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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,...
Jun 3, 20243 min read


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...
May 14, 20242 min read


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.
May 13, 20242 min read


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...
Aug 29, 20231 min read


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...
Aug 29, 20231 min read


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...
Aug 29, 20232 min read


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...
Aug 29, 20232 min read
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