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Rasanat Fatima Nawaz

Postdoctoral Associate
University Positions
Research Associate
Subjects
Psychological and Behavioural Sciences
Specialising in
Child and adolescent mental health

Rasanat Fatima Nawaz has researched, written and taught on a wide range of issues in child and adolescent mental health, particularly self-harm and suicide. Rasanat completed her PhD in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Cambridge and was a visiting PhD student at the University of Oxford. 

Academic interests

Rasanat Fatima Nawaz’s academic interests include:

  • Self-harm and suicide
  • Depression  
  • Adolescent mental health.

Degrees obtained

  • BSc, Psychology.
  • MSc, Cognitive Neuroscience.
  • PhD, Cantab. 

Awards and prizes

  • Friends of Peterhouse Scholarship, 2020-2024.

Biography

Rasanat Fatima Nawaz is a researcher in child and adolescent mental health. She has written extensively on self-harm in young people, focusing on prevalence, risk factors, and interventions.

Rasanat is an expert advisor at FullScope, a consortium of charities with a shared mission to improve the mental health and wellbeing of children and young people in Cambridgeshire. 

Other interests

Going on hiking adventures with my family, helping my mother with the gardening, and reading bell hooks and Toni Morrison. 

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