Kate LaForge

Med Soc PhD Student @UCSF 📚. Qualitative and mixed methods. Suicide + crisis services + tech research 💿. Art fan 🎨. Climber 🧗. Mom 👧. Pear enthusiast 🍐.

[Taylor M. Cruz @taylormcruz]

Check out our recent @eSTSjournal article on community resistance to automation in LA!
https://t.co/wYuI1BLhIO

Published with an amazing team of @calstate co-researchers who brought so much insight to the project. Companion piece to our zine AI For Whose Good? with @shufshenwang

[Uju Anya @UjuAnya]

Don’t annoy PhD students. Give them funding, encouragement, and snacks.

[Leslie Jamison @lsjamison]

Impostor Syndrome! It's here. I set out to write the biography of an idea, and--like anything worth thinking about--found myself surprised many times. https://t.co/EENw8MDcoE

[Dr. Quenette L. Walton @DrQLWalton]

🚨New Pub Alert🚨 Interested in knowing what it means to help Black women feel safe in qual interviews?! Check out our new piece @ppkennedy1 @BunmiPhD & Phylicia Allen https://t.co/8gsI21bili

[Kate LaForge @kate_laforge]

“Exit is not benign withdrawal” - A fabulous piece on the current state of technology, politics, and demigods 👩🏼‍💻https://t.co/FYWLnpZZtr

[Kate LaForge @kate_laforge]

What a wonderful experience writing this with @DiscoPapita and other brilliant colleagues at #ucsfsociology 💕 #emancipatorysciences

[Emancipatory Sciences Lab @EmancipatoryLab]

📢 @kate_laforge, PhD student at @SocUCSF, asks the question "What Does the Writer Owe the Reader?" in this NEW blog post, which is part of the "Inquiring Minds: On Decolonizing the Sociological Canon" series. Read the blog here 👉 https://t.co/QuannzJVlX #emancipatorysciences

[Kate LaForge @kate_laforge]

🚨Internet speed has serious implications for tele-health access and equity.🚨 “To put it plainly, we found these providers offered the worst deals to people who are the most in need of affordable prices for high-quality, high-speed internet.” https://t.co/QF8M62xSqq

[Kate LaForge @kate_laforge]

An amazing upcoming event on “the rush to create new algorithms that can even assess or predict a diagnosis of mental illness” 🧠 https://t.co/TjUjBxCU2v

[Kate LaForge @kate_laforge]

Great work furthering our understanding of participating in research on suicide and centering the participant perspective ✨

[Dr Charlotte Huggett @CharliHuggett]

How do people with psychosis feel about taking part in #suicideresearch? Check out a new mixed methods paper from @CARMSproject:
https://t.co/htWYoweNSv
#suicideprevention #psychosis #researchethics @sjkp121 @donnalittlewood @gillianhaddock @daniellpratt @kerryhoz @kamelia_harris

[Kate LaForge @kate_laforge]

@HazelMarzetti Love the design on your materials!! 💕💕💕

[Kate LaForge @kate_laforge]

“Whether the apps actually improve mental health isn’t really clear. Research to support their efficacy is scant and has mostly been conducted by the companies that have created them.” 💻
The Problem With Mental Health Bots https://t.co/pjNNPi3oXs via @wired

[Kate LaForge @kate_laforge]

@SaltySicky @Mad_In_America Feminist, queer, crip by Allison Kafer 🪄

[Jonathan Singer 🎙️ @socworkpodcast]

NEW: Provisional @CDCInjury data shows USA suicide deaths⬆️in 2021, reversing a two-year trend. Although suicide increased in nearly every age group, the largest increase (8%) was among youth 15 - 24. Every month needs to be #SuicidePreventionMonth.
https://t.co/c9o6Jq1RLD

[Mad In America @Mad_In_America]

20 Concrete Steps to Achieving System Change
By Robert Nikkel, MSW

I offer the following 20 suggestions for advocates who want to get something done and not just vent their quite justifiable criticisms of the mental health system.

https://t.co/hsOjvInSsc

[Kate LaForge @kate_laforge]

@eleanorbailey_1 @netECR @JoRobinson_Aus @Lamb_Mich @sadhbhbyrne @orygen_aus Such an interesting piece!! I’m moving towards a project on use of crisis text lines for my dissertation and I’m very interested in this question of how young people decide who to reach out. So many factors to consider!

[Kate LaForge @kate_laforge]

@alizaluft First year med soc PhD student here, I’ve appreciated a catch up week half way through. The feeling of being chronically behind is WAY worse in an all digital environment. I also really appreciated when profs trimmed away some readings. And break-out rooms!

[Kate LaForge @kate_laforge]

@thePhDandMe Grateful to be discussing this today in med sociology @UCSF! Such an amazing piece!