Rate My Professor Jen Chopra

Dr Jennifer Chopra serves as Subject Leader in Psychology and Programme Leader for the BSc Psychology programme within the School of Psychology, Faculty of Health, at Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU). She joined LJMU in 2014 as a Lecturer in Forensic Psychology and has progressed in her academic career there. Prior to this appointment, Chopra held a Research Fellow position at the University of Hertfordshire. She completed her PhD in 2012 at the University of Stirling, where she was funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) to pursue an MSc in Psychological Research Methods and her doctorate, supervised by Professors Rory O’Connor and Ronan O’Carroll. Chopra earned her BSc in Psychology with First Class Honours from Glasgow Caledonian University in 2008.

Chopra's academic interests and research specializations focus on suicide risk and prevention, self-harm, intimate partner abuse, coercive control, stalking, domestic homicides, and the long-term psychological impacts of abuse, including digital and online forms. As co-lead of LJMU's Suicide and Self-Harm Research Group, she oversees multidisciplinary collaborations across the Faculty of Health—involving the Schools of Psychology, Public Health Institute, and Nursing and Allied Health—with partnerships spanning over 70 local, national, and international organisations. The group conducts research on prevention, intervention, postvention, and surveillance intelligence related to suicide and self-harm. Her ongoing projects include a comprehensive review of domestic homicides in the UK, an examination of digital abuse within domestic violence contexts, evaluation of a suicide crisis centre for men in Liverpool, and a Delphi consensus study identifying priorities in suicide and self-harm research. She is also affiliated with the Forensic and Investigative Psychology research topic under LJMU's Research Centre for Brain and Behaviour. Key publications include 'A Case Series Study of Help-Seeking among Younger and Older Adults Experiencing Domestic Abuse' (2021), 'The adaptation of a community-based suicide prevention intervention for men' (2022), 'Evaluating the role and effectiveness of co-produced community-based mental health interventions that aim to reduce suicide among adults: A systematic review' (2023), 'Psychological risk factors predictive of suicidal distress in men receiving a community-based brief psychological intervention' (2024), and 'Oasis Understanding Trauma Programme Evaluation' (2022). Chopra's work has contributed to policy discussions, including submissions to parliamentary committees on suicide prevention.