Contact me – Meet Si, your new happy friendly conference friend! (Let’s Collaborate)

Hi There,

I’m Dr Simon Harold Walker, Senior Research Lead / Senior Resesrch Associate for the Healthy Working Lives Group at the University of Glasgow. I’m a Suicidologist, a Historian, a Sociologist, and a Occupational Health Research Specialist. (Please delete as applicable for how i introduced myself when we chatted 😀).

Here are my contact details –

simon.walker@glasgow.ac.uk – Glasgow Uni Address (OH, Suicide, Research, PPIE)

Simon.walker@gcu.ac.uk- GCU (Lecturing in Social Sciences and Research Methods)

sceconsultants2018@gmail.com – Sce Consultants (Company Lead for digital design and online educational resource creation)

07780002920 (be warned, if you are a spammer I will keep you on the phone by describing in detail the Role of the Health and Safety Act of 1974 in modern working Britain, complete with examples, short skits, and commedic observations)

A brief overview of my experience, skills, and projects

Suicide: over the last 8 years develop significant experience in suicide prevention and suicidality prevention. Currently publishing a book “Silent Voices” on military suicide with Palgrave Mcmillian. Due 2025. Current research project – RESUME: Research into Nursing Suicide recognition and Prevention.

www.resume-uk.org

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

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

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

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. “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·

Walker, S., “Silent Voices, Suicide in the First World War” in Paulo Teodoro de Matos (Matos, P. T. de); José Miguel Sardica (Sardica, José Miguel); Helena da Silva (Silva, Helena), War Hecatomb. International Effects on Public Health, Demography and Mentalities in the 20th Century, (Peter Lang, 2019).

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

Occupational Health: currently leading 3 projects in Occupational Health Research.

1. POWER – http://www.power-research.org – aging worker job loss risk factor investigation within the UK
2. Long COVID – http://www.glasgow.ac.uk/hwlg – investigation into the long term impacts of long COVID on workers in three countries.
3. Working for Health – Evaluation study into a novel return to work / reemployment scheme in Ayrshire, Scotland.

Brown, J, Walker S, et Al, (2024) Investigating sustainability in work after participating in a welfare to work initiative using a 2-year cohort study of Work Programme participants in Scotland., BMJ Open,

National Suicide Prevention Toolkit 2023 NHS https://www.england.nhs.uk/long-read/working-together-to-prevent-suicide-in-the-nhs-workforce/

Simon Harold Walker. (2022) ‘Long COVID and Return to Work- What Works? A position paper from the Society of Occupational Medicine’, Society of Occupational Medicine