amychandler.bsky.social
Professor of the Sociology of Health and Illness. Researching suicide, self-harm, bodies/embodiment and 'mental' health. Lived experience & liveability. Scotland/Edinburgh. She/her. @d-liveability.bsky.social #suicidecultures
👤 Joined on 14 November 2024
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@amychandler.bsky.social2 years ago @the-polyphony.bsky.social kindly invited me @gmthomas.bsky.social @amychandler.bsky.social & Tanisha to write about the book we were putting together on stigma (see ⬇️). Now it's out @brisunipress.bsky.social they've let us do a mini-takeover! 1/5 thepolyphony.org/2023/09/11/r...
Show PostI'm grateful to @hazelmarzetti.bsky.social @amychandler.bsky.social et al for doing this research and having these conversations, it helps me to make sense of what I feel on a personal level and what I witness on a community level.
Show PostI recognise both cruel optimism & suicide postponement as states that we wrestle with at Not the Void UK. We do discuss what it will mean when/if a member dies, what responsibility to each other but not for each other actually means. doi.org/10.1177/0038...
Show PostThis has been a long time in the making (understatement!). Massive thanks to @academicdiary.bsky.social @saranahmed.bsky.social, Alice Bloch, Tia DeNora, @sophierwoodward.bsky.social and @amychandler.bsky.social for guiding our thinking. Thank you also to @rosedwards.bsky.social for the support.
Show PostWe are recruiting a UK- based researcher to our project on work-related suicide and social justice @amychandler.bsky.social @drhilarycauser.bsky.social www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOC725/r...
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