Erminia Colucci 👣
erminiacolucci.bsky.social
Erminia Colucci 👣
@erminiacolucci.bsky.social
Prof of Visual Psychology and Cultural & Global Mental Health at Middlesex University London
& Adjunct Professor UGM Indonesia
Founder of Movie-ment
Ethnographic and participatory film-maker
Lover of outdoors, creativity and nature
On a journey...
Screenings of Chocolates and Roses as part of the 16 Days of

Today 25 November, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, starts the The United Nations' international campaign, 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence. In this occasion, the Philippines Embassy…
Screenings of Chocolates and Roses as part of the 16 Days of
Today 25 November, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, starts the The United Nations' international campaign, 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence. In this occasion, the Philippines Embassy in Washington D.C. has requested to screen the recently released research-documentary Chocolates and Roses: Breaking the silence about domestic violence in the Philippines. During this period, the film is also being screened at students in Slovenia and United Kingdom but, given the urgency of putting pressure for the passing of the divorce law in the country, we need support for the film, which represents the key research findings, to be screened and used as widely as possible!
movie-ment.org
November 25, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Chocolates and Rose: Breaking the silence about domestic violence in the Philippines is now available!

Dear Followers, we are pleased to announce that the ethnographic film on domestic violence against women and girls and suicide is finally available and you can now watch the trailer below and…
Chocolates and Rose: Breaking the silence about domestic violence in the Philippines is now available!
Dear Followers, we are pleased to announce that the ethnographic film on domestic violence against women and girls and suicide is finally available and you can now watch the trailer below and read more in the webpage dedicated to this project! You can watch the trailer here We need to make sure this film is screened in as many festivals and at national and international events urgently as the Philippines is again trying to pass a divorce law but there are many challanges to face.
movie-ment.org
October 2, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Come along (or connect online if you are not in London) for our 'Suicide and Culture 2.0' book launch at Middlesex University on the 18th September 4-6pm.

Link for the limited (free) tickets in the post below!

#suicide
#suicideprevention
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Book Launch: Suicide and Culture 2.0 Understanding the Context.
Book Launch with the two co-authors Prof Erminia Colucci and Emeritus Prof David Lester.
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August 18, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Dear like-minded academic followers/friends, please consider donating your (busy I know) valuable time to this valuable cause 🙏

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July 28, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Shocked to find out that, as the @_Government_UK is (further) reducing its Official Development Assistance to 0.3% of GNI by 2027, @NIHRresearch is no longer awarding us the large grant that was going to support youth #suicideprevention in Indonesia and Pakistan. What a waste :(
July 24, 2025 at 12:42 PM
The Indonesian findings from our comparative visual research project on collaboration between faith-based and traditional healers and #mentalhealth professionals Together for Mental Health has just been published and open access thanks to Middlesex University
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“They think we are trying to combine knowledges, whereas we are trying to harmonize them”: A visual exploration of what promotes successful collaboration between mental health workers and healers in I...
Implementation of community mental health in Indonesia has been limited and under-resourced. Pasung (physical restraint and confinement) is still commonly used ...
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July 22, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Announcing our new open-access article on #AI in #suicideprevention first-authored by my wonderful MSc student Jacob Greaves at Middlesex University London

Crisis-line workers’perspectives on AI Suicide Prevention: A Qualitative Exploration of Risk and Opportunity doi.org/10.1186/s128...
July 3, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Excited to announce that our Together 4 #mentalhealth film "We are family" was just selected by @ApuliaWebFest
It is a short experimental film transforming drawing of an indonesian woman with living experience of mental health issues into animations
June 27, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Pretty excited about our new publication about shared learnings about working with #peer researchers in LMICs. A connected chapter on our learnings specifically related to our #participatory #visual research is also on its way :) dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...
Lived experience in mental health research in Ghana and Indonesia: What have we learned?
Author summary This paper highlights the experiences of people with lived and living experience of mental health conditions who are engaged in research (also called peer researchers) in two countries ...
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June 23, 2025 at 4:20 PM
A great piece written for #Refugees week by Dr Clara Calia @EdinburghUni on her impactful work (to which I gave a small contribution as shown in the photo and paragraph on #photovoice).
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Building resilience with Re-Act’s refugee mental health initiative
Dr. Clara Calia, Senior Lecturer in Clinical Psychology, shares insights on how the Re-Act team is transforming refugee mental health care through culturally tailored, community-led support groups in ...
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June 3, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Sales ends soon for the free tickets for the Innovative Qualitative Methods in #migration research organized by Middlesex University this Thursday
I will talk about arts-based and #visual methods including #participatory
Please share and hope to see you there!

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Innovative Qualitative Methods in Migration Research
Discover creative ways to study migration through innovative qualitative methods at our hybrid event at Middlesex University London!
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May 19, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Free registration open for next Mental Health Academy summit on #suicideprevention summit, where I'm honoured to be an invited speaker talking about #suicide prevention among #refugees

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2025 Suicide Prevention Summit | Mental Health Academy
Join Australia's largest online suicide prevention conference for mental health professionals – for free. Live webinars during May 16-18.
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May 6, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Excited to announce the publication of this article that has informed my research approach with people from migrant and refugee backgrounds.
If you think it might be useful to others please repost
#mentalhealth
#suicide

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May 5, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Tonight at Milano-Bicocca
from Together for Mental Health funded by ESRC Economic and Social Research Council Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF)
and EU
April 29, 2025 at 6:56 AM
On the train towards Milan for a series of workshops on #artivism and #participatory #visualresearch at Università Milano-Bicocca

The screening of one of our Together for #MentalHealth films on the 29th of April afternoon is free and open to the public, come and tell your friends!
#healing
April 24, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Looking forward to screening one of our @ukri.org Together for Mental Health visual research films in my country at Bicocca-Milano. Come if you are in the area and share please, thank you!
#mentalhealth
#healing
#documentary
#visualpsychology
April 18, 2025 at 5:28 AM
Please sign and circulate widely!
The #AI and #meta theft must be stopped!

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Protect authors’ livelihoods from the unlicensed use of their work in AI training
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April 2, 2025 at 6:47 PM
What a wonderful way to end the week: our authored book is now available both as ebook and hardcover!
Thanks for your continuing support readers (and those of you who will kindly share this post)!
@EditionsHogrefe
@kucseas
@MiddlesexUni
#suicide

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Suicide and Culture 2.0 - 2025 – Hogrefe Publishing
How to integrate sociocultural factors to help prevent suicide and understand suicidality. Order at Hogrefe Publishing
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March 28, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Thanks to the 500 people who connected on a Sat morning to hear me talk about #suicide + #suicideprevention in the #humanitarian context for Mental Health Academy conference. In spite of my sleepiness (photo as proof), I hope I conveyed all my passion for this urgent issue!
March 22, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Free registration still open for the Mental Health Academy conference where I will be talking about #suicide in the #humanitarian context.
Info and link:
www.mentalhealthacademy.co.uk/summit

Please share and...see you there!
2025 Mental Health Summit | Mental Health Academy
Join the UK’s largest online mental health conference for mental health professionals, featuring world-leading experts.
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March 19, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Reposted by Erminia Colucci 👣
Perhaps the most depressing part about the last couple of months is that every awful shitty thing that’s happening to this country is self-induced. People asked for this. None of it had to happen.
March 12, 2025 at 1:16 AM
@balbirbarn.bsky.social presenting as part of the Middlesex University London STEM festival
March 12, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Honoured to screen our Together for Mental Health film 'Warak Keruron': Healing the mothers of lost souls' at the famous Galle Face Hotel as part of the Rethinking Mental Health conference

@ukri.org
#mentalhealth #Healing #visual
February 28, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Reposted by Erminia Colucci 👣
Paper 6 from the Special Issue: Unspoken, Unseen, Unheard: Using Arts-Based and Visual Research Methods to Gain Insights into Lived Experiences of Suicide in Young Adults
by Jude Smit @erminiacolucci.bsky.social Lisa Marzano - a fantastic account of the project #CritSui
A couple more papers out now:
1/ Performance Methodologies in Suicide Prevention Research: Queerness, Colonization, and Co-Performative Witnessing in Indigenous Community by Antonia Alvarez, on suicide risk and experiences of colonization among Native Hawaiians and among LGBTQ Native Hawaiians
Learning so much as guest ed of Social Sciences special issue 'Critical Suicide Studies: Decolonial and Participatory Creative Approaches'. Couple of papers published (below) + a few to finalise by end of year/early 2025 - will post when out (now that more good peeps are here!) #AntiColonialResearch
January 29, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Going through sleep deprivation as part of my (way too long) #menopause journey, I am sharing an interesting study on the link between #insomnia and #suicide attempt
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The association between insomnia and suicide attempts among Chinese adolescents: a prospective cohort study - BMC Psychology
Objective This study aimed to investigate a range of insomnia-related factors, including difficulty with sleep induction, nocturnal awakenings, early awakenings, total sleep time, overall sleep qualit...
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January 26, 2025 at 7:10 AM