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 research project has now moved into a new and exciting phase. We are taking our research findings out into the community and …
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 blog was authored by the whole Suicide in/as Politics team: Amy Chandler, Ana Jordan, Hazel Marzetti, and Alex Oaten. Today it is World Suicide Prevention Day (10th September), which has been held since 2003. Each year has a theme, which has evolved from the 2003 ‘Suicide can be prevented!’ …
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 …
As suicide research is dominated by quantitative studies (Hjelmeland and Knizek, 2010; Testoni, Vincenzo and Zamperini, 2021), whenever I come across a new qualitative paper in suicidology, it’s exciting! This is how I first felt when I came across “What Can We Learn From First-Person Narratives?” The Case of Nonfatal …
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! Roman Kemp’s recent BBC documentary exploring issues of mental health and suicide in young men has been widely praised and has led …
