Our research spans a range of disciplines and uses a number of approaches to better understand suicidal behaviour and self-harm. A selection of our current and past research projects are listed below.
Epidemiological studies
- The incidence of student suicide in England (collaboration with ONS)
- Childhood adversity and suicidal behaviour in Sri Lanka
- Social capital and social determinants of suicide in Sri Lanka
- Pesticide restrictions in Taiwan
- Occupations at increased risk of suicide (collaboration with ONS)
- Differences between self-harm with and without suicidal intent
- Transitions from suicidal thoughts and non-suicidal self-harm to suicide attempts: a longitudinal study
- Pathways to self-harm: Biological mechanisms and genetic contribution
- Risk factors for suicide amongst Ambulance service staff
- An Ecological Momentary Assessment study of self-harm thoughts and behaviours
- Improving understanding of help seeking for self-harm using data linkage
- The Bristol self-harm surveillance register
- Pubertal timing and self-harm
- Chronicity, timing and type of Adverse Childhood experiences and self-harm and depression
- Social media use and mental health
- Emotional dysregulation, self-harm and eating disorders
- Risk factors for suicide among parent carers
- Trajectories of self-harm from adolescence to adulthood
- Suicidal outcomes during COVID-19
Qualitative and Mixed-method studies
- A multi-centre programme of clinical and public health research to guide health service priorities for preventing suicide in England – Suicide Prevention: NIHR Programme Grant
- Identifying Effective Approaches to Improving Mental Health and Wellbeing Amongst University Students
- The impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic and School Closures on adolescent mental health and wellbeing
- Life after self-harm in Sri Lanka
- Exploring barriers to asking about domestic violence after self-harm presentation to hospital in the UK by Liaison Psychiatry Staff
- Factors influencing choice of suicide method
- Help-seeking behaviour of young adults with mental distress and suicidal thoughts
- Impact of the internet and social media on self-harm and suicidal behaviour
- User evaluation of online help for suicidal thoughts
- The experience of delivering and receiving suicide postvention in schools after a student death by suicide
- Developing app-based suicide support provision for high risk users of a young person’s mental health app
Experimental studies and trials
- The impact of lived experience stories of self-harm on help seeking intentions, mood and future self-harm
- Effectiveness of household lockable pesticide storage to reduce pesticide self-poisoning in rural Asia: a community-based, cluster-randomised controlled trial.
- Vendor ‘gatekeeper’ training to prevent pesticide self-poisoning
- A cluster randomised controlled trial of an intervention to improve the mental health support and training available to secondary school teachers – the WISE(Wellbeing in Secondary Education) project