For 30 years, user-led mental health organisation CAPITAL has offered support rooted in lived experience. Now, they face an 80% funding cut. Lived experience is being devalued in commissioning decisions. Read the new blog from CAPITAL on the NSUN website: www.nsun.org.uk/lived-experi...

IASP is proud to be the official partner of the 21st European Symposium on Suicide and Suicidal Behaviour (ESSSB21). Call for abstracts is now announced, ESSSB invite contributions from all areas of suicide research and prevention. Learn more: bit.ly/47Ohcl4

Our 2025 GROW programme is perfect for #mentalhealth and #addiction early career #researchers! Build a network of peers at the same career stage, connect with senior researchers, plan goals with 1-to-1 coaching sessions & much more in this fully-funded programme👇 mentalhealthresearch.org.uk/grow25/

How can health care providers improve suicide risk detection? A recent review from the Center for Suicide Prevention and Research offers insights and recommendations. pediatricsnationwide.org/2025/05/01/e... #MentalHealthMonth #YouthSuicidePrevention

Here's some information from one of our men featured in our video on what the film is about, how this work will help in #suicideprevention & who we are looking for to take part in the study: Men Talking About #Suicide redcap.idhs.ucl.ac.uk/surveys/?s=7...

RESOURCE | These guidelines, and the accompanying Top 10 Tips resource, provide researchers and young people with practical recommendations for safe, effective lived experience involvement in suicide research. Free to access: bit.ly/3I2xGIQ

Advertisement for ‘Lived Experience Advisors’ for PhD Thesis Committees for projects at UCL: www.ucl.ac.uk/psychiatry/l... #AcademicSky

We are recruiting for 2 roles on the Discovering Liveability Project Senior Research Fellow (full-time - August 2031): elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... And a Research Fellow role (March 2025 for 5 years): elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... If you'd like to join us - apply!

A few more days left to apply for this PhD project (funded by Papyrus, to start Jan 2025) looking at the role of community-based interventions in helping prevent young suicides. www.findaphd.com/phds/program...

My team at the University of Edinburgh are hiring a Senior Research Fellow to join us on our Wellcome funded 7 year project 'Discovering Liveability: Co-producing Alternatives to Suicide Prevention' #academicjob #suicide #suicideprevention #qualitative elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

❗️Final call to participate❗️ Mine and @bethanyjcliffe.bsky.social’s study on UK doctoral student experiences of self-relevant #mentalhealthresearch is closing at the end of this week! This means you have 4️⃣ more days to take part 👉 uniofbath.questionpro.eu/doctoral-sel... #PhDSky #PsychSciSky

Remembering. In steadfast, unwavering, furious solidarity. #TransDayOfRemembrance

I’ve finally made my own starter pack - this one focused on UK-based early career researchers working in mental health ✨ I haven’t added too many people as I don’t want to presume - but if you identify with this and would like to be added, please let me know! #PsychSciSky go.bsky.app/QPTBM5q

I made a suicidology/NSSI starter pack! Share and comment below to be added. go.bsky.app/MgL9J1j

I started a suicide and self-injury research starter pack! Please share, and let me know if you’d like to be added! 😊 go.bsky.app/SgoBT7Z

After 5 yrs in planning, our Lancet Commission on self-harm now published. Self-harm affects millions of people globally, yet sadly it remains stigmatised & neglected. For too long, people who self-harm have not received the compassionate and tailored support that they deserve. hubs.li/Q02Sjh-80

We have almost hit our initial recruitment target, and intend to close the survey sometime in November - so if you haven't participated yet, please consider doing so! 👉 uniofbath.questionpro.eu/doctoral-sel... ❗️Remember that indirect experience is still self-relevant❗️ #AcademicSky #PhDChat #PhDSky

✨CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS✨ @bethanyjcliffe.bsky.social & I are recruiting to a project that is close to my heart! If you are a UK-based doctoral student like me who is (or was) doing self-relevant mental health research, please consider taking part ➡️ uniofbath.questionpro.eu/doctoral-sel...

🔔Check out our new paper🔔: Despite elevated negative self-evaluation, adolescents with elevated depression symptoms were still able to describe positive pro-social self-evaluation…. ‘I am Kind’ capmh.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

As my thesis is due in spring 2024, I am excited to announce that I'm on the job market & looking for a post-PhD opportunity! I am looking for: 📊 A research post 🧠 In clinical/health psychology ✏️ Qualiative focused (or mixed methods) 🧒 On child & adolescent mental health 🇬🇧 UK-based #PsychSciSky