Discovering Liveability

SAVE THE (NEW) DATE: Monday 1st September 🗓️

We'll be hosting our very first online event for the #DiscoveringLiveability project on Monday 1st September.

We will be sharing more details about the event and how to register soon, and we look forward to seeing you there!

A slide with images from Indigenous-led programming, projected above a stage and the speaker.

Sharing some brilliant examples of interconnected, intergenerational, and evolving Indigenous community-led programmes and successes supported by Movember Canada. Really useful for thinking with for DL WP2 (community-based practices of care).

Photo of panelists on stage to discuss the report.

Slide about the report launch.

Exterior of the UBC Robson Square building in the sun.

Looking forward to the learning coming up tonight at this event as part of the UBC RMS week - provincial launch of the Real Face of Men's Health report. @d-liveability.bsky.social

This image shows a selfie picture of Co-Investigator Sarah Huque on the sun deck of a ferry. Sarah is smiling at the camera and in the background, you can see plastic seats, a barrier and the ocean and mountains on the horizon.

This image shows a body of light blue water framed by dark green fir trees. Large mountains are silhouetted in the background and the sky is blue with some thin white clouds.

Last week, Co-Investigator @sarahhuque.bsky.social arrived in Vancouver, Canada for #DiscoveringLiveability’s first site visit. This week she'll be spending time with the Men’s Health Research Program at the University of British Columbia. Stay tuned for more updates along the way!

SAVE THE DATE: September 10th, 9:30 - 11am!

We'll be hosting our very first online event for the #DiscoveringLiveability project in September.

We will be sharing more details about the event and how to register soon, and we look forward to seeing you there!

Deadline approaching! 🗓️ Apply by Friday 18th July for our #DiscoveringLiveability Research Fellow role - just over a week left!

We would love to explore a potential collaboration! The quickest way to get your details onto our system is through signing up to the 'Discovering Liveability Contact List' form via the page linked below. If you could pop some contact details onto this form, we can be in touch in the coming weeks!

A film picture of an empty arts cafe. There are tables and chairs placed in front of a small stage to the right, and sun is streaming in through multiple glass doors to the back of the room.

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 one of our team members during a quiet moment at their local arts centre in Lincoln ☕️

💡Job Opportunity!💡 We're looking for a Research Fellow to join the #DiscoveringLiveability team on a full-time and fixed-term basis for 12 months 🔎 For more information, follow the link below:

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 next image was taken by one of our researchers in Sofia, Bulgaria. The text reads: ‘The Personal is Political’

Myself and several @d-liveability.bsky.social folks are in Glasgow this week for #EMCRF2025 hosted by @roryoc.bsky.social + team - great first day yesterday, especially loved Susan Rasmussen's keynote - excellent career advice via the medium of pigs!

Job Opportunity at the University of Lincoln: Research Assistant - Discovering Liveability Project An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Research Assistant (plus PhD tuition fees) to join the Discovering Liveability: Co-producing alternatives to suicide prevention project. You will be joining an...

Deadline approaching! Apply by Sunday 1st June for our #DiscoveringLiveability Research Assistant role 💡 In addition to a salary, this 5 year role is accompanied by tuition for a part-time Social Sciences PhD programme at the University of Lincoln. To find out more, click on the link below:

We’re hosting an online info session and Q&A on Friday 16th May 12-13:00 BST, all about the latest opportunity to join the #DiscoveringLiveability Team as a Research Assistant (with funding for a PhD) at the University of Lincoln!

Sign up via email discoveringliveability@ed.ac.uk ✍️

Job Opportunity at the University of Lincoln: Research Assistant - Discovering Liveability Project An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Research Assistant (plus PhD tuition fees) to join the Discovering Liveability: Co-producing alternatives to suicide prevention project. You will be joining an...

Job Opportunity!💡We’re looking for a Research Assistant to join the #DiscoveringLiveability team in Lincoln 🔍 In addition to a salary, this 5 year role is accompanied by tuition for a part-time Social Sciences PhD programme at the University of Lincoln. To find out more, click on the link below:

Job Opportunity at the University of Lincoln: Research Assistant - Discovering Liveability Project An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Research Assistant (plus PhD tuition fees) to join the Discovering Liveability: Co-producing alternatives to suicide prevention project. You will be joining an...

To find out more general information about the job and how to apply, you can follow this link:

We’re hosting an online info session and Q&A on Friday 16th May 12-13:00 BST, all about the latest opportunity to join the #DiscoveringLiveability Team as a Research Assistant (with funding for a PhD) at the University of Lincoln!

Sign up via email discoveringliveability@ed.ac.uk ✍️

Job Opportunity at the University of Lincoln: Research Assistant - Discovering Liveability Project An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Research Assistant (plus PhD tuition fees) to join the Discovering Liveability: Co-producing alternatives to suicide prevention project. You will be joining an...

Job Opportunity!💡We’re looking for a Research Assistant to join the #DiscoveringLiveability team in Lincoln 🔍 In addition to a salary, this 5 year role is accompanied by tuition for a part-time Social Sciences PhD programme at the University of Lincoln. To find out more, click on the link below:

New blog post! 💻
This month’s #DiscoveringLiveability blog post comes from Work Package 4 researchers, Emily Yue and Alex Oaten. They reflect on two pieces of academic literature that speak about the concept of ‘liveability’.
Click on the link below to read!

Say hello to our newest team members! 👋

We’re delighted to have Paro and Lynne 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’!

On giving “evidence”: reflections on the Community Mental Health Services Inquiry NSUN's Senior Policy & Campaigns Manager, Courtney Buckler reflects on the experience of giving evidence to the Health and Social Care Select Committee’s Inquiry into Community Mental Health Services.

Some great reflections from @courtneybuckler.bsky.social here on the nature of 'evidence' in relation to lived experience - very familiar, and speaking to practical and more theoretical questions about what knowledge 'counts'

@d-liveability.bsky.social

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Public lecture with Anna S. Mueller and Seth Abrutyn Hosted by the Suicide Cultures Project, at the University of Edinburgh

The Suicide Cultures Project will be hosting a free public lecture with Anna S. Mueller and Seth Abrutyn on Friday 7th May, titled Life Under Pressure: The Social Roots of Suicide and What to Do About Them. For more information about the lecture and how to sign up, please visit the link below 🔍

To find out more general information on the job and how to apply, you can follow this link:

A flyer for the Discovering Liveability information session. It lists the date as Friday 11th April 2025 and the time as 12-1pm (BST). Beneath that, it states that you can request a meeting invite by emailing discoveringliveability@ed.ac.uk.

We’re hosting an online info session and Q&A this Friday 11th April 12-13:00 BST, all about the latest opportunity to join the #DiscoveringLiveability Team as a Research Assistant (with funding for a PhD).

Sign up via email discoveringliveability@ed.ac.uk ✍️ We look forward to seeing you all there!

This is the first of two jobs coming soon - this one is based in Scotland, the second based in England - so watch this space for more!

Come work with us on the @d-liveability.bsky.social project! We're hiring for a 5-year Research Assistant position, working with racialised communities experiencing suicide. The role also comes with PhD funding! (No Masters degree required). More info: elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Job Opportunity!💡We’re looking for a Research Assistant to join the #DiscoveringLiveability team 🔍
In addition to a salary, this 5 year role is accompanied by tuition for a part-time Health in Social Science PhD programme. To find out more, click on the link below:

New publication from @d-liveability.bsky.social
team member Emily Yue in Catalyst Journal: 'Ethnicity Statistics as Tricky Tools in "Post-Racial" Britain: Celebrating the Lives and Obscuring the Deaths of Mixed-Race Populations. catalystjournal.org/index.php/ca...

There are brown leaves covering the floor and autumn trees in the background. In the foreground, a brown dog is jumping up to catch leaves in the air.

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 month’s image was submitted by one of our researchers, out on a walk with their lovely dog named Banana! 🐾🤎

Looking forward to sharing work challenging official reporting of prison suicides in Scotland (part of the Suicide Cultures project) at this event on 14th March - and very excited about the community zine-making workshop! Folks can attend talks in-person or online! @d-liveability.bsky.social

Uncommon Sense: Joy, with Akwugo Emejulu Professor Akwugo Emejulu talks to the Uncommon Sense podcast about the sociology of emotions and more specifically the role of joy in refusal and protest.

Joyful listening from the weekend - so much in this episode: emotions, emotion labour/work, activism, exhaustion, joy, intersectional feminism, bell hooks, and manga/anime!

Lots here for @d-liveability.bsky.social - esp as we start our WP on activism soon!

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