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 thepolyphony.org/2023/09/11/r...

Recalibrating Stigma

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

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

Sarah Waters@sarahwatersleeds.bsky.social · last yr.

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...

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!

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" journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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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 @d-liveability.bsky.social

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 www.faircomment.co.uk/p/inequality...

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.

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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: elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

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 events.bookitbee.com/suicide-cult...

Hybrid Seminar Series With Cate Curtis

'Injury turned inwards, injury turned outwards: Two sides of the same coin? '

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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: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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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!

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. www.nsun.org.uk/you-could-ju...

"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.

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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-...

Postdoctoral Research Associate in Welfare Experiences & Mental Health

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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

Sarah Huque @sarahhuque.bsky.social · last yr.

A tiny bit of writing about finding joy in mental health/suicide research: internationaljournalofsocialresearchmethodology.wordpress.com/2025/04/26/q...

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 👇

Oli Williams@oliwilliams.bsky.social · last yr.

Our (@gmthomas.bsky.social Tanisha Spratt @amychandler.bsky.social) book went to print - very exciting! The @britsoci.bsky.social London MedSoc Study Group is hosting a launch event (thanks @twiterney.bsky.social) on 19 June 18:00-19:30. All welcome, register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/bsa-london...

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:

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...

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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...

Public lecture with Anna S. Mueller and Seth Abrutyn

Hosted by the Suicide Cultures Project, at the University of Edinburgh

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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 👇 events.bookitbee.com/suicide-cult...

Our brilliant new team members for @d-liveability.bsky.social!

Discovering Liveability@d-liveability.bsky.social · last yr.

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’!

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!

Gareth M. Thomas@gmthomas.bsky.social · last yr.

Free symposium, 'Recalibrating Stigma', on 26.06.25 at at University of Edinburgh. Funded by SHI Foundation. Speakers: Katharine Cheston, Harriet Cooper, Fay Dennis, Janice McLaughlin, Jennifer Remnant, and more! Details: jumpshare.com/v/bzZYybtCP9.... Register by 30/04. Email at thomasg23@cf.ac.uk.

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: www.nsun.org.uk/lived-experi...

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...

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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

⭐ 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 👇 tinyurl.com/postdocopp

Some great reflections from @courtneybuckler.bsky.social here on the nature of 'evidence' in relation to lived experience - very familiar, and speaking to practical and more theoretical questions about what knowledge 'counts' @d-liveability.bsky.social www.nsun.org.uk/news/on-givi...

On giving “evidence”: reflections on the Community Mental Health Services Inquiry

NSUN's Senior Policy & Campaigns Manager, Courtney Buckler reflects on the experience of giving evidence to the Health and Social Care Select Committee’s Inquiry into Community Mental Health Services.

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Our next #suicidecultures seminar: @carolinelenette.bsky.social + Achol Arop reflect on a recent publication addressing South Sudanese youth advocates perspectives on suicide via poetic/reflexive inquiry www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/13... 12th May, 9am UK time events.bookitbee.com/suicide-cult...

Hybrid Seminar Series with Caroline Lenette and Achol Arop

'Collaborative explorations of suicide from refugee perspectives'

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Next Queer Minds Scotland seminar coming up soon (30th April, 4pm) - vital insights on the mental health impacts of negative experiences in daily life for trans and non-binary people. Sign up below 👇

Hazel Marzetti@hazelmarzetti.bsky.social · last yr.

Join us for our next Queer Minds Scotland seminar at 4pm on 30th April to hear from the lovely Flo from @scottishtrans.bsky.social Flo will be talking about the findings of Scottish Trans' research on the experiences of trans&non-binary people. events.bookitbee.com/university-o... All welcome!

📰New paper from @wellcometrust.bsky.social funded #suicidecultures PhD researcher (and now postdoctoral researcher with @d-liveability.bsky.social) Emily Yue. The paper considers statistics about ethnicity as 'tricky tools' in suicide prevention work 👇 catalystjournal.org/index.php/ca...

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!

Gareth M. Thomas@gmthomas.bsky.social · last yr.

Free symposium, 'Recalibrating Stigma', on 26.06.25 at at University of Edinburgh. Funded by SHI Foundation. Speakers: Katharine Cheston, Harriet Cooper, Fay Dennis, Janice McLaughlin, Jennifer Remnant, and more! Details: jumpshare.com/v/bzZYybtCP9.... Register by 30/04. Email at thomasg23@cf.ac.uk.