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Researchers

Alison Chapple
Alison Chapple is a medical sociologist. She has worked at the University of Oxford since 2000 as a Senior Research Fellow and Research Lecturer. She obtained her PhD in 1997 from the University of Manchester. She conducted all except one of the interviews and did the data analysis with the help of Sue Ziebland.

Advisory Panel

Martin Anderson

Associate Professor in Mental Health, School of Nursing Queen’s Medical Centre, University of Nottingham

Lucy Biddle

Research Fellow/Sociologist, Dept of Social Medicine, Bristol University

Anna Brown

Trustee of PAPYRUS 1997-2007

Margaret Brunskill

Compassionate Friends: National co-coordinator of Shadow of Suicide and a founder member and trustee of PAPYRUS 

Phil Davison

Consultant Psychiatrist, Warneford Hospital, University of Oxford

Keith Hawton

ConsultantPsychiatrist & Director of the Centre for Suicide Research,      University of Oxford

Ian Kennedy

Detective ChiefSuperintendent, West Yorkshire Police

Colin Murray-Parkes

Consultant Psychiatrist

Rosie Nicol-Harper

Director SeeSaw

John Peters

Survivors of Bereavement by Suicide

Dennis Preece

Coordinator Chairman - Rethink in Oxfordshire

Sian Rees

Senior Policy Advisor, Department of Health

Sue Simkin

Researcher & Coordinator, Centre for Suicide Research, University of Oxford

Ali Warner

Coroner’s Officer and author of The Coroner's Investigators'
Handbook

Alison Wertheimer

Writer and Counsellor

Sue Ziebland

Research Director, Health Experiences Research Group, Department of Primary Health Care, University of Oxford.

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