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Brianna Turner
PhD

Affiliate Investigator, BC Children's Hospital Research Institute
Research Fellow, Centre for Youth and Society, University of Victoria

Dr. Turner’s research focuses on understanding when and why people engage in behaviours that are physically harmful to themselves, including nonsuicidal self-injury, suicidal behaviors, disordered eating and alcohol/drug use. She focuses on using micro-longitudinal and longitudinal methods to observe how these behaviours change over minutes, hours, days, months and years. In addition, she uses epidemiological surveys to understand the population-level health impact of these behaviors across the lifespan.

Academic Affiliations

  • Associate Professor, , Department of Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Victoria
  • Research Theme: Brain, Behaviour & Development
  • Research Group(s): Mental Health and Behaviour

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Location

Department of Psychology, University of Victoria, PO Box 1700 STN CSC, Victoria, BC, Canada, V8W 2Y2

(250) 721-8711

briannat@uvic.ca
Grants

University of Victoria Internal Research/Creative Project Grants (2017-2018)

Using mobile technologies to understand intentional self-harm in youth

Principal Investigator: $9,910.43

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Insight Development Grant (2017-2019)

Testing a novel person-context model of risk-taking behaviours in first-year undergraduates

Principal Investigator: $74,841.00

National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) Behavioral and Integrative Treatment Development (R01) (2016-2021)

Preventing Addiction Related Suicide (PARS) – Controlled Trial of Secondary Suicide Prevention

Consultant: $25,000 sub-award (Total grant value: $2,845,581)

Honours & Awards

University of Washington School of Medicine 2015 Director’s Prize: The Nancy Robinson, PhD, Award for Outstanding Overall Achievement by a Psychology Resident

Military Suicide Research Consortium 2015 Student Research Training Day Travel Award

International Society for the Study of Self-injury 2016 Conference Travel Award

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