4th January 2021 Dear Diary My most read post last year, entitled ‘When Two Worlds Potentially Collide’ reflected on my conflicting roles as a researcher and a person bereaved by suicide. I thought you might like to read it.
Penguins Australia has the smallest penguins in the world and they are only 13 inches tall. Might put one in my pocket! What a difficult life/job they have. They are so vulnerable. They are easy prey for seals whilst they swim and hunt for food and easy prey for...
I work in the Centre for Mental Health and Risk at the University of Manchester which is the largest suicide prevention research unit internationally. I am currently in the early stages of developing the first suicide bereavement research unit in the UK. This is an...
I can hear myself moaning now, ‘I never win anything!’ Well I might have never won the lottery or even a raffle prize, but it seems my luck is changing. I have recently been awarded a Winston Churchill Travel Fellowship to visit Australia and New Zealand to learn how...
So where shall I begin? My life before my brother died, my experience of being bereaved by suicide, my work as a researcher, my vision to develop the first suicide bereavement research unit in the UK or my exciting travel fellowship to Australia and New Zealand,...
