UK Suicide Prevention Policy Analysis on Women Nurses, 9 Documents

Nine United Kingdom policy documents were analyzed using a critical intersectional feminist framework. The analysis, co-produced with women nurses, explores how suicide is constructed as a problem of 'risky' individuals rather than workplace or systemic issues. The work was authored by Hilary Causer and last updated in March 2026.

Use Cases

• Training NLP models for critical discourse analysis based on the policy text content.
• Analyzing gendered language and risk framing in health policy documents.
• Studying policy silences and representations of occupational groups like nurses.
• Conducting comparative policy analysis on suicide prevention strategies.

Strengths

• Applies a clearly defined critical intersectional feminist and co-production methodology.
• Focuses on a specific, under-researched population: women nurses in the global north.
• Source documents were systematically sourced from governmental and organisational websites.

Limitations

• The dataset is a single 687 KB DOCX file; the scale of the underlying textual data is limited.
• Row count and column-level documentation for any extracted data are unknown.
• The analysis covers only nine UK policy documents, which may limit generalizability.

Provenance

Source

Documents sourced from UK governmental and organisational websites.

Collection Method

Critical policy analysis using Bacchi's 'What's the problem represented to be?' method and feminist discourse praxis.

Time Range

Temporal coverage of the sourced policy documents is not specified.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-17 13:06:05.

Geography

United Kingdom.