OxCSWell Research

Bereavement by suicide

In Spring 2024, OxCSWell began recruitment for a new Research Assistant to work on a research project investigating the investigate the role of religious and spiritual care in suicide bereavement and postvention with the aim of providing information and guidance which can be used to help people experiencing such an important loss. An appointment was made in August 2024. More details to follow.

The LiSHoRe project

LiSHoRe was OxCSWell’s first major research project.

The LiSHoRe Project – which stands for Listen, Share, Hold, Respond – is a study that investigated ethnically diverse NHS staff and their experiences of spirituality during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The research project has been completed, and the results reported to NHS England/Improvement, who funded the project. You can read about the findings in the report summary

Themes from the research discussion groups informed the topics for a series of webinars held during 2021-2022.