Discovering Liveability

New blog post! 💻

This month’s #DiscoveringLiveability blog post comes from Research Fellow Tom Wadsworth and discusses the suicide prevention policies that are currently being looked at in Work Package 4 of our project.

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Reminder! ⏰

The #DiscoveringLiveability team are hosting an online webinar this Friday all about our site visits to Canada and Australia.

🔗 Click on the link below to book your free place!

Reminder! ⏰

The #DiscoveringLiveability team are hosting an online webinar this Friday all about our site visits to Canada and Australia.

🔗 Click on the link below to book your free place!

Centring lived and living experience perspectives in suicide research What can we learn from international research groups and practitioners who are already engaged in the important work of centring lived and living experience perspectives in suicide research?

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!
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We've had lots of activity from the lovely members of our Suicide Research Group ( @d-liveability.bsky.social ). I put this together this list of our writing for a recent research visit we did, but thought it might be useful to others who have wondered what we're up to 😊

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New blog post! 💻 This month’s #DiscoveringLiveability blog post comes from Dr Hazel Marzetti and discusses her recent site visit to Australia.

This is the second in a series of site visits within our project – if you’d like to read this blog or any of our previous posts, follow the link below!

A large orange sign with 'Black Dog Institute' in capital black letters sits in front of a 2 story white building. There's a tree trunk and other greenery surrounding the sign. Blue sky is visible in the very top corner and rays of sun can be seen shining down.

In the foreground a long forest green coloured sign with copper coloured posts has the word 'orygen' in orange lettering. In the background a food path winds back into the distance with grass/shrubs on either side and several tall trees. The sky is blue.

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!

YouTube video by The McPin Foundation Ode To Peer Research

Through poetry and hand-crafted animation, we tell the story of lived experience in research at McPin. When researchers work on topics that personally resonate, we call it peer research.

Watch full the animation on YouTube
youtu.be/nAfThPdeL0c

Animation credit: Woven Ink

#PeerResearch

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 🔍

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!

Doctor holding a clipboard with text overlay reading new report: Unliveable

⚠️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

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.

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!

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 🔎

Introducing the #DiscoveringLiveability newsletter: In The Loop 💬

We sent out the first issue of our regular newsletter last week, full of updates, opportunities and events happening throughout the project! To sign up for future updates, head over to our blog via the link below 📩

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.

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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/...

💡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:

A rocky coastal landscape under a blue sky with the sea in the foreground. There are two seals resting on a rock, and two more popping their heads out of the water.

As part of our ongoing exploration into ‘liveability’, we’ve asked our #DiscoveringLiveability team to keep an eye out for any images that they think speak to liveability in some way.

This image was taken by a team member on a trip to the Isle of May, featuring a group of seals saying hello! 🦭👋

Say hello to our newest team members! 👋
We’re delighted to have Nakkita, Debbie and Tom joining us on the #DiscoveringLiveability project. If you’d like to find out more about the rest of the team, you can read our team profiles on our blog. Just follow the link in our bio and click ‘Meet the Team’!

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...

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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-...

In the background there is a faded picture of a person's hand writing on a clipboard and behind them is a man sitting looking down at his hands which are clasped together. Over the top of the image writing reads 'EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT' 'wealth inequality and suicide prevention'. In the bottom right hand corner is the Discovering Liveability logo and Wellcome trust logo and in the bottom right hand corner is the Fairness Foundation logo.

Tomorrow, some of the Discovering Liveability researchers will be taking part in a round table with the @fairness.bsky.social to discuss how wealth inequality can contribute to the risk of suicide. A full report about this discussion and this growing body of work will be released later in Autumn!

graphic of a doctor with a pad- text overlay reads wealth inequality and suicide prevention

🎗️On World Suicide Prevention Day, we're announcing an event with @d-liveability.bsky.social, to bring together experts on the link between wealth inequality & suicide.

📅 Tuesday 16 September
🕚 11–12:30
📄Full report to follow

📬 Want to get involved? Email anita@fairnessfoundation.com

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.

Reminder! 🗓️

The Discovering Liveability team will be hosting a free online event next week. Join us on Monday 1st September to hear all about a key upcoming project of ours: The Lived and Living Experience Hub 💡

Sign up via the link below to receive a Microsoft Teams invite!

Selfie photo of Prof. John Oliffe (left) and Dr. Sarah Huque (right). They are both smiling.

A white table has 8 stacks of postcards with photos taken from around Vancouver, British Columbia and wider Canada.

Sarah Huque presenting on the left hand side from behind a wooden podium and on the right a large projector screen shows the first title page of a presentation. It says "Discovering Liveability: Co-producing alternatives to suicide prevention".

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 us to learn more about Discovering Liveability’s development of a Lived and Living Experience Hub in suicide prevention research.

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!

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.