Thursday, 22nd May National Suicide Prevention Conference 2025

Nieves Murray - CEO Suicide Prevention Australia 

Maureen Lewis - Commissioner - Mental Health Commission WA

• The Network Effect: Turning Connection into Protection in Suicide Prevention - Anthony Pisani

• Balancing Opportunities and Risks: Social Media for Suicide Prevention - Louise La Sala

• Learnlinc - Maximising your learning - Clayton Spence

• Inspiring change through a lived experience approach to adopting the Zero Suicide Framework  - Jezwyn Lapham and Shaina Serelson
• Hope in action - Michele Orr
• Developing a co-designed suicide prevention and response training package for lived experience workforce - Shaina Serelson

• The Time Has Come to Prove Community Suicide Prevention Training is Effective - Peter Gutierrez

• Suicide Safer Campuses: Creating networks that build capacity to support staff and students. - Bella Broadway and Jack Graham
• Murrumbidgee Local Response Group- A multiagency region-wide approach responding to tragedy.  - Emma Bromham
• Safe and structured lived experience engagement in suicide prevention education: Lessons from video-based programs   - Dan Mobbs and Melanie Clark

• Understanding and optimising pathways for individuals in distress in the construction industry: data linkage study - Carla Meurk
• Defection from the social practice of gambling: A qualitative study of gambling-related suicide in Australia - Angela Rintoul
• Co-designing suicide prevention university education: A collaboration between Monash University and Roses in the Ocean - Kylie King, Nichola Parry and Caroline Allen

• Suicide among current serving defence personnel in Australia: A retrospective mortality study  - Katherine Petrie
• Understanding lived emotion regulation experiences of individuals with a history of non-suicidal self-injury - Thomas Duncan-Plummer

• Young people’s perspectives on their mental health care: Implications for early intervention and suicide prevention - Kassandra Hon
• Harnessing the feed: Taking a social first approach to digital mental health service delivery - Annie Wylie
• Developing EDBridge: A brief contact intervention for adolescents at risk of suicide and their parents - Ruth Tatnell

Panellists:

Tama Leaver - Curtin University

Tama Leaver (PhD) is a Professor of Internet Studies at Curtin University in Perth, Western Australia; a Chief Investigator in the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child; a past President of the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR); and a regular media commentator. His current research includes examining the impact of datafication and artificial intelligence on children and childhoods. He is the author of Artificial Culture: Identity, Technology and Bodies (Routledge, 2012); co-editor of An Education in Facebook? Higher Education and the World’s Largest Social Network (Routledge, 2014) with Mike Kent; and Social, Casual and Mobile Games: The Changing Gaming Landscape (Bloomsbury Academic, 2016) with Michele Willson; co-author of Instagram: Visual Social Media Cultures (Polity, 2020) with Tim Highfield and Crystal Abidin; co-editor of The Routledge Companion to Digital Media and Children (Routledge, 2021) with  Lelia Green, Donell Holloway, Kylie Stevenson and Leslie Haddon; and co-editor of Gaming Disability: Disability Perspectives on Contemporary Video Games (Routledge, 2023) with Katie Ellis and Mike Kent. He has received teaching awards from the University of Western Australia, and Curtin University, and in 2012 received a national Australian Award for Teaching Excellence in the Humanities and the Arts. His main web presence is www.tamaleaver.net.