On 30 October 2020, Mental Health and Wellbeing's Rory O’Connor attended a virtual ceremony for the Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health Awards 2020, where a paper he co-authored with Dr Becky Mars (lead author, University of Bristol) and others was announced as the Best Paper published in Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry in 2019

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The paper is entitled: ‘What distinguishes adolescents with suicidal thoughts from those who have attempted suicide? A population-based birth cohort study’ by Becky Mars, Jon Heron, E. David Klonsky, Paul Moran, Rory C. O’Connor, Kate Tilling, Paul Wilkinson, and David Gunnell

Full details of the awards can be found on the ACAMH website 

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First published: 28 June 2018