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
Institution: Department of Psychology, University of Jyväskylä, Finland. Supervisory team: Prof. Aarno Laitila, Prof. Juha Holma, Dr. Jukka Valkonen, Dr. Kirsi Suominen. Position: PhD Student. Current research: I am interested in understanding how mental health services help and hinder recovery from suicidality. My PhD research explores suicide attempt survivors’ experiences of received care, including Finnish… Continue reading Selma Gaily-Luoma
Institution: Justice Health Unit, Centre for Health Equity, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, Australia. Position: Psychologist, lecturer, and honorary research fellow. Current research: I am currently investigating self-harm among asylum seekers, in both detained and community-based populations. Research interests: Asylum seeker and refugee mental health Self-harm among asylum seekers Post-migration… Continue reading Kyli Hedrick
Institution: Anxiety Disorders Center/Center for Cognitive Behavior Therapy, The Institute of Living, United States. Supervisory team: Dr David Tolin and Dr Gretchen Diefenbach. Position: Postdoctoral Fellow. Current research: I am interested in how we can improve our understanding and treatments for suicidal thoughts and behaviours through working alongside our most vulnerable and under-served populations, particularly young… Continue reading Jessica Stubbing
Institution: Resilience and Health laboratory, School of Psychology, University College Dublin, Ireland. Supervisory team: Assistant Professor Niki Nearchou. Position: MLitt student (hoping to start the PhD in September) / Research Assistant. Current research: I am currently conducting a systematic review on the relationship between sleep and self-harm in young people as part of my M.Litt.… Continue reading Áine French
Institution: School of Social Work, College of Social Sciences, Policy, and Practic – Simmons University, Boston, MA, United States. Supervisory team: Dr. Peter Maramaldi and Dr. Melinda Gushwa. Position: PhD Candidate. Current research: I am interested in how parents understand their child’s suicide communications and how parents access resources and supports for their child’s mental… Continue reading Michelle M. Oliver
Institution: University of Glasgow (2018-2019); University of Dundee and University of Stirling (2021-2022), Scotland. Supervisory team: Dr Maria Gardani; Dr Tiago C Zortea. Position: Trainee Clinical Associate in Applied Psychology. Current research: Exploring lived experiences of nightmares and suicidal thoughts and behaviours. Research interests: Perceived diminished problem-solving abilities during suicide risk Impulsivity within suicide risk… Continue reading Alkiviadis Koskotas
Institution: Suicidal Behavioural Research Laboratory, Institute of Health & Wellbeing, University of Glasgow, Scotland. Supervisory team: Professor Rory O’Connor and Professor Jonathan Evans. Position: PhD student in Mental Health. Current research: My research mainly focuses on investigating the dynamic nature of suicidal ideation and the factors presumed to influence the presence, intensity, and frequency of… Continue reading Yawen Zheng
Institution: Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust, England. Supervisory team: Karen Lascelles, Keith Hawton. Position: Research Assistant. Current research: I currently work across two projects, the first aims to explore suicide among nurses, midwives, and students of these professions. The second project is the development of a national survey exploring the experiences of staff working within… Continue reading Samantha Groves
Institution: Suicidal Behaviour Research Lab, University of Glasgow, Scotland. Supervisory team: Profs. Rory O’Connor & Hamish McLeod. Position: ECR. Current research: I want to better understand the factors that lead persons to engage in suicidal behaviour – especially those in low- and middle-income countries. The focus of my thesis was an exploration of risk and protective… Continue reading Karyl Powell-Booth
Institution: University of Birmingham, England. Position: Research Fellow. Current research: I’m working with Ruth Riley and Hilary Causer on a qualitative study about the impact on and support needs of NHS staff who have been bereaved by suicide Research interests: Healthcare professionals’ wellbeing and mental health Living with chronic physical and/or mental health conditions Qualitative… Continue reading Johanna Spiers
Institution: Department of Psychology, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana. Supervisory team: Prof Allan House and Prof Mitch Waterman. Position: Lecturer. Current research: My current research explores the correlates and resilience factors related to self-harm and suicidal behaviours among pregnant adolescent girls in Ghana, and implications for intervention and prevention. Research interests: In-school and hard-to-reach adolescents’ lived… Continue reading Emmanuel Nii-Boye Quarshie
Institution: Queen’s University Belfast (School of Nursing & Midwifery), Northern Ireland. Supervisory team: Dr Karen Galway and Dr Mark Linden. Position: PhD Student. Current research: I am interested in the role of resilience and post-traumatic growth, as protective mitigating factors of suicide. My PhD is to explore these mechanisms in the context of exposure to… Continue reading Nicole Devlin
Institution: Oxford Institute of Clinical Psychology Training and Research, University of Oxford, England. Supervisory team: Prof Paul Salkovskis, Dr Louise Johns, and Prof Craig Steel. Position: Trainee Clinical Psychologist; Hon. Postdoctoral Researcher. Current research: Early and current determinats of vulnerability for suicidal thoughts and behaviours. Research interests: Vulnerability for suicidal thoughts and behaviours; attachment relationship… Continue reading Tiago C. Zortea
Institution: University of Melbourne, Australia (Orygen, Centre for Youth Mental Health, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences). Supervisory team: Associate Professor Jo Robinson. Position: Research Fellow. Current research: I am currently co-developing best-practice guidelines for young people and researchers to involve young people with lived experience in suicide research. My PhD investigated the co-design and… Continue reading Marianne Webb
Institution: University of Manchester, England. Supervisory team: Peter Taylor, Tracy Epton and Isabelle Hunt. Position: PhD Student. Current research: This PhD research is designed to build on the existing literature about Non-Suicidal Self-Injury (NSSI); my PhD project will be called “An empirical exploration of Non-Suicidal Self-Injury (NSSI): Development and validation of a measure for addictive… Continue reading Sarah Davis
Institution: Oxford Health NHS FT and Oxford Brookes University, England. Supervisory team: Professor Jane Appleton, Professor Debra Jackson, Dr Zoe Davey for my professional doctorate and professor Keith Hawton for Trust based research. Position: Professional Doctorate student and Nurse Consultant with a research component to my role. Current research: The experiences and support needs of adults… Continue reading Karen Lascelles
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