Angharad is a Specialist Registrar in General Adult Psychiatry, currently in Liaison Psychiatry in Birmingham. She also is an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Warwick, and will shortly be taking up a Clinical PhD Fellowship funded by the Wellcome Trust at the University of Oxford. Her work explores the interaction between self-harm, well-being, pharmacology, and neurocognitive factors. The major focus of Angharad's doctoral work will be biologically examining the potential of novel antidepressants using both healthy volunteers and individuals with depression.
Angharad de Cates explores a recent RCT of a brief psychological intervention to reduce repetition of self-harm in patients admitted to hospital following a suicide attempt.
Angharad de Cates, Alys Cole-King and Stan Kutcher explore a quasi-experimental examination of internet search results, which suggests that the Netflix series 13 Reasons Why has both increased suicide awareness while unintentionally increasing suicidal ideation.
