WORKSHOP: Empirical Analysis of Suicidal Behaviour
A workshop on analysing suicidal behaviour will be held in the Department of Economics, NUI Galway on June 18th, 2008. The workshop will begin at 9.00 a.m. The aim of the workshop is to present empirical research whose focus is the explanation of suicidal behaviour. The venue is Room 116 in the Cairnes Building which is located on the North Campus of NUI Galway. For further information about the workshop please email Brendan Kennelly at brendan.kennelly@nuigalway.ie or ring 091 493094. The number of people attending the workshop is limited and people are required to register their interest in attending the workshop with Brendan Kennelly before the workshop. People attending will be expected to have a good understanding of econometric or statistical techniques.
SPEAKERS
1. Mary Daly (Federal Reserve Bank, San Francisco): Relative Status and Well-Being: Evidence from U.S. Suicide Deaths
2. Antonio RodrÃguez (Universidad de Castilla La Mancha): Political institutions and suicide: An empirical analysis of data from Switzerland and the U.S.
3. Paul Corcoran (National Suicide Research Foundation): TBA
4. Ella Arensman (National Suicide Research Foundation): TBA
5. Eoghan Garvey and Brendan Kennelly (NUI Galway): The Determinants of Suicide in the OECD: Time Trends and Time Series Analysis for Panel Data
6. Liam Delaney, Kevin Malone and Emer Carey O'Loughlin (UCD): Explaining recent trends in female suicide rates in Ireland
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Sounds like an interesting workshop. I posted recently on the blog about how universities in NI are set to study the rise in male suicide in that region.
http://gearybehaviourcenter.blogspot.com/2008/04/universities-in-ni-to-study-rise-in.html
(Or type "suicide" in the blog searcch bar).
Researchers from Queen’s and the University of Ulster have urged young men in the suicide hot-spot of north and west Belfast who have considered taking their lives to speak to them in a bid to help others in the same situation.
In the coming months the research will be extended to Craigavon, Co Armagh, and Banbridge, Co Down.
The team want to speak confidentially to men aged between 16 and 35 who have thought seriously about or acted with the intention of suicide, in order to develop care and support programmes for those at risk.
Any young men in the north and west of Belfast who wish to take part in the study can contact the team through Mr McGowan on 07894 646690 or by email to menssuicidestudyulster.ac.uk.
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