We’re back from summer vacation! Join us on Oct 9th for a virtual World Café for researchers on mental health & extreme events, co-organised by our Lamia Moghnieh and Centre for Social Work Innovation and Research, Royal Holloway and RC49 - Sociology of Mental Health & Illness Read more & register here: shorturl.at/qdG7S #cultmind

📣If you are a researcher, survivor researcher, practitioner, or peer worker from a context affected by extreme events, and are interested in their impact on mental well-being, this event on researching responses to distress is for you: shorturl.at/p05gi

A reminder the submission deadline is October 15, 2024 (24:00 UTC), with no extensions! To submit your abstract go to isaconf.confex.com/isaconf/forum2…

ISA Forum 2025 on 'Academic Achievement, Mental Health, and Wellbeing: Racial and Ethnic Experiences in Higher Education.' Please send your abstract soon; the deadline is 15th October 2024 (next week). isaconf.confex.com/isaconf/forum2…

My second session at the ISA Forum 2025 is on 'Emotion of Caste, Mental Health, and Self-Harm.' Could you also please send your abstract by 15th October 2024 (next week), as the deadline approaches? isaconf.confex.com/isaconf/forum2…

A final reminder - The submission deadline for the ISA Forum in Rabat in 2025 is October 15, 2024 (24:00 UTC), with no extensions! The RC49 sessions can be found here: isa-sociology.org/en/conferences…

Our next online seminar on 19.11.24 at 7.00pm UTC Using ethnography in services supporting people with cognitive difficulties and mental health problems: Issues and principles with Kjeld Høgsbro and Rich Moth. See forthcoming activities for link at: tinyurl.com/5f2rkbh3

Our Wellcome Trust Discovery Award on work-related suicides will start on 1 February 2025. Summary below: wellcome.org/grant-funding/…

New publication by RC49 member Ireen Kabembo - Forgone healthcare for medically vulnerable groups during the pandemic era: experiences of family caregivers of young adults with substance use disorders in Zambia x.com/share?url=http…

This Thursday - The Sociology of Mental Health Social Work (an online event between RC49 and the European Social Work Research Association Special Interest Group) - January 16th 2025 at 18.00-19.00 UTC. Link to join under 'forthcoming activities' at tinyurl.com/ycxvh52d

Important new paper by CDAS’s Diana Teggi, Jeremy Dixon and Matt Dickson

A co-produced review of the experiences of Black male detention under mental health legislation: challenging discrimination in Psychiatry using the Silences Framework doi.org/10.1371/journa…