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The Suicide Cultures site contains news and information about the Suicide Cultures: Reimagining Suicide Research project, funded by a Wellcome Trust Investigator Award. 

You'll also find news about related projects on suicide and self-harm, such as:

Reimagining Suicide Research

Suicide Cultures: Reimagining Research is a 5 year, qualitative study, using multiple methods. The research aims to better understand suicide in Scotland, focusing on social and cultural factors. 

The project team have been working since 2021 across diverse regions and communities in Scotland, in order to develop a detailed and nuanced picture of how suicide affects and is understood in different places, by different people.

Suicide Cultures Recent and Upcoming Presentations

Suicide Cultures Recent and Upcoming Presentations

Sarah Huque presented at 'Learning Across Death Investigations: A SAFESOC dissemination and network building event' in September 2024 in Manchester.

Joe Anderson presented 'Rethinking the Emotional Labyrinth of Suicide: An analytical metaphor for understanding grief and suicide' at the 8th Suicide and Self-Harm Early & Mid-Career Researchers Forum in Glasgow in June 2024. 

Rebecca Helman presented at the Inspiring Narratives, Weaving Stories Conference at the University of Westminster in London in May 2024. 

Suicide Cultures Team presented ‘Jarring Narratives: Discomfort, disruption and dominant explanations of suicide’ at the 8th Suicide and Self-Harm Early & Mid-Career Researchers Forum in Glasgow in June 2024.

Amy Chandler presented in the First Thursday Seminar Series, hosted by the Centre for Creative-Relational Inquiry at the University of Edinburgh. A summary and link to the talk can be found here

In June 2023, as well as organising our Suicide Cultures Conference, the team attended and presented at the Suicide and Self-harm Early-Mid Career Researcher Forum in Glasgow, where Amy gave a keynote.

Rebecca Helman attended the 9th Qualitative Research in Mental Health conference in Budapest, where she shared some early analysis and thinking around the concepts of social disconnection, loneliness and social exclusion.

In September, several members of the team are attending the International Association for Suicide Prevention World Congress, in Piran. 

The Suicide Cultures Podcast features researchers Joe Anderson, Rebecca Helman and Sarah Huque in conversation with each other, or with special guests, discussing suicide-related topics from a range of perspectives. 

The podcast is designed to take our conversations about suicide to a broader audience, and to involve people with different types of experience and expertise in these. 

You can listen to the podcast via Spotify, and see notes and summaries of all our shows so far over on the blog

Poster for the Autumn 2023 Suicide Cultures Seminar Series

We host a monthly online seminar series, featuring speakers from a range of backgrounds and addressing suicide from multiple perspectives. 

All our previous seminars are recorded and hosted on our blog.

Upcoming seminars can be viewed and booked here