Emotional Health and Self-Injury Research Group

Thank you for such a lovely welcome 😊

An enormous congratulations to enAble’s own Penelope Hasking, the National Health and Medical Research Councils’ partnership grant winner in the development of a suicide prevention program. Congratulations Penelope, you are doing truly incredible work!

Know an Aussie child in Yr 6? Do they want to help us understand #MentalHealth over the move to high school? Register your interest (tinyurl.com/2xwjsebc) and we'll be in touch with more info asap. Kids get a voucher and participation can be online #Dyslexia #DLD #DevLangDis

We are still accepting applications for the ISSS Collaborative Research Program through Sat June 1, 2024!: itriples.org/crp-projects-2… #NSSI #selfinjury #selfharm

A week of sharing and caring! Members got creative at @CurtinUni's Creative Festival and connected with other students. Group lead @PennyHasking presented to the School of Population Health Research Seminar before rounding out the week talking stats to our research group📊

Kaya Early Career & Student Researchers! Please save the date: 2nd Western Australian Psychological Science Conference Curtin University Bentley Campus Friday 6th Dec 2024 Last year boasted 57 talks & 171 registrations. This year looks to be bigger & better still!

We have had @kirstyhird present information on how to deal with bots in research, Kassandra present her framework for involving people with lived experience in NSSI research and @m_sylvanna presented her milestone 3 presentation-with thesis submission around the corner🎉

Some members of our research group were apart of headspace Midland’s Bop n Shop - Youth Market, in celebration of Youth Week 2024! It was a great opportunity to support some incredible young people in the community and connect with service providers doing amazing work.

Last week in group we were visited by Paul Litwin from MensTalk a mental health promotion organisation focused on preventing suicide amongst men.

Last week in group we discussed the intersectionality of people with lived experience of being in the justice system and self-injury with @KinnerStuart from the Justice Health Group. Stuart and his colleagues conduct research to understand & address the impacts of prison.

Happy International Women's Day. Today is a day to recognise and celebrate all women of diverse faith, race, ethnicity, gender, sexual identity, or disability. #IWD2024

Research Group Recap: We welcomed our new honours student to the research group last week. Introducing them to our research area of emotional health and non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI). #ResearchGroup #HonoursStudents #NSSIResearch #EmotionalHealth

NEW INSTA: Follow and share for updates about our research: instagram.com/nssi.rg?utm_so…

In group this week we are planning on generating some plain language research infographics! Please share your own examples below for inspiration :) #researchtwitter #AcademicTwitter

excited* clearly too excited to spell 😁

and we're back! First group meeting of the year is today, who's exited?

Congratulations to all of our honours, Masters, and PhD students who graduated last night. 👏🏼

Exciting start to the academic year!

Are you an adult, between the ages of 30 - 59, who engages in self-injury? If so, please consider taking part in our study. Please share among your networks as well. Thanks 😊