The NHCPE research subcommittee was founded in 2023 to develop strategic supports to increase research capacity of the counselling profession in Australia. It is a subcommittee made up of counselling education leaders from colleges and universities around Australia.

Achievements to date include:

1. Identifying research building capacity strategies based from consultations with key academics, peak bodies, journal editors, and informed by relevant scholarship.

2. Submission of a journal article, written by subcommittee members, to distribute findings. Currently under review.

3. Interviews with Australian counselling researchers uploaded to the NHCPE YouTube site. 

4. Hosted a Q&A with UK counselling researchers to help inform Australia, and making it available on YouTube. 

5. Developed a Counselling Research Community of Practice.

6. Disemminating research strategies and information via the NHCPE website Research pages. 

For further information, contact the current Chair, Dr Katrina Andrews from University of the Sunshine Coast.