Early Career Researchers' (ECR) Forum 2017

Event Description 

The Suicidal Behaviour Research Laboratory (SBRL) is pleased to announce the second Suicide and Self-Harm Early Career Researchers’ Forum (ECRF2017) which will take place at the University of Glasgow on 8th and 9th June 2017.  ECRF2017 is open to all working in the field of suicide and self-harm research, but it is specifically targeted at Early Career Researchers. It will provide a space for support, networking, and collaborations among Masters, PhD, and Post-doctoral research students as well as more established researchers.

The ECR Forum will yield opportunities for investigators at an early stage of their career to receive the advice and guidance of more senior scientists in the field and create a supportive context for ECRs to share their experiences and discuss the challenges faced in suicide and self-harm research, as well as fostering potential future research collaborations. The Forum also provides the opportunity to present your latest research and study projects in progress to colleagues, peers, health professionals, and policy makers.  In short, if you are a researcher (at any stage of your career) in the field of suicide and self-harm please consider attending and/or presenting. 

We are looking forward to welcoming you to Glasgow.

Tiago Zortea

Rory O’Connor

Check out the Twitter archive of 1st Suicide & Self-harm ECR Forum here!

Keynote Speakers 

Professor Ellen Townsend

Ellen is a Professor in the School of Psychology at the University of Nottingham and Principal Investigator leading the Self-Harm Research Group (SHRG). The SHRG researches psychological factors associated with self-harm and suicidality, and interventions that promote recovery, especially in young people using a range of techniques including sequence analysis, the Card Sort Task for Self-Harm (CaTS), experiments, questionnaires, epidemiology, interviews and systematic reviews. Ellen’s work has influenced policy - earlier versions of our systematic review of interventions for self-harm were included in the 2011 NICE Guidance on the Longer Term Management of Self-Harm. Professor Townsend also leads a national Clinical Research Group on self-harm funded by the Mental Health Research Network, she is a Fellow of the Institute of Mental Health Nottingham, collaborator on the Multicentre Study of Self-Harm in England, and a member of the BPS Expert Panel on the Psychology of Suicidal Behaviour. Ellen’s work is also internationally recognised. She is a Fellow of the International Academy of Suicide Research and has recently been awarded a Miegunyah Distinguished Visiting Fellowship at the University of Melbourne, Australia which will take place in April 2017.

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Professor Nav Kapur

Nav is Professor of Psychiatry and Population Health at the University of Manchester, UK, and an Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist at Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust.  He is Head of Research at the Centre for Suicide Prevention in the University of Manchester and leads the suicide work programme of the National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Homicide which collects data on all suicide deaths among people in contact with health services in the UK.  He was Chair of the Guideline Development Group for the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) self-harm guidelines (longer term management) and also chaired the Quality Standards for self-harm.  He is currently chairing the NICE guidelines for depression in adults and is topic expert on the NICE guidelines for suicide prevention in the community.  He is a member of the Department of Health’s (England) National Suicide Prevention Strategy Advisory Group. He has published extensively on suicide and self-harm with much of his research focussing on how health services might best contribute to suicide prevention. 

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