Tomorrow, some of the Discovering Liveability researchers will be taking part in a round table with the @fairness.bsky.social to discuss how wealth inequality can contribute to the risk of suicide. A full report about this discussion and this growing body of work will be released later in Autumn!

🎗️On World Suicide Prevention Day, we're announcing an event with @d-liveability.bsky.social, to bring together experts on the link between wealth inequality & suicide. 📅 Tuesday 16 September 🕚 11–12:30 📄Full report to follow 📬 Want to get involved? Email [email protected]

Reminder! 🗓️ The Discovering Liveability team will be hosting a free online event next week. Join us on Monday 1st September to hear all about a key upcoming project of ours: The Lived and Living Experience Hub 💡 Sign up via the link below to receive a Microsoft Teams invite!

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!

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.

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.

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!

SAVE THE (NEW) DATE: Monday 1st September 🗓️ We'll be hosting our very first online event for the #DiscoveringLiveability project on Monday 1st September. We will be sharing more details about the event and how to register soon, and we look forward to seeing you there!

Sharing some brilliant examples of interconnected, intergenerational, and evolving Indigenous community-led programmes and successes supported by Movember Canada. Really useful for thinking with for DL WP2 (community-based practices of care).

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

Last week, Co-Investigator @sarahhuque.bsky.social arrived in Vancouver, Canada for #DiscoveringLiveability’s first site visit. This week she'll be spending time with the Men’s Health Research Program at the University of British Columbia. Stay tuned for more updates along the way!

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!

Deadline approaching! 🗓️ Apply by Friday 18th July for our #DiscoveringLiveability Research Fellow role - just over a week left!

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 image was taken by one of our team members during a quiet moment at their local arts centre in Lincoln ☕️

💡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’

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!

Deadline approaching! Apply by Sunday 1st June for our #DiscoveringLiveability Research Assistant role 💡 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:

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] ✍️

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:

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] ✍️

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:

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!

Say hello to our newest team members! 👋 We’re delighted to have Paro and Lynne joining us on the #DiscoveringLiveability project. If you’d like to find out more about the rest of the team, you can read our team profiles on our blog. Just follow the link in our bio and click ‘Meet the Team’!

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...

The Suicide Cultures Project will be hosting a free public lecture with Anna S. Mueller and Seth Abrutyn on Friday 7th May, titled Life Under Pressure: The Social Roots of Suicide and What to Do About Them. For more information about the lecture and how to sign up, please visit the link below 🔍

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!

This is the first of two jobs coming soon - this one is based in Scotland, the second based in England - so watch this space for more!

Come work with us on the @d-liveability.bsky.social project! We're hiring for a 5-year Research Assistant position, working with racialised communities experiencing suicide. The role also comes with PhD funding! (No Masters degree required). More info: elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

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:

New publication from @d-liveability.bsky.social team member Emily Yue in Catalyst Journal: 'Ethnicity Statistics as Tricky Tools in "Post-Racial" Britain: Celebrating the Lives and Obscuring the Deaths of Mixed-Race Populations. catalystjournal.org/index.php/ca...

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 month’s image was submitted by one of our researchers, out on a walk with their lovely dog named Banana! 🐾🤎

Looking forward to sharing work challenging official reporting of prison suicides in Scotland (part of the Suicide Cultures project) at this event on 14th March - and very excited about the community zine-making workshop! Folks can attend talks in-person or online! @d-liveability.bsky.social

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...

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

💻 Making Space to Talk About Suicide Research - and Beyond! Our first blog post comes from @amychandler.bsky.social, talking all about the seminar series organised by the Suicide Cultures project. You can read this blog post and find more information on the seminar series via the link below!

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

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. First up, this graffiti artwork was spotted on the streets of Edinburgh by one of our team members last month 📸

We had our first in-person team meeting for the #DiscoveringLiveability project last week! As our team is based across the UK, it was a wonderful opportunity to spend some time sharing our values and ambitions for the project. A productive day full of workshops, discussions, and fun activities 💡

Hello and welcome from the Discovering Liveability project team! We’ll be sharing updates here about our research as we explore alternatives to #SuicidePrevention and the term ‘liveability’. Follow the link in our bio to learn more about the project and keep up to date 🔎