Recalibrating Stigma Gareth Thomas, Tanisha Spratt, Oli Williams, and Amy Chandler reflect on the 2023 symposium: Recalibrating Stigma, Sociological Perspectives on Health and Illness.

2 years ago @the-polyphony.bsky.social kindly invited me @gmthomas.bsky.social @amychandler.bsky.social & Tanisha to write about the book we were putting together on stigma (see ⬇️). Now it's out @brisunipress.bsky.social they've let us do a mini-takeover! 1/5

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Congratulations Lisa! So happy to see this out and really looking forward to reading and engaging!

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

John Oliffe and Sarah Huque

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!

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Fascinating new article on suicide/self-harm in prisons from Elena Vasilou:

"Self-destruction in prison: A queer view on pain through decolonial and psychoanalytic theory"

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I'm contributing to an @iaspinfo.bsky.social @iasr-suicide.bsky.social webinar this Thursday - events.teams.microsoft.com/event/d5def8...

I'll be reflecting on experiences of working with/from lived and living experience in suicide and self-harm research and policy
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Thanks Geth! Great to see you at the launch last week :-)

Inequality and suicide “Suicide prevention is everyone’s business”, and Labour promised to make it theirs. But the government is failing to tackle one of the biggest risk factors for suicide: socio-economic inequality.

This is a really interesting blog from Anita Sangha @fairness.bsky.social. I had a brill chat with Anita while she was developing this - helpful to consider suicide in relation to *wealth* inequalities, beyond the usual focus on income/area level deprivation

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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:

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Hybrid Seminar Series With Cate Curtis 'Injury turned inwards, injury turned outwards: Two sides of the same coin? '

Online + in person seminar tomorrow, 17th June 3pm, w/Cate Curtis:

'Injury turned inwards, injury turned outwards: Two sides of the same coin?' - Cate will be sharing findings from the Self-Harm and Injury Exploration project theshineproject2023.wordpress.com

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‘Not Angels but Humans’ An Exploratory Qualitative Study of Female Nurses With Lived Experience of Self‐Harm and Suicidal Behaviours Aims To explore the experiences of qualified nurses who have lived experience of self-harm (with or without suicidal intent) during nursing training or practice. Specifically, to examine characteris...

+ as presented at #EMCRF2025 - this paper by Sam Groves, An Exploratory Qualitative Study of Female Nurses With Lived Experience of Self-Harm and Suicidal Behaviours - onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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There were some great presentations #EMCRF2025 on self-harm among professionals (nurses, counsellors), including from my colleague Fiona Stirling.

This excellent new paper explores this for nurses via autoethnography/lived experience - incredibly rich analysis:

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Slide showing title slide of presentation 'Supporting our mental health and wellbeing in self-harm and suicide research'

Pre-conference workshop yesterday at #EMCRF2025 with @hazelmarzetti.bsky.social and Seonaid Cleare - vital supported session to explore how to support ourselves and our teams working on self-harm + suicide research: + how systems and structures contribute

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!

"You could just listen to me”: the erasure of lived experience in healthcare We must continue to use our lived experience to rewrite the narrative of those that try to erase us.

ICYMI: The second blog in our “Limitations of Lived Experience” series explored the power of lived experience work in the right spaces, and the risks when it doesn’t reach them.

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@sarahhuque.bsky.social - may be of interest?

Postdoctoral Research Associate in Welfare Experiences & Mental Health

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-...

One of the best bits of my job is getting to work with wonderful scholars - @sarahhuque.bsky.social writes here on work she has led, + some we are doing together #suicidecultures #discoveringliveability - finding joy in collaborative, qualitative approaches, even when studying #suicide

Exciting! Our edited collection on stigma (with @brisunipress.bsky.social) is off to print, and we've some different events upcoming in June to celebrate and share the wonderful contributions that feature in it. Including this one with the MedSoc study group in London, sign up below 👇

Job Opportunity at the University of Lincoln: Research Assistant - Discovering Liveability Project An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Research Assistant (plus PhD tuition fees) to join the Discovering Liveability: Co-producing alternatives to suicide prevention project. You will be joining an...

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:

Public lecture with Anna S. Mueller and Seth Abrutyn Hosted by the Suicide Cultures Project, at the University of Edinburgh

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:

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Lovely Vic is looking for folks to talk about their experiences of being involved in patient and public involvement to try and learn more about it. If you've been involved before and would be willing to take part, get in touch: Victoria.Cluley3@nottingham.ac.uk

Next week (6-7th) is our @wellcometrust.bsky.social supported symposium on #suicidecultures and the #sociology of suicide! We've got a diverse and exciting programme of speakers & roundtable discussions. We'll be providing remote access to many of the talks 👇
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Our brilliant new team members for @d-liveability.bsky.social!

26th June: we are excited to host an FSHI funded symposium at U of Edinburgh based around the forthcoming edited collection 'Recalibrating Stigma: Sociologies of Health and Illness'

More details below!

That sounds like a really interesting fellowship Clemmie! Would love to hear more about how it goes - we're exploring some similar issues (specifically relating to lived experience knowledge in suicide) in our @d-liveability.bsky.social project

Lived Experience is Not Enough: the Illusion of Inclusion in Mental Health Spaces The lived experience movement is at a crossroads. We can either allow it to be diluted into another form of institutional tokenism, or we can demand more accountability, more inclusion, and ultimately...

Continuing to learn so much from @nsunnews.bsky.social blog series on the limitations of #livedexperience

Here's one from @projectsoulstride.bsky.social who also happens to be one of our @d-liveability.bsky.social project advisors:

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Beyond excited to see what this edited collection becomes!

See full CFP below - we (@jeffreyansloos.bsky.social @carolinelenette.bsky.social Jennifer White + me) are working to make space for different kinds of (critical) suicide studies

#suicidecultures @d-liveability.bsky.social #critsui

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⭐ New work opportunity alert!

We are looking for a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Affective Experience and Measurement Labs. An exciting opportunity to deepen your research interests working across both labs. Applications open till 21 May!

Find out more and apply 👇
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