Institution: Population Health Sciences/Experimental Psychology, University of Bristol, UK. Supervisory team: Dr Lucy Biddle; Professor Ian Penton-Voak; Professor David Gunnell; Professor Marcus Munafo; Professor Paul Moran. Position: PhD Student. Current research: The impact of media portrayals of suicide on choice of suicide methods and transitions to high lethality methods. Research interests: Suicide and the media; media… Continue reading Helen Fay
Institution: University Medical Center Groningen, (Cognitive Neuroscience Centre), The Netherlands. Supervisory team: Professor Andre Aleman and Dr Marie-José van Tol. Position: PhD Student Current research: For my PhD project we are aiming to attain more knowledge about the underlying neural mechanisms of suicidality. Therefore, we will investigate brain activation during rest and during the following… Continue reading Justine Dickhoff
Institution: Florida State University, USA. Supervisory team: Dr. Jessica Ribeiro. Position: PhD Student. Current research: My Master’s research aims to characterize and predict suicide plans in the short term. I am currently working on building traditional statistical models as well as machine learning models to predict suicide planning in high-risk sample populations. I’m also exploring the… Continue reading Kathryn (Ryn) Linthicum
By Sarah Stanford. Suicide and self-harm remain taboo topics in schools, despite the fact youth suicide has reached a ten year high. Recent statistics show around eight children and young people die by suicide each week in Australia. Around one in ten self-harm during their teenage years. This loss of life means that the topic… Continue reading Talking about suicide and self-harm in schools can save lives
By Sarah Stanford. Walk into any high school and you can be confident that there are young people who self-harm. Research suggests that around one in ten teens will self-harm at least once. That equates to 2-3 students per classroom. So we know that self-harm is fairly common. What is self-harm? The most common form… Continue reading Self harm by Australian high school students: latest research on who might do it and how to help
By Charlotte Starkey Suicide Bereavement UK’s 6th International Conference saw over 350 people, from 8 countries and a range of backgrounds, come together to share their work, thoughts and experiences on the topic of ‘Looking Forward, Instilling Hope’. The one day event was held in the somewhat unorthodox, yet fantastic venue of a cinema in… Continue reading Conference Review: Suicide Bereavement UK’s 6th International Conference
One month ago – World Suicide Prevention Day 2017, we launched the International Network of Early Career Researchers in Suicide and Self-harm website – NetECR! Since then, we have been delighted with the response and support of ECRs in our field, as well as that shown by senior academics, institutions and charities from different parts… Continue reading One month of NetECR!
Institution: University of Dundee, Scotland. Supervisory team: Dr Fhionna Moore Position: PhD Student Current research: Masculinity as a psychosocial predictor of suicidal behaviour. Research interests: Sex differences in suicidal behaviour, the impact of gender roles on suicidal behaviour, how this may be changing as gender roles change, and cross national differences in suicide rates within the… Continue reading Charlotte Starkey
Institution: University of Nottingham, England. Supervisory team: Self-Harm Research Group. Position: Honorary Research Assistant. Current research: I am most interested in research related to self-harm, especially when it involves those with ‘lived experience’ and enables participants voices to be directly heard. However I am also interested in mental health research more broadly, having conducted research… Continue reading Katherine Brown
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