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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.

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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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Hazel Marzetti @hazelmarzetti.bsky.social · Sep 1

It's September and so the Queer Minds Scotland online seminar series returns!

This month we're excited to have @kevinguyan.bsky.social presenting the 'Rainbow Trap: Queer Lives, Categories and the Dangers of Inclusion'

Please join us 25th September 4-5

events.bookitbee.com/university-o...

Queer Lives, Data and the Dangers of Inclusion

Join author Kevin Guyan to explore ideas from his new book Rainbow Trap: Queer Lives, Categories and the Dangers of Inclusion

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UCU Scotland @ucuscotland.bsky.social · Sep 8

Busy @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social picket lines this morning at Edinburgh University with staff striking to defend jobs and oppose the biggest cuts seen in Scottish higher education #SaveHE #NoCompulsoryRedundancies #StopTheCuts

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UCU Scotland @ucuscotland.bsky.social · Sep 8

Edinburgh University staff begin walkout amid dispute over £140m cuts plan news.stv.tv/east-central...

Edinburgh University lecturers begin walkout amid dispute over £140m cuts plan

The University and College Union said cutting staff would amount to ‘academic vandalism on an unprecedented scale’.

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UCU Scotland @ucuscotland.bsky.social · Sep 8

Pickets across @edinburghuni.bsky.social campus this morning opposing £140million cuts and up to 1,800 jobs going, including by compulsory redundancies #SaveHE #NoCompulsoryRedundancies #StopTheCuts

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UCU Scotland @ucuscotland.bsky.social · Sep 8

Today's @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social rally to defend jobs and oppose cuts at Edinburgh university #SaveHE #NoCompulsoryRedundancies #StopTheCuts

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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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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · Aug 6

Today we learned Andrew Cuomo is directly coordinating with Donald Trump, even as this President sends masked agents to rip our neighbors off the streets and guts the social services so many New Yorkers rely on.

It’s disqualifying and a betrayal of our city.

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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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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

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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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Sarah Huque @sarahhuque.bsky.social · Jul 25

It's been a privilege to learn from all of the amazing scholars and practitioners I've met so far on my research visit to Canada for @d-liveability.bsky.social - including catching up in-person with Prof John Oliffe from our Research Advisory Group!