Dr Jess Williams

Biography

Jess received her PhD in Psychology from the Institute for Mental Health, University of Birmingham, with a thesis about self-harm among LGBTQ+ youth using mixed methods. She currently works to design, deploy, and evaluate in-situ digital interventions with young people with mental health difficulties, such as severe anxiety, depression, and self-harmful thoughts and behaviours. Her current studies involve a high degree of co-design methodology, randomised control trials and qualitative interviewing. Jess is also an associate fellow at the Institute of Mental Health and the Self-Harm Research Group at the University of Nottingham.

Research interests

• Mental health
• Self-harm and suicide
• In-situ interventions
• LGBTQ+ populations
• Co-design methodology
• Qualitative methods
• Public and patient involvement

More information

• ORCID