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Changing the narrative on suicide and revisioning nurse regulation
In September last year, on World Suicide Prevention Day 2025, colleagues on the team wrote a powerful blog piece called Revisioning the Narrative.
World Suicide Prevention Day this year continues the theme of changing the narrative on suicide, which is so aligned with our work.
Taking a closer look at Nursing
As the next stage of our research commences, we turn our attention to exploring nurses’ experiences of stress, distress and suicidality. Whilst all elements of our study are interested in women nurses’ psychological wellbeing and health, we are taking a closer, in some senses ‘deeper’, look at the everyday experiences of individual nurses.
Redefining Resilience & belonging in a shifting landscape
Friday 6th March 2026 marks Overseas NHS Workers' Day, a celebration of the extraordinary contributions migrant health workers make to the NHS and to the United Kingdom and to honour the deep commitment, expertise, strength and diversity they bring to the health and social care workforce. Angela Kumar explores what resilience means for migrant health workers in the face of changing political and cultural climates.
Why take a gendered approach to understanding violence and abuse?
This year, Tuesday 25th November was White Ribbon Day: a day that seeks to raise awareness of the global epidemic of violence against women and girls. White Ribbon Day is also the start of a sixteen-day period of campaigning and awareness raising about violence against women and girls, sometimes referred to as the 16 Days of Action. This year the campaign will end on Wednesday 10th December.
Revisioning the narrative
The theme for this years World Suicide Prevention Day is Changing the Narrative on Suicide. It is a theme that aligns well with the focus of our research on suicide in women nurses. We use the word ‘revisioning’ in the title of our Wellcome Trust funded study to describe our groundbreaking and transformative approach.
Far from home, close to purpose
A personal journey of growth, identity, and career as a nurse in the UK.
Articulating our value base
Sharing the value base that drives us individually and collectively, and will underpin our work.
Celebrating and Supporting Internationally Qualified Nurses
For this NHS Overseas Workers Day, we focus on Internationally Qualified Nurses working in the NHS; their contributions, challenges and how our work is addressing this.
Your views matter
We want to hear different viewpoints on why there are higher rates of suicide in women nurses.
How our understanding of context informs our understanding of nurse suicide; and why we need change.
There are 30 million nurses world-wide and the NHS, the largest employer in Europe, employs more women than any other organisation. It is also the principal employer of nurses of whom, 89% are women and one in four are from the global ethnic majority. Yet, the majority of suicide research and policy is gender- and colour-blind.