Overview
I am a researcher and mental health consultant at DECIPHer (Centre for the Development, Evaluation, Complexity and Implementation in Public Health Improvement). I am also a Fellow of the Royal Society for Public Health.
My current project centres upon preventive intervention support for adolescent self-harm. It explores pupils' lived-experiences of self-harm in Wales.This project applies a public health systems lens, analysing the risk and protective factors within the secondary school context. This is to understand pupils' health and support needs, centred upon pupils' perspectives.
My work is participatory-based and consultative, to inform public health complex interventions system-level modelling for health improvements. This means my research facilitates the views of sixth form pupils and young people in Wales who have lived experience of self-harm, as well as school staff and other community-based system-linked professionals. This work aims to generate and explore shared solutions to the health issue of adolescent self-harm in our society.
Publications
2022
- Parker, R. 2022. Applying a human rights-based framework for health equity purposes in community-based adolescent self-harm research. A participatory research methods case study of the barriers and facilitators for adolescents’ and young people’s participation in adolescent self-harm preventative intervention research in secondary schools in Wales. Presented at: International Society for the Study of Self-Injury, Virtual, 22-24 June 2022.
2021
- Parker, R. 2021. Managing ethical issues in community-based adolescent self-harm research. Ethical practice in an adolescent self-harm preventative intervention research project with pupils in secondary schools in Wales.. Presented at: EPA 29th European Congress of Psychiatry (2021), Virtual, 10-13 April 2021European Psychiatry EPA 2021 Abstract Supplement, Vol. 64. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press pp. 727-727.
- Parker, R. 2021. Ethics in school-based adolescent self-harm prevention intervention research. A research safety protocol to manage ethical tensions and address research barriers to facilitate pupil participation. Presented at: 2021 IASR/AFSP International Summit on Suicide Research, Virtual, 24-27 October 2021.
2020
- Parker, R. 2020. Managing the potential risk of harm to secondary school pupil participants in adolescent self-harm prevention intervention research. An example of a successful school-based research safety plan for secondary school pupils in Wales.. Presented at: International Society for the Study of Self-Injury Annual Conference 2020, Vienna, Austira, 26-27 June 2020.
2019
- Evans, R. et al. 2019. Adolescent self-harm prevention and intervention in secondary schools: A survey of staff in England and Wales. Child and Adolescent Mental Health 24(3), pp. 230-238. (10.1111/camh.12308)
- Parker, R. 2019. Developing preventative intervention support for adolescent self-harm in schools. Using a whole-system approach to generate explanatory theory [Conference Poster]. European Psychiatry 56, pp. 427-427., article number: s423. (10.1016/j.eurpsy.2019.01.003)
2018
- Parker, R. 2018. A small-scale study investigating staff and student perceptions of the barriers to a preventative approach for adolescent self-harm in secondary schools in Wales - a grounded theory model of stigma. Public Health 159, pp. 8-13. (10.1016/j.puhe.2018.03.016)
- Parker, R. 2018. Barriers to adolescent self-harm preventative work in secondary schools in Wales: A grounded theory model of stigma.
- Parker, R. 2018. Stigma, social exclusion and adolescent self-harm. Presented at: 23rd World Congress of the International Association for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professions, Prague, Czech Republic, 23-27 Jul 2018.
2017
- Parker, R. 2017. Concerted action by multidisciplinary stakeholders: The development phase of a complex public health intervention in regards to adolescent self-harm.. European Psychiatry 41(Supp.), pp. S738. (10.1016/j.eurpsy.2017.01.1358)
- Parker, R. 2017. Health topic, adolescent self-harm. The development phase of a complex public health intervention - the intervention theory.. Presented at: EPA 2017: 25th European Congress of Psychiatry, Florence, Italy., 1-4 April 2017.
- Evans, R., Janssens, A., Parker, R., Russell, A. and Mathews, F. 2017. Schools needs and fears about self-harm prevention and intervention: A mixed method study of secondary schools in the UK. Presented at: 6th European Network for Social and Emotional Competence Conference, Stockholm, 7–9 June 2017.
2016
- Evans, R. et al. 2016. GW4 Children and young people's self-harm and suicide research collaboration. Report.. Project Report. [Online]. GW4. Available at: http://decipher.uk.net/report-launch-gw4-children-young-peoples-self-harm-suicide-research-collaboration/