NURSING • SCOTLAND • LIVED EXPERIENCE
Understanding crisis.
Creating opportunities to help.
Crisis Narrative explores suicide and mental health experiences among nurses in Scotland, bringing together official records, survey research and oral histories.
A Medical Research Foundation Fellowship
University of Glasgow
Healthy Working Lives Group
Scottish nursing experiences
1980–2025
THE RESEARCH
Patterns. Experiences. Meaning.
Each part of the study answers a different question. Together, they help us understand the circumstances around distress and the opportunities to offer support.
01 / OFFICIAL RECORDS
Looking across time
Examining recorded suicide deaths and occupational information to understand patterns across the period 1980–2025.
02 / NATIONAL SURVEY
Listening across nursing careers
Gathering anonymous accounts of distress, self-harm, help-seeking and workplace pressures from current and former nurses.
03 / ORAL HISTORIES
Understanding lived experience
Listening closely to how crises are experienced, remembered and described, alongside the contexts in which they unfold.
SHAPED BY EXPERIENCE
The people behind the evidence.
Nurses, people with lived experience, bereaved families and occupational health professionals bring perspectives that records alone cannot provide.
We want the research to reflect what matters to the people whose lives and working experiences it seeks to understand.
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About Crisis Narrative
Read about the study, its purpose and the fellowship supporting it.
RESEARCH IN PRACTICE
What we hope to learn
How the findings could inform occupational health, workplace support and future prevention research.
THE NEXT CHAPTER
RESUME and future research
The wider programme, and how this foundation could support the development and evaluation of prevention approaches.
Better evidence. Earlier support. Fewer deaths.
A research programme focused on understanding nurses’ experiences and identifying opportunities to help.
