Against a beige background, the discovering liveability logo is visible in the top right hand corner. In the centre of the page in navy blue copy is the question: what does it mean to say things like 'manage risk' and 'create a safe space' in suicide research? Below in a yellow box it says Join us: we're meeting for an informal online coffee and connect to share knowledge and reflect on this together. All welcome register for free in link below. A small graphic of a coffee cup and speech bubbles is in the corner.

Have you ever thought about what it means to say things like ‘manage risk’ and ‘create a safe space’ in suicide research?

Join the #DiscoveringLiveability team on Wednesday 25th March for an informal online networking event to explore this topic

🔗 Sign up for free: shorturl.at/g4T41

Discovering Liveability: LLEH Coffee & Connect ‘Managing risk’ and ‘promoting safeguarding’ in suicide research: A short informal, online networking event for anyone involved or interested in suicide research.

Event announcement: LLEH Coffee & Connect ☕️💻

Join the #DiscoveringLiveability team on Wednesday 25th March 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!

Ligature Points, Risk Assessment, and Questionable Justification in the English Suicide Prevention Policy – Discovering Liveability: Co-producing Alternatives to Suicide Prevention

New blog post! 💻

This month’s #DiscoveringLiveability blog post comes from Research Fellow Tom Wadsworth and discusses the suicide prevention policies that are currently being looked at in Work Package 4 of our project.

Click on the link below to read 🔗

Reminder! ⏰

The #DiscoveringLiveability team are hosting an online webinar this Friday all about our site visits to Canada and Australia.

🔗 Click on the link below to book your free place!

Centring lived and living experience perspectives in suicide research What can we learn from international research groups and practitioners who are already engaged in the important work of centring lived and living experience perspectives in suicide research?

Event alert! 📅 Centring Lived and Living Experiences in Suicide Research: Learnings from our International Site Visits 🗺️ Join the #DiscoveringLiveability team for an online webinar all about our site visits to Canada and Australia. 🔗 Link below to book for free!
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Site Visit 2: Australia – Discovering Liveability: Co-producing Alternatives to Suicide Prevention

New blog post! 💻 This month’s #DiscoveringLiveability blog post comes from Dr Hazel Marzetti and discusses her recent site visit to Australia.

This is the second in a series of site visits within our project – if you’d like to read this blog or any of our previous posts, follow the link below!

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 🔍

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!

Discovering Liveability: LLEH Coffee & Connect LLEH Coffee & Connect: A short informal, online networking event for anyone involved or interested in suicide research that engages with, or is about lived and/or living experiences of suicide.

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!

Get Involved – Discovering Liveability: Co-producing Alternatives to Suicide Prevention

Introducing the #DiscoveringLiveability newsletter: In The Loop 💬

We sent out the first issue of our regular newsletter last week, full of updates, opportunities and events happening throughout the project! To sign up for future updates, head over to our blog via the link below 📩

Building the Lived & Living Experience Hub: Site Visit 1 – Canada – Discovering Liveability: Co-producing Alternatives to Suicide Prevention

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!

Research Fellow (Discovering Liveability) Research Fellow (qualitative methods) to join the Discovering Liveability: Co-producing alternatives to suicide prevention project, contributing to innovative suicide research that centres liveability...

💡Job Opportunity!💡

We're looking for a Research Fellow to join the #DiscoveringLiveability team on a full-time and fixed-term basis for 30 months 🔎

For more information, follow the link below:

A rocky coastal landscape under a blue sky with the sea in the foreground. There are two seals resting on a rock, and two more popping their heads out of the water.

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 a team member on a trip to the Isle of May, featuring a group of seals saying hello! 🦭👋

Say hello to our newest team members! 👋
We’re delighted to have Nakkita, Debbie and Tom 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’!

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

Introducing: A Lived and Living Experience Suicide Research Hub Join us to learn more about Discovering Liveability’s development of a Lived and Living Experience Hub in suicide prevention research.

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!

Tech for life? AI, Suicide Research, and the Right to a Liveable Future – Discovering Liveability: Co-producing Alternatives to Suicide Prevention

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.

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!

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!

Research Fellow (Discovering Liveability) Research Fellow (qualitative methods) to join the Discovering Liveability: Co-producing alternatives to suicide prevention project, contributing to innovative suicide research that centres liveability...

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

A film picture of an empty arts cafe. There are tables and chairs placed in front of a small stage to the right, and sun is streaming in through multiple glass doors to the back of the room.

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 ☕️

Research Fellow (Discovering Liveability) Research Fellow (qualitative methods) to join the Discovering Liveability: Co-producing alternatives to suicide prevention project, contributing to innovative suicide research that centres liveability...

💡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’

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...

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:

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

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 discoveringliveability@ed.ac.uk ✍️

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:

Initial Reflections on Conceptualising ‘Liveability’ – Discovering Liveability: Co-producing Alternatives to Suicide Prevention

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’!