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Research project

Exploring Mental health, POpulation WEllbeing, and Resilience

Project overview

Using clinical theory we research thought processes, behaviours and interventions for mental wellbeing and mental health across the population. We have a special focus on student and young adult mental health, stress and resilience. We also build in public engagement, communicating our findings to relevant public and community groups.

Staff

Lead researchers

Dr Emma Palmer-Cooper PhD, CPsychol, FHEA, AFBPsS

Associate Professor
Research interests
  • Metacognition in Psychosis and other serious mental health conditions
  • Creativity and Wellbeing
  • AI and Digital Mental Health
Connect with Emma

Email: E.C.Palmer-Cooper@soton.ac.uk

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Research outputs

Designing scalable micro‑interventions for student wellbeing in higher education: a comparative study of digital and paper colouring
Emma Claire Palmer-Cooper, Hannah Walmsley, Evie Woodford, Caitlin Foster & Rose Seneviratne, 2026
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/nvx5m_v1
Type: other
The effectiveness of mindfulness-based programs for mental health outcomes in young adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Rose Seneviratne, Matthew Garner, Valerie Brandt & Emma Palmer-Cooper, 2026, Mindfulness, 17(7), 1899–1919
DOI: 10.1007/s12671-026-02886-8
Type: article
Cross-sectional and longitudinal comparison of commonly used screening tools for bipolar disorders
Anna Tröger, Yiqi Zeng, Thomas Richardson, Emma Palmer-Cooper, Allan H. Young & Rebecca Strawbridge, 2026, Bipolar Disorders, 28(5)
DOI: 10.1111/bdi.70133
Type: article
Exploring predictors of phantom phone signals: phone use, hallucination-proneness and delusional ideation
Emma C. Palmer-Cooper, Lana Espina Mamode, Daniel Woollard & Haden Dewis, 2026, Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, 31(1), 16-33
DOI: 10.1080/13546805.2026.2668427
Type: article
Enhancing positive beliefs about stress through reflection on the world : a photo diary intervention
Emma Palmer-Cooper, Nicholas Kerry, Jeremy D.W. Clifton, Ella Pilgrim & Mollie Francis, 2026
Type: conference
Addressing the elephant in the screening room: an item response theory analysis of the Prodromal Questionnaire (PQ-16) for at-risk symptoms of psychosis
Christophe Gauld, Pierre Fourneret, Ben Alderson-Day, Emma Palmer-Cooper & Clément Dondé, 2025, Revista Brasileira de Psiquiatria, 47
DOI: 10.47626/1516-4446-2024-3614
Type: article
Editorial: Tales from across the psychosis spectrum: understanding differences and similarities in mechanisms and experiences
Emma Palmer-Cooper, Lyn Ellett & David Benrimoh, 2024, Frontiers in Psychiatry, 15
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2024.1513000
Type: letterEditorial