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Roger T. Webb is affiliated with the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on psychology and medicine, with substantial contributions to the subfields of clinical psychology, general health professions, health, social psychology, and sociology and political science.

Their work extensively covers topics related to suicide and self-harm studies, COVID-19 and mental health, health disparities and outcomes, mental health treatment and access, employment and welfare studies, psychopathy, forensic psychiatry, sexual offending, as well as COVID-19 and healthcare impacts.

Notable recent papers by Roger T. Webb include:

  • Mental health before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: a longitudinal probability sample survey of the UK population (2020, The Lancet Psychiatry)
  • Suicide trends in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic: an interrupted time-series analysis of preliminary data from 21 countries (2021, The Lancet Psychiatry)
  • Mental health responses to the COVID-19 pandemic: a latent class trajectory analysis using longitudinal UK data (2021, The Lancet Psychiatry)
  • Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on primary care-recorded mental illness and self-harm episodes in the UK: a population-based cohort study (2021, The Lancet Public Health)
  • Diagnosis of physical and mental health conditions in primary care during the COVID-19 pandemic: a retrospective cohort study (2020, The Lancet Public Health)

The researcher publishes frequently in venues such as BJPsych Open, Harvard Dataverse, The Lancet Psychiatry, SSRN Electronic Journal, and bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory). These platforms have hosted multiple publications reflecting their ongoing engagement in the field.

Roger T. Webb has collaborated extensively with a number of coauthors, including Navneet Kapur, Darren M. Ashcroft, Matthew Carr, Ann John, and Sarah Steeg. These collaborations represent a significant portion of their scholarly output and indicate a networked approach to research on mental health and related areas.

Best Publications

  • Mental health before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: a longitudinal probability sample survey of the UK population.

    Matthias Pierce;Holly Hope;Tamsin Ford;Stephani Hatch

  • Suicide After Deliberate Self-Harm: A 4-Year Cohort Study

    Jayne Cooper;Navneet Kapur;Roger Webb;Martin Lawlor

  • Higher risk of offspring schizophrenia following antenatal maternal exposure to severe adverse life events.

    Ali S. Khashan;Kathryn M. Abel;Roseanne McNamee;Marianne G. Pedersen

  • Suicide trends in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic: an interrupted time-series analysis of preliminary data from 21 countries.

    Jane Pirkis;Ann John;Sangsoo Shin;Marcos DelPozo-Banos

  • Suicide in recently released prisoners: a population-based cohort study

    Daniel Pratt;Mary Piper;Louis Appleby;Roger Webb

  • Mental health responses to the COVID-19 pandemic: a latent class trajectory analysis using longitudinal UK data.

    Matthias Pierce;Sally McManus;Holly Hope;Matthew Hotopf;Matthew Hotopf

  • Incidence, clinical management, and mortality risk following self harm among children and adolescents: cohort study in primary care.

    Catharine Morgan;Roger T Webb;Matthew J Carr;Evangelos Kontopantelis

  • Birth Weight, Schizophrenia, and Adult Mental Disorder: Is Risk Confined to the Smallest Babies?

    Kathryn M. Abel;Susanne Wicks;Ezra S. Susser;Christina Dalman

  • Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on primary care-recorded mental illness and self-harm episodes in the UK: a population-based cohort study.

    Matthew J Carr;Sarah Steeg;Sarah Steeg;Roger T Webb;Nav Kapur

  • Diagnosis of physical and mental health conditions in primary care during the COVID-19 pandemic: a retrospective cohort study.

    Richard Williams;Richard Williams;David A Jenkins;David A Jenkins;Darren M Ashcroft;Ben Brown

  • Suicide Risk in Primary Care Patients With Major Physical Diseases: A Case-Control Study

    Roger T. Webb;Evangelos Kontopantelis;Tim Doran;Ping Qin

  • Suicide in recently discharged psychiatric patients: a case-control study.

    Isabelle M. Hunt;Navneet Kapur;Roger Webb;Jeff Robinson

  • The repetition of suicidal behavior: A multicenter cohort study

    Navneet Kapur;Jayne Cooper;Sarah King-Hele;Roger Webb

  • A comparison of the cost-effectiveness of five strategies for the prevention of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug-induced gastrointestinal toxicity: a systematic review with economic modelling.

    Brown Tj;Hooper L;Elliott Ra;Payne K

  • Suicide numbers during the first 9-15 months of the COVID-19 pandemic compared with pre-existing trends: An interrupted time series analysis in 33 countries

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  • Reduced infant birthweight consequent upon maternal exposure to severe life events.

    Ali S. Khashan;Roseanne McNamee;Kathryn M. Abel;Marianne G. Pedersen

  • The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on self-harm and suicidal behaviour: update of living systematic review

    Ann John;Emily Eyles;Emily Eyles;Roger T Webb;Roger T Webb;Chukwudi Okolie

  • The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on self-harm and suicidal behaviour: update of living systematic review [version 2; peer review: 1 approved, 2 approved with reservations]

    Ann John;Emily Eyles;Roger T. Webb;Chukwudi Okolie

  • Temporal trends in annual incidence rates for psychiatric disorders and self-harm among children and adolescents in the UK, 2003-2018.

    Lukasz Cybulski;Lukasz Cybulski;Darren M. Ashcroft;Darren M. Ashcroft;Matthew J. Carr;Matthew J. Carr;Shruti Garg

  • Deviance in Fetal Growth and Risk of Autism Spectrum Disorder

    Kathryn M. Abel;Christina Dalman;Anna C. Svensson;Ezra Susser

  • Risk factors for repetition and suicide following self-harm in older adults: multicentre cohort study.

    Elizabeth Murphy;Navneet Kapur;Roger Webb;Nitin Purandare

  • Mental Health Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Longitudinal Probability Sample Survey of the UK Population

    Matthias Pierce;Holly Hope;Tamsin Ford;Stephani Hatch

Frequent Co-Authors

Alistair Burns
Alistair Burns University of Manchester
Andrew Pickles
Andrew Pickles King's College London
Deborah P. M. Symmons
Deborah P. M. Symmons University of Manchester
Matthew Hotopf
Matthew Hotopf King's College London
Alison R. Yung
Alison R. Yung Deakin University
Rory C. O'Connor
Rory C. O'Connor University of Glasgow
Gina Conti-Ramsden
Gina Conti-Ramsden University of Manchester
Merete Nordentoft
Merete Nordentoft University of Copenhagen
Tamsin Ford
Tamsin Ford University of Cambridge
Paul Moran
Paul Moran University of Bristol

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