Suicide Voices: Narratives of Trauma in the Globalised Workplace. (360G-Wellcome-110436_Z_15_Z)

£46,548

This project examines the 'epidemic' of suicides within the globalised workplace during the 2000s and asks why work or conditions of work can push some individuals to take their own lives. It aims to bring a critical humanities perspective based on a close reading of suicide testimonies in their social, cultural and economic contexts, to bear on emerging public health research on the rise of economic suicides internationally. The project investigates what suicidal individuals' own testimonies ca n tell us about the social conditions that motivate self-killing in work and therefore provides a critical alternative to current epidemiological approaches to suicide in public health. Building on an emerging collaboration between humanities and public health researchers in the UK and France, the project breaks new ground in its interdisciplinary, methodological and international scope. It has three main goals: 1. To create a new interdisciplinary and transnational research network that expand s and deepens our understanding of the workplace suicide crisis internationally. 2. To publish two peer-reviewed articles that draw on the projects findings and target both English and French-speaking academic audiences. 3. To develop a joint funding application (with Prof Martin McKee) for the Wellcome Trust's Senior Investigator Awards.

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Grant Details

Amount Awarded 46548
Applicant Surname Waters
Approval Committee Seed Committee, Medical Humanities
Award Date 2015-09-17T00:00:00+00:00
Financial Year 2014/15
Grant Programme: Title Seed Award in H&SS
Internal ID 110436/Z/15/Z
Lead Applicant Prof Sarah Waters
Partnership Value 46548
Planned Dates: End Date 2016-12-31T00:00:00+00:00
Planned Dates: Start Date 2016-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
Recipient Org: Country United Kingdom
Region Yorkshire and the Humber