Samaritans needs your help to understand the effects of online self-harm and suicide content and how we can make the Internet a safer space for everyone.
As part of the Samaritans Online Excellence Programme, Samaritans are conducting a research and insight programme exploring the positive and negative effects of self-harm and suicide content online and what makes content harmful and for whom.
We are not recruiting for our online harms research at the moment, but there will be more opportunities to take part in the future.
For more information about our research projects, please contact [email protected]
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