Nicholas Procter

The 2025 #NobelPeacePrize is awarded to Maria Corina Machado for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy. #NobelPrize

Understand suicidal suffering, identify person specific drivers of distress, sources of support, and co-produce plans for future safety: plans that are age appropriate, culturally appropriate, gender appropriate to reduce the onset or worsening of distress. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Compelling interviews today on @theweekendmsnbc.bsky.social on the impact of deliberate mass trauma, fear, upheaval, uncertainty on civil society. State sanctioned, deliberate and intentional acts upon innocent people can have deep, widespread, pervasive, long lasting mental health impacts.

Coming Soon. I will be offering 2 externally funded PhD scholarships in the field of suicide prevention. Each comes with a generous commencing tax free stipend of $40K pa (indexed annually). For domestic candidates only commencing February 2026. Stay tuned for further details.

Dementia is now the leading cause of death in Australia. But why is it fatal? Dementia’s effects on the brain can cause death. But they can also lead to other complications, which can then be fatal.

Earlier this month, data from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare found 17,400 people died in 2023 due to dementia. This is 9.5% of all deaths. But why is it fatal? theconversation.com/dementia-is-...

Dementia is now the leading cause of death in Australia. But why is it fatal? Dementia’s effects on the brain can cause death. But they can also lead to other complications, which can then be fatal.

Earlier this month, data from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare found 17,400 people died in 2023 due to dementia. This is 9.5% of all deaths. But why is it fatal? theconversation.com/dementia-is-...

Coming Soon. I will be offering 2 externally funded PhD scholarships in the field of suicide prevention. Each comes with a generous commencing tax free stipend of $40K pa (indexed annually). For domestic candidates only commencing February 2026. Stay tuned for further details.

Secrets and Their Consequences in Heathcare: A Scoping Review of Worker Experiences Aims To explore current knowledge of the nature of secrets healthcare consumers reveal to healthcare workers and the impact on the healthcare worker experience resulting from these private disclosur...

📣 Announcing a New Paper On Secrets in Healthcare In Journal of Advanced Nursing. Expertly led by first author Kiriaki Stewart, this paper examines secrets healthcare consumers share along with impact for both healthcare consumer and the healthcare worker onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

What Kimmel and Colbert can learn from ancient comedians who ticked off their leaders Thousands of years before Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert got under President Trump's skin, ancient Greek and Roman poets and philosophers paid a heavy price for displeasing heads of state.

Back in 4th century B.C., when comedians said things that displeased their rulers they could land themselves in a lot of trouble. In these ancient times many comedians paid a heavy price for making jokes that displeased those in power. www.npr.org/2025/09/20/n...

What Kimmel and Colbert can learn from ancient comedians who ticked off their leaders Thousands of years before Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert got under President Trump's skin, ancient Greek and Roman poets and philosophers paid a heavy price for displeasing heads of state.

Back in 4th century B.C., when comedians said things that displeased their rulers they could land themselves in a lot of trouble. In these ancient times many comedians paid a heavy price for making jokes that displeased those in power. www.npr.org/2025/09/20/n...

Stories about cost-of-living often focus on Australians’ hip pockets. But what about the impact on our mental health? The National Mental Health Commission’s “report card” shows financial stress has taken a significant toll in recent years. theconversation.com/financial-st...

Stories about cost-of-living often focus on Australians’ hip pockets. But what about the impact on our mental health? The National Mental Health Commission’s “report card” shows financial stress has taken a significant toll in recent years. theconversation.com/financial-st...

Always a pleasure to return to Sydney and spend time with colleagues who provide critical frontline services for people in distress. Important and deep discussions about person centred care and trauma informed practice. Sharing latest information on crisis stabilisation and research from our team.

Always a pleasure to return to Sydney and spend time with colleagues who provide critical frontline services for people in distress. Important and deep discussions about person centred care and trauma informed practice. Sharing latest information on crisis stabilisation and research from our team.

@theweekendmsnbc.bsky.social should consider doing a panel segment on impacts of cancelled central government funding for educational and social programs to address disadvantaged communities, and new opportunities for youth leaders motivated by hope, aspiration, vision of a better life and society.

Secrets and Their Consequences in Heathcare: A Scoping Review of Worker Experiences Aims To explore current knowledge of the nature of secrets healthcare consumers reveal to healthcare workers and the impact on the healthcare worker experience resulting from these private disclosur...

📣 Announcing a New Paper On Secrets in Healthcare In Journal of Advanced Nursing. Expertly led by first author Kiriaki Stewart, this paper examines secrets healthcare consumers share along with impact for both healthcare consumer and the healthcare worker onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Providing education is much more than simply imparting knowledge. It is the educator’s ability to know the needs and wants of learners; to learn alongside them, sharing depth and memorable moments along the way.

Providing education is much more than simply imparting knowledge. It is the educator’s ability to know the needs and wants of learners; to learn alongside them, sharing depth and memorable moments along the way.

Earlier today I spoke with ABC Radio The World Today program on NSW parliament passing new laws which makes every arm of the state government accountable for preventing suicide. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

Earlier today I spoke with ABC Radio The World Today program on NSW parliament passing new laws which makes every arm of the state government accountable for preventing suicide. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

Delighted to be invited keynote speaker to the 9th Annual Metro South Addiction and Mental Health Services Research Symposium on Thursday October 16th, 2025. Registration details below. events.humanitix.com/msamhs-resea...

Did you know that we have collected in-depth information on all suicides in the UK since 1996. Our recommendations have improved patient safety in mental health settings and reduced patient suicide rates, contributing to an overall reduction in suicide in the UK. #WSPD2025

We need to talk about it.

Every 19 minutes someone dies by gun suicide in the U.S. Firearm suicide is driving the public health epidemic of gun violence in our country.

Center co-director @joshhorwitz.bsky.social gives us 5 facts every American should know. publichealth.jhu.edu/center-for-g...

Delighted to be invited keynote speaker to the 9th Annual Metro South Addiction and Mental Health Services Research Symposium on Thursday October 16th, 2025. Registration details below. events.humanitix.com/msamhs-resea...

Submissions are due October 30! Please disseminate far and wide to reach all who work in suicide research.

Dietary intervention for people with a mental illness. Participants were provided with nutrition education, food hampers, and twice-weekly cooking workshops and guided shopping trips. Evidence produced demonstrating of a range of benefits. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27476869/

Professor Nav Kapur recently delivered an impactful presentation around the inequalities in suicide, and actionable approaches to tackling the suicide crisis. This is one of the many presentations on our website sites.manchester.ac.uk/ncish/resour...

Dietary intervention for people with a mental illness. Participants were provided with nutrition education, food hampers, and twice-weekly cooking workshops and guided shopping trips. Evidence produced demonstrating of a range of benefits. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27476869/

Politicians have scapegoated immigration for decades. It’s time to flip the script Anti-immigration rallies across Australia are the culmination of years of political scaremongering. But better immigration messaging could change the trajectory.

For decades now, public discourse about refugees and immigrants has become increasingly fractured, ugly and untrue. But just as government messaging has partly contributed to this situation, it could also help get us out of it. I explain how: theconversation.com/politicians-...

Secret refugee deal with Nauru just moves the problem out of sight Australia has been sending asylum-seekers to the tiny Pacific nation since 2001. It doesn’t solve the issue.

My thoughts on Australia’s latest offshore deal with Nauru www.smh.com.au/national/sec...