Elizabeth McDermott | |
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Alma mater | Lancaster University |
Scientific career | |
Institutions | Lancaster University |
Thesis | Hidden injuries, happy lives? : the influence of lesbian identity and social class on wellbeing (2002) |
Elizabeth McDermott is a Professor of Health Inequality at Lancaster University, in England. Her research considers mental health inequality, with a focus on gender, social class and young people.
McDermott earned her doctoral degree at the Lancaster University, where she studied the influence of lesbian identity and social class on wellbeing.[1] She was a postdoctoral researcher on a project that looked to understand how people affected by cancer understood end of life issues.[2]
In 2006 McDermott joined the University of York as an Assistant Professor.[3] She returned to Lancaster University in 2013. From 2014 McDermott led the Department of Health and Social Care study into LGBT youth suicide.[4][5] The research programme looked to understand why LGBT young people have a higher risk of suicide than their heterosexual counterparts.[5] The programme came to be known as Queer Futures,[6] and identified that 70% of young people have experienced discrimination or bullying related to their sexual orientation.[7] She also identified that 4 out of 5 young people hid their sexual orientation or gender identity, and those that hide their gender identity are almost two times as likely to self-harm.[8][7] The study contributed to the SAGE Encyclopaedia of LGBTQ Studies.[9] The LBGT youth suicide project expanded into the National Institute for Health Research Queer Futures 2,[10] which looks to improve the mental health provision for LGBT young people.[11] Queer Futures 2 partnered with The Blueprint study, which looked at community-based mental health provision.[12][13] McDermott has worked with the National Health Service to implement findings based on her research, including LGBT awareness training, remarking that ‘We need to provide safe and non-judgemental environments for young people to talk about their sexualities, and mental health services outside the clinical environment’.[14]
McDermot serves on the board of trustees of the Consortium of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Voluntary and Community Organisations.[15]
Her publications include;
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