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Amy Chandler @amychandler.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Congratulations Lisa! So happy to see this out and really looking forward to reading and engaging!

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Amy Chandler @amychandler.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

📢 Awesome job opportunity here, on a brilliant project with a super team 👇

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Sarah Huque @sarahhuque.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

It's been a privilege to learn from all of the amazing scholars and practitioners I've met so far on my research visit to Canada for @d-liveability.bsky.social - including catching up in-person with Prof John Oliffe from our Research Advisory Group!

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Amy Chandler @amychandler.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Fascinating new article on suicide/self-harm in prisons from Elena Vasilou: "Self-destruction in prison: A queer view on pain through decolonial and psychoanalytic theory" journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Amy Chandler @amychandler.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

I'm contributing to an @iaspinfo.bsky.social @iasr-suicide.bsky.social webinar this Thursday - events.teams.microsoft.com/event/d5def8... I'll be reflecting on experiences of working with/from lived and living experience in suicide and self-harm research and policy @d-liveability.bsky.social

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Amy Chandler @amychandler.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Thanks Geth! Great to see you at the launch last week :-)

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Amy Chandler @amychandler.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

This is a really interesting blog from Anita Sangha @fairness.bsky.social. I had a brill chat with Anita while she was developing this - helpful to consider suicide in relation to *wealth* inequalities, beyond the usual focus on income/area level deprivation www.faircomment.co.uk/p/inequality...

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Inequality and suicide

“Suicide prevention is everyone’s business”, and Labour promised to make it theirs. But the government is failing to tackle one of the biggest risk factors for suicide: socio-economic inequality.

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Amy Chandler @amychandler.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Online + in person seminar tomorrow, 17th June 3pm, w/Cate Curtis: 'Injury turned inwards, injury turned outwards: Two sides of the same coin?' - Cate will be sharing findings from the Self-Harm and Injury Exploration project theshineproject2023.wordpress.com events.bookitbee.com/suicide-cult...

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Hybrid Seminar Series With Cate Curtis

'Injury turned inwards, injury turned outwards: Two sides of the same coin? '

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Amy Chandler @amychandler.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

There were some great presentations #EMCRF2025 on self-harm among professionals (nurses, counsellors), including from my colleague Fiona Stirling. This excellent new paper explores this for nurses via autoethnography/lived experience - incredibly rich analysis: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Amy Chandler @amychandler.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Pre-conference workshop yesterday at #EMCRF2025 with @hazelmarzetti.bsky.social and Seonaid Cleare - vital supported session to explore how to support ourselves and our teams working on self-harm + suicide research: + how systems and structures contribute

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Amy Chandler @amychandler.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

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!

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National Survivor User Network @nsunnews.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

ICYMI: The second blog in our “Limitations of Lived Experience” series explored the power of lived experience work in the right spaces, and the risks when it doesn’t reach them. www.nsun.org.uk/you-could-ju...

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"You could just listen to me”: the erasure of lived experience in healthcare

We must continue to use our lived experience to rewrite the narrative of those that try to erase us.

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Amy Chandler @amychandler.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

This looks like a super-cool postdoc for people interested in #qualitative #mentalhealth research and the interactions between #mh and #welfare www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/114985-...

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Postdoctoral Research Associate in Welfare Experiences & Mental Health

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Amy Chandler @amychandler.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

One of the best bits of my job is getting to work with wonderful scholars - @sarahhuque.bsky.social writes here on work she has led, + some we are doing together #suicidecultures #discoveringliveability - finding joy in collaborative, qualitative approaches, even when studying #suicide

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Amy Chandler @amychandler.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Exciting! Our edited collection on stigma (with @brisunipress.bsky.social) is off to print, and we've some different events upcoming in June to celebrate and share the wonderful contributions that feature in it. Including this one with the MedSoc study group in London, sign up below 👇

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Discovering Liveability @d-liveability.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

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:

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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...

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Amy Chandler @amychandler.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Also next week - a public lecture with @annamueller.bsky.social & @sethabrutyn.bsky.social in #Edinburgh on 7th May Joined by @roryoc.bsky.social and Haylis Smith - we'll be making connections between work on youth suicide in the US and #Scotland Free tickets: events.bookitbee.com/suicide-cult...

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Public lecture with Anna S. Mueller and Seth Abrutyn

Hosted by the Suicide Cultures Project, at the University of Edinburgh

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Hazel Marzetti @hazelmarzetti.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Lovely Vic is looking for folks to talk about their experiences of being involved in patient and public involvement to try and learn more about it. If you've been involved before and would be willing to take part, get in touch: Victoria.Cluley3@nottingham.ac.uk

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Amy Chandler @amychandler.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Next week (6-7th) is our @wellcometrust.bsky.social supported symposium on #suicidecultures and the #sociology of suicide! We've got a diverse and exciting programme of speakers & roundtable discussions. We'll be providing remote access to many of the talks 👇 events.bookitbee.com/suicide-cult...

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Suicide Cultures and the Sociology of Suicide Symposium

A two-day symposium at the University of Edinburgh 6-7th May 2025

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Amy Chandler @amychandler.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

26th June: we are excited to host an FSHI funded symposium at U of Edinburgh based around the forthcoming edited collection 'Recalibrating Stigma: Sociologies of Health and Illness' More details below!

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Amy Chandler @amychandler.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

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Amy Chandler @amychandler.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

That sounds like a really interesting fellowship Clemmie! Would love to hear more about how it goes - we're exploring some similar issues (specifically relating to lived experience knowledge in suicide) in our @d-liveability.bsky.social project

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Amy Chandler @amychandler.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Beyond excited to see what this edited collection becomes! See full CFP below - we (@jeffreyansloos.bsky.social @carolinelenette.bsky.social Jennifer White + me) are working to make space for different kinds of (critical) suicide studies #suicidecultures @d-liveability.bsky.social #critsui

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Durham Institute for Medical Humanities @durhamimh.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

⭐ New work opportunity alert! We are looking for a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Affective Experience and Measurement Labs. An exciting opportunity to deepen your research interests working across both labs. Applications open till 21 May! Find out more and apply 👇 tinyurl.com/postdocopp

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Amy Chandler @amychandler.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Our next #suicidecultures seminar: @carolinelenette.bsky.social + Achol Arop reflect on a recent publication addressing South Sudanese youth advocates perspectives on suicide via poetic/reflexive inquiry www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/13... 12th May, 9am UK time events.bookitbee.com/suicide-cult...

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Hybrid Seminar Series with Caroline Lenette and Achol Arop

'Collaborative explorations of suicide from refugee perspectives'

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Amy Chandler @amychandler.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Next Queer Minds Scotland seminar coming up soon (30th April, 4pm) - vital insights on the mental health impacts of negative experiences in daily life for trans and non-binary people. Sign up below 👇

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Amy Chandler @amychandler.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

📰New paper from @wellcometrust.bsky.social funded #suicidecultures PhD researcher (and now postdoctoral researcher with @d-liveability.bsky.social) Emily Yue. The paper considers statistics about ethnicity as 'tricky tools' in suicide prevention work 👇 catalystjournal.org/index.php/ca...

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Ethnicity Statistics as Tricky Tools in “Post-Racial” Britain: Celebrating the Lives and Obscuring the Deaths of Mixed-Race Populations | Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience

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Discovering Liveability @d-liveability.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

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:

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Research Assistant (Discovering Liveability)

Research Assistant (+ six years PhD tuition fees) to join the Discovering Liveability: Co-producing alternatives to suicide prevention project, contributing to innovative suicide research that centres...

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National Survivor User Network @nsunnews.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

"If I do not strive towards introspection with clarity and humility – and the discomfort that brings – my lived experience is meaningless." C. C. da Cunha Lewin explores the implications of clinical researchers claiming LE without critically examining it. www.nsun.org.uk/referring-to...

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Referring to your lived experience without self-reflection and accountability

C. C. da Cunha Lewin explores the implication of clinical researchers claiming a LE without critically acknowledging it as embedded within psychiatric positionality.

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Asylum Magazine @asylummagazine.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

The advocates @stopoxevision.bsky.social have put together our spring issue, showcasing articles that explore the themes of surveillance and the pushback against being monitored. Read the full editorial here asylummagazine.org/2025/03/gues... #MentalHelath #MentalInkness

“Ultimately, whether surveillance devices can be used as a tool of ‘safety’, depends which side of the camera you are on.”

Guest Editorial: Stop Oxevision

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Amy Chandler @amychandler.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Next #suicidecultures seminar is with Kamesha Spates! 'The Price of Strength: Understanding Suicide Among Black Women Through a Black Feminist Lens' 25th March, 2pm UK time Kamesha will be online, + you can attend online OR in person if in/near Edinburgh 👇 events.bookitbee.com/suicide-cult...

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Hybrid Seminar Series with Kamesha Spates

The Price of Strength: Understanding Suicide Among Black Women Through a Black Feminist Lens

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Amy Chandler @amychandler.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

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! thesociologicalreview.org/podcasts/unc...

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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.

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Amy Chandler @amychandler.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Final day to submit an abstract or application to attend our Sociology of Suicide symposium @ Edinburgh, 6-7th May, with @annamueller.bsky.social and @sethabrutyn.bsky.social + several of the #SuicideCultures + @d-liveability.bsky.social teams blogs.ed.ac.uk/suicide-cult...

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Amy Chandler @amychandler.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

We're very much looking forward to welcoming Léa to Edinburgh! @d-liveability.bsky.social

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Amy Chandler @amychandler.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Mandy Crandale "I want to see limitless living experience involvement" First of a series of blogs on lived/living experience from @asylummagazine.bsky.social and @nsunnews.bsky.social - looking forward to the next ones! #DiscoveringLiveability @d-liveability.bsky.social - definitely one to watch!

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Hazel Marzetti @hazelmarzetti.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Particularly given the awful changes in protections and provisions for LGBTQ+ youths we've seen recently, I am so interested to hear the wonderful @kirstyclarkphd.bsky.social speak about her work on LGBTQ+ youth suicide across Scotland and the US. events.bookitbee.com/university-o...

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Dr Kirsty Clark - Queer Minds Scotland Network - February Event

Investigating How Societal Narratives and Social Networks Shape LGBTQ+ Youth Suicide Risk

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Amy Chandler @amychandler.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

A blog from me about our #suicidecultures online seminars past and future, and some early plans for something similar but different as part of our work on #DiscoveringLiveability

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Asylum Magazine @asylummagazine.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Everyone is invited to the online launch of our spring issue. Meet our artists, authors, poets and guest editors @stopoxevision.bsky.social and @nsunnews.bsky.social Date: Thursday 13th March Time: 18.30- 19.30 GMT Register here us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... #MentalHealth

Asylum Magazine online launch

Thursday 13 March 18:30-19:30 GMT

Join us to launch the new issue of radical mental health magazine Asylum, featuring:
contributors speaking about their articles, questions and discussion
contributing poets reading their poems, information about Asylum

Register here: https://bit.ly/Asylum-launch-Spring25

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The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · 18/02/2025

“We should consider what Goffman’s other concepts (ie not only ‘stigma’) can offer in terms of making sense of disabled people’s lived experience.” Gareth M. Thomas @cusocsci.bsky.social on everyday life and the personhood of disabled adults. #OpenAccess buff.ly/4gTyn6o

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Amy Chandler @amychandler.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Super cool post in an awesome research centre here at Edinburgh! Working with Martyn Pickersgill on a new project exploring neurotech (STS/medical sociology) #sociology #sts #neuro #postdoc

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Amy Chandler @amychandler.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Powerful review of Alexandre Baril's Undoing Suicidism, by Ruth Pearce, in Symbolic Interaction onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... Relevant to #suicidecultures + @d-liveability.bsky.social

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