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Utterly bizarre that suicides are the only work-related deaths Health & Safety Executive don’t investigate. Our open letter w/ @sarahwatersleeds.bsky.social @bmj.com www.bmj.com/content/394/...
Open letter to the Health and Safety Executive on work related suicides
We are researchers, trade unionists, members of parliament, bereaved family members, charity leaders, business representatives, and investors who share knowledge and experience of the devastating cons...
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See our Open Letter to the Health and Safety Executive on work-related suicides in the BMJ today: www.bmj.com/content/392/...
Open Letter to the Health and Safety Executive on work-related suicides
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Recently published literature review on work-related suicide
Our Wellcome co-researchers China and Emily are holding a workshop at the New Organising Conference in Liverpool on 28th-30th August. Looks like a brilliant event!
Nicolas Chaignot from our research team spoke this morning to France Culture about the 13 employee suicide deaths at French rail company, SNCF in the context of company restructuring www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...
Journal de 12h30 : écouter le podcast et replay | France Culture
Tour d'horizon de l'actualité à la mi-journée avec Thomas Cluzel en semaine.
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Today is the start of the 114th session of the International labour conference. Government, Employer and Worker representatives from the 187 ILO Member States will discuss work issues such as decent work, gender equality at work and social dialogue and tripartism. www.ilo.org/internationa...
114th Session of the International Labour Conference
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Excellent piece on suicide deaths amongst French wine producers and its links to climate change: observer.co.uk/style/drink/...
Death among the grapevines: the suicide epidemic taking t...
Vignerons are killing themselves across the country as a combination of climate change, US tariffs and international conflict destroy livelihoods that have lasted for generations
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Our first in-person research team meeting in Bordeaux! Rich and productive discussion over an intense two days. Magnicient location! With thanks to our French hosts Loïc, Nicolas, Nushaba and Helel Oberreuter for her excellent coordination.
Brilliant to see that work-related suicide was at the centre of discussions at Workers Memorial Day on 28th April www.appgosh.org/post/workers...
Workers' Memorial Day
On 28 April 2026, the APPG hosted parliamentarians, trade unionists and bereaved families gathered in the House of Lords to mark Workers’ Memorial Day — an international day of remembrance for those w...
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Today at Workers' Memorial Day, MPs and bereaved family members including Julia Waters, called on HSE to recognise and prevent work-related suicides. MPs mark Workers’ Memorial Day, warning safety cuts are putting lives at risk - Canary share.google/LBZlzP5hUsDW...
MPs mark Workers’ Memorial Day, warning safety cuts are putting lives at risk
Workers’ Memorial Day is an global day of remembrance, backed by the UN, for those who have died due to work-related injury or illness.
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Tomorrow is the World Day for Safety and Health at Work 2026! Colleagues are busy working behind the scenes and even chairing international conferences. See the video here youtu.be/N9t1pnt0Q2I.
When work affects health: understanding psychosocial risks
YouTube video by International Labour Organization
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Suicide risk varies by occupation. A new Revelios study reports 43% of music industry workers have experienced suicidal thoughts, a rate shaped by conditions of precarious labour including gig-based contracts, chronic financial instability, and near-absent institutional support #canlab #suicidology
In late '25, I joined the incredible team @wellcometrust.bsky.social as a postdoc fellow. Several months in, I'm still pinching myself! This account will be a space where I share work-adjacent musings & articles. As the content will cover suicide in occupational contexts, please follow with care.
@wellcomework.bsky.social · 6mo agoWe welcome Dr Lacey Croft to our research team. Lacey @laceycroft.bsky.social brings expertise in labour, disability, and displacement, centering feminist political economy and embodied dimensions of work. She will work with Dr Steven Bittle on work-related suicides in the Canadian context.
Sign up to the new webinar, with Marcela Polanco on Wednesday 29 April. The "body" as evidence in suicide: Whose meanings inhabit the "suicidal body"? events.bookitbee.com/university-o...
The "body" as evidence in suicide: Whose meanings inhabit the "suicidal body"?
Suicide & Evidence seminar series
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This week, the project team welcomed experts from across the globe to discuss, exchange and draw on comparative international knowledge and experience
Upcoming event 25 Feb 2026: Reclaiming Evidence: A Sociological Approach to Suicide Among Black Women in the United States with Dr Kamesha Spates, Department of Africana Studies at University of Pittsburgh. Register on the link events.bookitbee.com/university-o...
Reclaiming Evidence: A Sociological Approach to Suicide Among Black Women in US
Suicide & Evidence Seminar Series
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We are very excited to welcome Dr Nicolas Chaignot Delage, who brings expertise in mental health at work, occupational law, moral philosophy, centering social justice issues. He will work with the Director of CNRS, Loïc Lerouge on work-related suicides in the French context.
This excellent piece has just come out - examines links between Ofsted inspections and suicidal ideation, citing work by Sarah Waters @sarahwatersleeds.bsky.social Martin McKee @martinmckee.bsky.social Hilda Palmer @hazardscamp.bsky.social and China Mills doi.org/10.1080/0268...
Ofsted experiences: performing inspection and suicidal ideations
In this paper, we examine people’s experiences of Ofsted, the state school inspectorate in England. From thematic analysis of the 233 written submissions published by the Education Committee Parlia...
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Newly published piece on work-related suicide in the Latin American context. revistas.unne.edu.ar/index.php/dp...
Suicidio laboral: riesgos psicosociales y desafíos normativos de América Latina | De Prácticas y Discursos
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We welcome Dr Lacey Croft to our research team. Lacey @laceycroft.bsky.social brings expertise in labour, disability, and displacement, centering feminist political economy and embodied dimensions of work. She will work with Dr Steven Bittle on work-related suicides in the Canadian context.
We are delighted to welcome three new researchers to our team! Dr Emily Yue brings queer, feminist and decolonial approaches to suicide data. She will work with Dr China Mills on work-related suicides in the UK context. Dr Emily Yue - Healing Justice Ldn share.google/Kkj06IESQEEb...
Dr Emily Yue - Healing Justice Ldn
Dr Emily Yue (she/her) is Work-Related Suicide and Social Justice Researcher at Healing Justice Ldn. Emily researches suicide from social justice
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As we gather cases and prepare for interviews, our full research team is undertaking trauma-informed training this week, led by the brilliant team at @healingjusticeldn.bsky.social. Building skills of care, sensitivity and support into our research.
Our first post of 2026 is sharing a brand new resource created by Emily Yue, looking at the UK's statistics on suicide by ethnicity, read it here eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
Queering the UK’s Suicide by Ethnicity Statistics
With the advent of the UK’s first suicide statistics to be disaggregated by ethnicity in 2021, the reporting of some gendered and racialised populations as dying at high rates of suicide, marks a shif...
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This month, we welcome three new Research Assistants to our project! We look forward to collaborating with them and adding their skills and expertise to our research: wellcomesuicideproject.leeds.ac.uk/profiles/
Profiles | Work-related Suicide. An International Social Justice Analysis
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Our first publication is here! In collaboration with @wellcometrust.bsky.social, our project is a cross-national, multidisciplinary and qualitative study of work-related suicide in the UK, France and Canada. Read it here link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Work-related suicide: an international social justice perspective - Crime, Law and Social Change
This paper explores what the study of work-related suicide can contribute to emerging discussions of a “criminology of work.” It does so by chronicling work-related suicide as an under-researched and ...
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Delighted to share the first publication from our Wellcome Trust research project - explores what a social justice perspective can do for understanding work-related suicide @wellcomework.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Work-related suicide: an international social justice perspective - Crime, Law and Social Change
This paper explores what the study of work-related suicide can contribute to emerging discussions of a “criminology of work.” It does so by chronicling work-related suicide as an under-researched and ...
link.springer.com
