Dr Paro Ramesh

Research Fellow

Biography

Background

Paro is a Research Fellow based in the Discovering Liveability team. She works on Work Package 3,  which seeks to understand and interrogate socio-political implications of claims about suicide made by activists and campaigners, as well as examining different forms of activism in contexts of life/death. She is also an Honorary Research Fellow at the Division of Nursing, Midwifery and Social Work, The University of Manchester. Her research there examines suicide and self-harm among Indian women. 

Qualifications

PhD in Mental Health, The University of Manchester, 2025

Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education, The University of Manchester, 2023

MSc Global Mental Health, University of Glasgow, 2020

BA Psychology, Journalism, and Computer Science, Kristu Jayanti University, 2017

Open to PhD supervision enquiries?

Yes

Research summary

Critical suicide studies

Suicide and activism

Gender and sexuality in suicide

Qualitative methods in public health 

Global mental health

AI and suicide research

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