Research to Action returns for another seminar, connecting researchers and activists to rethink masculinities, deepen the fight against gender based violence, and build for gender equality.
Effective professional support can potentially stop suicidal distress from getting worse, but men are less likely than women to seek help. So what are the invisible walls that men encounter, and how can we, as a society, actively dismantle them?
This talk will look at some of the challenges that men who are suicidal experience around accessing professional support and what can be done to reduce them. Moving beyond simplistic stereotypes of men as reluctant help-seekers, the event will explore the societal, cultural, and psychological barriers that discourage men from accessing help, and think together about how we can either remove or help men to overcome them.
Susanna Bennett explores the barriers that prevent men who are suicidal from seeking help, and how we can support them to overcome these.
Susanna Bennett is a research fellow at the Suicidal Behaviour Research Lab, University of Glasgow. Her work focuses on exploring and understanding suicide risk and recovery factors in men. She has done studies synthesizing twenty years of male suicide research, explored help-seeking barriers for men, childhood challenges and developed an agenda of priorities for male suicide research. Her work has been supported by thousands of men worldwide sharing their insights and experiences.
Beyond Equality give leading researchers an opportunity to share their work, and open the floor to you for a Q&A session to deepen the conversation.