Men’s Wellbeing Initiative

Why We Need to Take Men’s Health More Seriously The latest suicide statistics from the UK’s Office for National Statistics (ONS) released last week make for deeply troubling reading. In England and Wales, men aged 50–54 recorded a suicide rate of 28 deaths per 100,000 in 2025, the highest rate for this age group since records began in 1981. The rate rose from 27.3 in…

There is an invisible measuring stick that follows men through life. Most of us never talk about it, but we know exactly what it measures. Are you successful enough? Strong enough? Wealthy enough? Fit enough? Are you a good husband, a good father, a capable provider? Did you build the business, buy the house, fulfil your potential and make something substantial of your life? Can…

The Men Who Forgot How to Feel Together Grief, movement, and the lost art of relational masculinity There is a growing conversation taking place around men and masculinity. Much of it is polarized. Some narratives frame men primarily as a problem to be solved, while others attempt to restore masculine confidence through increasingly performative ideals of strength, dominance, optimization, and control. Between these poles, many…

Predictions for Male Social Cognition The Cognitive Ecology of Men — Essay Series The Biological Basis of Male Social Dynamics Why, Y Chromosome, Why? The Male Role in a Group The Neural Architecture of Social Hierarchy and Male Group Behavior Endocrine Signaling Through the Male Social Brain Predictions for Male Social Cognition An Ecological Calculus The preceding essays argue that men’s cognition, shaped through evolutionary…