In this first paper from my Wellcome Early Career Award 'The Rain Within the Rainbow' I reflect on what LGBTQ+ suicide prevention is, and what this might tell us about what all suicide prevention could be! doi.org/10.31235/osf...

The wonderful @sarahhuque.bsky.social and I will be doing in conversation about our @d-liveability.bsky.social recent research trips exploring lived experience involvement and leadership in suicide research. We'd love to see you there!

It’s important to recognise and celebrate small academic writing successes patthomson.net/2026/01/22/s...

We've had lots of activity from the lovely members of our Suicide Research Group ( @d-liveability.bsky.social ). I put this together this list of our writing for a recent research visit we did, but thought it might be useful to others who have wondered what we're up to 😊 linktr.ee/HazelMarzetti

🌈 Do you know anyone passionate about researching LGBTQ+ suicide, suicide prevention and suicide bereavement, experienced in qualitative methods, and looking for work? Send them my way because I'm recruiting for a post-doctoral research fellow! elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Learning not to Breathe the Poison: Decolonial Queer Approaches to Researching Queer and Trans Lives in Central Asia Exploring the complexities of researching queer, trans, and gender-diverse communities in Central Asia. 21st October, 4.30-5.30 events.bookitbee.com/university-o...

It's September and so the Queer Minds Scotland online seminar series returns! This month we're excited to have @kevinguyan.bsky.social presenting the 'Rainbow Trap: Queer Lives, Categories and the Dangers of Inclusion' Please join us 25th September 4-5 events.bookitbee.com/university-o...

Are you running an in-person event about transgender support, research, education, knowledge sharing, or training? We’d love it if you could download, print, and post our Crowdfunder poster to help us protect our decades of trans research & resources 🙏 PDF 👉 www.gires.org.uk/wp-content/u...

q:LJMU will hold it first seminar Connecting LGBTQ+ Research & Community on 17/07. LJMU research with LGBTQ+ communities will be presented, with guest speaker @hazelmarzetti.bsky.social. The event will be of interest to researchers, academics, professionals, and community organisations. #lgbtq+

I am so pleased to see this out in the world and such a wonderful bunch of people to work with 😊 !! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

🏳️‍🌈Are you interested in intergenerational LGBTQ+ conversations? 🏳️‍🌈Are you based in and around Glasgow? Come along to our next *in person* Queer Minds Scotland Event! events.bookitbee.com/gcu/queer-mi... 26th June 5.30 - 7.30

We're incredibly excited to launch BRIDGE - a community initiative led by Incubator alumni that connects UK #mentalhealth early career #researchers with the Global South! ⏰ Applications are OPEN until 9 JUNE. For more info & to apply, visit the page below 👇 mentalhealthresearch.org.uk/bridge/

We’re hosting an online info session and Q&A on Friday 16th May 12-13:00 BST, all about the latest opportunity to join the #DiscoveringLiveability Team as a Research Assistant (with funding for a PhD) at the University of Lincoln! Sign up via email [email protected] ✍️

Join our next Queer Minds Scotland online seminar: Queer and Trans Lives in Turbulent Times Mariya Levitanus will share her research on the migration of Russian queer and trans individuals to Central Asia post Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine. 28th May at 4pm (UK time): bit.ly/3SjSC2W

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]

A tiny bit of writing about finding joy in mental health/suicide research: internationaljournalofsocialresearchmethodology.wordpress.com/2025/04/26/q...

The Supreme Court ruling left out trans people. We're stepping in — with lawyers, resources, and action 🏳️‍⚧️⚖️ Donate to our fighting fund 💪 goodlaw.social/9235c1

Maintaining funding for 988's LGBTQ+ services ensures continued effective and lifesaving work. “Suicide prevention is about risk, not identity.” – @trevorproject.bsky.social “These crisis response services are effective and save young lives.” – @afspnational.bsky.social afsp.org/story/trump-...

UCL are recruiting UK-based men aged 40 to 65 for research study - Men Talking About Suicide. Click on this link to read more, including details of reimbursement: lnkd.in/eRw97h4c The findings will help in #suicideprevention. @alexandrapitman.bsky.social redcap.idhs.ucl.ac.uk/surveys/?s=7...

New blog post! 💻 This month’s #DiscoveringLiveability blog post comes from Work Package 4 researchers, Emily Yue and Alex Oaten. They reflect on two pieces of academic literature that speak about the concept of ‘liveability’. Click on the link below to read!

Such an interesting call for papers!! I don't think I've ever seen something that so explicitly centres care in suicide studies...

A quick reminder that next week Flo from Scottish Trans will be giving our monthly Queer Minds Scotland seminar about the findings of Scottish Trans' research on the experiences of trans and non-binary people in Scotland 30th April, 4pm (UK time) Join us: events.bookitbee.com/university-o...

We know today may feel especially heavy for our trans and non-binary siblings. If you’re feeling overwhelmed or affected by the UK Supreme Court’s decision, please know you’re not alone. We’re here for you every day from 10am to 10pm. #TransRights #Trans #NonBinary #SupremeCourt #Gender

Funded PhD opportunity about LGBTQ+ people & adult social care with an incredible supervisory team at the University of Bristol consisting of Profs @jasonschaub.bsky.social & David Abbott. Applications due 15/05/25 with PhD starting September 2025. More info here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMP621/p...

We've just pre-printed our first article with @socarxiv.bsky.social 🥳 (not our first article from this team, or this project, but our first ever pre-print!!) The cruel optimism of suicide prevention: thinking beyond the mental health model: doi.org/10.31235/osf...

The Pecha Kucha event returns for the IASP 33rd World Congress! Celebrating the talent and passion of emerging ECRs in suicide prevention. Abstract submissions are now OPEN - Don’t miss your chance to present! 🔗 bit.ly/4i99rIw #IASPVIENNA2025

Could you do with £10k for some humanities or social science research? We’ve opened the call for our small grants. These are assessed using partial randomisation - after applications meet our quality threshold awards are allocated at random, reducing bias www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/ba-l...

Really useful data out from ONS using data linkage between census data, death registrations, and hospital administrative data to look at the relationship between self-harm and suicide and LGB people. www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopula...

There is still plenty of time to apply for our FUNDED #PhD opportunities in the School of Health Sciences at @uniofsurrey.bsky.social If you are interested in women nurses experiences of #Whistleblowing or #Bullying take a look. Closing date 11th May. www.surrey.ac.uk/fees-and-fun...

Join us for our next Queer Minds Scotland seminar at 4pm on 30th April to hear from the lovely Flo from @scottishtrans.bsky.social Flo will be talking about the findings of Scottish Trans' research on the experiences of trans&non-binary people. events.bookitbee.com/university-o... All welcome!

We've extended the application deadline for our Peer Coaching (PeCo) 2025 programme! Apply now 🚨 mentalhealthresearch.org.uk/peer-coachin... ⏰ NEW DEADLINE - Monday 14 April at 9am Here are some reasons why PeCo could be the perfect next step for your #mentalhealth #research career (a thread) 🧵

We’re hosting an online info session and Q&A this Friday 11th April 12-13:00 BST, all about the latest opportunity to join the #DiscoveringLiveability Team as a Research Assistant (with funding for a PhD). Sign up via email [email protected] ✍️ We look forward to seeing you all there!

❓Interested in suicide research? ❓Have an undergraduate degree, and a desire to do a PhD? We have a 5 year post combining a salaried role with PhD funding for a candidate to study as they work on our Discovering Liveability Project. elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... Please share widely!

NIH grant cancellations have now expanded from National Institute on Aging to National Institute of Mental Health. A colleagues grant studying suicide risk among LGBT teens has now been cancelled. The current administration is pro-teen suicide 😫

Revisiting this incredibly thought provoking peice (www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....) ahead of our NetECR LGBTQ+ suicide reading group. I am really taken, yet again, by the bringing together of queer intimacies & queer worldmaking for liveability. Really interested to hear what others thought!

Nominations are now closing for the IASP Awards! We invite IASP members to help us recognise those making a real impact in suicide prevention. 🔹 Deadline: Sunday 23 March 2025 🔹 Submit your nomination: bit.ly/41LpJBo

Call for research participants: are you a trans person who has experienced menopause? Shanta Everington from Open University would like to speak with you! This is part of a wider project on the menopause which she is keen to be trans inclusive.

My student Ophelia did some inspiring research on queer and trans activism at the University of Birmingham in the 1970s: www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2025/ho...

Come along to our March Queer Minds Scotland seminar exploring the social determinants of LGBT+ health and wellbeing: events.bookitbee.com/university-o... The wonderful Rebecca Hoffman from LGBT Health and Wellbeing and Chris Harkins from Uni of Glasgow will be presenting. Share far and wide ☺️

I'm so looking forward to this!!

I wrote a book review for the Sociology of Health and Illness! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

My lovely boss @amychandler.bsky.social has written a blog about the fabulous Suicide Culture seminar series (which is still hosting online seminars this semester but also has lots of recorded talks in their repository)...

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...

We invite applications to the Martin Lawlor Research Bursary Award. Up to £2,000 is available for an early career researcher in the UK or Ireland to support research activity in self-harm or suicide prevention. Closing date 14/03/2025. Further information & application form: manchester.ac.uk/ncish/

We are super excited to announce our first Queer Minds Scotland seminar with the wonderful @kirstyclarkphd.bsky.social talking about her work on LGBTQ+ youth suicide in the US and Scotland. 26th February 4-5pm (UK time) events.bookitbee.com/university-o... Please share widely!

Save the date! Our introduction to #qualitative methods summer school will run for five days not four this year, from Monday 21 - Friday 25 July: www.quahrc.co.uk/save-the-dat... #ResearchMethods #QualitativeResearch #ResearchHelp #AcademicSky

I'm really excited for our NetCR Gathering for early career researchers in suicide and self-harm next Wednesday evening - hoping to get to see some new faces as well as the familiar ones!! If you would like to find out more about the network, visit our linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/internati...

Please share! Exciting fully funded PhD opportunity. Are you passionate about understanding & preventing suicide? If so, why not consider joining us to undertake a PhD generously funded by the Canmore Trust? www.findaphd.com/phds/project... @daryloconnor.bsky.social

It was so lovely having the first of our in person meetings last week for @DiscoveringLiveability. If you're interested in #suicideresearch and #suicideprevention give the account a follow for all our research update.

Thank you for sharing @martinpratt.bsky.social ☺️ This paper with @roryoc.bsky.social and Lisa McDaid draws attention to the barriers experienced by young people seeking care for suicidal distress, and on the importance of, and complexities with, nuanced communication within this. #suicideresearch