A lot has happened in Northern Ireland over the past 30 years. As a result of this, Siobhan O'Neill has been doing some truly inspiring work to help break the cycle of suicide and getting people talking about the taboo of mental health.

Siobhan O’Neill is a professor of mental health sciences at the University of Ulster, who specialises in mental health, suicide and health services research. Siobhan is also a Director of the Irish Association of Suicidology and a British Psychological Society, Chartered Health Psychologist. She leads several research programmes examining mental health, trauma and suicidal behaviour in Northern Ireland. She provides talks and training on these topics to a range of groups and has delivered presentations of her research on trauma, mental health and suicide at conferences locally and internationally.

Professor O’Neill has been employed as a researcher and lecturer at Ulster for over 14 years. Her primary degree was in Psychology, with Queen’s University, Belfast and she completed an MSc in Health Psychology at National University of Ireland, Galway, before working as a Public Health Research Officer in the Western Health board in Galway.

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