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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 researcher

Dr Emma Palmer-Cooper PhD, CPsychol, AFHEA

Lecturer B

Research interests

  • Metacognition in Psychosis and other serious mental health conditions
  • Creativity and Wellbeing
  • Student Mental Health
Connect with Emma

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

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Web Science Institute

We study the relationship between society and the largest information system in history: the World Wide Web.

Centre for Innovation in Mental Health

We use our expertise in child development, psychological interventions and affective neuroscience to research ways to help those affected by mental health issues.

Research outputs

Mental wellbeing among higher education students in England during the pandemic: a longitudinal study of COVID-19 experiences, social connectedness and greenspace use
Anaïs Lemyre, Benjamin W. Chrisinger, Emma Palmer-Cooper & Jane P. Messina, 2024, British Educational Research Journal
Type: article
Neighbourhood greenspaces and mental wellbeing among university students in England during the COVID-19 pandemic: an online survey under lockdown
Anaïs Lemyre, Benjamin W. Chrisinger, Emma Palmer-Cooper & Jane P. Messina, 2023, Cities & Health
DOI: 10.1080/23748834.2023.2282851
Type: article
Wellbeing among university students during the COVID-19 pandemic
Anaïs Lemyre, Emma Palmer-Cooper & Jane P. Messina, 2023, Public Health, 222, 125-133
DOI: 10.1016/j.puhe.2023.07.001
Type: article
Unusual experiences and their association with metacognition: investigating ASMR and Tulpamancy
Emma Claire Palmer-Cooper, Nicola McGuire & Abigail Christine Wright, 2021, Cognitive Neuropsychiatry
DOI: 10.1080/13546805.2021.1999798
Type: article
Schizotypal personality traits predict cognitive insight in a non-clinical population
Emma Palmer-Cooper, Zara Searley & Christina Sapaclari, 2020, Wessex Psychologist Bulletin
Type: article