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Overview. Professor in Mental Health Epidemiology. Senior Postgraduate Research Tutor - Division of Psychology & Mental Health. Biography. Roger is based in the Centre for Mental Health & Safety. He is also the Senior Postgraduate Resarch Tutor for the Division of Psychology & Mental Health.
- Downward mobility link to violent crime and self-harm
The results are highly relevant to the UK context argue...
- Downward mobility link to violent crime and self-harm
combat the stigma of mental illness. The Centre for Mental Health and Safety is led by Professor Roger Webb, who is a mental health epidemiologist with expertise in conducting studies using large interlinked routinely collected datasets in the UK, Denmark and other countries.
The results are highly relevant to the UK context argue Professor Roger Webb and Dr Pearl Mok, two of the study’s authors. Children who remained in the top 20% of wealthiest families over their first 15 years of life were the least likely to harm themselves or commit violent crime between the ages of 15 and 33.
The study - led by Dr Roger Webb at the University'’s Centre for Mental Health and Risk and published in The Lancet Public Health, identified 1.1 million Danish children admitted to hospital before the age of 15 following episodes of self-harm, interpersonal violence or serious accidents.
We lead the work on self-harm and suicide prevention in the Greater Manchester PSTRC. The lead researchers are Drs Leah Quinlivan and Louise Gorman. Dr Donna Littlewood is now an honorary researcher on the programme. The theme leads are Professors Roger Webb and Nav Kapur.
Roger T. Webb's 232 research works with 10,511 citations and 13,165 reads, including: Non‐fatal overdose risk associated with prescribing opioid agonists concurrently with other medication ...
Here at Manchester, Professor Roger Webb will co-lead the ‘Prevention of Suicide and Self-harm’ challenge and Prof Matt Sutton will co-lead the ‘Data, Linkages and Causal Inference’ cross-cutting platform.
