dec 2026
    People funded by this grant:
    PROJECT TEAM: This project is led by Drs Akari Nakai Kidd and David Boarder Giles, Senior Lecturers at Deakin in Architecture and Anthropology, respectively, based in the Schools of Architecture and Built Environment, and Humanities and Social Sciences. Drs Kidd and Giles are members of Deakin’s HOME SRIC, and have recently completed a HOME-based research project entitled “Home Truths: Local insights into homelessness”, on which this project builds. They are joined on this project by several colleagues in HOME including: Associate Professor Ameeta Jain in the School of Finance; Associate Professor and HOME co-director Fiona Andrews and Professor Genevieve Pippin, of the School of Health and Social Development; and Professor and HOME co-director Richard Tucker, of the School of Architecture and Built Environment. Together, the team brings together a rich spectrum of expertise regarding housing systems, health outcomes, socioeconomic vulnerability, and co-design methodologies-particularly Systems Thinking in Community Knowledge Exchange (STICKE) which this project employs, and with which the team has a wealth of collective experience. PROJECT DESCRIPTION: While the negative health effects of homelessness are widely studied, far less understood are the health implications, for People Experiencing Homelessness (PEH), of the complex ecosystem of Specialised Homelessness Services (SHS) and related supports. This project investigates a critical, understudied aspect of that system: its informational infrastructures. We build on findings and community partnerships developed through pilot research with SHS providers and PEH in Greater Geelong (Giles, Nakai Kidd, et al., 2025), suggesting that barriers, bottlenecks, and redundancies in information circulation and knowledge-sharing represent systemic impediments to effective service delivery and client outcomes-with health implications including delayed care, treatment discontinuity, service fatigue, and mental distress. Through cross-disciplinary collaboration and community partnerships, this project will explore information pathways within the ecosystem and suggest interventions for the wellbeing of PEH.
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  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    COllaborative for Eating Disorders - Western Melbourne (CO-ED West)
    Australian Eating Disorder Research and Translation Centre1 Jan 2026 - 31 Dec 2026
    People funded by this grant:
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    MOSAIC: Mapping Shared ARFID Insights through Co-Production
    Australian Eating Disorder Research and Translation Centre1 Jan 2026 - 31 Dec 2026
    People funded by this grant:
    • Harris H,
    • Pepin G,
    • Barrand S,
    • Knight R,
    • Ciciulla D
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    A mixed methods study to inform a co-designed evaluation and enhancements of Hospital in the Home (HITH) for young people accessing Eating Disorder Services in the Barwon South-West region.
    6 Jul 2023 - 30 Jun 2024
    People funded by this grant:
    Barwon Health - $26,000.00
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    Evaluation of the Eating Disorder Medicare Benefit Schedule Items.
    17 May 2023 - 28 Jun 2024
    People funded by this grant:
    Department of Health & Aged Care (Dept of Finance) Commonwealth - $709,939.00
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    A mixed methods study to inform a co-designed evaluation and enhancements of Hospital in the Home (HITH) for young people accessing Eating Disorder Services in the Barwon South-West region.
    1 May 2023 - 31 Dec 2023
    People funded by this grant:
    Western Alliance - $15,000.00
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    Mental Health Learning and Development Resources.
    20 Feb 2023 - 31 Dec 2024
    People funded by this grant:
    Occupational Therapy Australia Ltd - $134,794.43
  • COLLABORATIVE GRANT
    Occupational Therapy Joint Position Deakin-Western Health
    23 Jan 2023 - 30 Nov 2028
    People funded by this grant:
    Western Health - $260,991.00
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    Severe and Enduring Eating Disorders Program.
    1 May 2022 - 31 Dec 2022
    People funded by this grant:
    • Genevieve Pepin
    Eating Disorders Foundation of Victoria - $15,000.00
  • GRANT
    Australian Eating Disorders Research & Translation Centre (AEDRTC)
    1 Apr 2022 - 30 Sep 2025
    People funded by this grant:
    • Maguire S,
    • Marks P,
    • McGorry P,
    • Rieger E,
    • Pepin G
    Department of Health - National Eating Disorder Research Centre - 4-GOUFZZI - $549,326.00
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    Kids Plus Foundation Senior Research Fellow
    23 Jul 2021 - 30 Jun 2024
    People funded by this grant:
    Kids Plus Foundation - $305,316.00
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    The uptake, benefits and impacts of virtual healthcare for non-hospitalised TAC clients and providers.
    1 Mar 2021 - 30 Oct 2023
    People funded by this grant:
    Transport Accident Commission - $396,096.28
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    An examination of an interprofessional models and partnership between headspace Geelong and Deakin University for the youth mental health workforce.
    1 Sep 2020 - 31 Dec 2021
    People funded by this grant:
    Barwon Child, Youth & Family - $160,000.00