Situated in the sociologically-informed Suicide Cultures research project, my PhD research was among the first to engage with the release of the UK’s first ever suicide statistics disaggregated by ethnicity (ONS 2021). Responding to the statistics reporting ‘white’ men and ‘mixed and multiple ethnic’ men and women as dying at among the highest rates of suicide, my PhD research highlighted the white maleness of existing suicide knowledge and prevention, and demonstrated that the reporting of gendered and racialised populations as dying at high rates of suicide has critical implications for UK suicide prevention (Yue 2025).

This project emerges from the limited meaningful engagement with the 2021 suicide by ethnicity statistics in subsequent prevention and policy (see Knipe et al. 2024 for an exception), where it is the 2017-19 statistic reporting white men as the subjects of suicide, that has been the one to find traction (e.g. Samaritans 2022). Specifically, it speaks back to calls for ever-more evidence on suicide inequalities.