8th Suicide & Self-harm Early & Mid-Career Researchers’ Forum

Event Description

The Suicidal Behaviour Research Laboratory (SBRL) is delighted to announce the eighth Suicide and Self-Harm Early and Mid-Career Researchers’ Forum (EMCRF24), which will be held at the Glasgow Grosvenor Hotel, on 17^th and 18^th June 2024. EMCRF24 is open to all working in the field of suicide and self-harm research, but it is specifically targeted at Earl and Mid-Career Researchers. It will provide a space for support, networking, and collaborations among Masters, PhD, and Post-doctoral research students as well as more established researchers.

The EMCR Forum will yield opportunities for investigators at an early stage of their career to receive the advice and guidance of more senior scientists in the field and create a supportive context for EMCRs to share their experiences and discuss the challenges faced in suicide and self-harm research, as well as fostering potential future research collaborations. The Forum also provides the opportunity to present your latest research and study projects in progress to colleagues, peers, health professionals, and policy makers. In short, if you are a researcher (at any stage of your career) in the field of suicide and self-harm please consider attending and/or presenting.

We are looking forward to welcoming you to Glasgow.

The Suicidal Behaviour Research Lab Team

Keynote Speakers

Professor Sally McManus

Sally works with population data to understand temporal trends and inequalities in mental health and self-harm, including the influence of working environments, debt and poverty, and experiences of domestic and sexual violence and abuse. She is the Director of the interdisciplinary Violence and Society Centre at City University of London, and a Deputy Director of the VISION consortium (Home – City Vision), which aims to improve measurement and data to inform violence prevention and reduce health inequalities. Sally is affiliated with the National Centre for Social Research, where she advises on government studies like the Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey and Mental Health of Children and Young People survey, which provide some of England’s official statistics on the prevalence of self-harm and suicide attempts.

Professor Derek de Beurs

Derek de Beurs is an assistant professor in the Department of Clinical Psychology at the University of Amsterdam. He has dedicated nearly 15 years to studying suicidal behaviour, commencing with a PhD focusing on the training of professionals in suicide prevention. Currently, his research is centered on exploring the complexity of suicidal behaviour through network analysis, a pursuit for which he received an individual grant in 2017. Derek has authored over 80 peer-reviewed papers and has written a popular science book (in Dutch) on suicide prevention titled “Myths About Suicide.” He has delivered numerous talks both nationally and internationally, spanning scientific and public forums, and serves as a member of the writing group responsible for updating the Dutch clinical guideline for suicidal behaviour.

Provisional Program

Monday 17th June 2024
11:30 – 12:30 | Registration
12:30 – 12:45 | Welcoming remarks
12:45 – 13:30 | Opening Keynote Presentation – Professor Sally McManus
13:30 – 14:45 | Oral presentation – Parallel sessions A & B
14:45 – 15:35 | Poster session, coffee and networking
15:35 – 16:50 | Oral presentation – Parallel sessions C & D
19:00 | Dinner at La Vita Spuntinis, 199 Byers Road, Glasgow

Registration

Registration cost: £70*

Registration deadline: Friday 31^st May 2024

Payment options: Credit/debit card, Invoice, or Pay at the door.

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If you are paying your registration on the day of the conference, we can only accept cash (no cheques, or credit/debit cards). Please bring the exact amount of £70. We will provide receipts on the day.

If you are paying your registration by invoice, please email the SBRL team (glasgowwellbeing@gmail.com) the following details:

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Refund policy: Refunding requests will only be accepted by Thursday 6^th June 2024.

*Please note: Conference dinner is not included in the cost of registration.

*Please note: unfortunately, even with SBRL heavily subsidising EMCRF tickets, our costs have increased, therefore we have had to increase the price of registration from previous years.

Dinner

We will have an informal dinner on Monday 17^th June at 7pm at La Vita Spuntinis, on Byres Road in the West End of Glasgow. If you wish to come, please select the option when registering on the Eventbrite page. Please note, however, that the costs of the dinner are not included in the registration fees – everyone will buy their dinner ticket at the registration desk. The dinner will cost £20 and choice of meal will be from the fixed menu. Spaces will be limited (first come, first served).

Location

We are excited to announce that the 8^th Suicide & Self-harm EMCR’s Forum will be held in-person at Glasgow Grosvenor Hotel

This location is in the heart of Glasgow’s West End with transport links from Hillhead Subway Station to the City Centre (Glasgow Buchanan Street or St Enoch) via Glasgow Subway.

Call for Submissions (adapted from BPS guidelines)

Presentations will be in the format of a brief 10-minute oral presentation or a poster. Authors can present complete studies or work in progress. This latter type of presentation allows researchers to provide information about, and share their reflections on, work in progress. For all types of presentations, the abstract should have clear and explicit aims and objectives, hypotheses or research questions; methods should be clearly described, with an explicit statement of intended sample characteristics and justification for this; a clear plan of analysis should be outlined, which should make clear how the intended analyses will address the research aims or research question; and the discussion section should clarify the expected or potential implications of the research.

Abstract Submission:

• Abstracts submission will be via an online system: Abstract submission is now closed.
• Closing date for abstract submissions is Friday 12th April 2024 23:59 (GMT).
• Questions should be sent to SBRL Team at: glasgowwellbeing@gmail.com.

Guidelines for the Preparation of Posters:
• Poster sizes that best fit the boards are A1 or A0, vertical layout.

Important Dates:

Abstract submission deadline: Friday 12^th April 2024 [CLOSED].

Abstract acceptance: Wednesday 1st May 2024.

Registration deadline: Friday 31^st May 2024.

We look forward to welcoming you to Glasgow!

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