The wonderful @sarahhuque.bsky.social and I will be doing in conversation about our @d-liveability.bsky.social recent research trips exploring lived experience involvement and leadership in suicide research. We'd love to see you there!
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/...
A large orange sign with 'Black Dog Institute' in capital black letters sits in front of a 2 story white building. There's a tree trunk and other greenery surrounding the sign. Blue sky is visible in the very top corner and rays of sun can be seen shining down.
In the foreground a long forest green coloured sign with copper coloured posts has the word 'orygen' in orange lettering. In the background a food path winds back into the distance with grass/shrubs on either side and several tall trees. The sky is blue.
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...
Doctor holding a clipboard with text overlay reading new report: Unliveable
⚠️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!
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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
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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...
A title at the top reads 'New Blog Post' with a navy blue pen icon next to it. Below a graphic illustration shows three people in windows on an online meeting in conversation.
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
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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
Selfie photo of Prof. John Oliffe (left) and Dr. Sarah Huque (right). They are both smiling.
A white table has 8 stacks of postcards with photos taken from around Vancouver, British Columbia and wider Canada.
Sarah Huque presenting on the left hand side from behind a wooden podium and on the right a large projector screen shows the first title page of a presentation. It says "Discovering Liveability: Co-producing alternatives to suicide prevention".
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.
Office space with a glass door where the Critical Health & Social Action team are based at U of Toronto.
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!
