Excited to share the publication of this paper in Sociology, written by Discovering Liveability team members Hazel Marzetti, Amy Chandler, Alex Oaten and Ana Jordan. 'The Cruel Optimism of Suicide Prevention: thinking beyond the mental health model' journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Our Co-Investigator Hazel Marzetti @hazelmarzetti.bsky.social flew to Australia last month for our second international site visit, which included meetings with researchers at @orygen.org.au and Black Dog Institute. Stay tuned for more updates on this visit and new learnings next year!

A painful one from @jvl.bsky.social on Bondi Beach, Rob Reiner, and USAID. Read The Triad only @thebulwark.com: www.thebulwark.com/p/america-un...

⚠️Content warning: Suicide and mental health 📢Our new report, in partnership with @d-liveability.bsky.social, explores how extreme wealth inequality may act as a driver of suicide by undermining the foundations that make life liveable. Read the full report here: fairnessfoundation.com/unliveable

Reminder! ⏰ Our Coffee & Connect event, hosted by the #DiscoveringLiveability Lived and Living Experience Hub, is taking place online next Friday. 🔗 Click on the link below to book your free place!

Take a tour of the #DiscoveringLiveability project with this video overview! Here we share key aims, research methods, and the work packages included within our project. Keep an eye out for more videos in the future, where we’ll go into further detail about what drives Discovering Liveability 🔍

Event announcement: LLEH Coffee & Connect ☕️💻 Join the #DiscoveringLiveability team on Friday 5th December for an informal online networking event, open to anyone interested in suicide research that engages with lived and/or living experiences. 🔗 Click on the link below to book your free place!

Application portal is open until 11:59 PM on Monday, 17th November!

New blog post! 💻 This month’s #DiscoveringLiveability blog post comes from Dr Sarah Huque (@sarahhuque.bsky.social) and discusses her recent site visit to Canada. Click on the link below to read!

who needs god or the threat of hell to be a decent person when one can simply strive to live their life in such a way so as to not earn an obituary written by @attackerman.bsky.social on the day of their death? www.thenation.com/article/poli...

🌈 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...

We're hiring! Research Fellow role focused on institutional ethnography and helping us to develop the lived and living experience hub. Applications open until 17th November!

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...

Two of our Discovering Liveability researchers, Dr Emily Yue and Dr Sarah Huque (@sarahhuque.bsky.social), have recently published a paper as part of the Edinburgh Mental Health funded Sea to Spruce project 📄 You can read the paper in Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy via the link below!

Some of our research team will be chatting about Discovering Liveability and participatory research at this event in Edinburgh next week on Wednesday 8th October. The event is free and open to everyone. Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/outwith-sh...

New blog alert! Did you attend our very first Discovering Liveability event on the 1st September about the Lived and Living Experience Hub? You can now read a detailed recap of how it went on our blog! Link here: blogs.ed.ac.uk/discovering-...

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...

Busy @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social picket lines this morning at Edinburgh University with staff striking to defend jobs and oppose the biggest cuts seen in Scottish higher education #SaveHE #NoCompulsoryRedundancies #StopTheCuts

Edinburgh University staff begin walkout amid dispute over £140m cuts plan news.stv.tv/east-central...

Pickets across @edinburghuni.bsky.social campus this morning opposing £140million cuts and up to 1,800 jobs going, including by compulsory redundancies #SaveHE #NoCompulsoryRedundancies #StopTheCuts

Today's @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social rally to defend jobs and oppose cuts at Edinburgh university #SaveHE #NoCompulsoryRedundancies #StopTheCuts

Last month The University of British Columbia's Men's Health Research Programme hosted the Reducing Male Suicide conference, where our researcher Sarah gave a presentation all about the #DiscoveringLiveability project. Here are some photos from Sarah's time at the conference! Photo C Hanna Ogawa

[Post #2 of 2] External job alert! On behalf of our critical suicide research group, sharing some exciting job opportunities on a work-related suicide and social justice project: shorturl.at/guFfz Post doctoral research post based in Bordeaux, France: shorturl.at/mRCRa

[Post #1 of 2] External job alert! On behalf of our critical suicide research group, sharing some exciting job opportunities on a work-related suicide and social justice project: shorturl.at/guFfz First researcher post is UK based at Healing Justice Ldn. shorturl.at/b6ADy

Introducing: A Lived and Living Experience Suicide Research Hub 💡 Join the #DiscoveringLiveability team for a free online event on Monday 1st September 12 - 1:30pm, where we’ll be introducing a key upcoming project of ours: The Lived and Living Experience Hub. Follow the link below to register!

Today we learned Andrew Cuomo is directly coordinating with Donald Trump, even as this President sends masked agents to rip our neighbors off the streets and guts the social services so many New Yorkers rely on. It’s disqualifying and a betrayal of our city.

Our #DiscoveringLiveability researcher Sarah is continuing her site visit to Canada with a trip to Stanley Park in Vancouver! 🌊 Vancouver is in the traditional, ancestral and unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.

New blog post! 💻 This month’s #DiscoveringLiveability blog post comes from our researcher Dr Paro Ramesh and discusses the usage of AI within suicide research. Click on the link below to read.

Visited "the room(s) where it happens" while in Toronto - aka home of the Indigenous-led Critical Health & Social Action lab founded/directed by @d-liveability.bsky.social advisory board member Jeffrey Ansloos. Accompanied by truly nourishing discussion w/ long-time lab member Deanna Zantingh!

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!

Looking forward to the learning coming up tonight at this event as part of the UBC RMS week - provincial launch of the Real Face of Men's Health report. @d-liveability.bsky.social

Very exciting programme of work starting today at the Researching Male Suicide Cluster meeting at UBC. A great opportunity for learning to incorporate into DL's Lived & Living Experience Hub!

SAVE THE DATE: September 10th, 9:30 - 11am! We'll be hosting our very first online event for the #DiscoveringLiveability project in September. We will be sharing more details about the event and how to register soon, and we look forward to seeing you there!

One of the DeKalb County GOP’s two nominees for the local election board has a record of lodging mass voter challenges that is alarming voting advocates. The other had his nomination rejected by an administrative judge based on his public statements about the board and a lawsuit he filed against it.

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...

Here's the proof: Republicans are only looking out for their millionaire and billionaire friends – and they're willing to gamble with your lives to pay them off.

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...

💡Job Opportunity!💡 We're looking for a Research Fellow to join the #DiscoveringLiveability team on a full-time and fixed-term basis for 12 months 🔎 For more information, follow the link below:

As part of our ongoing exploration into ‘liveability’, we’ve asked our #DiscoveringLiveability team to keep an eye out for any images that they think speak to liveability in some way. This next image was taken by one of our researchers in Sofia, Bulgaria. The text reads: ‘The Personal is Political’

Had the privilege to hear some of the young people from the Balmy Army speak truth to power in a room full of academics/clinicians at last year's PsychArts/MadHearts conference. Really looking forward to reading this ✊

Attention ⚠️ The Summer 2025 Issue of @asylummagazine.bsky.social will be out soon ❤️ Another Special Issue, this time guest-edited by the Balmy Army www.thevacuumcleaner.co.uk/barmy-army/

Excited to share and engage folks in our Sea to Spruce work on green/blue spaces and MH at the UofEdinburgh Impact Festival today!

Still just over a week left to apply to join our @d-liveability.bsky.social team - Research Assistant + PhD funding at U of Lincoln!

🚨 Reminder: EMH Conference Support Funds Deadline Next Friday! UoE mental health PhD students & ECRs—don’t miss your chance to apply for one of 10 bursaries (up to £500) to support your conference attendance/presentations. 📝 Apply here: forms.office.com/e/STqmBMazdw 🗓 Deadline: 30th May

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-...

Logan Rozos’s remarks span 80 seconds & comprise a mere 159 words. But because those words condemn genocide & call for justice, NYU is denying him his diploma, seeking further punishment, & publicly condemning him. This is backwards. Positing a deeper analysis soon: Www.Qasimrashid.Com/subscribe

To hear Rozos' speech: newrepublic.com/post/195313/...

Unbelievable cowardice from NYU. Like rank, pathetic, reputation-destroying cowardice. How someone could put their name on a statement like this is beyond me. Protect Logan Rozos at all costs. www.nyu.edu/about/news-p...

All power to Logan Rozos

shame on @newyorkuniversity.bsky.social! It is withholding Logan Rozos’ diploma for mentioning Palestinians’ suffering at NYU's graduation ceremony. Rozos is a model of courage. NYU an embarrassment.