Senior Research Fellow in Youth Mental Health
Elaine is a Senior Research Fellow at the School of Public Health, UCC and the National Suicide Research Foundation, Cork. Her current work is funded by a Health Research Board Emerging Investigators Award. She leads the EQUALISE Study: Targeting inequalities in self-harm and suicide among children, adolescents and young adults. Her current research programme involves inter-disciplinary and international collaboration and examines the social determinants of self-harm and suicide in young people, with the aim of reducing inequities in youth mental health.
Elaine is a graduate of University College Cork and in 2012 she completed her PhD at the School of Public Health, UCC. She has published widely in high-impact journals on a range of mental-health related topics including national studies of incidence, trends and risk factors for youth self-harm. Elaine has worked on a range of multi-centre international studies of youth mental health, including the Saving and Empowering Young Lives in Europe (SEYLE) study and the Child and Adolescent Self-Harm in Europe (CASE) study.
View Elaine’s research profile here: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4412-2854
