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Public and mental health professionals’ perspectives on social media and suicide exposure (2025)
Journal Article
Bell, J., & Westoby, C. (2025). Public and mental health professionals’ perspectives on social media and suicide exposure. BMC public health, 25(1), Article 1380. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-025-22587-6

Background
The rapid evolution of social media in recent years has increased public exposure to suicide. While research has highlighted concerns about the role of social media in facilitating harmful discourse and imitative suicidal behaviour, there... Read More about Public and mental health professionals’ perspectives on social media and suicide exposure.

Neon, for the Lonely: Exploring Gay Men's History and Well-Being through Memoir-Based Reality Reconstructions (2025)
Thesis
Commerford, M. (2025). Neon, for the Lonely: Exploring Gay Men's History and Well-Being through Memoir-Based Reality Reconstructions. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/5086279

Neon, for the Lonely: Exploring Gay Men’s History and Well-Being through Memoir-Based Reality Reconstructions is both an adapted memoir and an exegesis that charts a PhD journey of self-empowerment, and healing through the lens of a queer individual'... Read More about Neon, for the Lonely: Exploring Gay Men's History and Well-Being through Memoir-Based Reality Reconstructions.

Words Behind Walls: A Creative Writing Project with Prison Staff (2024)
Journal Article
Metcalf, J., & Westoby, C. (2024). Words Behind Walls: A Creative Writing Project with Prison Staff. Lapidus International Research and Innovation Community Journal, 4(1), 30-51

Research from the Institute of Criminology at Cambridge recognises that prison officers are productive role models for prisoners and that the pop-cultural stereotype of the officer beating the inmate into submission has diminished. Yet a report publi... Read More about Words Behind Walls: A Creative Writing Project with Prison Staff.

Playing it Safer: Applied Drama as a means of reducing barriers to LGBTQIA+ inclusion in sports and education environments (2024)
Journal Article
Eldridge, D., Fielding, L., & Dickenson, S. J. (online). Playing it Safer: Applied Drama as a means of reducing barriers to LGBTQIA+ inclusion in sports and education environments. Support for Learning, https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9604.12497

In a context where more than 40% of LGBTQIA+ individuals in the UK are estimated to avoid sports due to experiences of discrimination, with disengagement closely linked to negative experiences during physical education at school, the ability of speci... Read More about Playing it Safer: Applied Drama as a means of reducing barriers to LGBTQIA+ inclusion in sports and education environments.

Queen of The Mist (2024)
Book
Cauchi, C. (2024). Queen of The Mist. HarperCollins Publishers

US and Canadian Editions. There is also a exclusive edition for Indigo Books.

School teacher. Widow. Legend.
It’s 1901 and the mists of change are swirling. Queen Victoria’s reign is about to come to an end, and an obscure widow in Buffalo, New Y... Read More about Queen of The Mist.

Arx: City of Broken Minds (2024)
Book
Hurst, E. (2024). Arx: City of Broken Minds. Barbican Press

Publisher's promotional text:
Inhale the memory. Exhale the truth. Arx: City of Broken Minds is a standalone epic of grimdark fantasy.

In Arx, no-one remembers anything. Not the Flame Protests. Not the Sightless executioner. Not even themselves.... Read More about Arx: City of Broken Minds.

Understanding the Communicative Ecology and Impact of Social Media following a Suspected Suicide (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Bell, J., & Westoby, C. (2023, September). Understanding the Communicative Ecology and Impact of Social Media following a Suspected Suicide. Presented at International Association for Suicide Prevention 32nd World Congress, Piran, Slovenia

Background: The proliferation of social media platforms in recent years has expanded and complicated the communicative ecology of suicide-related internet use. There is a wide gap in the literature when it comes to a deeper understanding of the issue... Read More about Understanding the Communicative Ecology and Impact of Social Media following a Suspected Suicide.

Words Behind Walls: Prison Staff Writing (2023)
Book
Metcalf, J., Nichols, H., Westoby, C., & Clement, J. (Eds.). (2023). Words Behind Walls: Prison Staff Writing. Butcher's Dog Publishing

This anthology of writings stemmed from a University of Hull project that offered bespoke creative writing workshops to staff at both HMP Hull and HMP Manchester. The team wanted to support employees in a role that government and academic research re... Read More about Words Behind Walls: Prison Staff Writing.

An der Seite van Goghs (2023)
Book
Cauchi, C. (2023). An der Seite van Goghs. HarperCollins Publishers

1888 zieht die Niederländerin Johanna Bonger nach Paris. Sie saugt das dortige Savoir Vivre auf und fällt durch ihren scharfen Verstand und ihr Kunstverständnis auf. Als sie den Galeristen Theo van Gogh heiratet, ist sie aus der pulsierenden Pariser... Read More about An der Seite van Goghs.

La signora Van Gogh (2023)
Book
Cauchi, C. (2023). La signora Van Gogh. Piemme

From the publisher:
Quando Johanna Bonger arriva a Parigi non ha idea di cosa possa riservarle il destino: in fuga dalla bigotta Amsterdam dopo una relazione clandestina con un uomo che non l'avrebbe mai sposata, con l'onta dello scandalo che la seg... Read More about La signora Van Gogh.

The Role Of The Creative In Addressing The Political (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Cauchi, C. (2023, March). The Role Of The Creative In Addressing The Political. Presented at Craft, Creativity, Critique: A Department of English Postgraduate Symposium, University of Malta

This lecture considers the question of creativity as a form of political and ethical discourse. In it, I focus on my latest novel – Mrs van Gogh (Cauchi, 2023) – which voices the role Vincent van Gogh’s sister-in-law played in his rise to fame. Thus,... Read More about The Role Of The Creative In Addressing The Political.

Mevrouw Van Gogh (2023)
Book
Cauchi, C. (2023). Mevrouw Van Gogh. HarperCollins Holland

From the publisher:
Zij vertelde Vincents verhaal; nu is het tijd voor dat van haar. Gebaseerd op een waargebeurd verhaal.

Om het uitlekken van een schandaal te voorkomen verhuist de Nederlandse Johanna Bonger in het jaar 1888 naar haar broer in... Read More about Mevrouw Van Gogh.

Mrs Van Gogh (2023)
Book
Cauchi, C. (2023). Mrs Van Gogh. HarperCollins Publishers

From the publisher:
She’s been painted out of history…until now
Who tells her story?

In 1890, Vincent Van Gogh dies penniless, unknown, a man tortured by his own mind.

Eleven years later his work is exhibited in Paris and his unparalleled tal... Read More about Mrs Van Gogh.

The impact of the climate emergency on 21st century fiction (2023)
Thesis
Gillen, G. H. The impact of the climate emergency on 21st century fiction. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4321483

This research supports a new movement in contemporary literature: cli-fi. The term has been attributed to environmental dystopias as far back as the nineteen-sixties. In the 21st Century, many writers are imagining life during or after severe changes... Read More about The impact of the climate emergency on 21st century fiction.

Lazarus Junction: Crossing the Divide. The Influence of Crime Procedural Tropes on the Construction of Supernatural Urban Fantasy (2022)
Thesis
Dobson, D. L. Lazarus Junction: Crossing the Divide. The Influence of Crime Procedural Tropes on the Construction of Supernatural Urban Fantasy. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4247127

This thesis considers the influence of crime procedural tropes in the writing of Lazarus Junction: Crossing the Divide. It considers the intrusion of the city, and examines how Lazarus Junction seeks to portray a world threatened by a malevolent forc... Read More about Lazarus Junction: Crossing the Divide. The Influence of Crime Procedural Tropes on the Construction of Supernatural Urban Fantasy.

Wyrd Magic: an exploration of personal grief through narrative (2022)
Thesis
Cargill, A. Wyrd Magic: an exploration of personal grief through narrative. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4240501

The thesis consists of the novel Wyrd Magic and an exegesis. Together, they chart my creative and critical PhD journey where I explore the form of the novel as a mode through which to articulate my understanding of grief. My intent was to deve... Read More about Wyrd Magic: an exploration of personal grief through narrative.

HERstory: Johanna Van Gogh-Bonger. A Creative and Critical Exploration of the Role a Woman Played in Vincent van Gogh’s Rise to Fame (2022)
Thesis
Smailes, C. HERstory: Johanna Van Gogh-Bonger. A Creative and Critical Exploration of the Role a Woman Played in Vincent van Gogh’s Rise to Fame. (Thesis). Liverpool John Moores University. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4481731

Taking Nochlin’s view that, ‘We will need our wit and courage to make sure that women’s voices are heard, their work seen and written about’ (Nochlin, 2015, p. 321), this two-volume thesis by practice addresses why creative women became invisible in... Read More about HERstory: Johanna Van Gogh-Bonger. A Creative and Critical Exploration of the Role a Woman Played in Vincent van Gogh’s Rise to Fame.

The Aftermath of a Suicide: Social Media Exposure and Implications for Postvention (2022)
Book Chapter
Bell, J., & Westoby, C. (2022). The Aftermath of a Suicide: Social Media Exposure and Implications for Postvention. In M. Pompili (Ed.), Suicide Risk Assessment and Prevention. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-41319-4_32-1

There is an urgent need to understand the effects of social media and related practices in the aftermath of a suicide. News of a death by suicide can explode like a bomb on social media, the impact of which can be felt around the world. Emerging rese... Read More about The Aftermath of a Suicide: Social Media Exposure and Implications for Postvention.