@ahgchen
PhD researcher at @imh-uob.bsky.social | Investigating the social determinants of youth suicide | MGS ESRC DTP Joint studentship with @uniofnottingham.bsky.social I climb occasionally Birmingham, UK | he/him 🏳️🌈 ↳ https://ahgchen.uk
This review of 61 worldwide studies found that adolescents who reported being more religious or spiritual were less likely to think about suicide or attempt suicide. #spirituality https://twp.ai/4iqsif
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Is social media addictive to young people? A jury in California is being asked to decide — even though the question still divides researchers
go.nature.com/4qBed5I
During the report period 2013-23, there were 1700 suicides per year nationally by people under current or recent MH care. We @ncish.bsky.social examined their risks & stresses & clinical care. This video summarises the findings.
Mental health is shaped by more than just the mind.
Mental health is shaped by social and structural factors—yet too often, mental health policies fail to address them.
A realistic approach could definitely provide insights into what works for whom and in what context to help inform decision making.
The adapted review scopes, extracts, and maps policy documents using an existing framework to create programme theories which aim to understand why, how, for whom and in what circumstances national policies address the impacts of social determinants of self-harm and STB in England.
My first paper got published!
A protocol paper for an adapted rapid realist review to explore how national-level policies in England address the impact of social determinants on self-harm and suicidal thoughts and behaviours (STB) across the whole population.
doi.org/10.1136/bmjo...
Less than a week until the research day I've planned with colleagues goes ahead! From a small idea to an actual event that will (hopefully) have an impact on PGRs across the Midlands
Great call in from a casualised employee.
90,000 university staff on insecure contracts. The system is broken.
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We’ve secured funding to host a research day on emotionally demanding research 🎉
We hope that this event will help prepare PGRs/ECRs for EDR, equip them with valuable skills, and create open discussions. Huge thanks to our amazing speakers for giving their time so generously!
#AcademicSky
Today, we held our 6th Culture of Care Personalised Approach to Risk national learning event. This was focused on racial equity, self-harm and suicide prevention.
Two post-it notes with feedback - it's ok to ask if someone feels suicidal - very powerful event - a safe space to discuss incredibly important & difficult topic. As a researcher, these spaces are important to reconnect with the meaning
Two impactful takeaways from the Stronger Together - Empowering Community Action to Prevent Youth Suicide event
Great to hear from the panelists @mariamichail.bsky.social, Philip Pirie, Jane Boland, Leah Preston & Lizzie Mitchell.
Pooja Saini for chairing & Hajirah Jehan for putting it together!
Join us for our Autumn #IdentitiesEvents Series!
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Promotional card for The Lancet Public Health Series "A public health approach to suicide prevention".
“Experts call for public health approach to suicide prevention, with social factors addressed in addition to clinical treatment services”.
On #WorldSuicidePreventionDay, explore a 6-paper Series in @thelancetph.bsky.social: tinyurl.com/ycy9yue6 #WSPD
Hi, great question. So as a part of my research, I meet with a youth advisory group.
Whilst chronic pain specifically hasn't been discussed, we have talked about disability and it has been set as one of the priorities. So this is an area that I'm going to look into, hope that answers your question
The self-harm and suicide prevention research group at the @imh-uob.bsky.social aim to understand and tackle the risks of self-harm and suicide across different contexts.
Watch this video where
@willemjstander.bsky.social, @mkolitsida.bsky.social and I discuss our work.
youtu.be/9q2Qvi9PtuU?...
In support of this great work the Empowering Community Action to Prevent Youth Suicide event takes place 17/10/25 18:30–20:30. Open to young people, parents, carers, charities, suicide prevention services, local authorities, community leaders, and researchers. www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/stron...
Today on World Suicide Prevention Day 2025 we would like to share with you the great work on Empowering Community Action to Prevent Youth Suicide being undertaken by Dr Maria Michail a leading expert in the field of self-harm & suicide prevention at the University of Birmingham
youtu.be/T7eCWRsVn-s
There was an association of the world’s largest conditional cash transfer programme with a decrease in suicide rates in a cohort of half of the Brazilian population, so it's not just us
#RaiseTheRate #NobodyDeservesPoverty
#WorldSuicidePreventionDay
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
I hope that with my PhD, I can contribute to the growing literature around social determinants and suicide prevention and ultimately produce evidence-based recommendations for policy and research.
Suicide prevention research has largely focused on how we tackle these individual risks, though recently, greater attention has been given to social determinants.
What this means is that I'll be focusing on the broader social, political, economic and environmental factors as well as how they interact with individual risks.
My research involves Investigating the Social determInants of youTh suicidE (InSITE) 🔗 insite.ahgchen.uk
I'm examining broader upstream factors that influence suicidal thoughts, behaviours and self-harm among young people in England.
Today is #WorldSuicidePreventionDay, this year it's about transforming how we perceive this complex issue. I thought I'd talk about my PhD at @imh-uob.bsky.social and how I'm changing the narrative in terms of self-harm and suicide prevention research
Suicide prevention requires systemic change. Governments worldwide must:
- Decriminalise suicide
- Implement national suicide prevention strategies
- Fund accessible mental health care
Policy saves lives. Let’s demand action.
#WSPD2025
Our Annual Report 2025 provides findings related to people who died by suicide between 2012-2022 across the UK & Jersey. We also present findings on the number of people under #MentalHealth care who have been convicted of homicide, & those in the general population in the UK.
There is also a new mailing list for those working in the area of RPGs and it's applications to health, education and personal development: www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/weba... 🐉
Introducing: A Lived and Living Experience Suicide Research Hub 💡
Join the #DiscoveringLiveability team for a free online event on Monday 1st September 12 - 1:30pm, where we’ll be introducing a key upcoming project of ours: The Lived and Living Experience Hub.
Follow the link below to register!
PhD and ECR day We’re looking for: Researchers or professionals who would be interested in helping facilitate a reflexive practice writing session Researchers or professionals who would be interested in providing guides and resources on researcher wellbeing Reflective accounts from researchers who have conducted EDR If you are interested in working with us to run a session please contact Adam. a.chen@pgr.bham.ac.uk
We're looking to set up a research day for PhDs and ECRs to navigate emotionally demanding research and reflexive practice.
If you're interested in helping run a session / know people who may be interested, please contact us!
It will be in person at the University of Birmingham
Doing research on tough topics? Missed our seminar? You’re not alone.
Check out our first NABS+ seminar readout on navigating emotionally demanding work, including memory impacts and practical strategies for self-care and supervision here:
crestresearch.ac.uk/nabs/early-c...
