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Hi,

I’m Simon (Si), Dr Simon Harold Walker ,and I’m guessing you got here either because I bugged you in person or badgered you online about our interests and work similarities.

My contact details –

simon.walker@glasgow.ac.uk at the University of Glasgow

Simonwalker2018@gmail.com for non academic collaboration.

I am a Historical Suicidologist, Medical Military Historian, and Senior Researcher in Occupational Health. I have research interests in Suicide, Aging and Work, Occupational Health, Vaccination, British Military History, Popular Culture, Medical and Health research, Covid, the life of P.E.M., Captain A. Dreyfus, Digital teaching and innovative pedigogy, and various other areas.

I am currently a Senior Research Associate at the University of Glasgow with the School of Health and Wellbeing, based within the Healthy Working Lives Group. Currently working on Long Covid research, aging workers, and nursing suicide.

I am also the co founder of the Occupational Health Suicide Prevention and Research Network

I hope you have a wee look around my site, and do get in contact.

Some information on my outputs below.

Monographs • Walker S. Physical Control, Transformation, and Damage in the First World War: War Bodies (London: Bloomsbury, 2020).

Articles • Walker S. with A. Harris, “Finding new ways to teach methods and mannerisms for making the student the center of the learning process” Occupational Health and Wellbeing (2022), IN PRINT •

Walker S. “Toughening Up: Bullying in the British Army during the First World War’, Journal of Military and Veterans’ Health (2022), IN PRINT •

Walker S. & A. Harris, “Is it something difficult?’ Understanding Suicide through Occupational Health with a case study on Nursing.’, Occupational Health and Wellbeing (2022), IN PRINT •

Brown, J., S. H. Walker, R. McQuaid, S. V. Katikireddi, A. H. Leyland, J. Frank, D. Mackay, & E. B. Macdonald, ‘Sustainability in work after participating in a welfare to work initiative: implications for health services and policy makers’ BMJ OPEN, (2022), IN PRINT. •

Walker S. ‘British Suicide in Context’, Viewpoint: Magazine of the British Society for the History of Science, 121 (2020), p.17‐19. •

Walker S. ‘The Greater Good: Agency and Inoculation in the British Army 1914‐1918’ Canadian Bulletin of Medical History, 36.1 (2019), pp. 131‐157. •

Walker S. ‘“If We Want to Address the Crisis of Veteran Suicide, We Must Acknowledge Its History’, Time Magazine (Online), (2019), https://time.com/5670036/veteran‐suicide‐history/ •

Walker S. ‘Synthesizing Super Soldiers’ Pulse: The Journal of Science and Culture (2019), pp.17‐31. • Walker, S. ‘Saving Bodies and Souls ‐ To what extent were Army Chaplains an Important part of Medical Care in the First World War?’, Postgraduate Journal of Medical Humanities, 3 (2016), pp 24‐38.

Chapters •

Walker S. ‘Dark Gods: Societal Reflections and the Red Son in the 21st Century’ in J. Darowski (ed.) Adapting Superman: Essays on the Man of Steel in Transmedia Context (USA: McFarland and Company, 2021), pp.21‐36. •

Walker, S. ‘Silent Voices: British Soldier Suicides in the First World War.’ Da Silver, H. (ed.) Hecatombs of War, (Stern: Peter Lang, 2019), pp.25‐55.

In Progress Monographs •

Walker S. Silent Voices: A Long Century of British Military Suicide: 1900 – 2020 (Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023), (Under contract; submission in 2023)

Public Political and Historical Engagement / Journalism / Knowledge Exchange Publications

• “How WWI Soldiers’ Bodies Were Controlled, Transformed and Abused to Secure Victory’ The Conversation (2020), https://theconversation.com/how‐wwi‐soldiers‐bodies‐were‐controlled‐transformed‐and‐abused‐to‐secure‐victory‐ 149488

• “Your Country Still Needs You: Why the British Army Is Running the Same Old Campaign A Century After WWI”, The Conversation (2019), https://theconversation.com/your‐country‐still‐needs‐you‐why‐the‐british‐army‐is‐running‐the‐ same‐old‐campaign‐a‐century‐after‐wwi‐122755

• “The Overwhelming Number Of Suicidal Military Members, and The Neglect They Face”, The Independent (2019), https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/military‐mental‐healthsuicide‐veterans‐ptsd‐war‐mod‐a8987746.html

• “We Need to Talk about Military Suicide”, The Conversation (2019), https://theconversation.com/we‐need‐to‐talk‐ about‐suicide‐in‐the‐military‐119219

• “Scottish Military Suicide”, UTP Journals (2019), http://blog.utpjournals.com/2019/07/08/scottish‐military‐suicide‐ long‐ twentieth‐century/ Key Research and Additional Academic Experience