Exploring Locality in the context of suicide risk: implications for research and policy

Suicide is in the top 10 causes of life years lost. We know that there are geographical and temporal variations in suicide rates that cannot readily be explained by individual risk factors alone and that major disruptive social factors, such as an economic downturn, do not have a uniform effect on suicide rates across localities. This one day workshop will seek to explore the interaction between an individual and their physical, cultural and social environment to understand how this may confer risk of suicide, or resilience to it.

The workshop will bring together researchers from across disciplinary boundaries, stakeholders and policy makers to develop new approaches to suicide research. We will seek to move beyond a focus on individual and group characteristics and explore ways to investigate the interactions between people, their environment and their context.

Keynote speakers

Dr Amy Chandler, University of Edinburgh

Dr China Mills, City, University of London