Dr Becky Mars is Research Fellow in Epidemiology at the dept of Population Health Sciences and co-leads the suicide and self-harm (SASH) research group at the University of Bristol. Her research focuses on the epidemiology and course of self-harm and suicidal behaviors. She currently holds a mid-career fellowship funded by the Medical Research Foundation and has previously held a post-doc fellowship funded by the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. She has supervised two PhD students to completion and currently supervisors one PhD student. Dr Mars has experience working with a variety of large data sets including ALSPAC, the Millennium Cohort, CPRD and Hospital Episode Statistics. She is co-lead for the 'Introduction to Epidemiology and Statistics' unit on the MScs in Epidemiology/Public Health/Digital Health at Bristol.