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Final day to submit an abstract or application to attend our Sociology of Suicide symposium @ Edinburgh, 6-7th May, with @annamueller.bsky.social and @sethabrutyn.bsky.social + several of the #SuicideCultures + @d-liveability.bsky.social teams blogs.ed.ac.uk/suicide-cult...

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

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Mandy Crandale "I want to see limitless living experience involvement" First of a series of blogs on lived/living experience from @asylummagazine.bsky.social and @nsunnews.bsky.social - looking forward to the next ones! #DiscoveringLiveability @d-liveability.bsky.social - definitely one to watch!

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Particularly given the awful changes in protections and provisions for LGBTQ+ youths we've seen recently, I am so interested to hear the wonderful @kirstyclarkphd.bsky.social speak about her work on LGBTQ+ youth suicide across Scotland and the US. events.bookitbee.com/university-o...

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A blog from me about our #suicidecultures online seminars past and future, and some early plans for something similar but different as part of our work on #DiscoveringLiveability

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Everyone is invited to the online launch of our spring issue. Meet our artists, authors, poets and guest editors @stopoxevision.bsky.social and @nsunnews.bsky.social Date: Thursday 13th March Time: 18.30- 19.30 GMT Register here us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... #MentalHealth

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“We should consider what Goffman’s other concepts (ie not only ‘stigma’) can offer in terms of making sense of disabled people’s lived experience.” Gareth M. Thomas @cusocsci.bsky.social on everyday life and the personhood of disabled adults. #OpenAccess https://buff.ly/4gTyn6o

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Super cool post in an awesome research centre here at Edinburgh! Working with Martyn Pickersgill on a new project exploring neurotech (STS/medical sociology) #sociology #sts #neuro #postdoc

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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

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“When people worry about women drinking I say, ‘Shouldn’t you be worried about men who take these actions?‘” – Ash, Australia @adrianfarrugia.bsky.social Kiran Pienaar and Fay Dennis @sociology-gold.bsky.social on male violence and a woman's right to experience pleasure. buff.ly/4hE0Qye

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Come talk sociological approaches to suicide with us and hear what we've been up to on the Suicide Cultures project!

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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...

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Upcoming seminar from Queer Minds Scotland featuring @kirstyclarkphd.bsky.social on "Investigating How Societal Narratives and Social Networks Shape LGBTQ+ Youth Suicide Risk" 26th Feb 4-5pm GMT - online/free! events.bookitbee.com/university-o...

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🆕 Please share 9th Suicide & Self-harm Early & Mid-Career Researchers' Forum Call for Abstracts Closing date 31st March. If you are an early or mid-career researcher working in the field of suicide or self-harm, this conference is for you. All welcome. 🔗 suicideresearch.info/2024/10/09/9...

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JOB! Please share with your networks - I'm open to recent- and near-PhDs in Sociology or Poli Sci or adjacent disciplines, ideally with a research program that is in some way about the (goal/promise/ideal of) Healthy, Equitable and Responsive Democracy in the US. Info: bit.ly/HEARDpostdoc2025

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We’re advertising permanent posts in our new subject group of Social & Urban Policy. We’re building something really great here with a brilliant colleagues and strong, collegial leadership. A year (to the day I think!) since I joined, I’m hugely glad I did.

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Looking forward to our next #suicidecultures seminar - w/ Dr Kamesha Spates (University of Pittsburgh) - 'The Price of Strength: Understanding Suicide Among Black Women Through a Black Feminist Lens' 25th March, 2pm UK time Sign up to attend here: events.bookitbee.com/suicide-cult...

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You can preorder Anti-Colonial Research Praxis at manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526177001/ Hardcover option for now but link for e-book will go live in April 📚 30% discount code (Manchester University Press website): EVENT30

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Great (PAID) writing opportunity here for #livedexperience folks from the wonderful @nsunnews.bsky.social

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Double celebrations w/ #DiscoveringLiveability - got together in-person, + we launched the project online, finally, across multiple platforms! #DiscoveringLiveability is a @wellcometrust.bsky.social funded 7 year project exploring #liveability #livedexperience + #coproduction in suicide prevention

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Upcoming Mental Health Policy Roundtable on Lived experience integration & leadership in research. Painful but important as we face the reversal of a decade of progress….

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Suicide Cultures and the Sociology of Suicide, University of Edinburgh 6-7th May 2025 blogs.ed.ac.uk/suicide-cult... Sociologically inclined + working on suicide? You can apply to hang out with @annamueller.bsky.social + @sethabrutyn.bsky.social and the #suicidecultures team for 2 days

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Fascinating new paper using a sociological autopsy approach to women's suicide in Australia by Harriet Townsend: “Drama queens” and “attention seekers”: Characterizations of Femininity and Responses to Women Who Communicated their Intent to Suicide journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Suicide and Social Justice seminar series hosted by the Critical Health & Social Action Lab. Online, free, next up is Alexandre Baril on 17th Jan 'Radical Accompaniment, Harm Reduction and (Assisted) Suicide: A queercrip approach to suicide to combat suicidism' www.oise.utoronto.ca/chsalab/suic...

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Two roles still open for applications with our team: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKY615/r... - closing 13.1.25 - joining the Discovering Liveability team, focus on activism in/as suicide prevention www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLB203/r... - closing 20.1.25 - joining the #suicidecultures team

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About to sign off after a busy year, and looking forward to an even busier one! New teaching, new team members and new research! And while our new project (Discovering Liveability) gears up, #suicidecultures is still ongoing, with a super-cool set of speakers for our final year of online seminars 👇

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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)

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Just published! The positively majesterial "Routledge Handbook on Spaces of Mental Health and Wellbeing" with chapters on everything from green social prescribing to geographies of panic and distributed assemblages of cognition: www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/1...

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We are recruiting for 2 roles on the Discovering Liveability Project Senior Research Fellow (full-time - August 2031): elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... And a Research Fellow role (March 2025 for 5 years): elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... If you'd like to join us - apply!

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New publication from the #suicidecultures team 'Jarring Encounters: Discomfort, Disruption, and Dominant Narratives of Suicide' in #Qualitative Health Research Led by former Research Fellow, Rebecca Helman #suicideresearch #affect journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Another job opportunity with our team here at Edinburgh. Grade 7 Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Discovering Liveability) - working especially on our workpackage which centres activism and activist perspectives on #suicide prevention and 'liveability' elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

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JOB ALERT! We're currently recruiting a Senior Research Fellow for the Discovering Liveability project. The post is full-time, hybrid and fixed term until August 2031. elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... Repost/send on to anyone who might be interested please! @amychandler.bsky.social

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University of Glasgow has placed more than 80 staff from its Social and Public Health Sciences Unit (SPHSU) at risk of redundancy. Read on for what is happening and sign this petition from Glasgow UCU branch @UCUGlasgow speakout.web.ucu.org.uk/stop-the-red...

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This looks like such an excellent PhD project on a topic of vital importance:

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My team at the University of Edinburgh are hiring a Senior Research Fellow to join us on our Wellcome funded 7 year project 'Discovering Liveability: Co-producing Alternatives to Suicide Prevention' #academicjob #suicide #suicideprevention #qualitative elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

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We invite submissions for the second Stuart Hall Essay Prize. The award aims to stimulate a new generation of thinkers who can offer original, lively and topical contributions to the lines of political, cultural and educational inquiry which Hall pursued. www.stuarthallfoundation.org/projects/the...

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Resilience. Vulnerability. Protest. And joy... no matter what's to come. The Contexts Magazine Fall 2024 issue is now live and free to read, download, and share through Dec. 15! contexts.org/articles/f24... @aminghaziani.bsky.social @sethabrutyn.bsky.social @asanews.bsky.social

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Latest publication from #suicidecultures team - #openaccess courtesy of Wellcome "Embodiment and space in understandings of suicide and self-harm" library.oapen.org/handle/20.50... Collaborative effort with the whole team, thanks to a lovely invite to contribute from Louise Boyle.

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What do we do when safeguarding makes people less safe? What does safety really mean for young people? Join us in-person to launch 'The Shape of Safety', a guide to reimagining safety and safeguarding alongside young people. 2-4pm, December 4th, London. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/launch-eve...

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Under attack? Public accounts of health inequalities and the social determinants of health in Scotland - Ellen Stewart University of Glasgow JCPH Vol. 1 No. 2 doi.org/10.55016/ojs...

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OUT NOW: issue 72.5 of the journal. Twelve new papers (including 10 #openaccess) turn a sociological eye on queer and feminist punk scenes, Chinese hip-hop, migrant youth activism, grief and suicide, research funding and grant rejections, Islamophobia and more. buff.ly/48jFwtG

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We have released a number of episodes around the topic if suicide this year. We started this year with a conversation about journalism and the ethical reporting of suicide with Prof Ann Luce thedeathstudiespodcast.com/professor-an...

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