
Dr Judi Kidger
M.A.(Edin.), M.Sc.(Manc.), Ph.D.(Bristol), M.Sc.
Current positions
Associate Professor in Public Health
Bristol Medical School (PHS)
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Research interests
Judi Kidger is an Associate Professor in Public Health. She completed her PhD in teenage pregnancy and sex education, at the University of Bristol. Her research since then has focused on improving young people’s mental health, particularly in schools and ommunity settings. Judi recently led a school-based cluster randomised controlled trial (the WISE study), evaluating an intervention to improve secondary school teachers' mental health and their skills in supporting students. Judi is co-lead of the NIHR's School for Public Health Research Public Mental Health Programme, and she is co-leading the 4S study, which aims to improve self-harm and suicide prevention and support in schools and youth organisations. She has been awarded an NIHR Population Health Career Scientist Award, working in partnership with five local authorities to take a systems approach to improving young people's mental health and pathways to adulthood.
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
A systems approach to creating resilient pathways into adulthood
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Bristol Medical School (PHS)Dates
01/09/2024 to 30/06/2031
Data innovation with public health perspectives
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Bristol Medical School (PHS)Dates
01/09/2024 to 31/03/2027
Supporting educational and youth organisations to deliver self-harm and suicide prevention and postvention: a mixed methods study and co-produced guidance – Phase 2 (SPHR-PMH-WP2.1- SHS2)
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Bristol Medical School (PHS)Dates
01/06/2024 to 31/01/2026
Supporting educational and youth organisations to deliver self-harm and suicide prevention and postvention: a mixed methods study and co-produced guidance
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Bristol Medical School (PHS)Dates
01/03/2023 to 31/01/2026
SPHR QQ3 Programme Lead: Public Mental Health
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Bristol Medical School (PHS)Dates
01/04/2022 to 31/03/2027
Thesis supervisions
Adolescent Social Media User Types and Their Mental Health, Well-being, and Social Connectedness
Supervisors
A ‘whole university’ approach to improving student mental health and wellbeing
Supervisors
Identification and provision of support for children and adolescents exposed to domestic violence: Linking the school and healthcare response in Sri Lanka
Supervisors
Publications
Selected publications
01/05/2012The Effect of the School Environment on the Emotional Health of Adolescents: A Systematic Review
Pediatrics
Adolescent self-harm and suicidal thoughts in the ALSPAC cohort
BMC Psychiatry
Supporting adolescent emotional health in schools: a mixed methods study of student and staff views in England
BMC Public Health
Part and parcel of teaching? Secondary school staff’s views on supporting student emotional health and wellbeing
British Educational Research Journal
Recent publications
02/02/2025Exploring how PRIME-Parkinson care is implemented and whether, how and why it produces change, for who and under what conditions
BMJ Open
Estimating the effectiveness of an enhanced ‘Improving Access to Psychological Therapies’ (IAPT) service addressing the wider determinants of mental health
BMJ Open
Exploring the feasibility of using Participatory Action Research (PAR) as a mechanism for school culture change to improve mental health
Pastoral Care in Education
Investigating changes in student mental health and help-seeking behaviour after the introduction of new well-being support services at a UK university
BJPsych Open
Mechanisms of school-based peer education interventions to improve young people’s health literacy or health behaviours: A realist-informed systematic review
PLoS ONE
Thesis
Young mothers as peer educators in school sex education : a beneficial approach?
Supervisors
Award date
01/01/2002