The projects below are complete. If you have any completed research and you would like to share your findings please email us by clicking on the link below.
Cardiff University
A research project looking at attitudes to seeking help at times of distress among 17 and 18 year-olds.
Centre for Suicide Research
Research on deliberate self-harm is based on a long-term database (more than 25 years) of referrals to Oxford hospitals for deliberate self harm.
Child Development Centre, Poole General Hospital
Research study on 'Irrational beliefs, hopelessness and depression in adolescents who attempt suicide, contemplate suicide and do not contemplate suicide'.
Colchester Rape Crisis Line
Secondary School Pilot Project
Danish National Institute of Social Research
Study 1 - Risk factors for adolescents' attempted suicide. Study 2 - Risk factors for parents' attempted suicide. Study 3 - A synthesis of studies 1 and 2.
Department of Corrections
Cognitive behavioural intervention in deliberate self-harm.
Dumfries and Galloway NHS Trust
Incidence and care of deliberate self-harm among adolescents in a residential environment.
G.B. Pant Hospital
A study of non-fatal suicidal behaviours and their association with risk factors in a school going adolescent population.
Haringey Healthcare NHS Trust
Research in the characteristics and psychological disturbance of refugee children.
Institute of Criminology
Suicidal Behaviour Among Young Offenders in Custody: an ethnographic study of social relationships, social support and ostracism.
NCH
Research project on the meanings and experiences of self-injury from the perspectives of service-users.
New Children's Hospital
Department of Psychological Medecine - Department of Health funded study into prevalence of self-mutilating behavior among adolescents in Sydney with a view to developing assessment and intervention guidelines.
New Zealand Children Young Persons and their Famil
As part of a Youth Services Strategy, tools are being developed to assess the risk of suicidal behaviour among young offenders.
North East Mental Health Partnership Trust
Nursing Liaison Service for children and adolescents up to age 18 yrs (in full time education) who present with DSH at any of three Accident & Emergency departments or GP surgeries in the North of Essex.
Pennyburn Youth Club
Citizenship initiative running here in the town for youth clubs and schools relating to issues of concern among young people whom we are working with.
R.M.I.T. University
Self-harming behaviour in adolescents. Early indicators and predictors.
Royal Free & University College Medical School
1. Young People and Self-harm: Pathways in Care
2.Young People and Self-harm: Pathways in Care 2000
Salomons
Deliberate self-harm in young, female British Asians - A postgraduate project looking at understanding the perspectives of Asian women (aged 16-30) who engage in ongoing self-harm.
Schneiders Childrens Medical Centre of Israel
Research and treatment unit dealing with adolescent self harm and suicide.
SIS (Self-Injury Support in North Cumbria)
Research project to: 'Explore the experiences of service users in a facilitated support group for people who self-injure'.
Stroud CAMHS
Setting up a pilot support group for self harming adolescents.
SW Thames Community NHS Trust
A case study of deliberate self-harm at an adolescent psychiatric unit.
Unit for Suicide Research - University of Gent
1. epidemiology (including epidemiological surveys of attempted suicide in A&E depts, general population surveys, psychological autopsy studies) 2. psychobiology of suicidal behaviour (including functional neuroimaging, receptor studies, neurospychology, cognitive psychology) 3. development and evaluation of prevention strategies (including national prevention strategy, school programmes)
University College Chichester / Southampton Univer
Research for PhD on student suicide and attempted suicide. Focusing on student and adolescent perceptions of suicide and the issues surrounding this both from the student and non-student population.
University of Birmingham
Doctoral thesis exploring how men describe their experience of self-harm.
University of British Columbia in Canada
Research completed on self-harm
University of Derby
University dissertation - self harm, emotion and discursive analysis
University of Nottingham
Research on attitudes towards suicidal behaviour
University of Strathclyde
Deliberate self-harm among Lesbians and Bisexual Women
University of the Arts
Researching why cutting and other self-injurious behaviour is on the rise in teens.
University of Wales, Swansea
Self-help or Self-harm: Deliberate Self-Injury in young people, An alternative approach
Young Women's Place, Queensland Health
Self-harm: unravelling the issues.
