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!

Discovering Liveability@d-liveability.bsky.social · 6mo ago

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! tinyurl.com/59zn8p2c

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/...

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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...

America Is an Unserious Country Filled With Unserious People

Stories about revealed preferences and who we really are.

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⚠️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!

Discovering Liveability@d-liveability.bsky.social · 9mo ago

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!

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!

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.

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Application portal is open until 11:59 PM on Monday, 17th November!

Discovering Liveability@d-liveability.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Deadline approaching! 🗓️ Applications close next week for our Research Fellow job opening. See the link below for more info on the role and how to apply 🔎

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...

His Works Completed, Dick Cheney, Mass Murderer of Iraqis and American Democracy, Dies

As much as the Trumpists claim to disavow the War on Terror, they walk a path paved by the most powerful vice president in U.S. history.

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🌈 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! elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

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!

Discovering Liveability@d-liveability.bsky.social · 9mo ago

💡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:

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 events.bookitbee.com/university-o...

Learning not to Breathe the Poison

Decolonial Queer Approaches to Researching Queer and Trans Lives in Central Asia

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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...

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 events.bookitbee.com/university-o...

Queer Lives, Data and the Dangers of Inclusion

Join author Kevin Guyan to explore ideas from his new book Rainbow Trap: Queer Lives, Categories and the Dangers of Inclusion

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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

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Edinburgh University lecturers begin walkout amid dispute over £140m cuts plan

The University and College Union said cutting staff would amount to ‘academic vandalism on an unprecedented scale’.

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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

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!

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.

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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.

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!