Connect, learn, and engage with the global suicide prevention community through IASP webinars. Our webinars bring together experts, researchers, clinicians, policymakers, advocates, and individuals with lived experience to explore emerging research, innovative practices, and real-world insights.
Our webinars explore emerging research, innovative practices, and lived experiences from around the world, fostering knowledge exchange and collaboration across communities. Whether you’re a professional in the field, a policymaker, or someone passionate about making a difference, IASP webinars offer valuable insights and opportunities to engage with leading voices in suicide prevention.
Browse and register for our upcoming webinars below to be part of these important conversations shaping the future of suicide prevention.
Queer Lives and the Politics of Categories
IASP is delighted to extend an invitation to the latest webinar from the IASP LGBTQIA+ Special Interest Group on Wednesday, 5 November 2025.
The webinar will be chaired by LGBTQIA+ Special Interest Group Co-Chair, Charlie Cooper. Charlie Cooper is a research assistant in the suicide prevention research unit at Orygen, Center for Youth Mental Health, University of Melbourne.
In this webinar, Dr Kevin Guyan (University of Edinburgh) shares insights from his book Rainbow Trap: Queer Lives, Classifications and the Dangers of Inclusion, which problematises easy assumptions about the benefits of being counted and the risks that accompany the datafication of queer lives. Guyan argues that the promise of inclusion requires LGBTQIA+ people to locate themselves in an ever-growing list of classifications, categories and labels.
Dr Kevin Guyan is a writer and researcher whose work explores the intersection of data and identity. He is the author of Rainbow Trap: Queer Lives, Classifications and the Dangers of Inclusion (Bloomsbury Academic, 2025) and Queer Data: Using Gender, Sex and Sexuality Data for Action (Bloomsbury Academic, 2022). Kevin is a Chancellor’s Fellow at the University of Edinburgh and Director of the Gender + Sexuality Data Lab.
- Wednesday 5 November 2025
- 20:00 AEDT (UTC+11)
Join us for a critical exploration of the politics of data and categories, and the implications for LGBTQIA+ communities in research and practice around the world.
The session aims to highlight research priorities, uncover gaps and opportunities, and ultimately help shape future directions for youth self-harm and suicide prevention research.
Youth Priorities in Suicide and Self-Harm Prevention Research
IASP is delighted to extend an invitation to the latest webinar from the IASP Youth Self Harm and Suicide Prevention Special Interest Group on Wednesday, 12 November 2025.
The webinar will be chaired by Special Interest Group Co-Chair, Associate Professor Sarah Fortune. Associate Professor Sarah Fortune is the Director of Population Mental Health in the School of Population Health at the University of Auckland.
This insightful webinar will include a panel discussion with guest speakers, Dr Vartika Sharma, Senior Lecturer in the Section of Social and Community Health and Bonnie Scarth, a Lived Experience Researcher and PhD Candidate at Monash University, exploring gaps and opportunities in youth suicide and self-harm prevention research.
- Wednesday 12 November 2025
- 20:00 NZDT (UTC+13)
IASP/IASR Research Webinar
The IASP team is delighted to invite you to our upcoming IASP/IASR Research Webinar, taking place on Thursday, 20 November 2025.
This 90-minute online session, chaired by Associate Professor Emmanuel Nii Boye Quarshie, will bring together researchers and professionals to explore the latest developments in suicide prevention science.
The IASP/IASR Research Webinar Series provides a platform for the global suicide prevention research community to connect, exchange knowledge, and discuss emerging findings and methodologies. Through these sessions, participants gain insights into innovative research, foster international collaboration, and strengthen the link between science and practice in suicide prevention.
- Thursday 20 November 2025
- 12:00 GMT (UTC+0)
This event is part of the ongoing IASP/IASR Research Webinar Series, offered exclusively to ICSPRC collaborators, as well as IASP and IASR members, who will also have access to recordings of these sessions.
This webinar is a unique chance to connect with a community of researchers, practitioners, and advocates committed to understanding and addressing the broader social factors influencing suicide risk.
The Social Determinants of Suicide: Launch of a New IASP Special Interest Group
Join us for the official launch of the IASP Social Determinants of Suicide Special Interest Group on Wednesday, 26 November 2025.
The webinar will be chaired by Dr Eve Griffin, CEO of the National Suicide Research Foundation and Adjunct Professor at the School of Public Health, University College Cork; Dr Lay San Too, Principal Research Fellow at the Centre for Mental Health and Community Wellbeing, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health; and Associate Professor Angela Rintoul, Principal Research Fellow – Gambling and Suicide at the Centre for Mental Health and Community Wellbeing, University of Melbourne. They will introduce the Special Interest Group and outline its aims and objectives.
The session will provide an overview of the Special Interest Group’s mission, invite participants to become members, and share insights from new and emerging research on the social and commercial determinants of suicide. Attendees will also have the opportunity to engage in discussions about priority areas for research and suicide prevention initiatives.
We will also hear from guest speaker, Professor Jane Pirkis on the association between the cost-of-living crisis and suicide. Professor Jane Pirkis is the Director of the Centre for Mental Health and Community Wellbeing in the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne. She has undertaken a number of policy-relevant studies of suicide and suicide prevention in Australia, including profiling the epidemiology of suicide and suicidal behaviour among the general population and among at-risk groups. She has a particular research interest in suicide and the media. She has also undertaken a number of evaluations of large-scale suicide prevention programs and mental health care initiatives.
- Wednesday 26 November 2025
- 19:00 AEDT (UTC+11)
Partnerships for Life Webinar
The IASP team is delighted to invite you to the next instalment of the Partnerships for Life Webinar Series, taking place virtually on Tuesday, 9 December 2025.
This 60-minute live session will feature expert presentations exploring collaborative approaches to suicide prevention, followed by an interactive discussion. After the presentations, participants will have the opportunity to submit questions to the panel and engage directly with speakers during the Q&A session.
Held bi-monthly, the series offers insightful discussions on suicide prevention strategies from around the world, fostering global collaboration and knowledge exchange among professionals and advocates dedicated to saving lives.
- Tuesday 9 December 2025
The Partnerships for Life Webinar Series promotes learning on best practices and effective interventions related to the implementation of suicide prevention strategies and programmes.
