Title: Professor of Psychiatry

Department: Department for Suicide Research

Location: Oxford Health NHS FT

Phone: (0)1865 902285

Email: keith.hawton@psych.ox.ac.uk

Research Interests: My research focuses on suicide and self-harm. I am interested in obtaining accurate information on the extent and nature of these problems over a long time period, studying their causes, and finding out what treatments and prevention measures are effective. We have taken a particular interest in self-harm and suicide in young people. Our research has benefitted from extensive national and international collaborations.

Author's Works

• Management of patients with an advance decision and suicidal behaviour: a systematic review, 2019-03-01
• Association Between Neurological Disorders and Death by Suicide in Denmark, 2020-02-01
• Pharmacological interventions for self-harm in adults (Protocol), 2020-07-01
• A Content Analysis and Comparison of Two Peaks of Newspaper Reporting During a Suicide Cluster to Examine Implications for Imitation, Suggestion, and Prevention, 2020-03-01
• The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on self-harm and suicidal behaviour: a living systematic review [version 1; peer review: 1 approved], 2020-09-01
• Reporting on suicidal behaviour and COVID-19—need for caution, 2020-11-01
• Self-harm on roads: Register-based study of methods and characteristics of individuals involved, 2020-12-01
• School- and class-level variation in self-harm, suicide ideation and suicide attempts in Danish high schools., 2018-09-01
• Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on self-harm, 2020-12-01
• Accuracy of individual and combined risk-scale items in the prediction of repetition of self-harm: multicentre prospective cohort study, 2020-12-01