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Discovering Liveability @d-liveability.bsky.social · 12h

Say hello to our newest team members! 👋
We’re delighted to have Nakkita, Debbie and Tom joining us on the #DiscoveringLiveability project. If you’d like to find out more about the rest of the team, you can read our team profiles on our blog. Just follow the link in our bio and click ‘Meet the Team’!

Discovering Liveability @d-liveability.bsky.social · 1d

Two of our Discovering Liveability researchers, Dr Emily Yue and Dr Sarah Huque (@sarahhuque.bsky.social), have recently published a paper as part of the Edinburgh Mental Health funded Sea to Spruce project 📄

You can read the paper in Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy via the link below!

“We’re Here, We’ve Got Changed, We’re Going Out”: Wild Swimming Groups as Ecologies of Care | Hypatia | Cambridge Core

“We’re Here, We’ve Got Changed, We’re Going Out”: Wild Swimming Groups as Ecologies of Care

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Discovering Liveability @d-liveability.bsky.social · 7d

Some of our research team will be chatting about Discovering Liveability and participatory research at this event in Edinburgh next week on Wednesday 8th October. The event is free and open to everyone.

Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/outwith-sh...

Outwith Showcase 2025: Meet the Partners!

Join us to celebrate some of the best participatory research taking place at the University of Edinburgh.

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Discovering Liveability @d-liveability.bsky.social · 12d

New blog alert! Did you attend our very first Discovering Liveability event on the 1st September about the Lived and Living Experience Hub? You can now read a detailed recap of how it went on our blog! Link here: blogs.ed.ac.uk/discovering-...

A title at the top reads 'New Blog Post' with a navy blue pen icon next to it.

Below a graphic illustration shows three people in windows on an online meeting in conversation.

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Discovering Liveability @d-liveability.bsky.social · 23d

Tomorrow, some of the Discovering Liveability researchers will be taking part in a round table with the @fairness.bsky.social to discuss how wealth inequality can contribute to the risk of suicide. A full report about this discussion and this growing body of work will be released later in Autumn!

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Fairness Foundation @fairness.bsky.social · 28d

🎗️On World Suicide Prevention Day, we're announcing an event with @d-liveability.bsky.social, to bring together experts on the link between wealth inequality & suicide.

📅 Tuesday 16 September
🕚 11–12:30
📄Full report to follow

📬 Want to get involved? Email [email protected]

graphic of a doctor with a pad- text overlay reads wealth inequality and suicide prevention

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Discovering Liveability @d-liveability.bsky.social · Aug 28

Reminder! 🗓️

The Discovering Liveability team will be hosting a free online event next week. Join us on Monday 1st September to hear all about a key upcoming project of ours: The Lived and Living Experience Hub 💡

Sign up via the link below to receive a Microsoft Teams invite!

Introducing: A Lived and Living Experience Suicide Research Hub

Join us to learn more about Discovering Liveability’s development of a Lived and Living Experience Hub in suicide prevention research.

events.bookitbee.com

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Discovering Liveability @d-liveability.bsky.social · Aug 11

Last month The University of British Columbia's Men's Health Research Programme hosted the Reducing Male Suicide conference, where our researcher Sarah gave a presentation all about the #DiscoveringLiveability project.

Here are some photos from Sarah's time at the conference!
Photo C Hanna Ogawa

Selfie photo of Prof. John Oliffe (left) and Dr. Sarah Huque (right). They are both smiling.

A white table has 8 stacks of postcards with photos taken from around Vancouver, British Columbia and wider Canada.

Sarah Huque presenting on the left hand side from behind a wooden podium and on the right a large projector screen shows the first title page of a presentation. It says "Discovering Liveability: Co-producing alternatives to suicide prevention".

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Discovering Liveability @d-liveability.bsky.social · Aug 8

[Post #2 of 2] External job alert! On behalf of our critical suicide research group, sharing some exciting job opportunities on a work-related suicide and social justice project: shorturl.at/guFfz

Post doctoral research post based in Bordeaux, France: shorturl.at/mRCRa

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Discovering Liveability @d-liveability.bsky.social · Aug 8

[Post #1 of 2] External job alert! On behalf of our critical suicide research group, sharing some exciting job opportunities on a work-related suicide and social justice project: shorturl.at/guFfz

First researcher post is UK based at Healing Justice Ldn. shorturl.at/b6ADy

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Discovering Liveability @d-liveability.bsky.social · Aug 7

Introducing: A Lived and Living Experience Suicide Research Hub 💡

Join the #DiscoveringLiveability team for a free online event on Monday 1st September 12 - 1:30pm, where we’ll be introducing a key upcoming project of ours: The Lived and Living Experience Hub.

Follow the link below to register!

Introducing: A Lived and Living Experience Suicide Research Hub

Join us to learn more about Discovering Liveability’s development of a Lived and Living Experience Hub in suicide prevention research.

events.bookitbee.com

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Discovering Liveability @d-liveability.bsky.social · Aug 6

New blog post! 💻

This month’s #DiscoveringLiveability blog post comes from our researcher Dr Paro Ramesh and discusses the usage of AI within suicide research.

Click on the link below to read.

Tech for life? AI, Suicide Research, and the Right to a Liveable Future – Discovering Liveability: Co-producing Alternatives to Suicide Prevention

blogs.ed.ac.uk

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Discovering Liveability @d-liveability.bsky.social · Aug 5

Our #DiscoveringLiveability researcher Sarah is continuing her site visit to Canada with a trip to Stanley Park in Vancouver! 🌊

Vancouver is in the traditional, ancestral and unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.

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Sarah Huque @sarahhuque.bsky.social · Aug 4

Visited "the room(s) where it happens" while in Toronto - aka home of the Indigenous-led Critical Health & Social Action lab founded/directed by @d-liveability.bsky.social advisory board member Jeffrey Ansloos. Accompanied by truly nourishing discussion w/ long-time lab member Deanna Zantingh!

Office space with a glass door where the Critical Health & Social Action team are based at U of Toronto.

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Discovering Liveability @d-liveability.bsky.social · Jul 31

SAVE THE (NEW) DATE: Monday 1st September 🗓️

We'll be hosting our very first online event for the #DiscoveringLiveability project on Monday 1st September.

We will be sharing more details about the event and how to register soon, and we look forward to seeing you there!

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Sarah Huque @sarahhuque.bsky.social · Jul 23

Sharing some brilliant examples of interconnected, intergenerational, and evolving Indigenous community-led programmes and successes supported by Movember Canada. Really useful for thinking with for DL WP2 (community-based practices of care).

A slide with images from Indigenous-led programming, projected above a stage and the speaker.

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Sarah Huque @sarahhuque.bsky.social · Jul 23

Looking forward to the learning coming up tonight at this event as part of the UBC RMS week - provincial launch of the Real Face of Men's Health report. @d-liveability.bsky.social

Photo of panelists on stage to discuss the report.

Exterior of the UBC Robson Square building in the sun.

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Discovering Liveability @d-liveability.bsky.social · Jul 21

Last week, Co-Investigator @sarahhuque.bsky.social arrived in Vancouver, Canada for #DiscoveringLiveability’s first site visit. This week she'll be spending time with the Men’s Health Research Program at the University of British Columbia. Stay tuned for more updates along the way!

This image shows a selfie picture of Co-Investigator Sarah Huque on the sun deck of a ferry. Sarah is smiling at the camera and in the background, you can see plastic seats, a barrier and the ocean and mountains on the horizon.

This image shows a body of light blue water framed by dark green fir trees. Large mountains are silhouetted in the background and the sky is blue with some thin white clouds.

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Discovering Liveability @d-liveability.bsky.social · Jul 17

SAVE THE DATE: September 10th, 9:30 - 11am!

We'll be hosting our very first online event for the #DiscoveringLiveability project in September.

We will be sharing more details about the event and how to register soon, and we look forward to seeing you there!

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Discovering Liveability @d-liveability.bsky.social · Jul 10

Deadline approaching! 🗓️ Apply by Friday 18th July for our #DiscoveringLiveability Research Fellow role - just over a week left!

Research Fellow (Discovering Liveability)

Research Fellow (qualitative methods) to join the Discovering Liveability: Co-producing alternatives to suicide prevention project, contributing to innovative suicide research that centres liveability...

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Discovering Liveability @d-liveability.bsky.social · Jul 10

We would love to explore a potential collaboration! The quickest way to get your details onto our system is through signing up to the 'Discovering Liveability Contact List' form via the page linked below. If you could pop some contact details onto this form, we can be in touch in the coming weeks!

Get Involved – Discovering Liveability: Co-producing Alternatives to Suicide Prevention

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Discovering Liveability @d-liveability.bsky.social · Jul 8

As part of our ongoing exploration into ‘liveability’, we’ve asked our #DiscoveringLiveability team to keep an eye out for any images that they think speak to liveability in some way! This image was taken by one of our team members during a quiet moment at their local arts centre in Lincoln ☕️

A film picture of an empty arts cafe. There are tables and chairs placed in front of a small stage to the right, and sun is streaming in through multiple glass doors to the back of the room.

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Discovering Liveability @d-liveability.bsky.social · Jun 19

💡Job Opportunity!💡 We're looking for a Research Fellow to join the #DiscoveringLiveability team on a full-time and fixed-term basis for 12 months 🔎 For more information, follow the link below:

Research Fellow (Discovering Liveability)

Research Fellow (qualitative methods) to join the Discovering Liveability: Co-producing alternatives to suicide prevention project, contributing to innovative suicide research that centres liveability...

elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com

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Discovering Liveability @d-liveability.bsky.social · Jun 4

As part of our ongoing exploration into ‘liveability’, we’ve asked our #DiscoveringLiveability team to keep an eye out for any images that they think speak to liveability in some way. This next image was taken by one of our researchers in Sofia, Bulgaria. The text reads: ‘The Personal is Political’

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Amy Chandler @amychandler.bsky.social · Jun 3

Myself and several @d-liveability.bsky.social folks are in Glasgow this week for #EMCRF2025 hosted by @roryoc.bsky.social + team - great first day yesterday, especially loved Susan Rasmussen's keynote - excellent career advice via the medium of pigs!

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