Dr Harris leads efforts toward more open and sustainable psychological science. His research collaborations include work with academics and clinicians in Australia, the USA, Singapore, China, Colombia, Thailand, Norway, Germany, etc.  Keith has worked with governmental and non-governmental agencies on better mental health, improving education, and progressing on social issues. Those efforts are developed to support the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals. Dr Harris's approach considers that such goals can only be accomplished through robust research design and analyses.

A recent project in Colombia earned the research team two notable awards - The XV National Congress of the Association of Colombian Psychiatry, 1^st Place Research Project, and the Luis Eduardo Yepes Award (1^st Place), Colombian Society of Biological Psychiatry and Neurosciences, for scientific merit. Both awards relate to the development of the Colombian-Spanish version of the Suicidality Scale

His areas of interest are:

• Suicide
• Climate anxiety and related factors
• Valid measurement of latent psychosocial traits (e.g., suicidality, smartphone stress, climate anxiety, attachment style)
• Online Behaviours – particularly those related to Health and Mental Health

Dr Harris enjoys supervising research students and collaborating in several other areas of interest as well, feel free to get in touch. Much of his work can be found at Open Science Framework (OSF) https://osf.io/ac6ng/

• PSY304 Psychopathology – Convener
• PSY204 Psychological Testing – Convener

Dr Harris collaborates on research projects in several areas. He is currently considerting PhD students to work in the areas stated below. Some of his main research projects are:

• Improving suicide risk assessments (SRAs) in clinical and research practices
• Smartphone Connectivity Stress
• Climate Anxiety
• Online survey methods and outcomes
• Improving individual assessments in emergency and psychiatric care
• Coroners' decisions on cause of death (suicide)
• Clinical psychological practices

Memberships      

American Psychological Association (APA) – member

Climate & Health Alliance (CHA) – member

Psychology for a Safe Climate – member