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Ms Holly Crudgington

PhD student

Biography

Project Title: Self-harm in adolescence and the influence of gender and peer networks

Holly is a LISS-DTP PhD Student at the ESRC Centre for Society & Mental Health. Her PhD is focused on adolescent self-harm and the influence of gender and peer-friendship networks. Holly will be using data from the Resilience Ethnicity and Adolescent Mental Healthy (REACH) Study – an accelerated cohort study of over 4000 adolescents in south London. Holly will use the sociometric data within REACH and conduct social network analysis. 

Prior to starting her PhD in October 2020, Holly was a Research Worker at King’s College London in Paediatric Epilepsy (2016-2020) on the Core Health Outcomes in Childhood Epilepsy (CHOICE) project. She developed the first ever Core Outcome Set (COS) for childhood epilepsy research in collaboration with young people with epilepsy, their parents and health professionals.

Holly completed her BSc in Psychology at the University of Roehampton (2016) and went on to complete an MSc in Clinical Mental Health Sciences at University College London (2017). Alongside the MSc Holly worked as an Honorary Assistant Psychologist in the NHS. Holly’s experience within the NHS and with Patient Public Involvement and Engagement (PPIE) work with young people (as part of CHOICE) has inspired her to focus on adolescent mental health.

Research interests

  • Self-harm and suicide research 
  • Adolescent mental health 

Teaching

  • Graduate Teaching Assistant – BSc Psychology
  • Graduate Teaching Assistant – MSc module Statistics for Mental Health Research

    Research

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    Social Epidemiology Research Group

    The Social Epidemiology Research Group primarily focuses on how social contexts, interactions and experiences shape the occurrence, outcome, and management of mental health problems. Our goal is to provide evidence on the relationships between all aspects of society and mental health problems that can inform the development of interventions, mental health services, public health programmes, and social policies in order to prevent the onset and improve outcomes of mental health problems.

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    Resilience, Ethnicity & AdolesCent Mental Health

    REACH aims to understand the impact that social circumstances and experiences have on young people’s mental health as they grow up in south London

    Project status: Ongoing

      Research

      centre-society-mental-health
      Social Epidemiology Research Group

      The Social Epidemiology Research Group primarily focuses on how social contexts, interactions and experiences shape the occurrence, outcome, and management of mental health problems. Our goal is to provide evidence on the relationships between all aspects of society and mental health problems that can inform the development of interventions, mental health services, public health programmes, and social policies in order to prevent the onset and improve outcomes of mental health problems.

      reach-study-crop-cropped-780x440
      Resilience, Ethnicity & AdolesCent Mental Health

      REACH aims to understand the impact that social circumstances and experiences have on young people’s mental health as they grow up in south London

      Project status: Ongoing