A two-day workshop at the University of Edinburgh, 29-30th June 2026.

The Suicide Cultures project  has been deeply shaped by the emerging and diverse field of critical suicide studies. In June 2026 the project will host a workshop, building on our two previous events (the Suicide Cultures Conference and Sociology of Suicide Symposium), which will bring together non-academic, established and early-career scholars working on suicide who draw on ‘critical’ approaches to think through the role of society, culture, and politics in shaping suicide itself, as well as our responses to it. The workshop will be free to attend but places are limited.

There will be up to 15 early-career/unwaged bursaries available, of up to £200 each to support attendance. Applications are invited from those in non-academic roles, as well as people who are both established and early career scholars (defined broadly, up to 7 years post-phd, pre-doctoral and doctoral scholars are welcome) who would like an opportunity to a) share their emerging work/ideas; b) learn from non-academic, early in career and more established scholars working with critical approaches to suicide; c) build new collaborations with other attendees.

Places will be allocated such that attendees are balanced across non-academic, early-career and more established academics.

The 2-day workshop will be organised around small group discussions (for example, World Cafe-style conversations) and workshops; this approach will focus on building connections and ‘doing’ critical suicidology as a collective. There will be a keynote talk (including one from Professor Jennifer White, University of Victoria) on each day, to stimulate discussion and present questions/challenges/provocations to the group.

Applications will be reviewed by members of the Suicide Cultures research team using the following criteria:
1.     Contribution/connection to critical understandings/responses to suicide
2.     Fit between your hopes for the workshop and what we hope to provide
3.     Balancing participation of non-academic, early career and more established attendees

Submit expressions of interest by: 1st March 2026.

We will notify all applicants of outcomes by: 31st March 2026.

Questions relating to the Workshop can be directed to Ruth Chartoff rchartof@ed.ac.uk Suicide Cultures Research Assistant.

Expressions of interest should be submitted via the Microsoft Forms link, below:

Critical Suicide Studies and Suicide Cultures 29th – 30th of June 2026  – Fill in form