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Maria Michail is a Senior Birmingham Fellow at the University of Birmingham, affiliated with the Psychology Centre for Developmental Science within the School of Psychology and The Institute for Mental Health. She is an active researcher with 52 research outputs spanning from 2006 to 2025, focusing primarily on youth mental health and suicide prevention.
Her research interests center on youth suicide prevention, self-harm, youth mental health in primary care settings, and resilience in children and young people. Her work spans multiple methodologies including qualitative studies, systematic reviews, cross-sectional observational studies, and feasibility trials. She has developed expertise in participatory modeling for suicide prevention, online safety regarding self-harm content, school phone policies and mental wellbeing, and emergency department responses to self-harm.
Maria leads multiple significant research projects including The role and contribution of the voluntary sector to suicide prevention among young people (2025-2026), Multimodal Approach to Preventing Suicide in Schools (MAPSS) project (2024-2026), and SMART Schools research on smartphone policies and adolescent mental wellbeing (2022-2027). Her research has generated substantial impact, with several publications receiving significant attention across news outlets, policy sources, and academic platforms.
- ESRC Joint PhD Studentship (2018)
- European Union Prize for Citizen Science (2024)
Maria actively contributes to academic discourse through conference presentations and public engagement activities including the ESRC Festival of Social Sciences and building mental health research networks. She is currently accepting PhD students and supervising research in her key areas of expertise, with a strong emphasis on translating research into practical interventions for youth mental health.
