🎤NEW✍🏽 James Lind Alliance Survey Help pick top 10 research questions for children & young people (upto 25 years old) with gender incongruence/dysphoria 2 versions: Young People/parents app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/jla/youth-... Public & Professionals app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/jla/youth-...

We expect to hit 55k signatures in support of our open letter this week, perhaps even today. Thank you to everyone who has signed or shared. Let’s keep this going: notinourname.org.uk

Great thread here from @alisonstenning.bsky.social on the case for paying attention to children's capability to play during #Covid19 lockdowns, including a couple of articles we wrote based on our research. So pleased @aliceferguson.bsky.social gave evidence on this to the Covid Inquiry

“It’s hard to overstate the impact this will have children and families… Too many children have been going to school hungry,” said our CEO, @lynnanneperry.bsky.social Cabinet members want to lift the 2-child limit, the biggest driver of #ChildPoverty. Read more @thetimes.com: brnw.ch/21wW5dd

#NewPublication📣 in @cphjournal.bsky.social with @drhnewman.bsky.social @elspethma.bsky.social @kathrynalmack.bsky.social & Wendy Wills. 'A process evaluation of weight management services developed with, not for, communities': doi.org/10.55016/ojs... @hertsresearch.bsky.social

Last few places for our upcoming 'Innovation & good practice in adolescent health' event on the 30th of September. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/innovation... Join us at this CPD certified event and hear about innovative approaches to improve young people's health in local areas. Sessions include:

As a disabled pregnant woman currently taking paracetamol (tylenol) for back & pelvic pain... I don't yet have a response for the ableist, eugenicist, evidently pro-life movatived "announcement" from the US President. But I will say this. If you don't want a disabled child, don't have children.

#NewPublication📣 in @cphjournal.bsky.social with @drhnewman.bsky.social @elspethma.bsky.social @kathrynalmack.bsky.social & Wendy Wills. 'A process evaluation of weight management services developed with, not for, communities': doi.org/10.55016/ojs... @hertsresearch.bsky.social

In this video, children and young people with Long Covid share their experiences to help others understand the reality they face every day. Made in collaboration with young people with lived experience. #LongCovidKids #LongCovid #YoungVoices #LCandME #CharityFilm m.youtube.com/watch?v=e0U7...

Are you a researcher who works with young people? Our #McPin10for10 resources showcase our learning & reflections from working across a wide range of projects with young people for over a decade - find out more below 👇 #YMHD2025

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Looking forward to this one too!

Important reflections and conclusions on the experiences of children and young people during the pandemic are published today by the UK COVID-19 Inquiry in its Children & Young People’s Voices research report. Read it here:

#ChildHealth research people: any recommendations for good conferences (UK or international) coming up in the next 9 months which have a focus on #participation & #PublicInvolvement, not just clinical practice? Or conversely #childrights & #participation events incl a focus on health? #AcademicSky

This now appears to be an ongoing issue. She slept (very soundly) in the sink for 7 hours yesterday, and 7 again today (so far). I, meanwhile, am washing my hands in the bath #CatSky #CatsofBluesky #BossOfMe

Adolescence is a period of growth, independence and discovery, but also a time when young people are particularly vulnerable. Nicholas Kofi Adjei from @liverpooluni.bsky.social​ explores the close link between poverty, family wellbeing and young people’s mental health⬇️ https://bit.ly/4lXuAY6

*Goes to wash hands* There seems to be a blockage in the sink #CatSky #AcademicsWithCats

Bluesky needs this Twitter classic from @ellearmageddon.bsky.social.

Very much agree - I also challenged this one recently because there is no sense of the patient/public in this either, other than being a body in a bed. The phrase seems to come from an outdated idea of research 'about' or 'on' rather than 'with' people. #PPI #PPIE #PublicInvolvement

#ChildHealth research people: any recommendations for good conferences (UK or international) coming up in the next 9 months which have a focus on #participation & #PublicInvolvement, not just clinical practice? Or conversely #childrights & #participation events incl a focus on health? #AcademicSky

The Government will be testing the emergency alert system this Sunday at 3pm. Compatible mobile phones and tablets will make a loud siren-like sound and vibrate. If you have a device hidden from an abuser, this alert could reveal it. You can opt out using the advice below. www.gov.uk/alerts/optin...

If you want to show your neighbours that you stand for community, kindness, and unity, there's another way. Yesterday, over 4000 people joined us in downloading and displaying our Hold on to Hope poster to place in their windows.

Urgent! 8 weeks to take action on the Child Poverty Strategy. Ahead of @houseofcommons.parliament.uk returning next week, we are calling on the Government to deliver an ambitious and effective plan to reduce child poverty within this Parliament.

In an effort to build/rebuild online networks I've set up 3 starter kits in my main areas of research interest: Links in the posts which follow - reply to be added. And if you're in the intersecting areas, especially the middle bit, and we don't know each other already - do say hello 😊

@dtrivedi.bsky.social @pashtanaz.bsky.social @hertsresearch.bsky.social @arceastofengland.bsky.social

New protocol paper published in Pilot & Feasibility Studies: Smith, M., Jones, A., Zormati, P. et al. (2025) An RCT of a faith-based culturally adapted intervention for depression in young Muslim women (IM-Adapted)... pilotfeasibilitystudies.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... #MentalHealth

Our campaign #AndYoungPeople highlights that cancer is different for young people than it is for children and older adults – and yet they are often overlooked in cancer plans and policies. (4/5)

Children’s wellbeing and happiness is the greatest marker of a successful society. Yet, we don’t measure it. A national wellbeing measurement would ensure young people’s experiences are understood and their concerns addressed. Sign here if you agree: ow.ly/vbvG50WLXXK

We asked. You said. We did. ✨ New guide: What co-production is & what it isn’t Clear definitions, links to the 5 ways of working (under the Well-being of Future Generations Act), plus a handy visual of the 5 core principles. Download & share: buff.ly/oqkAGnX

Good luck to the students getting #TLevels and #ALevels today. In case we've forgotten - and we probably have - this is the Covid cohort we assumed would be fine. Spoiler, they weren't. But they have done amazingly and we should give them way more credit than they get. Here's a reminder thread /1

When this confirms, cis people please CALL your MP and say you're not going to carry your birth certificate everywhere and ask what are you supposed to do if someone says you're trans? Say this is an absurd law based on absurd assumptions and it LIMITS YOUR FREEDOM.

That's better #OutOfOffice #NoFilter

That's better #OutOfOffice #NoFilter

The children killed in Gaza had names, and favourite subjects in school. They wanted to be teachers, doctors and astronauts when they grew up - the same as children in the UK and across the world. They were, and still are, someone's everything: their entire universe.

Brilliant day at @herts.ac.uk with young advisors from Community Action Redbridge. Planning the evaluation of our @nihr.bsky.social-funded project on the participation of under-served YP in health & wellbeing services. @kathevans2.bsky.social @dtrivedi.bsky.social @hertsresearch.bsky.social

Are you aged 16-25 and have lived in a children’s home? 🌟 @kingstonuniversity.bsky.social @ncb.org.uk and @ofstednews.bsky.social funded by @nihr.bsky.social are doing some research to help improve placements- and we want to hear from you! More here- shorturl.at/FoGHU

Brilliant day at @herts.ac.uk with young advisors from Community Action Redbridge. Planning the evaluation of our @nihr.bsky.social-funded project on the participation of under-served YP in health & wellbeing services. @kathevans2.bsky.social @dtrivedi.bsky.social @hertsresearch.bsky.social

"a 1,000-strong pack of young African social spiders... freeze in unison like musical statues then eat all their mothers and elderly relatives alive" Umm no thanks 🕷️🕷️🕷️🕷️🕷️🕷️😱

New report on understanding the drivers of declining youth mental health To effectively respond to worsening mental health, we need to understand not just what is happening, but *why* We used an evidence-based approach to unpack common explanations 1/🧵 youthfuturesfoundation.org/publication/...

Co-creation process in research with youth: Empower Islington @drkeriwong.bsky.social interviews young people on an initiative between @ucl.ac.uk & @islington-council.bsky.social, the project aimed to support mental & physical wellbeing following COVID-19 pandemic. acamhlearn.org/Learning/Co-...

Share your innovative, youth-friendly approaches to care & good practice with us and contribute to a growing evidence base. AYPH invites professionals & services passionate about adolescent health to submit proposals for our upcoming event on 30th September 2025. forms.office.com/e/id0Qskqap1

Teenager on train: I'm not a feminist. Mum: Do you want to own things and decide who you sleep with? Teen: Yeah. Mum: You're a feminist. Art by @400footghost.bsky.social Words by me.

Exciting opportunity (also f/t and permanent!) for an Engagement and Involvement Lead to #InvolveYoungPeople in the new @ukri.org MRC-funded longitudinal #AdolescentHealthStudy www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNR789/e... #PPI #PublicInvolvement #PPIE

Brilliant day at Norfolk #SEND festival yesterday with @herts.ac.uk colleague Prof Rebecca O'Connell and Andy Feltham, our public co-applicant. Talking to children & YP and families about our #AdaptEd project with @schoolfoodmatters.bsky.social on food & eating in schools

1 week left for submissions of how you work in #YoungPeoplesHealth and what you are doing Tell us about your hard work now: forms.office.com/e/id0Qskqap1

See also 'stakeholder'. And yes I'm as guilty of this as the next researcher!

The testimony we heard from paediatricians for our report with @rcpch.bsky.social was heartbreaking: 'We hear of parents who make the [milk] powder stretch for the week. And instead of the usual five scoops, they put in three or four because the tin needs to last.'

Participation ROCCS! But adult myths about capacity get in the way That’s what children told us, and here’s a resource they helped us to make so adults can reflect on the myths and change their practice More in the thread – feel free to use as long as you give us feedback!

You should read this (and not only cos I co-wrote it 🙃).