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The role of protective factors in suicide prevention

To mark World Suicide Prevention Day 2024 we are trying to understand more about protective factors. Understanding the interplay between...

The Urgent Need for a New Approach to Suicide Risk Assessment

Every day in England and Wales on average fifteen people die by suicide*. *Source Samaritans These are not just numbers; they represent...

Psychological Safety & Closed Cultures: A Discussion

Amy Edmondson coined the term "psychological safety" and has significantly raised awareness about this crucial cultural aspect....

Innovation Summit: A Focus on Healthy Ageing

This past Thursday, June 20th, I ventured out to Discovery Park in Sandwich for the second annual Innovation Summit. As a lifelong...

Question framing - why does it matter?

At Akumen we have a wealth of experience in creating great questions to illicit valuable insights that can lead to positive change. Here...

The history of Akumen

Join Elouise and Paul for a fireside chat discussing the origins of Akumen, understand how cows played their part in the evolution of the...

An Introduction to Psychological Safety

Join Elouise and Paul as they discuss what psychological safety means to us, the first steps to take on a journey towards improving...

Did Kurt Cobain leave the ultimate legacy?

Over the last 20 years team Akumen have read, manually themed, and made sense of hundreds of thousands of “lived experience” comments,...

Most of us have a coping strategy but are you aware of your protective factors?

To mark day 2 of Mental Health Awareness Week we consider protective factors, what are they? How do they work? It wasn’t until about a...

Mixing Gratitude and "I am" Statements for Mental Health Awareness Week

Gratitude is about appreciating the positives in life. When we are struggling, it is easy to default to negativity.

Akumen Whitepaper - Suicide and Self Harm Risk Assessment

How a digital suicide and self-harm assessment and risk formulation tool will dramatically relieve a £500 million bottleneck of people...

The missing NLP capability from Employee Experience survey platforms

A conversation with Dr Tina Peeters (Behavioural Scientist), Global People Analytics Lead dsm-firmenich. Employee Engagement & Listening...

Akumen appoints new Chief Executive after 19 years of leadership from founder Paul Howarth

On Saturday 11th February 2023 Rob Horton took on the CEO role. During his 21 years of clinical experience working within the NHS, Rob...

Press Release - Akumen working with councils to reduce suicide rates

Bude, Cornwall, 29th Sept 2022 – Akumen Ltd, a Cornish based Artificial Intelligence (AI) company that specialises in extracting new...