Steven MacDonald Hart, PhD
Dr. Steven Macdonald Hart is a Research Scientist at the Suicide CPR initiative. He earned his Ph.D. in Psychology from Middlesex University, London, focusing on Trauma and Suicidology and subsequently completed his postdoctoral fellowship with our team. Steven previously served as a Psychologist for the National Health Service, West Middlesex University Hospital. He has previously audited the Psychiatric Liaison Team’s response to patients presenting to the Accident and Emergency Department with mental health crises. He has directed an interpretative phenomenological analysis on the perceptions of volunteer befrienders from Maytree Respite Centre, London, concerning humanistic support models for people with thoughts of suicide. He designed, delivered, and evaluated a contextually tailored suicide prevention gatekeeper training to identify and support people from asylum-seeking and refugee backgrounds. Steven was also part of the research team that performed a national psychological autopsy study in collaboration with the British Transport Police, analyzing suicide fatalities across England's railways.