Books, chapters, peer-reviewed research, reports and public writing across occupational health, suicide, military history and medical humanities.
Books
Physical Control, Transformation, and Damage in the First World War: War Bodies
Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. A history of how British soldiers’ bodies were constructed, conditioned, controlled and damaged in the pursuit of victory.
Silent Voices: A Long Century of British Military Suicide, 1900–2020
Book in progress. A century of British military suicide examined through historical records, institutional responses and personal testimony.
Book chapters
- Walker, S. H. (2021), “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, McFarland, pp. 21–36.
- Walker, S. H. (2019), “‘Silent Deaths’: British Soldier Suicides in the First World War”, in H. da Silva, P. T. de Matos and J. M. Sardica (eds), War Hecatomb, Peter Lang, pp. 25–55.
Journal and professional articles
- Walker, S. H. (2026), “Breaking the silence: addressing nurse suicide through occupational health”, Mental Health Practice, 29(3). DOI.
- Brown, J., Walker, S. H. 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, 14(7), e072943. DOI.
- Walker, S. H. (2023), “Toughening up: bullying in the British Army during the First World War”, Journal of Military and Veterans’ Health, 31(1), pp. 19–31.
- Walker, S. H. (2020), “British suicide in context”, Viewpoint: Magazine of the British Society for the History of Science, 122.
- Walker, S. H. (2019), “The Greater Good: Agency and Inoculation in the British Army, 1914–18”, Canadian Bulletin of Medical History, 36(1), pp. 131–157. DOI.
- Walker, S. H. (2019), “Synthesizing Super Soldiers: Military Medicine in Fiction and Reality”, Pulse: The Journal of Science and Culture, 6, pp. 17–31.
- Walker, S. H. (2016), “Saving Bodies and Souls: Army Chaplains and Medical Care in the First World War”, Postgraduate Journal of Medical Humanities, 3, pp. 24–38.
Reports, websites and exhibitions
- Keith, N. et al., including Walker, S. H. (2026), Equitable Communities of Health in the Climate Era, exhibition and project. DOI.
- Walker, S. H. and Harriss, A. (2022), “‘Is it something difficult?’ Understanding suicide through occupational health with a case study on nursing”.
- Rayner, C. et al., including Walker, S. H. (2022), Long COVID and Return to Work: What Works?, Society of Occupational Medicine position paper.
Public and non-academic writing
- “If We Want to Address the Crisis of Veteran Suicide, We Must Acknowledge Its History”, Time (2019).
- “We Need to Talk about Suicide in the Military”, The Conversation (2019).
- “The Overwhelming Number of Suicidal Military Members, and the Neglect They Face”, The Independent (2019).
- “How WWI Soldiers’ Bodies Were Controlled, Transformed and Abused to Secure Victory”, The Conversation (2020).
- “Your Country Still Needs You: Why the British Army Is Running the Same Old Campaign a Century after WWI”, The Conversation (2019).
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Dr Simon Harold Walker 