Work Package 1: Centering lived and living experience of suicide
WP1 forms the heart of the project and will establish a core group of researchers who have diverse lived/living experiences of suicidality or suicide bereavement.
WP1 Research Questions are:
- How is ‘lived experience’ engaged with by policy makers, services, campaigns and researchers working in suicide prevention?
- How do people with lived experience of suicide make sense of the notion of lived experience?
- How do people with lived experience understand the conditions that make life un/liveable?
- Additional Research Questions will be co-designed as part of WP1 activities.
WP1 Activities
Meta-ethnography: Researchers will undertake a rigorous review of current evidence in the form of academic research publications by researchers thinking about and approaching lived experience in suicide research. This will be followed by activities to engage with publications beyond academic papers.
Site visits: Researchers from WP1 will visit organisations and groups around the world whose work includes lived experience engagement in suicide research and prevention, helping to learn about and build a clearer picture of possibilities and gaps in current practices. Site visits will include: Mariwala Health Initiative (India), Orygen (Australia), University of British Columbia Men’s Health Research Programme (Canada), Manchester Centre for Mental Health and Safety (UK).
Institutional ethnography: Researchers will spend time with 4 organisations that have lived experience input into services relating to suicide. Using institutional ethnography as a research method, researchers will observe and participate in the inner workings and structures of these organisations.
Establishment of the Lived/Living Experience Hub: This will involve the creation of a Lived/Living Experience Hub (official name still to be decided!) – establishing a centre of excellence in lived-experience perspectives on suicide, and building a network of organisations, activists and scholars across the world who are engaged in this work. Collaborators will work together to produce a research agenda addressing the notion of ‘liveability’ from a range of perspectives and contexts.
Lived Experience Research Projects: Informed by the research agenda, 6 Lived Experience researchers will each carry out a co-produced research project in the last 5 years of the project, working with collaborators and communities experiencing suicidality (suicidal thoughts, experiences, attempts, bereavement, etc.). Lived experience researchers will also be able to engage across the other work packages, depending on the focus of their research projects.
