Utterly bizarre that suicides are the only work-related deaths Health & Safety Executive don’t investigate. Our open letter w/ @sarahwatersleeds.bsky.social @bmj.com www.bmj.com/content/394/...

See our Open Letter to the Health and Safety Executive on work-related suicides in the BMJ today: www.bmj.com/content/392/...

Recently published literature review on work-related suicide

Our Wellcome co-researchers China and Emily are holding a workshop at the New Organising Conference in Liverpool on 28th-30th August. Looks like a brilliant event!

Nicolas Chaignot from our research team spoke this morning to France Culture about the 13 employee suicide deaths at French rail company, SNCF in the context of company restructuring www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...

Today is the start of the 114th session of the International labour conference. Government, Employer and Worker representatives from the 187 ILO Member States will discuss work issues such as decent work, gender equality at work and social dialogue and tripartism. www.ilo.org/internationa...

Excellent piece on suicide deaths amongst French wine producers and its links to climate change: observer.co.uk/style/drink/...

Our first in-person research team meeting in Bordeaux! Rich and productive discussion over an intense two days. Magnicient location! With thanks to our French hosts Loïc, Nicolas, Nushaba and Helel Oberreuter for her excellent coordination.

Brilliant to see that work-related suicide was at the centre of discussions at Workers Memorial Day on 28th April www.appgosh.org/post/workers...

Today at Workers' Memorial Day, MPs and bereaved family members including Julia Waters, called on HSE to recognise and prevent work-related suicides. MPs mark Workers’ Memorial Day, warning safety cuts are putting lives at risk - Canary share.google/LBZlzP5hUsDW...

Tomorrow is the World Day for Safety and Health at Work 2026! Colleagues are busy working behind the scenes and even chairing international conferences. See the video here youtu.be/N9t1pnt0Q2I.

Suicide risk varies by occupation. A new Revelios study reports 43% of music industry workers have experienced suicidal thoughts, a rate shaped by conditions of precarious labour including gig-based contracts, chronic financial instability, and near-absent institutional support #canlab #suicidology

In late '25, I joined the incredible team @wellcometrust.bsky.social as a postdoc fellow. Several months in, I'm still pinching myself! This account will be a space where I share work-adjacent musings & articles. As the content will cover suicide in occupational contexts, please follow with care.

Sign up to the new webinar, with Marcela Polanco on Wednesday 29 April. The "body" as evidence in suicide: Whose meanings inhabit the "suicidal body"? events.bookitbee.com/university-o...

This week, the project team welcomed experts from across the globe to discuss, exchange and draw on comparative international knowledge and experience

Upcoming event 25 Feb 2026: Reclaiming Evidence: A Sociological Approach to Suicide Among Black Women in the United States with Dr Kamesha Spates, Department of Africana Studies at University of Pittsburgh. Register on the link events.bookitbee.com/university-o...

We are very excited to welcome Dr Nicolas Chaignot Delage, who brings expertise in mental health at work, occupational law, moral philosophy, centering social justice issues. He will work with the Director of CNRS, Loïc Lerouge on work-related suicides in the French context.

This excellent piece has just come out - examines links between Ofsted inspections and suicidal ideation, citing work by Sarah Waters @sarahwatersleeds.bsky.social Martin McKee @martinmckee.bsky.social Hilda Palmer @hazardscamp.bsky.social and China Mills doi.org/10.1080/0268...

Newly published piece on work-related suicide in the Latin American context. revistas.unne.edu.ar/index.php/dp...

We welcome Dr Lacey Croft to our research team. Lacey @laceycroft.bsky.social brings expertise in labour, disability, and displacement, centering feminist political economy and embodied dimensions of work. She will work with Dr Steven Bittle on work-related suicides in the Canadian context.

We are delighted to welcome three new researchers to our team! Dr Emily Yue brings queer, feminist and decolonial approaches to suicide data. She will work with Dr China Mills on work-related suicides in the UK context. Dr Emily Yue - Healing Justice Ldn share.google/Kkj06IESQEEb...

As we gather cases and prepare for interviews, our full research team is undertaking trauma-informed training this week, led by the brilliant team at @healingjusticeldn.bsky.social. Building skills of care, sensitivity and support into our research.

Read the brand new suicide and the workplace - Call For Action, available now!

Our first post of 2026 is sharing a brand new resource created by Emily Yue, looking at the UK's statistics on suicide by ethnicity, read it here eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

This month, we welcome three new Research Assistants to our project! We look forward to collaborating with them and adding their skills and expertise to our research: wellcomesuicideproject.leeds.ac.uk/profiles/

Our first publication is here! In collaboration with @wellcometrust.bsky.social, our project is a cross-national, multidisciplinary and qualitative study of work-related suicide in the UK, France and Canada. Read it here link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Delighted to share the first publication from our Wellcome Trust research project - explores what a social justice perspective can do for understanding work-related suicide @wellcomework.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...