📢 Awesome job opportunity here, on a brilliant project with a super team 👇

It's been a privilege to learn from all of the amazing scholars and practitioners I've met so far on my research visit to Canada for @d-liveability.bsky.social - including catching up in-person with Prof John Oliffe from our Research Advisory Group!

Fascinating new article on suicide/self-harm in prisons from Elena Vasilou: "Self-destruction in prison: A queer view on pain through decolonial and psychoanalytic theory" journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

I'm contributing to an @iaspinfo.bsky.social @iasr-suicide.bsky.social webinar this Thursday - events.teams.microsoft.com/event/d5def8... I'll be reflecting on experiences of working with/from lived and living experience in suicide and self-harm research and policy @d-liveability.bsky.social

This is a really interesting blog from Anita Sangha @fairness.bsky.social. I had a brill chat with Anita while she was developing this - helpful to consider suicide in relation to *wealth* inequalities, beyond the usual focus on income/area level deprivation www.faircomment.co.uk/p/inequality...

It's a busy time on @d-liveability.bsky.social! We are hiring a 12 month #postdoc Research Fellow to contribute to #qualitative analysis of suicide prevention policies + parliamentary debates: elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Online + in person seminar tomorrow, 17th June 3pm, w/Cate Curtis: 'Injury turned inwards, injury turned outwards: Two sides of the same coin?' - Cate will be sharing findings from the Self-Harm and Injury Exploration project theshineproject2023.wordpress.com events.bookitbee.com/suicide-cult...

There were some great presentations #EMCRF2025 on self-harm among professionals (nurses, counsellors), including from my colleague Fiona Stirling. This excellent new paper explores this for nurses via autoethnography/lived experience - incredibly rich analysis: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Pre-conference workshop yesterday at #EMCRF2025 with @hazelmarzetti.bsky.social and Seonaid Cleare - vital supported session to explore how to support ourselves and our teams working on self-harm + suicide research: + how systems and structures contribute

Myself and several @d-liveability.bsky.social folks are in Glasgow this week for #EMCRF2025 hosted by @roryoc.bsky.social + team - great first day yesterday, especially loved Susan Rasmussen's keynote - excellent career advice via the medium of pigs!

ICYMI: The second blog in our “Limitations of Lived Experience” series explored the power of lived experience work in the right spaces, and the risks when it doesn’t reach them. www.nsun.org.uk/you-could-ju...

This looks like a super-cool postdoc for people interested in #qualitative #mentalhealth research and the interactions between #mh and #welfare www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/114985-...

One of the best bits of my job is getting to work with wonderful scholars - @sarahhuque.bsky.social writes here on work she has led, + some we are doing together #suicidecultures #discoveringliveability - finding joy in collaborative, qualitative approaches, even when studying #suicide

Exciting! Our edited collection on stigma (with @brisunipress.bsky.social) is off to print, and we've some different events upcoming in June to celebrate and share the wonderful contributions that feature in it. Including this one with the MedSoc study group in London, sign up below 👇

Job Opportunity!💡We’re looking for a Research Assistant to join the #DiscoveringLiveability team in Lincoln 🔍 In addition to a salary, this 5 year role is accompanied by tuition for a part-time Social Sciences PhD programme at the University of Lincoln. To find out more, click on the link below:

Also next week - a public lecture with @annamueller.bsky.social & @sethabrutyn.bsky.social in #Edinburgh on 7th May Joined by @roryoc.bsky.social and Haylis Smith - we'll be making connections between work on youth suicide in the US and #Scotland Free tickets: events.bookitbee.com/suicide-cult...

Lovely Vic is looking for folks to talk about their experiences of being involved in patient and public involvement to try and learn more about it. If you've been involved before and would be willing to take part, get in touch: [email protected]

Next week (6-7th) is our @wellcometrust.bsky.social supported symposium on #suicidecultures and the #sociology of suicide! We've got a diverse and exciting programme of speakers & roundtable discussions. We'll be providing remote access to many of the talks 👇 events.bookitbee.com/suicide-cult...

Our brilliant new team members for @d-liveability.bsky.social!

26th June: we are excited to host an FSHI funded symposium at U of Edinburgh based around the forthcoming edited collection 'Recalibrating Stigma: Sociologies of Health and Illness' More details below!

Continuing to learn so much from @nsunnews.bsky.social blog series on the limitations of #livedexperience Here's one from @projectsoulstride.bsky.social who also happens to be one of our @d-liveability.bsky.social project advisors: www.nsun.org.uk/lived-experi...

Beyond excited to see what this edited collection becomes! See full CFP below - we (@jeffreyansloos.bsky.social @carolinelenette.bsky.social Jennifer White + me) are working to make space for different kinds of (critical) suicide studies #suicidecultures @d-liveability.bsky.social #critsui

⭐ New work opportunity alert! We are looking for a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Affective Experience and Measurement Labs. An exciting opportunity to deepen your research interests working across both labs. Applications open till 21 May! Find out more and apply 👇 tinyurl.com/postdocopp

Some great reflections from @courtneybuckler.bsky.social here on the nature of 'evidence' in relation to lived experience - very familiar, and speaking to practical and more theoretical questions about what knowledge 'counts' @d-liveability.bsky.social www.nsun.org.uk/news/on-givi...

Our next #suicidecultures seminar: @carolinelenette.bsky.social + Achol Arop reflect on a recent publication addressing South Sudanese youth advocates perspectives on suicide via poetic/reflexive inquiry www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/13... 12th May, 9am UK time events.bookitbee.com/suicide-cult...

Next Queer Minds Scotland seminar coming up soon (30th April, 4pm) - vital insights on the mental health impacts of negative experiences in daily life for trans and non-binary people. Sign up below 👇

📰New paper from @wellcometrust.bsky.social funded #suicidecultures PhD researcher (and now postdoctoral researcher with @d-liveability.bsky.social) Emily Yue. The paper considers statistics about ethnicity as 'tricky tools' in suicide prevention work 👇 catalystjournal.org/index.php/ca...

26th June: we are excited to host an FSHI funded symposium at U of Edinburgh based around the forthcoming edited collection 'Recalibrating Stigma: Sociologies of Health and Illness' More details below!

Job Opportunity!💡We’re looking for a Research Assistant to join the #DiscoveringLiveability team 🔍 In addition to a salary, this 5 year role is accompanied by tuition for a part-time Health in Social Science PhD programme. To find out more, click on the link below:

"If I do not strive towards introspection with clarity and humility – and the discomfort that brings – my lived experience is meaningless." C. C. da Cunha Lewin explores the implications of clinical researchers claiming LE without critically examining it. www.nsun.org.uk/referring-to...

The advocates @stopoxevision.bsky.social have put together our spring issue, showcasing articles that explore the themes of surveillance and the pushback against being monitored. Read the full editorial here asylummagazine.org/2025/03/gues... #MentalHelath #MentalInkness

Next #suicidecultures seminar is with Kamesha Spates! 'The Price of Strength: Understanding Suicide Among Black Women Through a Black Feminist Lens' 25th March, 2pm UK time Kamesha will be online, + you can attend online OR in person if in/near Edinburgh 👇 events.bookitbee.com/suicide-cult...

Joyful listening from the weekend - so much in this episode: emotions, emotion labour/work, activism, exhaustion, joy, intersectional feminism, bell hooks, and manga/anime! Lots here for @d-liveability.bsky.social - esp as we start our WP on activism soon! thesociologicalreview.org/podcasts/unc...

Final day to submit an abstract or application to attend our Sociology of Suicide symposium @ Edinburgh, 6-7th May, with @annamueller.bsky.social and @sethabrutyn.bsky.social + several of the #SuicideCultures + @d-liveability.bsky.social teams blogs.ed.ac.uk/suicide-cult...

We're very much looking forward to welcoming Léa to Edinburgh! @d-liveability.bsky.social

Mandy Crandale "I want to see limitless living experience involvement" First of a series of blogs on lived/living experience from @asylummagazine.bsky.social and @nsunnews.bsky.social - looking forward to the next ones! #DiscoveringLiveability @d-liveability.bsky.social - definitely one to watch!

Particularly given the awful changes in protections and provisions for LGBTQ+ youths we've seen recently, I am so interested to hear the wonderful @kirstyclarkphd.bsky.social speak about her work on LGBTQ+ youth suicide across Scotland and the US. events.bookitbee.com/university-o...

A blog from me about our #suicidecultures online seminars past and future, and some early plans for something similar but different as part of our work on #DiscoveringLiveability

Everyone is invited to the online launch of our spring issue. Meet our artists, authors, poets and guest editors @stopoxevision.bsky.social and @nsunnews.bsky.social Date: Thursday 13th March Time: 18.30- 19.30 GMT Register here us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... #MentalHealth

“We should consider what Goffman’s other concepts (ie not only ‘stigma’) can offer in terms of making sense of disabled people’s lived experience.” Gareth M. Thomas @cusocsci.bsky.social on everyday life and the personhood of disabled adults. #OpenAccess https://buff.ly/4gTyn6o

Super cool post in an awesome research centre here at Edinburgh! Working with Martyn Pickersgill on a new project exploring neurotech (STS/medical sociology) #sociology #sts #neuro #postdoc

Powerful review of Alexandre Baril's Undoing Suicidism, by Ruth Pearce, in Symbolic Interaction onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... Relevant to #suicidecultures + @d-liveability.bsky.social

“When people worry about women drinking I say, ‘Shouldn’t you be worried about men who take these actions?‘” – Ash, Australia @adrianfarrugia.bsky.social Kiran Pienaar and Fay Dennis @sociology-gold.bsky.social on male violence and a woman's right to experience pleasure. buff.ly/4hE0Qye

Come talk sociological approaches to suicide with us and hear what we've been up to on the Suicide Cultures project!

Call for papers and participation - #SuicideCultures and the Sociology of Suicide, a 2 day symposium at the University of Edinburgh 6-7th May blogs.ed.ac.uk/suicide-cult...

Upcoming seminar from Queer Minds Scotland featuring @kirstyclarkphd.bsky.social on "Investigating How Societal Narratives and Social Networks Shape LGBTQ+ Youth Suicide Risk" 26th Feb 4-5pm GMT - online/free! events.bookitbee.com/university-o...

🆕 Please share 9th Suicide & Self-harm Early & Mid-Career Researchers' Forum Call for Abstracts Closing date 31st March. If you are an early or mid-career researcher working in the field of suicide or self-harm, this conference is for you. All welcome. 🔗 suicideresearch.info/2024/10/09/9...

JOB! Please share with your networks - I'm open to recent- and near-PhDs in Sociology or Poli Sci or adjacent disciplines, ideally with a research program that is in some way about the (goal/promise/ideal of) Healthy, Equitable and Responsive Democracy in the US. Info: bit.ly/HEARDpostdoc2025