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Dr Roger Webb BA Hons, MA Econ, MSc, PhD

Photograph of Roger Webb

Senior Research Fellow

Mental Health & Neurodegeneration Research Group
School of Community Based Medicine
Room 2.311, Jean McFarlane Building
Oxford Road
Manchester
M13 9PL

 

Role

Psychiatric Epidemiologist

Postgraduate Research Tutor - Mental Health & Neurodegeneration Research Group

 

Memberships of Committees and Professional Bodies


Research

Research Interests:

  • Suicide risk in the offender populations of European countries 
  • Risks of child homicide and sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) in familes with parental mental illness
  • Explanations for divergent trends in national suicide rates between Scotland and England
  • Suicide risk in people with major physical illnesses and medically unexplained physical symptoms

Current Grant Funding:

Suicide risk and the Danish criminal justice system: a nested case-control study. American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP)

Why does Scotland have a higher suicide rate than England? An area-level investigation of social, health status & healthcare factors? Scottish Government Chief Scientist Office (CSO)

 

Methodological Knowledge

Observational studies in psychiatric epidemiology. In particular, large cohort and nested case-control studies using population-based data from the UK and Scandinavia.

 

Biography

Roger's current appointment in the Mental Health & Neurodegeneration Research Group began in September 2002. 

Roger moved to The University of Manchester in 1998, working as a researcher in the School of Primary Care and then the ARC Epidemiology Unit.

During 1991-98 Roger worked in the National Health Service (NHS). Toward the end of this period he conducted research in perinatal epidemiology at the South Thames regional office of the Confidential Enquiry into Stillbirths & Deaths in Infancy (CESDI).

 

Qualifications

  • PhD in Psychiatry: University of Manchester (2007)
  • MSc in Epidemiology & Biostatistics: University of Manchester (2002)
  • MA in Applied Social Research: University of Manchester (1995)
  • BA in History & Politics: University of Nottingham (1990)
 

Collaborators and affiliated staff

External collaborations:

  • Preben Mortensen, Ping Qin & colleagues, National Centre for Register-based Research, Aarhus, Denmark
  • Christina Dalman & Susanne Wicks, Dept. of Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
  • Stephen Platt, Centre for Population Health Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
  • Alastair Leyland, MRC Social & Public Health Sciences Unit, Glasgow, Scotland 
  • Seena Fazel, Dept. of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, England  

Local collaborators: Andrew Pickles; Francis Creed; Linda Gask; John McBeth

 

Publications

2011

  • Hassan, L., Birmingham, L., Harty, M., Jarrett, M., Jones, P., King, C., Lathlean, J., Lowthian, C., Mills, A., Senior, J., Thornicroft, G., Webb, R. & Shaw, J (2011). Prospective cohort study of mental health during imprisonment. Br J Psychiatry, 198, 37-42. eScholarID:123715 | PMID:21200075 | DOI:10.1192/bjp.bp.110.080333
  • Laursen, T., Munk-Olsen, T., Mortensen, P., Abel, K., Appleby, L. & Webb, R (2011). Filicide in offspring of parents with severe psychiatric disorders: a population-based cohort study of child homicide. J Clin Psychiatry, 72(5), 698-703. eScholarID:128705 | PMID:21034682 | DOI:10.4088/JCP.09m05508gre
  • Murphy, E., Kapur, N., Webb, R. & Cooper, J (2011). Risk assessment following self-harm: comparison of mental health nurses and psychiatrists. J Adv Nurs, 67(1), 127-39. eScholarID:123716 | PMID:20969616 | DOI:10.1111/j.1365-2648.2010.05484.x
  • Webb, R., Långström, N., Runeson, B., Lichtenstein, P. & Fazel, S (2011). Violent offending and IQ level as predictors of suicide in schizophrenia: National cohort study. Schizophr Res, 130(1-3), 143-7. eScholarID:128703 | PMID:21605959 | DOI:10.1016/j.schres.2011.04.031
  • Webb, R., Marshall, C. & Abel, K (2011). Teenage motherhood and risk of premature death: long-term follow-up in the ONS Longitudinal Study. Psychol Med, 41(9), 1867-77. eScholarID:133385 | PMID:21275086 | DOI:10.1017/S0033291711000055
  • Webb, R., Qin, P., Stevens, H., Mortensen, P., Appleby, L. & Shaw, J (2011). National study of suicide in all people with a criminal justice history. Arch Gen Psychiatry, 68(6), 591-9. eScholarID:128704 | PMID:21300938 | DOI:10.1001/archgenpsychiatry.2011.7

2010

  • Abel, K., Wicks, S., Susser, E., Dalman, C., Pedersen, M., Mortensen, P. & Webb, R (2010). Birth Weight, Schizophrenia, and Adult Mental Disorder: Is Risk Confined to the Smallest Babies? Arch Gen Psychiatry, 67(9), 923-930. eScholarID:89788 | PMID:20819986 | DOI:10.1001/archgenpsychiatry.2010.100
  • Cooper, J., Murphy, E., Webb, R., Hawton, K., Bergen, H., Waters, K. & Kapur, N (2010). Ethnic differences in self-harm, rates, characteristics and service provision: three-city cohort study. Br J Psychiatry, 197, 212-8. eScholarID:89802 | PMID:20807966 | DOI:10.1192/bjp.bp.109.072637
  • Pratt, D., Appleby, L., Piper, M., Webb, R. & Shaw, J (2010). Suicide in recently released prisoners: a case-control study. Psychol Med, 40(5), 827-35. eScholarID:79064 | PMID:19719900 | DOI:10.1017/S0033291709991048
  • Webb, R., Wicks, S., Dalman, C., Pickles, A., Appleby, L., Mortensen, P., Haglund, B. & Abel, K (2010). Influence of environmental factors in higher risk of sudden infant death syndrome linked with parental mental illness. Arch Gen Psychiatry, 67(1), 69-77. eScholarID:75787 | PMID:20048224 | DOI:10.1001/archgenpsychiatry.2009.172

2009

  • Almasi, K, Belso, N, Kapur, N, Webb, RT, Cooper, J, Hadley, S, Kerfoot, M, Dunn, G, Sotonyi, P, Rihmer, Z, Appleby, L. (2009). Risk factors for suicide in Hungary: a case-control study. BMC Psychiatry, 9( 1), eScholarID:1d21763 | DOI:10.1186/1471-244X-9-45
  • Hunt IM, Kapur NN, Webb RT, Robinson J, Burns JM, Shaw J, Appleby L. (2009). Suicide in recently discharged psychiatric patients: a case-control study. Psychological Medicine, 39(3), eScholarID:1d17607
  • Khashan A, McNamee R, Abel K, Mortensen P, Kenny L, Pedersen M, Webb RT, Baker PN. (2009). Rates of preterm birth following antenatal maternal exposure to severe life events: a population-based cohort study. Human Reproduction, 24(2), 429-37. eScholarID:1d18595 | DOI:10.1093/humrep/den418
  • King-Hele S, Webb RT, Mortensen P, Appleby L, Pickles A, Abel K. (2009). Risk of stillbirth and neonatal death linked with maternal mental illness: a national cohort study. Archives of Disease in Childhood Fetal & Neonatal Edition, 94( 2), F105-10. eScholarID:1d18704 | DOI:10.1136/adc.2007.135459
  • McBeth J, Symmons D, Silman A, Allison T, Webb RT, Brammah T, Macfarlane G. (2009). Musculoskeletal pain is associated with a long-term increased risk of cancer and cardiovascular-related mortality. Rheumatology (Oxford), 48 (1), eScholarID:1d18244 | DOI:10.1093/rheumatology/ken424

2008

  • Abel K, Heatlie H, Howard L, Webb RT. (2008). Sex- and age-specific incidence of fractures in mental illness: a historical, population-based cohort study. Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, 69(9), 1398-403. eScholarID:1d18593
  • Hiroeh U, Kapur NN, Webb RT, Dunn G, Mortensen P, Appleby L. (2008). Deaths from natural causes in people with mental illness: a cohort study. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 64( 3), 275-83. eScholarID:1d17239
  • Khashan, A., Abel, K., McNamee, R., Pedersen, M., Webb, R., Baker, P., Kenny, L. & Mortensen, P (2008). Higher risk of offspring schizophrenia following antenatal maternal exposure to severe adverse life events. Arch Gen Psychiatry, 65(2), 146-52. eScholarID:69278 | PMID:18250252 | DOI:10.1001/archgenpsychiatry.2007.20
  • Khashan, A., McNamee, R., Abel, K., Pedersen, M., Webb, R., Kenny, L., Mortensen, P. & Baker, P (2008). Reduced infant birthweight consequent upon maternal exposure to severe life events. Psychosom Med, 70(6), 688-94. eScholarID:38244 | PMID:18606728 | DOI:10.1097/PSY.0b013e318177940d
  • Webb, R., Pickles, A., King-Hele, S., Appleby, L., Mortensen, P. & Abel, K (2008). Parental mental illness and fatal birth defects in a national birth cohort. Psychol Med, 38(10), 1495-503. eScholarID:67465 | PMID:18076770 | DOI:10.1017/S0033291707002280

2007

  • Hunt I, Kapur NN, Webb RT, Robinson J, Burns J, Turnbull P, Shaw J, Appleby L. (2007). Suicide in current psychiatric in-patients: a case-control study The National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Homicide. Psychological Medicine, 37( 6), eScholarID:1d16639
  • King-Hele, S., Abel, K., Webb, R., Mortensen, P., Appleby, L. & Pickles, A (2007). Risk of sudden infant death syndrome with parental mental illness. Arch Gen Psychiatry, 64(11), 1323-30. eScholarID:69279 | PMID:17984401 | DOI:10.1001/archpsyc.64.11.1323
  • Wan, M., Salmon, M., Riordan, D., Appleby, L., Webb, R. & Abel, K (2007). What predicts poor mother-infant interaction in schizophrenia? Psychol Med, 37(4), 537-46. eScholarID:67461 | PMID:17076915 | DOI:10.1017/S0033291706009172
  • Webb, R., Pickles, A., Appleby, L., Mortensen, P. & Abel, K (2007). Death by unnatural causes during childhood and early adulthood in offspring of psychiatric inpatients. Arch Gen Psychiatry, 64(3), 345-52. eScholarID:67459 | PMID:17339523 | DOI:10.1001/archpsyc.64.3.345

2006

  • Brown TJ, Hooper L, Elliott RA, Payne K, Webb RT, Roberts C, Rostom A, Symmons D. (2006). A comparison of the cost-effectiveness of five strategies for the prevention of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug-induced gastrointestinal toxicity: a systematic review with economic modelling. Health Technology Assessment, 10 (38), 1 - 202. eScholarID:1d17570
  • Cooper, J., Husain, N., Webb, R., Waheed, W., Kapur, N., Guthrie, E. & Appleby, L (2006). Self-harm in the UK: differences between South Asians and Whites in rates, characteristics, provision of service and repetition. Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol, 41(10), 782-8. eScholarID:67463 | PMID:16838089 | DOI:10.1007/s00127-006-0099-2
  • Johnston, A., Cooper, J., Webb, R. & Kapur N. (2006). Individual- and area-level predictors of self-harm repetition. British Journal of Psychiatry, 189, eScholarID:1d14212 | DOI:10.1192/bjp.bp.105.018085
  • Kapur, N., Cooper, J., King-Hele, S., Webb, R., Lawlor, M., Rodway, C. & Appleby, L (2006). The repetition of suicidal behavior: a multicenter cohort study. J Clin Psychiatry, 67(10), 1599-609. eScholarID:67460 | PMID:17107253
  • Kapur, N., Hunt, I., Webb, R., Bickley, H., Windfuhr, K., Shaw, J., Appleby, L. & . (2006). Suicide in psychiatric in-patients in England, 1997 to 2003. Psychol Med, 36(10), 1485-92. eScholarID:67462 | PMID:16863596 | DOI:10.1017/S0033291706008373
  • Pratt, D., Piper, M., Appleby, L., Webb, R. & Shaw, J (2006). Suicide in recently released prisoners: a population-based cohort study. Lancet, 368(9530), 119-23. eScholarID:67464 | PMID:16829295 | DOI:10.1016/S0140-6736(06)69002-8
  • Webb, R., Abel, K., Pickles, A., Appleby, L., King-Hele, S. & Mortensen, P (2006). Mortality risk among offspring of psychiatric inpatients: a population-based follow-up to early adulthood. Am J Psychiatry, 163(12), 2170-7. eScholarID:69280 | PMID:17151170 | DOI:10.1176/appi.ajp.163.12.2170

2005

  • Abel, K., Webb, R., Salmon, M., Wan, M. & Appleby, L (2005). Prevalence and predictors of parenting outcomes in a cohort of mothers with schizophrenia admitted for joint mother and baby psychiatric care in England. J Clin Psychiatry, 66(6), 781-9; quiz 808-9. eScholarID:69281 | PMID:15960575
  • Cooper, J., Kapur, N., Webb, R., Lawlor, M., Guthrie, E., Mackway-Jones, K. & Appleby, L (2005). Suicide after deliberate self-harm: a 4-year cohort study. Am J Psychiatry, 162(2), 297-303. eScholarID:67456 | PMID:15677594 | DOI:10.1176/appi.ajp.162.2.297
  • Morriss, R., Gask, L., Webb, R., Dixon, C. & Appleby, L (2005). The effects on suicide rates of an educational intervention for front-line health professionals with suicidal patients (the STORM Project). Psychol Med, 35(7), 957-60. eScholarID:67458 | PMID:16045062
  • Webb, R., Abel, K., Pickles, A. & Appleby, L (2005). Mortality in offspring of parents with psychotic disorders: a critical review and meta-analysis. Am J Psychiatry, 162(6), 1045-56. eScholarID:67457 | PMID:15930050 | DOI:10.1176/appi.ajp.162.6.1045

2004

  • Douglas, J., Cooper, J., Amos, T., Webb, R., Guthrie, E. & Appleby, L. (2004). "Near-fatal" deliberate self-harm: characteristics, prevention and implications for the prevention of suicide. Journal of Affective Disorders, 79( 1-3), eScholarID:1d9334 | DOI:10.1016/S0165-0327(02)00391-9
  • Howard L, Webb RT, Abel K. (2004). Safety of antipsychotic drugs for pregnant and breastfeeding women with non-affective psychosis. BMJ, 329( 7472), 933-4. eScholarID:1d9311
  • Joyce R, Webb RT, Peacock J. (2004). Associations between perinatal interventions and hospital stillbirth rates and neonatal mortality. Archives of Disease in Childhood Fetal & Neonatal Edition, 89( 1), F51-6. eScholarID:1d12241
  • Salmon MP, Abel K, Webb RT, Warburton AL, Appleby L. (2004). A national audit of joint mother and baby admissions to UK psychiatric hospitals: an overview of findings. Archives of Women's Mental Health, 7( 1), 65-70. eScholarID:1d7796 | DOI:10.1007/s00737-003-0042-4
  • Webb RT, Brammah T, Lunt M, Urwin M, Allison T, Symmons D. (2004). Opportunities for prevention of 'clinically significant' knee pain: results from a population-based cross sectional survey. Journal of Public Health, 26( 3), 277-84. eScholarID:1d12270
  • Webb RT, Richardson J, Esmail AB, Pickles A. (2004). Uptake for cervical screening by ethnicity and place-of-birth: a population-based cross-sectional study. Journal of Public Health, 26( 3), 293-6. eScholarID:1d9606
  • Webb RT, Richardson J, Pickles A. (2004). A population-based study of primary care predictors of non-attendance for cervical screening. Journal of Medical Screening, 11( 3), 135-40. eScholarID:1d12168
  • Webb RT, Howard L, Abel K. Antipsychotic drugs for non-affective psychosis during pregnancy and postpartum., Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. Vol. ( 2). 2004. 1469-493X. CD004411. eScholarID:19d107

2003

  • Webb RT, Brammah T, Lunt M, Urwin M, Allison T, Symmons D. (2003). Prevalence and predictors of intense, chronic, and disabling neck and back pain in the UK general population. Spine, 28( 11), 1195-202. eScholarID:1d12271

2002

  • Joyce R, Webb RT, Peacock J, Stirland H. (2002). Adjusted mortality rates: a tool for creating more meaningful league tables for stillbirth and infant mortality rates. Public Health, 116( 6), 315-21. eScholarID:1d12243
  • Joyce R, Webb RT, Peacock J. (2002). Predictors of obstetric intervention rates: case-mix, staffing levels and organisational factors of hospital of birth. Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, 22( 6), 618-25. eScholarID:1d12242
  • Symmons D, Turner G, Webb RT, Asten P, Barrett E, Lunt M, Scott D, Silman A. (2002). The prevalence of rheumatoid arthritis in the United Kingdom: new estimates for a new century. Rheumatology (Oxford), 41( 7), 793-800. eScholarID:1d21209
  • Webb RT, Esmail AB. (2002). An analysis of practice-level mortality data to inform a health needs assessment. British Journal of General Practice, 52( 477), 296-9. eScholarID:1d12273
  • Symmons D, Asten P, McNally R, Webb RT. (2002). Healthcare Needs Assessment for Musculoskeletal Diseases: the first step - estimating the number of incident and prevalent cases. eScholarID:5d84

2000

  • Joyce R, Webb RT, Peacock J, Stirland H. (2000). Which is the best deprivation predictor of foetal and infant mortality rates? Public Health, 114( 1), 21-4. eScholarID:1d12244

1999

  • Joyce R, Webb RT, Peacock J. (1999). Social class and census-based deprivation scores: which is the best predictor of stillbirth rates? Paediatric & Perinatal Epidemiology, 13( 3), 269-77. eScholarID:1d12245

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