Simon Harold Walker

Historical Suicidologist, Medical Military Historian, and Senior Research Lead in Occupational Health. Currently leading research on Long Covid research, ageing workers, and nursing suicide at the University of Glasgow with the School of Health and Wellbeing, based within the Healthy Working Lives Group. Co-founder of the Occupational Health Suicide Prevention and Research Network

Research interests in Suicide, Aging and Work, Occupational Health, Vaccination, British Military History, Popular Culture, Medical and Health research, Covid, the life of P.E.M., Captain A. Dreyfus, Digital teaching and innovative pedagogy, and various other areas.

Some information on my outputs below.

Monographs • Walker S. Physical Control, Transformation, and Damage in the First World War: War Bodies (London: Bloomsbury, 2020).

Articles • Walker S. with A. Harris, “Finding new ways to teach methods and mannerisms for making the student the center of the learning process” Occupational Health and Wellbeing (2022),

Walker S. “Toughening Up: Bullying in the British Army during the First World War’, Journal of Military and Veterans’ Health (2022),

Walker S. & A. Harris, “Is it something difficult?’ Understanding Suicide through Occupational Health with a case study on Nursing.’, Occupational Health and Wellbeing (2022), IN PRINT •

Brown, J., S. H. Walker, R. McQuaid, S. V. Katikireddi, A. H. Leyland, J. Frank, D. Mackay, & E. B. Macdonald, ‘Sustainability in work after participating in a welfare to work initiative: implications for health services and policy makers’ BMJ OPEN, (2024),

Walker S. ‘British Suicide in Context’, Viewpoint: Magazine of the British Society for the History of Science, 121 (2020), p.17‐19. •