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...

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...

Woo hoo! Second prize in Modern & Contemporary France best journal article of 2025. Link to article here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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.

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

Join us for the third webinar in our WUN mental health research network series!

Join a webinar focused on mental health, led by a collaboration of WUN member university researchers: ‘Investing in mental health prevention and support'. Date & Location: 23 March 2026 via MS Teams. Register: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/ef8661... More information: wun.ac.uk/article/even...

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...

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.

Fantastic to see our Call to Action on workplace suicide in print! @wellcomework.bsky.social econtent.hogrefe.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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...

See a brilliant piece by Emily Yue, researcher on our Wellcome Trust project, questioning the construction of suicide as a (white) male problem @wellcomework.bsky.social kohljournal.press/queering-uk-...

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...

@wellcomework.bsky.social Welcome to the new site for our Wellcome Trust Discovery Award project: 'Work-related suicide. An international social justice analysis'! wellcome.org/research-fun...

Very useful blog for those interested in suicide research. Rates are rising in UK irrespective of change in standard of proof blog.ons.gov.uk/2025/10/03/h...

This is a massive breakthrough and will help rebalance huge injustice faced by bereaved families (including after suicide) who have been denied legal aid when facing powerful organisations in the courts @martinmckee.bsky.social www.inquest.org.uk/government-i...

Excellent report outlining new Ofsted inspection system and suicide risk www.educationsupport.org.uk/news-and-eve...

ONS statistics released today estimate that 160 students in England and Wales die by suicide every year content.govdelivery.com/accounts/UKO...

Absolutely delighted that Leeds finalist Sophie Starsmore has just won the ASMCF undergrad essay prize (Brian Darling) for an essay she submitted to my module on May 1968. Her essay, written in French, examined the legacy of 1968 for 2nd wave feminism in 🇫🇷 @lcsleeds.bsky.social @asmcf.bsky.social

Brilliant news www.rte.ie/news/2025/09...

See our new website for our Wellcome Trust Discovery project on work-related suicides! wellcomesuicideproject.leeds.ac.uk

📢 Awesome job opportunity here, on a brilliant project with a super team 👇

We are recruiting a UK- based researcher to our project on work-related suicide and social justice @amychandler.bsky.social @drhilarycauser.bsky.social www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOC725/r...

We are recruiting a French post-doctoral researcher to our Wellcome Trust project: Work-related suicide. An international social justice analysis. emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...

Piece in New York Times about UK post office suicides: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/w...

Irish government is blocking these children's visas. #LetThemPlay #GaaPalestine my.uplift.ie/petitions/le... @uplift.ie

My sister Gill speaking last 2 minutes about heartbreaking news that visas refused for Palestinian children visiting Ireland as part of GAA Palestine www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

GAA Palestine has said it will "not give up hope" and is working to appeal the decision by the Irish Immigration Service to deny visa applications for a group of its players and mentors ahead of a summer tour

Both UK Post Office and French La Poste deemed responsible for employee suicides. In French case, resulted in ruling of gross negligence www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Shame on Alex Sobel MP for voting to proscribe Palestine Action. A group that that has been protesting against genocide in Gaza and the UK's complicity through ongoing arms supplies.

great to see this terrific article on the French care economy by @sarahwatersleeds.bsky.social out online with @francemodern.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Also next week - a public lecture with @annamueller.bsky.social & @sethabrutyn.bsky.social in #Edinburgh on 7th May Joined by @roryoc.bsky.social and Haylis Smith - we'll be making connections between work on youth suicide in the US and #Scotland Free tickets: events.bookitbee.com/suicide-cult...

2/2 @sarahwatersleeds.bsky.social & I wrote about Ofsted’s failures @bmj.com at the time. Why is the U.K. incapable of learning from countries that do these things better? www.bmj.com/content/381/...

Legal complaint filed against French government ministers for "deadly working conditions" in hospital sector that led to spate of suicides www.lemonde.fr/societe/arti...

Call for papers and participation - #SuicideCultures and the Sociology of Suicide, a 2 day symposium at the University of Edinburgh 6-7th May blogs.ed.ac.uk/suicide-cult...

Julia Waters brilliant here as always on the intense pressures of school inspections, a lack of reform and preventable suicide risks youtu.be/zvQU7cnZ3lY?...

Please sign this petition against the disastrous decision to cut Modern Languages at Cardiff University: www.change.org/p/save-mlang...

We are hiring a research project coordinator to join our Wellcome Trust-funded project:"Work-related suicide. An International Social Justice Analysis" Deadline 24/2/25. jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

France's supreme court has rejected appeals by France Telecom bosses and reaffirmed their criminal convictions for using management policies that led to employee suicides www.lemonde.fr/societe/arti...

Great piece on the mind-shifting joy of learning French! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Our team are hiring THREE new colleagues to join us in 2025 Looking for experienced + not so experienced #suicide researchers with a strong #socialscience background + #qualitative methods Senior Research Fellow (Discovering Liveability) www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKU828/s... (closing date 13th December)