Erminia Colucci 👣

Chocolates and Rose: Breaking the silence about domestic violence in the Philippines is now available!

Dear Followers, we are pleased to announce that the ethnographic film on domestic violence against women and girls and suicide is finally available and you can now watch the trailer below and…

Book Launch: Suicide and Culture 2.0 Understanding the Context. Book Launch with the two co-authors Prof Erminia Colucci and Emeritus Prof David Lester.

Come along (or connect online if you are not in London) for our 'Suicide and Culture 2.0' book launch at Middlesex University on the 18th September 4-6pm.

Link for the limited (free) tickets in the post below!

#suicide
#suicideprevention
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Dear like-minded academic followers/friends, please consider donating your (busy I know) valuable time to this valuable cause 🙏

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Shocked to find out that, as the @_Government_UK is (further) reducing its Official Development Assistance to 0.3% of GNI by 2027, @NIHRresearch is no longer awarding us the large grant that was going to support youth #suicideprevention in Indonesia and Pakistan. What a waste :(

“They think we are trying to combine knowledges, whereas we are trying to harmonize them”: A visual exploration of what promotes successful collaboration between mental health workers and healers in I... Implementation of community mental health in Indonesia has been limited and under-resourced. Pasung (physical restraint and confinement) is still commonly used ...

The Indonesian findings from our comparative visual research project on collaboration between faith-based and traditional healers and #mentalhealth professionals Together for Mental Health has just been published and open access thanks to Middlesex University
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Announcing our new open-access article on #AI in #suicideprevention first-authored by my wonderful MSc student Jacob Greaves at Middlesex University London

Crisis-line workers’perspectives on AI Suicide Prevention: A Qualitative Exploration of Risk and Opportunity doi.org/10.1186/s128...

Excited to announce that our Together 4 #mentalhealth film "We are family" was just selected by @ApuliaWebFest
It is a short experimental film transforming drawing of an indonesian woman with living experience of mental health issues into animations

Lived experience in mental health research in Ghana and Indonesia: What have we learned? Author summary This paper highlights the experiences of people with lived and living experience of mental health conditions who are engaged in research (also called peer researchers) in two countries ...

Pretty excited about our new publication about shared learnings about working with #peer researchers in LMICs. A connected chapter on our learnings specifically related to our #participatory #visual research is also on its way :) dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...

Building resilience with Re-Act’s refugee mental health initiative Dr. Clara Calia, Senior Lecturer in Clinical Psychology, shares insights on how the Re-Act team is transforming refugee mental health care through culturally tailored, community-led support groups in ...

A great piece written for #Refugees week by Dr Clara Calia @EdinburghUni on her impactful work (to which I gave a small contribution as shown in the photo and paragraph on #photovoice).
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Sales ends soon for the free tickets for the Innovative Qualitative Methods in #migration research organized by Middlesex University this Thursday
I will talk about arts-based and #visual methods including #participatory
Please share and hope to see you there!

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2025 Suicide Prevention Summit | Mental Health Academy Join Australia's largest online suicide prevention conference for mental health professionals – for free. Live webinars during May 16-18.

Free registration open for next Mental Health Academy summit on #suicideprevention summit, where I'm honoured to be an invited speaker talking about #suicide prevention among #refugees

www.mentalhealthacademy.com.au/suicidepreve...

Excited to announce the publication of this article that has informed my research approach with people from migrant and refugee backgrounds.
If you think it might be useful to others please repost
#mentalhealth
#suicide

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Tonight at Milano-Bicocca
from Together for Mental Health funded by ESRC Economic and Social Research Council Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF)
and EU

On the train towards Milan for a series of workshops on #artivism and #participatory #visualresearch at Università Milano-Bicocca

The screening of one of our Together for #MentalHealth films on the 29th of April afternoon is free and open to the public, come and tell your friends!
#healing

Looking forward to screening one of our @ukri.org Together for Mental Health visual research films in my country at Bicocca-Milano. Come if you are in the area and share please, thank you!
#mentalhealth
#healing
#documentary
#visualpsychology

Please sign and circulate widely!
The #AI and #meta theft must be stopped!

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Suicide and Culture 2.0 - 2025 – Hogrefe Publishing How to integrate sociocultural factors to help prevent suicide and understand suicidality. Order at Hogrefe Publishing

What a wonderful way to end the week: our authored book is now available both as ebook and hardcover!
Thanks for your continuing support readers (and those of you who will kindly share this post)!
@EditionsHogrefe
@kucseas
@MiddlesexUni
#suicide

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Thanks to the 500 people who connected on a Sat morning to hear me talk about #suicide + #suicideprevention in the #humanitarian context for Mental Health Academy conference. In spite of my sleepiness (photo as proof), I hope I conveyed all my passion for this urgent issue!

2025 Mental Health Summit | Mental Health Academy Join the UK’s largest online mental health conference for mental health professionals, featuring world-leading experts.

Free registration still open for the Mental Health Academy conference where I will be talking about #suicide in the #humanitarian context.
Info and link:
www.mentalhealthacademy.co.uk/summit

Please share and...see you there!

Perhaps the most depressing part about the last couple of months is that every awful shitty thing that’s happening to this country is self-induced. People asked for this. None of it had to happen.

@balbirbarn.bsky.social presenting as part of the Middlesex University London STEM festival

Honoured to screen our Together for Mental Health film 'Warak Keruron': Healing the mothers of lost souls' at the famous Galle Face Hotel as part of the Rethinking Mental Health conference

@ukri.org
#mentalhealth #Healing #visual

Paper 6 from the Special Issue: Unspoken, Unseen, Unheard: Using Arts-Based and Visual Research Methods to Gain Insights into Lived Experiences of Suicide in Young Adults
by Jude Smit @erminiacolucci.bsky.social Lisa Marzano - a fantastic account of the project #CritSui

The association between insomnia and suicide attempts among Chinese adolescents: a prospective cohort study - BMC Psychology Objective This study aimed to investigate a range of insomnia-related factors, including difficulty with sleep induction, nocturnal awakenings, early awakenings, total sleep time, overall sleep qualit...

Going through sleep deprivation as part of my (way too long) #menopause journey, I am sharing an interesting study on the link between #insomnia and #suicide attempt
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Wishing a peaceful Christmas and new year to you all...
#ceasefirenow

Drawing by Alex Shams

In memoriam: UH trailblazing cultural psychology leader | University of Hawaiʻi System News Anthony (Tony) Joseph Marsella served as UH vice president for academic affairs and is known for groundbreaking work in cross-cultural psychology.

I am saddened to learn that, the same day I lost one of my closest friends and collaborators in Indonesia,one of my PhD supervisors also passed. Anthony was a very generous scholar who had #SocialJustice at his heart and I'll be forever grateful to him RIP

www.hawaii.edu/news/2024/12...

What happened in Syria? How did al-Assad fall? Opposition forces have taken control of the capital after a significant offensive. Here is how it unravelled.

This can be a real turning point for #syria and other oppressed people...

www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/12...

Just sent the proofreadings of my upcoming authored book on #suicide and culture to the publisher, which builds on the previous edited book.
I worked 12/hr per day for 3 consecutive days on them while not feeling great.
Exhausted but pretty excited to finally see it going to print soon :)

YouTube video by GatesCambridge Breaking the Chains -a documentary by Erminia Colucci

Just looked at this video made at Cambridge University during one of Breaking the chains screenings. It was a while ago but my passion for ethnographic documentary and #humanrights in #mentalhealth hasn't changed a bit!

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Honoured to be a keynote speaker and workshop facilitator at a conference that aims to Rethink mental health care.

Abstract submission is open, join us and be part of the change!

#Mentalhealth
@davidwestley.bsky.social at Middlesex University

www.rethinkingmnh.org/speakers-rmn...