Dr Bethany Cliffe

Lived Experience Saves Lives and Millions: Why Peer Support Must Be Protected and CAPITAL Must Be Saved Across Sussex, peer support has changed thousands of lives. It has turned isolation into connection and fear into hope. But now, that lifeline is under threat.

For 30 years, user-led mental health organisation CAPITAL has offered support rooted in lived experience. Now, they face an 80% funding cut. Lived experience is being devalued in commissioning decisions.

Read the new blog from CAPITAL on the NSUN website: www.nsun.org.uk/lived-experi...

IASP is proud to be the official partner of the 21st European Symposium on Suicide and Suicidal Behaviour (ESSSB21). Call for abstracts is now announced, ESSSB invite contributions from all areas of suicide research and prevention.

Learn more: bit.ly/47Ohcl4

Our 2025 GROW programme is perfect for #mentalhealth and #addiction early career #researchers! Build a network of peers at the same career stage, connect with senior researchers, plan goals with 1-to-1 coaching sessions & much more in this fully-funded programme👇
mentalhealthresearch.org.uk/grow25/

Did you know? Youth are unlikely to independently disclose thoughts of suicide unless directly asked. Asking about suicide does not “put the idea in a young person’s head.” In fact, it could save a life.

How can health care providers improve suicide risk detection? A recent review from the Center for Suicide Prevention and Research offers insights and recommendations. pediatricsnationwide.org/2025/05/01/e...

#MentalHealthMonth #YouthSuicidePrevention

Here's some information from one of our men featured in our video on what the film is about, how this work will help in #suicideprevention & who we are looking for to take part in the study: Men Talking About #Suicide redcap.idhs.ucl.ac.uk/surveys/?s=7...

RESOURCE | These guidelines, and the accompanying Top 10 Tips resource, provide researchers and young people with practical recommendations for safe, effective lived experience involvement in suicide research.

Free to access: bit.ly/3I2xGIQ

Lived Experience Advisors - 2025 paid opportunities If you wish to get involved in the students' research projects, please read the paid opportunities below to join their thesis committees as lived experience advisors.

Advertisement for ‘Lived Experience Advisors’ for PhD Thesis Committees for projects at UCL: www.ucl.ac.uk/psychiatry/l... #AcademicSky

Senior Research Fellow (Discovering Liveability) Senior Research Fellow (qualitative methods) to join the Discovering Liveability: Co-producing alternatives to suicide prevention project, contributing to the leadership of innovative suicide research...

We are recruiting for 2 roles on the Discovering Liveability Project

Senior Research Fellow (full-time - August 2031): elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

And a Research Fellow role (March 2025 for 5 years): elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

If you'd like to join us - apply!

FindAPhD : PhD Studentship in Galvanising communities for the prevention of young suicide at Middlesex University Apply for a PhD: PhD Studentship in Galvanising communities for the prevention of young suicide at Middlesex University

A few more days left to apply for this PhD project (funded by Papyrus, to start Jan 2025) looking at the role of community-based interventions in helping prevent young suicides.

www.findaphd.com/phds/program...

Senior Research Fellow (Discovering Liveability) Senior Research Fellow (qualitative methods) to join the Discovering Liveability: Co-producing alternatives to suicide prevention project, contributing to the leadership of innovative suicide research...

My team at the University of Edinburgh are hiring a Senior Research Fellow to join us on our Wellcome funded 7 year project 'Discovering Liveability: Co-producing Alternatives to Suicide Prevention'

#academicjob #suicide #suicideprevention #qualitative
elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

❗️Final call to participate❗️

Mine and @bethanyjcliffe.bsky.social’s study on UK doctoral student experiences of self-relevant #mentalhealthresearch is closing at the end of this week! This means you have 4️⃣ more days to take part 👉 uniofbath.questionpro.eu/doctoral-sel...

#PhDSky #PsychSciSky

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Remembering.

In steadfast, unwavering, furious solidarity.

#TransDayOfRemembrance

That's amazing news Nina! They're lucky to have you. Best of luck :)
@3mmabrooks.bsky.social are you still with the topic group?

I’ve finally made my own starter pack - this one focused on UK-based early career researchers working in mental health ✨

I haven’t added too many people as I don’t want to presume - but if you identify with this and would like to be added, please let me know!

#PsychSciSky

go.bsky.app/QPTBM5q

Thank you so much! These starter packs are so useful, I had no clue where to start 😁

I made a suicidology/NSSI starter pack! Share and comment below to be added.

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I started a suicide and self-injury research starter pack! Please share, and let me know if you’d like to be added! 😊

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This is great! I’d love to be added please ☺️

This is great! Thank you - I’d love to be added please

After 5 yrs in planning, our Lancet Commission on self-harm now published.

Self-harm affects millions of people globally, yet sadly it remains stigmatised & neglected. For too long, people who self-harm have not received the compassionate and tailored support that they deserve.

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We have almost hit our initial recruitment target, and intend to close the survey sometime in November - so if you haven't participated yet, please consider doing so! 👉 uniofbath.questionpro.eu/doctoral-sel...

❗️Remember that indirect experience is still self-relevant❗️

#AcademicSky #PhDChat #PhDSky

✨CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS✨

@bethanyjcliffe.bsky.social & I are recruiting to a project that is close to my heart! If you are a UK-based doctoral student like me who is (or was) doing self-relevant mental health research, please consider taking part ➡️ uniofbath.questionpro.eu/doctoral-sel...

‘I am tired, sad and kind’: self-evaluation and symptoms of depression in adolescents - Child an... Introduction Although self-evaluation i.e., negative perceptions of the self is a common depression symptom in adolescents, little is known about how this population spontaneously describe their self ...

🔔Check out our new paper🔔:
Despite elevated negative self-evaluation, adolescents with elevated depression symptoms were still able to describe positive pro-social self-evaluation…. ‘I am Kind’

capmh.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

As my thesis is due in spring 2024, I am excited to announce that I'm on the job market & looking for a post-PhD opportunity!

I am looking for:
📊 A research post
🧠 In clinical/health psychology
✏️ Qualiative focused (or mixed methods)
🧒 On child & adolescent mental health
🇬🇧 UK-based

#PsychSciSky

I’ll keep an eye out Nina! :)