RESUME grew from Dr Simon Walker’s research on historical military suicide and his subsequent work in occupational health. It brought questions about working lives, mental health and suicide into a programme focused on nursing in Scotland.
The early questions
The programme asked how nurses’ experiences could be understood across a career and across periods of change in healthcare. Historical records and accounts from people with direct experience were central to that ambition.
Early proposals also considered possible digital approaches to support. These ideas form part of the programme’s development history, rather than evidence of a completed or effective intervention.
The programme today
Crisis Narrative is now the main focus of the website. The fellowship combines official record analysis, anonymous survey research and oral histories to examine nursing experiences in Scotland across 1980–2025.
Read about Crisis Narrative or explore the wider RESUME programme.
Archive summary reviewed on 9 November 2026. The original publication date records the early development of RESUME.
