Question: What are you trying to achieve with the work that you are currently doing?

Laura Hemming answered on 27 Jun 2018:

We hope to find that the way that a person deals with their emotions is what contributes to them thinking or engaging in behaviours related to suicide and / or aggression.

If we find that this is true, then we would aim to develop an intervention to help people who struggle to deal with their emotions. This would hopefully then reduce their chances of becoming suicidal or aggressive.

In the future, we might even be able to give this intervention to children in schools as a preventative measure – so that future generations are well equipped to deal with their emotions, and may therefore be less likely to commit crimes or feel suicidal or aggressive.