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Hazel Marzetti

@hazelmarzetti.bsky.social
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Suicide researcher at the University of Edinburgh working on suicide prevention, speecialising in LGBTQ+ suicide and qualitative methods. She/her 🏳️‍🌈

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Hazel Marzetti @hazelmarzetti.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Come along to the wonderful Emily Yue's seminar series to hear me chat about our current Rain Within the Rainbow work events.bookitbee.com/university-o...
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What is LGBTQ+ Suicide Prevention? From community to crisis and back again
Suicide & Evidence seminar series
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Hazel Marzetti @hazelmarzetti.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Please join us for our @iaspinfo.bsky.social LGBTQ+ SIG event: 'Centering Community Work and Mutual Aid as Critical Prevention Efforts for and by Queer-Trans Communities in India' with the Mariwala Health Initiative. events.teams.microsoft.com/event/00e37c... Monday 20th April, 2.30-3.30 (UK time)
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Hazel Marzetti @hazelmarzetti.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
In this first paper from my Wellcome Early Career Award 'The Rain Within the Rainbow' I reflect on what LGBTQ+ suicide prevention is, and what this might tell us about what all suicide prevention could be! doi.org/10.31235/osf...
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Hazel Marzetti @hazelmarzetti.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
The wonderful @sarahhuque.bsky.social and I will be doing in conversation about our @d-liveability.bsky.social recent research trips exploring lived experience involvement and leadership in suicide research. We'd love to see you there!
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Pat Thomson @patthomson.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
It’s important to recognise and celebrate small academic writing successes patthomson.net/2026/01/22/s...
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small successes count
There’s a particular kind of exhaustion that comes from staring at a word count that’s meant to reach 80,000 or 100,000, knowing you’re only at 12,000. Or from looking at a journa…
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Hazel Marzetti @hazelmarzetti.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
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 😊 linktr.ee/HazelMarzetti
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Hazel Marzetti | Instagram | Linktree
Hazel (she/her) is a suicide and suicide prevention researcher with a specialism in LGBTQ+ suicide, working at the University of Edinburgh.
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Hazel Marzetti @hazelmarzetti.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
🌈 Do you know anyone passionate about researching LGBTQ+ suicide, suicide prevention and suicide bereavement, experienced in qualitative methods, and looking for work? Send them my way because I'm recruiting for a post-doctoral research fellow! elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
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Research Fellow (Rain within the Rainbow)
Post-doctoral Research Fellow (Rain Within the Rainbow) working on the Rain Within the Rainbow: Understanding LGBTQ+ suicide and suicide prevention in the UK through the life course project using qual...
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Hazel Marzetti @hazelmarzetti.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Learning not to Breathe the Poison: Decolonial Queer Approaches to Researching Queer and Trans Lives in Central Asia Exploring the complexities of researching queer, trans, and gender-diverse communities in Central Asia. 21st October, 4.30-5.30 events.bookitbee.com/university-o...
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Learning not to Breathe the Poison
Decolonial Queer Approaches to Researching Queer and Trans Lives in Central Asia
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Hazel Marzetti @hazelmarzetti.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
It's September and so the Queer Minds Scotland online seminar series returns! This month we're excited to have @kevinguyan.bsky.social presenting the 'Rainbow Trap: Queer Lives, Categories and the Dangers of Inclusion' Please join us 25th September 4-5 events.bookitbee.com/university-o...
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Queer Lives, Data and the Dangers of Inclusion
Join author Kevin Guyan to explore ideas from his new book Rainbow Trap: Queer Lives, Categories and the Dangers of Inclusion
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GIRES UK @giresuk.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Are you running an in-person event about transgender support, research, education, knowledge sharing, or training? We’d love it if you could download, print, and post our Crowdfunder poster to help us protect our decades of trans research & resources 🙏 PDF 👉 www.gires.org.uk/wp-content/u...
GIRES NEEDS YOUR SUPPORT
Help us protect trans research and resources
a Legacy of Kindness
Telling the Story of
GIRES
For decades, GIRES has been generating and actively preserving trans research, education, and recording people's lived experience - and making it accessible to educators, organisations, and the wider trans community.
But, like many charities, we're facing serious financial pressures, which is why we are taking action to safeguard our future.
Help us raise £10,000 so that GIRES can keep supporting the trans community
To respond to the needs of the trans community, we're repositioning GIRES to meet today's challenges - transforming into a research-based support hub for trans organisations, educators, EDI professionals.
DONATE TO HELP US BUILD
FOR THE FUTURE
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Gender Identity Research
& Education Society
Registered Charity No. 1068137
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Prof Viv Hope @vivprof.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
q:LJMU will hold it first seminar Connecting LGBTQ+ Research & Community on 17/07. LJMU research with LGBTQ+ communities will be presented, with guest speaker @hazelmarzetti.bsky.social. The event will be of interest to researchers, academics, professionals, and community organisations. #lgbtq+
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q:LJMU Seminar - Connecting LGBTQ+ Research & Community
Join q:LJMU for a seminar connecting researchers and community to discuss LGBTQ+ research, collaboration and impact.
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Hazel Marzetti @hazelmarzetti.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
I am so pleased to see this out in the world and such a wonderful bunch of people to work with 😊 !! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Meeting of minds: imagining the future of child and youth mental health research from an early career perspective | BJPsych Bulletin | Cambridge Core
Meeting of minds: imagining the future of child and youth mental health research from an early career perspective
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Hazel Marzetti @hazelmarzetti.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
🏳️‍🌈Are you interested in intergenerational LGBTQ+ conversations? 🏳️‍🌈Are you based in and around Glasgow? Come along to our next *in person* Queer Minds Scotland Event! events.bookitbee.com/gcu/queer-mi... 26th June 5.30 - 7.30
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Mental Health Research Incubator @mhrincubator.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
We're incredibly excited to launch BRIDGE - a community initiative led by Incubator alumni that connects UK #mentalhealth early career #researchers with the Global South! ⏰ Applications are OPEN until 9 JUNE. For more info & to apply, visit the page below 👇 mentalhealthresearch.org.uk/bridge/
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Discovering Liveability @d-liveability.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
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 ✍️
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Hazel Marzetti @hazelmarzetti.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Join our next Queer Minds Scotland online seminar: Queer and Trans Lives in Turbulent Times Mariya Levitanus will share her research on the migration of Russian queer and trans individuals to Central Asia post Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine. 28th May at 4pm (UK time): bit.ly/3SjSC2W
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Queer and Trans Lives in Turbulent Times
Decolonial Queer Perspectives from Central Asia
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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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Sarah Huque @sarahhuque.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
A tiny bit of writing about finding joy in mental health/suicide research: internationaljournalofsocialresearchmethodology.wordpress.com/2025/04/26/q...
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Qualitative Mental Health Research Piece – Sarah Huque
One of the International Journal of Social Research Methodology (IJSRM) Reviewer College members, Sarah Huque (School of Health in Social Science, University of Edinburgh; shuque@ed.ac.uk), has kin…
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 23/04/2025
The Supreme Court ruling left out trans people. We're stepping in — with lawyers, resources, and action 🏳️‍⚧️⚖️ Donate to our fighting fund 💪 goodlaw.social/9235c1
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Corbin J. Standley, PhD @corbinstandley.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Maintaining funding for 988's LGBTQ+ services ensures continued effective and lifesaving work. “Suicide prevention is about risk, not identity.” – @trevorproject.bsky.social “These crisis response services are effective and save young lives.” – @afspnational.bsky.social afsp.org/story/trump-...
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Trump Administration Proposes Defunding Suicide Lifeline for LGBTQ+ Youth Beginning October 2025
A leaked budget draft revealed the federal government has proposed to eliminate all funding for the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline’s LGBTQ+ Youth Specialized Services – a federal program that provides ...
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Chris Frederick @projectsoulstride.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
UCL are recruiting UK-based men aged 40 to 65 for research study - Men Talking About Suicide. Click on this link to read more, including details of reimbursement: lnkd.in/eRw97h4c The findings will help in #suicideprevention. @alexandrapitman.bsky.social redcap.idhs.ucl.ac.uk/surveys/?s=7...
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Men Talking About Suicide (MTAS) Screening Questionnaire
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Discovering Liveability @d-liveability.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
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!
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Initial Reflections on Conceptualising ‘Liveability’ – Discovering Liveability: Co-producing Alternatives to Suicide Prevention
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Hazel Marzetti @hazelmarzetti.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Such an interesting call for papers!! I don't think I've ever seen something that so explicitly centres care in suicide studies...
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Hazel Marzetti @hazelmarzetti.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
A quick reminder that next week Flo from Scottish Trans will be giving our monthly Queer Minds Scotland seminar about the findings of Scottish Trans' research on the experiences of trans and non-binary people in Scotland 30th April, 4pm (UK time) Join us: events.bookitbee.com/university-o...
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Switchboard - LGBTQIA+ Support Line @switchboard.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
We know today may feel especially heavy for our trans and non-binary siblings. If you’re feeling overwhelmed or affected by the UK Supreme Court’s decision, please know you’re not alone. We’re here for you every day from 10am to 10pm. #TransRights #Trans #NonBinary #SupremeCourt #Gender
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Willem Stander @willemjstander.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Funded PhD opportunity about LGBTQ+ people & adult social care with an incredible supervisory team at the University of Bristol consisting of Profs @jasonschaub.bsky.social & David Abbott. Applications due 15/05/25 with PhD starting September 2025. More info here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMP621/p...
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PhD Studentship: LGBTQ+ people and adult social care at University of Bristol
Discover a PhD Studentship: LGBTQ+ people and adult social care on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other PhD opportunities.
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Hazel Marzetti @hazelmarzetti.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
We've just pre-printed our first article with @socarxiv.bsky.social 🥳 (not our first article from this team, or this project, but our first ever pre-print!!) The cruel optimism of suicide prevention: thinking beyond the mental health model: doi.org/10.31235/osf...
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International Association for Suicide Prevention @iaspinfo.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
The Pecha Kucha event returns for the IASP 33rd World Congress! Celebrating the talent and passion of emerging ECRs in suicide prevention. Abstract submissions are now OPEN - Don’t miss your chance to present! 🔗 bit.ly/4i99rIw #IASPVIENNA2025
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Could you do with £10k for some humanities or social science research? We’ve opened the call for our small grants. These are assessed using partial randomisation - after applications meet our quality threshold awards are allocated at random, reducing bias www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/ba-l...
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British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grants
The BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grants are available to support primary research in the humanities and social sciences. These awards, up to £10,000 in value and tenable for up to 24 months, are provi...
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Hazel Marzetti @hazelmarzetti.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Really useful data out from ONS using data linkage between census data, death registrations, and hospital administrative data to look at the relationship between self-harm and suicide and LGB people. www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopula...
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Self-harm and suicide by sexual orientation, England and Wales - Office for National Statistics
A population-level analysis of rates of intentional self-harm and suicide by sexual orientation for people aged 16 years and over in England and Wales.
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Hilary Causer @drhilarycauser.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
There is still plenty of time to apply for our FUNDED #PhD opportunities in the School of Health Sciences at @uniofsurrey.bsky.social If you are interested in women nurses experiences of #Whistleblowing or #Bullying take a look. Closing date 11th May. www.surrey.ac.uk/fees-and-fun...
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Studentships | University of Surrey
Browse our frequently updated list of self-funded to fully-funded studentships open for applications.
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Hazel Marzetti @hazelmarzetti.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Join us for our next Queer Minds Scotland seminar at 4pm on 30th April to hear from the lovely Flo from @scottishtrans.bsky.social Flo will be talking about the findings of Scottish Trans' research on the experiences of trans&non-binary people. events.bookitbee.com/university-o... All welcome!
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Mental Health and the Everyday Experience of Trans and Non-Binary People
The mental health impacts of negative experiences in daily life for trans and non-binary people
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Mental Health Research Incubator @mhrincubator.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
We've extended the application deadline for our Peer Coaching (PeCo) 2025 programme! Apply now 🚨 mentalhealthresearch.org.uk/peer-coachin... ⏰ NEW DEADLINE - Monday 14 April at 9am Here are some reasons why PeCo could be the perfect next step for your #mentalhealth #research career (a thread) 🧵
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Discovering Liveability @d-liveability.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
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!
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.
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Hazel Marzetti @hazelmarzetti.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
❓Interested in suicide research? ❓Have an undergraduate degree, and a desire to do a PhD? We have a 5 year post combining a salaried role with PhD funding for a candidate to study as they work on our Discovering Liveability Project. elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... Please share widely!
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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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Lisa Fazio @lkfazio.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
NIH grant cancellations have now expanded from National Institute on Aging to National Institute of Mental Health. A colleagues grant studying suicide risk among LGBT teens has now been cancelled. The current administration is pro-teen suicide 😫
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Hazel Marzetti @hazelmarzetti.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Revisiting this incredibly thought provoking peice (www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....) ahead of our NetECR LGBTQ+ suicide reading group. I am really taken, yet again, by the bringing together of queer intimacies & queer worldmaking for liveability. Really interested to hear what others thought!
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Queering the Desire to Die: Access Intimacy as Worldmaking for Survival
Based on heightened suicide rates of LGBTQ+ people, in this essay I reclaim the desire to die as a queer desire in itself. This framework aims to demedicalize—and thus re-politicize—the desire to d...
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International Association for Suicide Prevention @iaspinfo.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Nominations are now closing for the IASP Awards! We invite IASP members to help us recognise those making a real impact in suicide prevention. 🔹 Deadline: Sunday 23 March 2025 🔹 Submit your nomination: bit.ly/41LpJBo
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Ruth Pearce @notrightruth.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Call for research participants: are you a trans person who has experienced menopause? Shanta Everington from Open University would like to speak with you! This is part of a wider project on the menopause which she is keen to be trans inclusive.
Poster with black, pink, and blue abstract background colours. Text reads as follows. Storying the menopause. Are you a trans or non-binary person in menopause? Would you be willing to be interviewed for a new book? Storying the Menopause: An evocative auto/ethnography, will be published by Routledge in January 2026. All stories will be anonymised and you will retain editorial control. For info, please email me at shanta.everington1@open.ac.uk. Open University Human Research Ethics Committee HREC reference number 2024 0269 3. shantaeverington.wordpress.com/projects/storying-the-menopause.
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Mo Moulton @momoulton.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
My student Ophelia did some inspiring research on queer and trans activism at the University of Birmingham in the 1970s: www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2025/ho...
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How activists changed the course of queer history at Birmingham - University of Birmingham
History and Politics student Ophelia White explores how students took part in the gay liberation movement that swept across the country in the Seventies.
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Hazel Marzetti @hazelmarzetti.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Come along to our March Queer Minds Scotland seminar exploring the social determinants of LGBT+ health and wellbeing: events.bookitbee.com/university-o... The wonderful Rebecca Hoffman from LGBT Health and Wellbeing and Chris Harkins from Uni of Glasgow will be presenting. Share far and wide ☺️
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Examining the social determinants of LGBT+ health and wellbeing
A scoping review of evidence, unmet health needs, and policy recommendations
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Hazel Marzetti @hazelmarzetti.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
I'm so looking forward to this!!
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Hazel Marzetti @hazelmarzetti.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
I wrote a book review for the Sociology of Health and Illness! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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The Varieties of Suicidal Experience: A New Theory of Suicidal Violence. By T. Joiner, New York: New York University Press, 2024. 1–218 pp. $89 (hardback); $30 (paperback and ebook). ISBN: 978‐1479823475
Click on the article title to read more.
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Hazel Marzetti @hazelmarzetti.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
My lovely boss @amychandler.bsky.social has written a blog about the fabulous Suicide Culture seminar series (which is still hosting online seminars this semester but also has lots of recorded talks in their repository)...
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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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NCISH @ncish.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
We invite applications to the Martin Lawlor Research Bursary Award. Up to £2,000 is available for an early career researcher in the UK or Ireland to support research activity in self-harm or suicide prevention. Closing date 14/03/2025. Further information & application form: manchester.ac.uk/ncish/
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Hazel Marzetti @hazelmarzetti.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
We are super excited to announce our first Queer Minds Scotland seminar with the wonderful @kirstyclarkphd.bsky.social talking about her work on LGBTQ+ youth suicide in the US and Scotland. 26th February 4-5pm (UK time) events.bookitbee.com/university-o... Please share widely!
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Dr Kirsty Clarke - Queer Minds Scotland Network - February Event
Investigating How Societal Narratives and Social Networks Shape LGBTQ+ Youth Suicide Risk
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Qualitative Applied Health Research Centre @quahrc.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Save the date! Our introduction to #qualitative methods summer school will run for five days not four this year, from Monday 21 - Friday 25 July: www.quahrc.co.uk/save-the-dat... #ResearchMethods #QualitativeResearch #ResearchHelp #AcademicSky
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Save the date for our expanded summer school | QUAHRC
This year we're expanding our annual summer school, "An Introduction to Qualitative Research Methods", from four days to five. It will run from Monday 21 - Friday 25 July.
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Hazel Marzetti @hazelmarzetti.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
I'm really excited for our NetCR Gathering for early career researchers in suicide and self-harm next Wednesday evening - hoping to get to see some new faces as well as the familiar ones!! If you would like to find out more about the network, visit our linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/internati...
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a dog on a leash is standing on a bridge
ALT: a dog on a leash is standing on a bridge
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Rory O’Connor @roryoc.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Please share! Exciting fully funded PhD opportunity. Are you passionate about understanding & preventing suicide? If so, why not consider joining us to undertake a PhD generously funded by the Canmore Trust? www.findaphd.com/phds/project... @daryloconnor.bsky.social
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