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 preventative 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
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.et al. 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/