SIREN Conference 2006

Understandings of Suicide: Implications for Research & Practice in Scotland

SIREN held its inaugural conference on the 3rd October 2006 at the Royal Museum in Edinburgh. This was an exciting, multi-disciplinary event, which brought together researchers, practitioners and policy planners with an interest in suicide and its prevention.

The keynote presentation was given by Professor Keith Hawton, Director of the Centre for Suicide Research at Oxford University. This was followed by presentations by other leading professionals within the field - Professor Stephen Platt, University of Edinburgh and Dr Rory O' Connor, Stirling University.

Opened by Lewis Macdonald MSP, Deputy Minister for Health and Community Care