Emma Wilson-Lemoine is a TYDE postdoctoral researcher. Her research interests span youth mental health, suicide and caregiver mental health.
She is an interdisciplinary researcher with two broad research agendas: 1) investigating risk and protective factors for suicide and 2) exploring ways to bridge the gap between evidenced-based interventions (e.g., digital mental health tools) and real-world application. She uses qualitative and mixed method approaches to consider the patient- and provider-reported barriers and facilitators to novel health technologies and the implications for implementation in community and clinical settings. Emma has extensive experience involving people with lived experience of mental health conditions, and their caregivers, throughout the research process and she seeks to ensure that youth voices are integrated into her research projects. Ultimately, her work aims to increase access to scalable, suicide prevention and digital mental health interventions across a range of populations.
Emma received her PhD in Psychiatric Epidemiology from King’s College London (KCL), on an ESRC-funded studentship. Her doctoral work used data from the Resilience, Ethnicity and AdolesCent Mental Health (REACH) study, where she explored associations between bullying, coping and self-harm among 4,000 adolescents from 12 schools in South London (United Kingdom). Prior to joining TYDE, Emma was a postdoctoral research associate at KCL on the Social Media, Smartphone Use and Self-Harm in Young People (3S-YP) Study, undertaking qualitative work. Emma also has an MSc in Health Policy, Planning and Financing (LSE and London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine), and an MSc in Psychology (BPP University).