The last three years of the Suicide in/as Politics project has flown by, but the end is now (scarily!) in sight and so as a team we have been thinking about how to communicate what we have found across the project and how to share the beautiful art and poetry …
The Suicide in/as Politics project is a partnership project between the University of Edinburgh and the University of Lincoln, funded by the Leverhulme Trust. The project aims to explore the politics of suicide and suicide prevention using an explicitly critical frame of analysis. In phase one of this research project …
Last week I presented some of the work we’ve been doing on the Suicide in/as Politics project at a conference. Unfortunately the way conferences work means that I had to tell the conference organisers what I was going to talk about months in advance. I had no idea at that …
June brought with it my first opportunity to talk about the Suicide in/as Politics project at a conference. Conferences provide such a wonderful opportuity to get feedback on works that are still on-going and help you to think differently about them, as well as being a bit of a faster …
Suicide is a major public health concern, globally responsible for 700,000 deaths per year. Here in the UK, each of the four nations has created policies to try and prevent deaths by suicide, and suicide has become a regular topic in each of the parliament’s political debates. In our research …
As we enter a new phase with the Suicide in/as Politics project, we wanted to give a brief update on what we’ve done over the last year. Starting in December 2020 we had an idea of what we wanted to achieve but no idea at all about what we would …
The Suicide in/as Politics project was designed to look at suicide in new creative, critical and political ways. We are currently writing our ethics application for some arts-based community workshops that will (hopefully!) be happening later this year. Whilst preparing for this part of the research, myself and my colleagues …
This post is by Alex Oaten, the Lincoln based Research Associate on the Suicide in/as Politics project. You can find out more about all the team on our People page! Our reading group recently met to discuss a 2020 article authored by Heidi Hjelmeland and Birthe Loa Knizek entitled ‘The emperor’s new clothes? A critical …
This post is by Alex Oaten, the Lincoln based Research Associate on the Suicide in/as Politics project. You can find out more about all the team on our People page! As part of our Leverhulme funded ‘Suicide in/as Politics’ project we have undertaken in-depth qualitative analysis of UK suicide prevention policies, which were produced between 2009-2019. Whilst suicide …
So I’m guessing 2020-21 brought all of us more TV watching than ever before, as we attempted to keep the boredom at bay during the various phases of lockdown. Now, I don’t want to ruin anyone else’s boxset binges, so I have to say that there will be SPOILERS, don’t …
