Dr Emily Yue

Research Fellow

Biography

Background

I am currently working mainly on two projects: as Research Fellow on 'Discovering Liveability' and Research Assistant on 'Sea to Spruce'.

Sea to Spruce: 

Sea to Spruce is a Pilot Study of Green & Blue Space Community Groups for Mental Health Improvement, funded my Edinburgh Mental Health.

My colleague Sarah Huque and I are conducting interviews and focus groups with community groups and policy makers involved in the use of outdoor space for mental wellbeing. 

https://www.edinburghmentalhealth.org/post/transforming-suicide-and-mental-health-research-recent-adventures-in-qualitative-methods 

Discovering Liveability

My colleague Alexander Oaten and I are working on Work Package 4 of this Wellcome-funded project: building on work by colleagues on Suicide in/as Politics (SIAP), we extend the focus from analysing suicide prevention policies (and discussion of suicide in parliamentary debates), to exploring how parliamentary debates and policies (not contained to the discussion of suicide and prevention) invite un/liveability for different populations.

Previous post-doctoral research

I previously worked as Research Fellow on:

Suicide Cultures | Suicide Cultures (April-August 2024) 

[2022] Chandler, Amy, Joe Anderson, Rebecca Helman, Sarah Huque, Emily Yue. 2022. “Reimagining Suicide Research: The Limits and Possibilities of Suicide Cultures.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 11 (10): 20-28. https://wp.me/p1Bfg0-7gK

Suicide in/as Politics Blog – Suicide in/as Politics (Jan-March 2024) 

PhD research 

Thesis title: MIXEDNESS & SUICIDE/ALITY: Exploring knowledges of un/liveability in postcolonial Britain.

In my PhD research (2021-24) I engaged feminist and decolonial approaches to data science to explore to UK's first ever suicide by ethnicity statistics - which reported mixed populations as dying at the highest rates of suicide in 2012-2018 (ONS 2021) - and the suicide prevention landscape. I argued that the white maleness of UK suicide knowledge exceeds statistics and marginalises gendered and racialised populations. Drawing on interviews with 5 Mixed Brits with experience of suicide/ality, I argued against the 'violent inclusion' of gendered and racialised minorities into (white male) suicide prevention and invited more holistic approaches to responding to unliveability. 

 

I have two papers forthcoming from my PhD research:

Yue, E. (2025). Ethnicity Statistics as Tricky Tools in ‘post-racial’ Britain: celebrating the lives and obscuring the deaths of mixed-race populations. Catalyst: feminism, theory, technoscience. 

Yue, E. (2025). Beyond Emotional Illiteracy: Theorising the Violence of Inclusion in (White Male) Suicide Prevention. Stolen Tools: The Anti Racist Journal. 

Suicide Cultures Seminar Series

During my PhD I hosted the Suicide Cultures seminar series, showcasing interdisciplinary perspective on suicide knowledge production https://www.ed.ac.uk/suicide-cultures/suicide-cultures-events co-organised with Asia Podgorska

Qualifications

PhD, Department of Health in Social Sciences, University of Edinburgh, 2021-24

MA (Hons) Gender and Sexuality, SOAS University of London, 2018-19

BA (Hons) Philosophy with Classical Studies, University of Liverpool, 2015-18

Undergraduate teaching

Guest Lecture on Ma Health in Social Science  2024

Lecturing on Ma Mental Health and Society 2025

Open to PhD supervision enquiries?

Yes

Current PhD students supervised

I am currently recruiting a masters student for the Sea to Spruce research project.

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