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Dr Hayley Gorton is a Senior Lecturer in Pharmacy Practice and a practicing community pharmacist. She has an active teaching and research role at the university. She leads the final year pharmacy practice module in the MPharm and supervises third year project students. Dr Gorton’s research is focused on suicide, self-harm and wider metal health care in pharmacy; and big data epidemiology research. She is a Fellow of the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust (WCMT) after being funded by them to explore the role of pharmacists in suicide prevention internationally. She is the co-chair of a special interest group (SIG) about suicide prevention in primary care within the International Association for Suicide Prevention (IASP). Dr Gorton is an active member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS) and is chair of RPS Greater Manchester.