Tag: Suicide

Research Outputs

Staying Alive: Risk, Resistance and Responses to LGBT+ Youth Suicide in Scotland

Hazel Louise

My doctoral research, looking at LGBT+ youth suicide in Scotland, was hugely important to me both personally and professionally. So when I completed the research last year I was commited to finding ways to communicate it to different audiences, and I was delighted when I was successfully awarded a small pot of funding to organise an event as part of the ESRC’s Festival of Social Sciences. During the event I was able to share the research findings with service providers, practitioners and members of the community, and get their takes on the practicalities of implementing the suggestions made by participants.

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Reflections

Please put your own mask on first, before helping others: taking care of suicide researcher’s mental health and wellbeing

Hazel Louise
Photo by Tara Winstead from Pexels

As suicide researchers we inevitably think about suicide (virtually) every day. We spend our time reading, writing and thinking about the saddest and darkest times in other people’s, and sometimes our own, lives. We want to understand these experiences, we want to improve these difficult times, and we want to enhance the support available to mitigate these difficulties. We invest huge amounts of time and energy into considering the ethical complexities of designing and undertaking this research to safeguard the wellbeing of our participants and, when it’s done, we reflect on whether we have done enough and on what more we could do. It is fair to say that suicide research inevitably comes with a range of emotional demands.

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Reflections

It’s good to talk? The power of talking about suicidal distress as a tool for suicide prevention.

Hazel Louise

Ask twice? 

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“Ask twice” was the key take-away message from Roman Kemp’s documentary Our Silent Emergency aired on Tuesday night. The programme followed Kemp’s attempt to make sense of the suicide of his friend Joe, and later on in the programme his own mental health problems, by talking to others bereaved by suicide.

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Reflections

The Wilds of Representing LGBTQ+ youth suicide.

Hazel Louise
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Now I’m guessing the pandemic 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 read on if you don’t want to read them.

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Reflections

Talking about suicide in 2020

Hazel Louise
Photo by Polina Tankilevitch from Pexels

The New Year is a time for reflection. As my work focuses on developing understandings of suicidal distress, in thinking back over 2020, I reflected on the increase in public conversations about mental health, and in particular on two specific conversations about suicide that I noticed during the past year.  

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Reflections

“What do you think would reduce LGBT+ youth suicide in the future?”

Hazel Louise
Photo by Chris Johnson on Unsplash

Yasmin: For LGBT+ young people specifically, just societally, if you have a feeling, especially when you’re young that you’re not going to be accepted and it’s going to be harder for you to sort of move through the world because of your identity, that brings a real feeling of hopelessness.

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Reflections

International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, Interphobia and Transphobia (IDAHOBIT)

Hazel Louise
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The International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, Interphobia and Transphobia (IDAHOBIT). IDAHOBIT happens every year on the 17th of May and provides an opportunity for people (LGBTI people and our allies) who feel able, to stand visibly against discrimination and harassment faced by LGBTI people.

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