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The National Centre for Suicide Prevention and Self-Harm Research, led by Swansea University in collaboration with Cardiff University, the University of South Wales and the Samaritans, brings together interdisciplinary expertise to advance suicide and self-harm prevention research in Wales.
Funded by Health and Care Research Wales and the Welsh Government, the Centre provides a national platform for high-quality, policy-relevant research.
Our research focus
- Understanding the causes and contexts of suicide and self-harm
- Identifying risk and protective factors across the life course
- Evaluating effective interventions and prevention strategies
- Embedding meaningful and ethical lived experience involvement
- Translating research findings into policy and practice impact
Research environment
We work with linked population-level data and collaborate across disciplines including population data science, clinical research, public health, and social research.
We support early- and mid-career researchers and welcome collaborative proposals aligned with national suicide prevention priorities.
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The Card Sort Task for Self-Harm (CaTS): a review of the development, application, and adaptation of a novel tool for the assessment and contextual understanding of self-harm
Published: 17 July 2026
A socially assistive robot to support mental wellbeing in LGBTQ+ young people at risk of self-harm: a randomized controlled trial
Published: 4 June 2026
Exploring the Factor and Network Structures of Defeat and Entrapment
Published: 1 June 2026
Self-Organized Men’s Mental Health and Well-Being Groups – An Emerging Social Development
Published: 31 March 2026
Suicide and Self-Harm in Wales: National Centre for Suicide Prevention and Self-Harm Research Annual Report 2026
Published: 31 March 2026
Shared characteristics among those who co-ingest cocaine and alcohol prior to death by suicide: an examination of trends within the National Programme on Substance Use Mortality data (NPSUM)
Published: 11 March 2026
Antecedents and outcomes of a later attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) diagnosis in females
Published: 10 March 2026
The association between academic pressure and adolescent depressive symptoms and self-harm: a longitudinal, prospective study in England
Published: 12 February 2026
Effectiveness of suicide means restriction: an overview of systematic reviews
Published: 9 December 2025
How do Australian social media users experience self-harm and suicide-related content? A national cross-sectional survey comparing young people and adults
Published: 4 December 2025
Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey: Survey of Mental Health and Wellbeing, England, 2023/4
Published: 27 Nov 2025
The UK Biobank mental health enhancement 2022: Methods and results
Published: May 28, 2025
Cocaethylene and suicidality: an exploratory systematic review
Published: 8 May 2025
Exploring the Views of Young People, Including Those with a History of Self-Harm, on the Use of Their Routinely Generated Data for Mental Health Research: Web-Based Cross-Sectional Survey Study
Published: 12 March 2025
Covid-19 and Mental Illnesses in Vaccinated and Unvaccinated People
Published: 1 November 2024
Trends in incidence of self-harm, neurodevelopmental and mental health conditions among university students compared with the general population: nationwide electronic data linkage study in Wales
Published: 8 August 2024
#BeSeen: understanding young people’s views of the motivation and impacts of sharing self-harm imagery online and use of their social media data for research—a UK participatory arts-led qualitative study
Published: 26 June 2024
Childhood adversity and mental health admission patterns prior to young person suicide (CHASE): a case-control 36 year linked hospital data study, Scotland UK 1981–2017
Published: 3 June 2024
Understanding Suicide Clusters Through Exploring Self-Harm Behaviors
Published: 4 May 2024
Childhood cognitive ability and self-harm and suicide in later life
Published: 1 March 2024
Changing profile of suicide methods in India: 2014–2021
Published: 1 November 2023
Loss of life at sea from shipping British coal since 1890
Published: 12 July 2023
Insight of suicide in Iraq: a coroner’s report
Published: 7 July 2023
Gone too soon: Priorities for action against premature mortality associated with mental illness and mental distress
Published: 6 June 2023
SARS-CoV-2 Infection and the Risk of Suicidal and Self-Harm Thoughts and Behaviour: A Systematic Review
Published: 6 November 2022
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on presentations to health services following self-harm: systematic review
Published: 22 October 2022
Self-Harm Risk in Pregnancy: A Recurrent Events Survival Analysis Using UK Primary Care Data
Published: 2 October 2022
Suicide numbers during the first 9-15 months of the COVID-19 pandemic compared with pre-existing trends: An interrupted time series analysis in 33 countries
Published: 2 August 2022
A state level analyses of suicide and the Covid-19 pandemic in Mexico
Published: 9 July 2022
Suicide and self-harm in low- and middle- income countries during the COVID-19 pandemic: A systematic review
Published: 1 June 2022
Healthcare contacts with self-harm during COVID-19: An e-cohort whole-population-based study using individual-level linked routine electronic health records in Wales, UK, 2016—March 2021
Published: 27 April 2022
Suicide in india during the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic
Published: 6 April 2022
Identifying long-term and imminent suicide predictors in a general population and a clinical sample with machine learning
Published: 15 February 2022
Association of school absence and exclusion with recorded neurodevelopmental disorders, mental disorders, or self-harm: a nationwide, retrospective, electronic cohort study of children and young people in Wales, UK
Published: 9 January 2022
Understanding suicide clusters through exploring self-harm: Semi-structured interviews with individuals presenting with near-fatal self-harm during a suicide cluster
Published: 2 January 2022
Loneliness, coping, suicidal thoughts and self-harm during the COVID-19 pandemic: a repeat cross-sectional UK population survey
Published: 25 December 2021
Systematic review of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on suicidal behaviour amongst health and social care workers across the world
Published: 6 December 2021
Suicide trends in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic: an interrupted time-series analysis of preliminary data from 21 countries
Published: 8 July 2021
Identification of suicidal ideation in the Canadian Community Health Survey- mental health component using Deep Learning
Published: 24 June 2021
Changes in daily mental health service use and mortality at the commencement and lifting of the covid-19 ‘lockdown’ policy in 10 UK sites: A regression disconunity in time design
Published: 26 May 2021
Structured Professional Judgment to Assist the Evaluation and Safety Planning of Suicide Risk: The Risk of Suicide Protocol (RoSP)
Published: 17 May 2021
Suicide, fatal injuries and drowning among the crews of United Kingdom and Bermuda registered cruise and passenger ships from 1976 to 2018
Published: 21 March 2021
Clinical management and mortality risk in those with eating disorders and self-harm: e-cohort study using the SAIL databank
Published: 19 March 2021
Impact of Web-Based Sharing and Viewing of Self-Harm–Related Videos and Photographs on Young People: Systematic Review
Published: 19 March 2021
Living alone, loneliness and lack of emotional support as predictors of suicide and self-harm: A nine-year follow up of the UK Biobank cohort
Published: 15 January 2021
Care-pathways for patients presenting to emergency ambulance services with self-harm: national survey
Published: 3 December 2020
Contacts with primary and secondary healthcare prior to suicide: case-control whole-population-based study using person-level linked routine data in Wales, UK, 2000-2017
Published: 2 December 2020
Trends in suicide during the Covid-19 pandemic
Published: 12 November 2020
Means restriction for the prevention of suicide on roads
Published: 22 September 2020
Problem gambling and suicidality in England: secondary analysis of a representative cross-sectional survey
Published: 11 August 2020
Suicide research, prevention and covid-19
Published: 27th July 2020
Access to firearms and adolescent suicide
Published: 22 July 2020
The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on self-harm and suicidal behaviours: Protocol for a living systematic review
Published: 25 June 2020
Genetic aetiology of self-harm ideation and behaviour
Published: 16 June 2020
Suicide risk and prevention during the Covid-19 pandemic
Published: 1 June 2020
Self-harm presentation across healthcare settings by sex in young people: an e-cohort study using routinely collected linked healthcare data in Wales, UK
Published: 1 April 2020
The incidence of suicide in University students in England and Wales 2000/2001–2016/2017: Record linkage study
Published: 15 January 2020
Clustering of suicides in children and adolescents
Published: 4 January 2020
Paramedics’ perceptions of the care they provide to people who self-harm: A qualitative study using evolved grounded theory methodology
Published: 17 October 2018
Examining the role of borderline personality traits in the relationship between major depression and nonsuicidal self-injury
Published: 1 October 2018
Premature mortality among people with severe mental illness – New evidence from linked primary care data
Published: 19 September 2018
Risk of Unnatural Mortality in People With Epilepsy
Published: 1 August 2018
Using Neural Networks with Routine Health Records to Identify Suicide Risk: Feasibility Study
Published: 22 June 2018
Risk of suicide following an alcohol-related emergency hospital admission: An electronic cohort study of 2.8 million people
Published: 27 April 2018
Self-Harm, Suicidal Behaviours, and Cyberbullying in Children and Young People: Systematic Review
Published: 19 April 2018
Means restriction for the prevention of suicide : generic protocol
Published: 9 April 2018
Neuroticism and suicide in a general population cohort: results from the UK Biobank Project
Published: 16 March 2018
School achievement as a predictor of depression and self-harm in adolescence: linked education and health record study
Published: 6 March 2018
Suicide following acute admissions for physical illnesses across England and Wales
Published: 4 March 2018
A systematic review of interventions to prevent suicidal behaviours and reduce suicidal ideation in older people
Published: 29 November 2017
A systematic review of the relationship between internet use, self-harm and suicidal behaviour in young people: The good, the bad and the unknown
Published: 16 August 2017
Educational Attainment at Age 10-11 years predicts health risk behaviours and injury risk during adolescence
Published: 6 August 2017
How do emergancy ambulance paramedics view the care they provide to people who self-harm? Ways and Means
Published: 31 January 2017
Newspaper Reporting on a Cluster of Suicides in the UK
Published: 3 January 2017
Investigating the feasibility of an enhanced contact intervention in self-harm and suicidal behaviour: A protocol for a randomised controlled trial delivering a social support and wellbeing intervention following self-harm (swish)
Published: 14 September 2016
Non-accidental non-fatal poisonings attended by emergency ambulance crews: an observational study of data sources and epidemiology
Published: 18 August 2016
Perceptions of paramedic and emergency care workers of those who self harm: A systematic review of the quantitative literature
Published: 7 December 2014
Suicide Information Database: A protocol for a population-based reoutinly collected data linkage study to explore risks and patterns of healthcare contact prior to suicide to identify opportunities for intervention
Published: 25 November 2014
PRINTQUAL: The development of a measure for assessing the quality of newspaper reporting of suicide
Published: 1 September 2014
Identifying Probable Suicide Clusters in Wales Using National Mortality Data
Published: 28 August 2013
Following self-harm, there are shared and differing risk factors for subsequent suicide death or accidental death
Published: 15 November 2012
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on self-harm and suicidal behaviours in children and young people: a systematic review
Published: 2025
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