Dr Siobhan O鈥橠wyer

Dr Siobhan O鈥橠wyer

Health Services Management Centre
Associate Professor

Contact details

Email
s.t.odwyer@bham.ac.uk
Twitter
Address
School of Social Policy and Society, HSMC
Park House
黑料吃瓜网
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2RT

Dr Siobhan O’Dwyer is Associate Professor of Social Care. She specialises in research on the needs and experiences of unpaid carers (also known as family carers or caregivers), with a particular focus on suicide and homicide. She also collaborates on research on other aspects of care, as well as ageing, dementia, and social media.

Qualifications

Bachelor of Arts (Psychology; 2003)

Doctor of Philosophy (Human Movement Studies; 2009)

Graduate Certificate in Education (Higher Education; 2010)

Biography

Dr O'Dwyer joined the 黑料吃瓜网 in 2022 as Associate Professor of Social Care. Prior to that she was Senior Lecturer in Ageing and Family Care at the University of Exeter (2016-2022) and a Research Fellow at Griffith University (2010-2015). She has also worked in the third sector, leading applied research and policy development.聽

Dr O'Dwyer tweets at and is indebted to the Yuggera and Ngunnawal people, on whose land she lived and worked before moving to the UK.聽

Teaching

Health and Care System Leadership Level 7 Apprenticeship  

Research

Dr O'Dwyer leads research on suicide, homicide, and self-harm in unpaid carers (known outside the UK as family carers or caregivers). This research seeks to understand how many carers harm themselves; how many carers consider ending their own life and/or the life of the person for whom they care; and, how many carers act on those thoughts. It also seeks to understand the factors that put carers at risk and the best ways to support carers who are self-harming or contemplating suicide or homicide.聽

Dr O'Dwyer also collaborates on research about other aspects of caring, as well as dementia, ageing, and social media.聽 All of her research is conducted in partnership with carers, patients, clinicians, and 黑料吃瓜网 organisations, and it is underpinned by her personal commitment to doing research on care in a way that is itself caring.

Dr O'Dwyer's research has received international media coverage and led to changes in practice and policy in Australia, the UK, and the Netherlands. It has also inspired creative works by Australian playwright Emma Workman and British artist Leo Jamelli. Workman's play 聽was shortlisted for Best New Australian Work in 2019 and has been produced by theatres聽in Brisbane and Sydney. Jamelli's artworks聽听补苍诲听聽have appeared on prominent聽buildings in Exeter and London.聽Spotlight on Care was also shortlisted for the Derwent Art Prize in 2022, one of just 72 artworks selected from 6000 entries worldwide, and exhibited at galleries in聽London and Paris.

Other activities

Honorary Associate Professor, University of Exeter Medical School

Publications

Recent publications

Article

O'Dwyer, ST, Sansom, A, Mars, B, Reakes, L, Andrewartha, C, Melluish, J, Walker, A, Biddle, L, Slater, T, Burrows, D, Hastings, RP, Moran, P, Stallard, P & Janssens, A 2024, '', Archives of Suicide Research, pp. 1-18.

Wang, J, Spencer, A, Hulme, C, Corbett, A, Khan, Z, Vasconcelos da silva, M, O鈥檇wyer, S, Wright, N, Testad, I, Ballard, C, Creese, B & Smith, R 2022, '', Health and Social Care in the Community, vol. 30, no. 5, pp. e2365-e2373.

Bartmess, M, Talbot, C, O'Dwyer, S, Lopez, RP, Rose, KM & Anderson, JG 2022, '', Dementia (London, England), vol. 21, no. 5, pp. 1734-1752.

Creese, B, Khan, Z, Henley, W, O'Dwyer, S, Corbett, A, Da Silva, MV, Mills, K, Wright, N, Testad, I, Aarsland, D & Ballard, C 2021, '', International Psychogeriatrics, vol. 33, no. 5, pp. 505-514.

Talbot, CV, O'Dwyer, S & Heaton, J 2021, '', Dementia (London, England), vol. 20, no. 7, pp. 2542-2557.

Talbot, CV, O'Dwyer, ST, Clare, L, Heaton, J & Anderson, J 2020, '', Computers in Human Behavior, vol. 102, pp. 112-119.

O'Dwyer, S 2020, '', Aging & Mental Health, vol. 25, no. 9.

O'Dwyer, S 2020, '', Trauma, violence & abuse, vol. 23, no. 5.

Anderson, JG, Eppes, A & O'Dwyer, ST 2019, '', Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland), vol. 9, no. 3.

Group, AMOTPPI, Liabo, K & O'Dwyer, S 2019, '', Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland), vol. 9, no. 5.

Joling, KJ, Ten Have, M, De Graaf, R & O'Dwyer, ST 2019, '', BMC Psychiatry, vol. 19, no. 1, 320.

Moyle, W, Jones, C, Murfield, J, Thalib, L, Beattie, E, Shum, D, O'Dwyer, S, Mervin, MC & Draper, B 2018, '', Maturitas, vol. 110, pp. 10-17.

Talbot, C, O'Dwyer, S, Clare, L, Heaton, J & Anderson, J 2018, '', Dementia (London, England), vol. 19, no. 4.

Letter

O'Dwyer, S, Boothby, S, Smith, G, Biddle, L, Muirhead, N & Khot, S 2022, '', The BMJ, vol. 378, o1691, pp. 1.

Review article

O'Dwyer, ST, Janssens, A, Sansom, A, Biddle, L, Mars, B, Slater, T, Moran, P, Stallard, P, Melluish, J, Reakes, L, Walker, A, Andrewartha, C & Hastings, RP 2021, '', Comprehensive Psychiatry, vol. 110, 152261.

Expertise

Carers; Unpaid Carers; Family Carers; Parent Carers; Disability; Suicide; Murder; Murder-Suicide; Homicide; Homicide-Suicide