Discovering Liveability
@d-liveability.bsky.social
Interdisciplinary research project co-producing alternatives to suicide prevention. Based at the University of Edinburgh, University of Lincoln + Mind in Camden, funded by @wellcometrust.bsky.social
💻 https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/discovering-liveability
💻 https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/discovering-liveability
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!
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!
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.
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November 13, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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!
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 🔎
Applications close next week for our Research Fellow job opening. See the link below for more info on the role and how to apply 🔎
💡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:
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:
Research Fellow (Discovering Liveability)
Research Fellow (qualitative methods) to join the Discovering Liveability: Co-producing alternatives to suicide prevention project, contributing to innovative suicide research that centres liveability...
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November 13, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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 🔎
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 📩
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 📩
Get Involved – Discovering Liveability: Co-producing Alternatives to Suicide Prevention
blogs.ed.ac.uk
November 11, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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 📩
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.
Click on the link below to read!
Click on the link below to read!
Building the Lived & Living Experience Hub: Site Visit 1 – Canada – Discovering Liveability: Co-producing Alternatives to Suicide Prevention
blogs.ed.ac.uk
November 5, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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.
Click on the link below to read!
Click on the link below to read!
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/...
'The Cruel Optimism of Suicide Prevention: thinking beyond the mental health model' journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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October 31, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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/...
'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:
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:
Research Fellow (Discovering Liveability)
Research Fellow (qualitative methods) to join the Discovering Liveability: Co-producing alternatives to suicide prevention project, contributing to innovative suicide research that centres liveability...
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October 29, 2025 at 12:33 PM
💡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:
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:
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! 🦭👋
This image was taken by a team member on a trip to the Isle of May, featuring a group of seals saying hello! 🦭👋
October 23, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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! 🦭👋
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’!
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’!
October 8, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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’!
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!
You can read the paper in Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy via the link below!
“We’re Here, We’ve Got Changed, We’re Going Out”: Wild Swimming Groups as Ecologies of Care | Hypatia | Cambridge Core
“We’re Here, We’ve Got Changed, We’re Going Out”: Wild Swimming Groups as Ecologies of Care
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October 7, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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!
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...
Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/outwith-sh...
Outwith Showcase 2025: Meet the Partners!
Join us to celebrate some of the best participatory research taking place at the University of Edinburgh.
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October 1, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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...
Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/outwith-sh...
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-...
September 26, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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-...
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!
September 15, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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!
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🎗️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
📅 Tuesday 16 September
🕚 11–12:30
📄Full report to follow
📬 Want to get involved? Email anita@fairnessfoundation.com
September 10, 2025 at 9:32 AM
🎗️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
📅 Tuesday 16 September
🕚 11–12:30
📄Full report to follow
📬 Want to get involved? Email anita@fairnessfoundation.com
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!
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!
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.
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August 28, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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!
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!
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
Here are some photos from Sarah's time at the conference!
Photo C Hanna Ogawa
August 11, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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
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 doctoral research post based in Bordeaux, France: shorturl.at/mRCRa
Work-related suicide. An international social justice analysis - Grants Awarded | Wellcome
Work-related suicide. An international social justice analysis
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August 8, 2025 at 9:11 AM
[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 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
First researcher post is UK based at Healing Justice Ldn. shorturl.at/b6ADy
Work-related suicide. An international social justice analysis - Grants Awarded | Wellcome
Work-related suicide. An international social justice analysis
shorturl.at
August 8, 2025 at 9:08 AM
[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
First researcher post is UK based at Healing Justice Ldn. shorturl.at/b6ADy
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!
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!
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.
events.bookitbee.com
August 7, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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!
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.
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.
Tech for life? AI, Suicide Research, and the Right to a Liveable Future – Discovering Liveability: Co-producing Alternatives to Suicide Prevention
blogs.ed.ac.uk
August 6, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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.
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.
Our #DiscoveringLiveability researcher Sarah is continuing her site visit to Canada with a trip to Stanley Park in Vancouver! 🌊
Vancouver is in the traditional, ancestral and unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.
Vancouver is in the traditional, ancestral and unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.
August 5, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Our #DiscoveringLiveability researcher Sarah is continuing her site visit to Canada with a trip to Stanley Park in Vancouver! 🌊
Vancouver is in the traditional, ancestral and unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.
Vancouver is in the traditional, ancestral and unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.
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Visited "the room(s) where it happens" while in Toronto - aka home of the Indigenous-led Critical Health & Social Action lab founded/directed by @d-liveability.bsky.social advisory board member Jeffrey Ansloos. Accompanied by truly nourishing discussion w/ long-time lab member Deanna Zantingh!
August 4, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Visited "the room(s) where it happens" while in Toronto - aka home of the Indigenous-led Critical Health & Social Action lab founded/directed by @d-liveability.bsky.social advisory board member Jeffrey Ansloos. Accompanied by truly nourishing discussion w/ long-time lab member Deanna Zantingh!
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!
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!
July 31, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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!
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!
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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).
July 23, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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).
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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
July 23, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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
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!
July 21, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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!