Emma is a final year Doctoral Researcher within the School of Psychology, at Ulster University. Emma is a Social Psychologist, with a MSc in Health Psychology and several years of professional experience working within mental health services. Emma’s research is a mixed methods multi-study project entitled ‘Queering Suicide Prevention’ which is focused on understanding the mental health needs, suicidality and lived experiences of LGBTQA+ young people in Northern Ireland. Her research interests include health inequalities, marginalised identities, suicidal behaviour, suicide prevention, mental health needs, trauma exposure, young people, phenomenology, and critical discourses such as critical suicide theory, queer theory and intersectionality. Emma also recently became a Board Trustee of The Rainbow Project, Northern Ireland’s foremost LGBTQA+ health and wellbeing charity.
A large population cohort study finds that homelessness is an independent driver of suicide risk, pointing to the limits of mental health-focused prevention alone.
In her debut blog, Emma Wallace explores a recent US cross-sectional study, which suggests an exclusive focus on the mental health antecedents of suicide will exclude around 20% of people who attempt to take their own lives.
