Research, history and public engagement about work, health and suicide prevention.
I am Dr Simon Harold Walker, a University of Glasgow researcher and writer. My work moves between occupational health, suicide prevention, evidence synthesis, military history and public engagement. The aim is simple: make difficult evidence useful, human and hard to ignore.
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SOLVE
A practical first response when someone discloses suicidal distress, developed with lived experience, workplaces and experts.
Feeding Under Fire
Watch the complete educational series about trench food, military history and the people who had to eat it.
Books and publications
Books, chapters, peer-reviewed research, evidence reports and public writing, organised by type and linked to the full record.
Research in focus
Work and health
Occupational health, Long COVID, job retention, older workers and the conditions that shape working lives.
RESUME
Research into Scottish nursing suicide and mental-health experiences, combining records, survey research and oral history.
Military mental health
Current evidence work with serving personnel and veterans, alongside the book-in-progress Silent Voices.
Latest writing
- Hello 🙂
- “Always Look on the Bright Side of Life” – Nurse Suicide, Personal Loss, and Future Prevention.
- Through the (Medical) Scanner Darkly
- World Suicide Prevention Day: Life Events, Loss, and the Work Ahead
- What Future for the Humanities in Britain? My Friends – Do Not Go Gently Into That Good Night!
- Chatbots, Suicide, and the Rage against the Machine
A different route into difficult subjects
The State We’re In
My interactive topical comedy panel show brings two teams of comedians together to tackle news, politics, culture and public life. It is one part of a broader public-engagement practice built around making difficult subjects discussable, memorable and human.
Dr Simon Harold Walker 