Category: ECRs

Wenna Xi has a PhD in Biostatistics and is Instructor in the Department of Population Health Sciences at Weill Cornell Medicine (wex4002@med.cornell.edu).

Sarah Spafford has a Masters in Suicidology and a PhD in Prevention Science. She is a research associate at the University of Oregon’s Center on Human Development (sspaffo2@uoregon.edu).

Nikki van Eijk (@nikkilykaa) is a PhD student at 113 Suicide Prevention, the national centre for suicide prevention in the Netherlands. She researches how to improve treatment for suicidal people in a mental healthcare setting.

Michael Wilson is a Project Manager and PhD candidate with Orygen at the University of Melbourne. His research focuses on suicidal thoughts and behaviours in boys and men, with a current focus on relationship breakdown as a risk factor.

Abby Ridge-Anderson (@AbbyAraCUA) has a Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology and is a Research Associate with the Suicide Prevention Lab at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C.

Kayla is a PhD student in the Technological University of the Shannon looking at suicide methods, suicide locations and dyadic death specifically with links to the internet. Kayla is a non-profit director and has been teaching and facilitating suicide prevention and intervention training since 2016. Kayla is a qualified social care worker and works in the area of suicide prevention, intervention and postvention.

Hayley Purdon is a PhD candidate at the University of New England. She is also an advocate for people with lived experience of suicide through her business CriticLE (@criticLE_SP).

Charlie is a provisionally registered psychologist and Research Assistant in the Suicide Prevention research group at Orygen, Centre for Youth Mental Health. Currently completing his Master’s degree in Educational and Developmental Psychology at Monash University, Charlie's current research projects focus on the role of social media in youth suicide prevention.

Anastasia Izotova, MSc. psychologist, PhD fellow in psychology at the University of Oslo & Nic Waals Institute, Oslo, Norway – studying epidemiology of childhood self-harm (anastasia.izotova@web.de)

Beau Nieuwenhuijs (@Beau_N5) has an Msc in policy studies and is currently completing a research master in gerontology at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel ( beau.michele.nieuwenhuijs@vub.be).

Lizzy Winstone (@LizzyWinstone) has a PhD in Population Health Sciences and is a Senior Research Associate in Epidemiology at the University of Bristol (lizzy.winstone@bristol.ac.uk).

Lizzy Winstone (@LizzyWinstone) has a PhD in Population Health Sciences and is a Senior Research Associate in Epidemiology at the University of Bristol (lizzy.winstone@bristol.ac.uk).

Lizzy Winstone (@LizzyWinstone) has a PhD in Population Health Sciences and is a Senior Research Associate in Epidemiology at the University of Bristol (lizzy.winstone@bristol.ac.uk).

Selena O’Connell (@OConnell_Selena) is a postdoctoral researcher at University College Cork, working with the School of Public Health and National Suicide Research Foundation.

Camille Davisse-Paturet has a PhD in epidemiology and is a postdoctoral research fellow at Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, Paris, France (Camille.davisse-paturet@inserm.fr).

Camila Altavini is a clinical psychologist at University of Brasília, and PhD student at University of São Paulo.

Institutions: (1) Hearing Sciences, Mental Health and Clinical Neurosciences, NIHR Nottingham Biomedical Research Centre, School of Medicine, University of Nottingham, England. (2) Department of Psychology, University of Stirling, Scotland. Supervisory team: Dr Derek Hoare, Dr Magdalena Sereda, Dr Joanna Lockwood, Dr William Whitmer. Position: PhD Student at the University of Nottingham & Lecturer at the Department… Continue reading Carol MacDonald

Institution: Suicidal Behaviour Research Lab (SBRL), Mental Health PhD Programme, University of Glasgow. Supervisory team: Professor Rory O’Connor, Dr Jack Melson. Position: PhD Student. Current research: I am currently working on a systematic review investigating all the factors explain the relationship between perfectionism and suicide risk [PROSPERO 2021; CRD42021225855], and an empirical research study investigating the… Continue reading Elvan Unlu

Institution: National Centre for Emergency Primary Health Care; NORCE - Norwegian Research Centre AS, Bergen, Norway. Supervisory team: Dr Ingrid H. Johansen, Research Professor Tone Morken and Professor Edvin Schei. Position: MD and PhD student. Current research: My PhD research is exploring the role of frontline clinical services (Accident and Emergency Departments) and how they… Continue reading Anita Hunsager

Institution: University of West London, England. Supervisory team: Principal Supervisor: Caroline Lafarge, Professor of Psychology; 2nd Supervisor, Jamie Churchyard, Senior Lecturer in Psychology; 3rd Supervisor: Sharon Cahill, Ph.D. Supervisor. Position: PhD student. Current research: I am interested in understanding how people deal with losing loved ones to suicide. My PhD research is looking at the factors… Continue reading John Whitebrook