I am currently a third year PhD candidate in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Cambridge. My research focuses on self-harm and suicide in schools and other educational establishments. I started researching self-harm in young people as a research assistant in Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford. From this work, I have successfully published peer-reviewed papers using quantitative and qualitative methods on improving care for children and reducing harm in healthcare.
Primary supervisor: Professor Tamsin J Ford CBE, FRCPsych, FMedSci
Secondary Supervisors: Dr Jo Anderson, Dr Simon White
Teaching and supervisions:
Psychological and Behavioural Sciences (PBS): Introduction to Psychology, PBS 1
Natural Sciences Tripos (NST II 3) Adolescence
The Foundations of Evidence-Based Practice (FEBP) seminar leader for Medical Students at Peterhouse
Peer-reviewed publications:
- Nawaz, R. F., Anderson, J. K., Colville, L, Fraser-Andrews, C. & Ford, T. J. (Under review, 2022) Interventions to prevent or manage self-harm among students in educational settings; a systematic review. Child and Adolescent Mental Health.
- Nawaz, R. F., Reen, G., Bloodworth, N., Maughan, D., & Vincent, C. (2021). Interventions to reduce self-harm on in-patient wards: systematic review. BJPsych open, 7(3).
- Bailey, J., Nawaz, R. F., & Jackson, D. (2021). Acute mental health nurses’ experience of forcibly touching service users during physical restraint. International journal of mental health nursing, 30(2), 401-412.
- Reen, G. K., Bailey, J., McGuigan, L., Bloodworth, N., Nawaz, R. F., & Vincent, C. (2021). Environmental changes to reduce self-harm on an adolescent inpatient psychiatric ward: an interrupted time series analysis. European child & adolescent psychiatry, 30(8), 1173-1186.
- Nawaz, R.F., Page, B, Harrop, E. & Vincent, C (2020). Analysis of paediatric long-term ventilation incidents in the community. Archives of Disease in Childhood. [OPEN ACCESS]
- Page, B., Nawaz, R., Haden, S., Vincent, C., & Lee, A. C. (2019). Paediatric enteral feeding at home: an analysis of patient safety incidents. Archives of Disease in Childhood, 104:1174-1180. [OPEN ACCESS].
- Lean, K., Nawaz, R. F., Jawad, S., & Vincent, C. (2019). Reducing urinary tract infections in care homes by improving hydration. BMJ Open Quality, 8(3), e000563. [OPEN ACCESS].