Robyn Langlands from Victoria University, Wellington is conducting a survey for her PhD thesis about the thoughts, feelings, and events that lead people to injure themselves on purpose. The kinds of behaviours that she is looking at include cutting, burning, hitting, and severe scratching. The survey should take you no more than an hour to complete and you could win one of two iPod Shuffles (2GB).

You can participate in this study if you:
•    are 16 years of age or older,
•    live in Aotearoa/New Zealand,
•    have injured yourself on purpose, without intending to kill yourself, one or more times in the past 12 months, and
•    were not experiencing psychosis (e.g., delusions or hallucinations) or mania when you most recently injured yourself on purpose.

If you’d like to take part, Click here and you will be directed to the survey. For more information or if you would like a paper version of the survey, please contact Robyn by email ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) or phone (04-463 5233, extension 8605).

For full details click to download the Information flyer