Dr Lynne Gilmour (PhD, MRes, MA (hons) Sociology)

Senior Research Fellow

Biography

Background

Prior to returning to academia Lynne spent nearly 20 years working in, managing and developing front line services delivering support primarily to children and young people, and women who had experienced multiple and complex trauma including gender based violence and sexual abuse. This included young homeless people; female survivors of child sexual abuse; children and young people with suicidal thoughts/behaviours and/or self-harming; children and young people looked after away from home (therapeutic children's homes), and children who witnessed and experienced domestic abuse. 

Qualifications

PhD, MRes (Distinction), MA (hons) Sociology

Responsibilities & affiliations

Member of the National Suicide Prevention Academic Advisory Group to the Scottish Government, 

Member of the National Suicide Prevention Lived and Living Experience Steering Group

Co-PI on the National Suicide Prevention Youth Advisory Group and Participation Network alongside Children in Scotland.

Open to PhD supervision enquiries?

Yes

Areas of interest for supervision

I am open to enquiries from potential PhD students that fall within the following topic areas, and that use qualitative methods/creative approaches and involve an element of co-production. 

  • Suicidality (Especially in relation to children and young people/women)
  • Children and Young People's Mental Health & Well-being 
  • Creative and community based approaches to supporting children and young people's mental health and well-being 
  • Child sexual abuse & sexual exploitation
  • Gender based violence & suicidality/substance use
  • Policy discourse and engagement with lived experience 

Research summary

My mixed methods PhD explored the pathways of care and experiences of children and young people referred to CAMHS after presenting with suicidality in Scotland. My primary research interests lie in co-producing research alongside children and young people, and community partners, in relation to suicide, and mental health & well-being more generally. Ascribing to a critical realist perspective, my research draws upon Foucauldian discourse analysis, feminist methodologies, and a social justice framework. 

Current research interests

I am currently working as a senior research fellow on Discovering Liveability, a large Wellcome funded project, centering lived and living experience of suicide, which aims to change the narrative of suicide prevention.

Past research interests

Over the past ten years I have been involved in and led multiple research studies with topics and methodologies that include: co-production; creative methods; interviews; focus groups; theory of change; pathways of care; meta-ethnography, scoping and systematic reviews; applied health research; sociology. Topics include: Suicide in children and young people; Live music and Youth Mental Health and Well-being; Youth mental health and well being; Women who use drugs in the perinatal period.

Current project grants

Ongoing - National Suicide Prevention Youth Advisory Group and participation network

Past project grants

April 2024-July 2025 Co-I Scottish Government Independent evaluation of under 18s elements of the DBI programme
April 2024- Oct 2024. Co-I Impact Award Challenging Stigma Towards Women Who Use Drugs During and After Pregnancy: Accelerating the Societal and Future Workforce Impact of the Stepping Stones Study
Sep 2023-March 2024 PI Tenovus Study Protocol Co-production Group, leading on to the co-design of a suicide intervention service model for children and young people.
Jan2023-Dec2023 Co-I Creative Scotland & Raynes Foundation Live Music & Mental Health Innovation Labs, with CiS, and Scottish Ensemble.
2020-2021 Co-I Emerging Minds (UKRI) Co-Investigator: Special Interest Research Group: Live Music & Mental Health, with CiS, ScotGov, and Scottish Ensemble. (Funding: Emerging Minds)
2017-2021 PhD ESRC PhD: ESRC 1+3 Scholarship

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