Today on #youngcarersactionday we are launching a new podcast series 'Sharing the mic: young carers & changemakers in conversation' produced by @researchpodcasts.bsky.social in partnership with Carers Trust, funded by @nuffieldfoundation.org Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/6PH1... pls share

So chuffed to be launching this today - an exciting new podcast series designed and led by young carers. Please do share & listen

I'm currently hiring for a PhD studentship based at City St George's, University of London as part of @equalise.bsky.social 'Family and environmental influences on children's home learning, and inequalities in education and mental health outcomes' Apply here: www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/prospective-...

📣New study by @rebeccalacey.bsky.social & @anne-mcmunn.bsky.social with @carerstrust.bsky.social & MYTIME Young Carers: Young carers face major educational disadvantages, risking future opportunities. Read more: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #YoungCarers

Too many young carers are being left behind. @rebeccalacey.bsky.social's new study shows early and preventable gaps in attendance and attainment. Young carers deserve better. Read the blog: childofourtimeblog.org.uk/2026/01/youn... @nuffieldfoundation.org #YoungCarers #HealthEquity #Policy

There are a few more days to apply. Closes on Weds 4th June

And now on jobs.ac.uk www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DND489/r...

And now on jobs.ac.uk www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DND489/r...

I am hiring for a new researchers on my @nuffieldfoundation.org young carers project. Closes 4thJune. After someone with strong quant longitudinal skills, passion for communicating research beyond academia & wants to work with people w lived experience/other sectors jobs.sgul.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

International Social Epidemiology Society’s inaugural symposium on May 27, 2025 at 08:00 New York / 14:00 Paris / 17:30 Delhi / 22:00 Melbourne. For more information and to register www.social-epi.org/our-events

Call for applications for the International Social Epidemiology Society Awards - recognizing excellence in social epidemiology research and practice. www.social-epi.org/ises-awards

We are hiring. A two-year postdoc in Whitehall II research group at UCL focusing on air pollution and dementia based on 40 years longitudinal data. Please find more details in the link below. Please share this to people who may be interested. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Today has been one of those days where everything has gone wrong and it feels like the whole world is against me. Constant barriers to progressing, never being good enough & no you're not eligible for PIP despite really struggling day to day.

Come and join us!

Today on #youngcarersactionday we release new findings from our @nuffieldfoundation.org funded project on the educational attainment of young carers. This is the 1st time we have had self-report care info from YP matched with educational data. www.nuffieldfoundation.org/wp-content/u...

Today on #youngcarersactionday we release new findings from our @nuffieldfoundation.org funded project on the educational attainment of young carers. This is the 1st time we have had self-report care info from YP matched with educational data. www.nuffieldfoundation.org/wp-content/u...

📣📣📣 So … public health jobs @healthfoundation.bsky.social are like buses - you wait for one for ages and then two arrive at the same time! Another great role shaping our prevention agenda ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️ Please share! lde.tbe.taleo.net/lde01/ats/ca...

The I-SES is excited to announce our 2025 Call for Awards to recognize the exceptional work of doctoral students, postdoctoral fellows, & early career researchers in social epidemiology! Please see the flyer below & go to www.social-epi.org/ises-awards for more details. And please share widely!

Still time to get an application in - closing tomorrow. 👇

🚨 Freelance research opportunity 🚨 We're looking for a researcher to help us with data collection for our major report, Elitist Britain 2025 - looking at the backgrounds of those making up the country's elites - please do share in your networks 🙂 recruitment.suttontrust.com/jobs/5596434...

Final UCL PhD opportunity as part of new centre Equalise: ESRC Centre for Lifecourse Health Equity. Please share widely. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

We are advertising for a Communications Officer for Equalise our new ESRC funded research centre on Lifecourse Health Equity. Please share widely www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

The call for applications for the European Doctoral School of Demography (EDSD) 2025-2026 is open! This international doctoral program aims to provide students with a high-level education in demography. Deadline to apply: March 25th, 2025 at 12 PM (noon). More information: eaps.nl/edsd/how-to-...

New 3.5yr PhD opportunity at UCL with @equalise.bsky.social supervised by myself, @yvonne-kelly.bsky.social, @baowenxue.bsky.social & @profkatsmith.bsky.social on inequalities in pathways to employment in young people. Closes 25th Feb www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

PhD opportunity with an absolute dream-team of supervisors 😉 ⬇️

New 3.5yr PhD opportunity at UCL with @equalise.bsky.social supervised by myself, @yvonne-kelly.bsky.social, @baowenxue.bsky.social & @profkatsmith.bsky.social on inequalities in pathways to employment in young people. Closes 25th Feb www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Reminder! Today at 3PM (UK) the DASH series on 'Causal Inference in Environmental Epidemiology' kicks off! @lshtm.bsky.social . Dr Marie-Abèle Bind from @harvardmed.bsky.social will discuss using causal inference to understand how environmental exposures impact health. #CausalInference #CausalSky'

I will be attending the Society for Social Medicine & Population Health Annual Conference in September 2025. It's the best place for epidemiology & public health research in the UK & Ireland. I hope to see you there. Submit your abstract before the end of Monday 24th February. #EpiSky

UECNA Webinar Impact of Aircraft Noise on Children’s Learning January 27 18:00 CET Charlotte Clarke, Professor of Environmental Epidemiology at London University, author RANCH Study on children's learning Questions, discussion For zoom link www.uecna.eu

Delighted to share this publications from Whitney Well's MSc dissertation showing ethnic differences in the health of unpaid carers in the UK with @baowenxue.bsky.social and @rebeccalacey.bsky.social jech.bmj.com/content/79/2...

Come & work with us @equalise.bsky.social We are hiring for 4 UCL based Research Fellows. Details here for 3 x UCL Institute of Epidemiology: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... UCL Institute of Child Health with me & Katie Harron: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

'Sandwich carers' suffer long mental health toll, new research from our ICLS colleagues shows www.ft.com/content/cd62... @baowenxue.bsky.social @anne-mcmunn.bsky.social @ukri.org

Our work published today shows the psychological distress associated with combining care of both the younger and older generations with lead author @baowenxue.bsky.social and @rebeccalacey.bsky.social

Job opening for full professor and head of dept in infectious disease epidemiology and dynamics at @lshtm.bsky.social. Deadline 31st Jan: jobs.lshtm.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

Happy to be part of the NIHR ARC North Thames Social Care Learning Network Fellowship. This is a great opportunity to work with researchers and practitioners, advancing research and practice to better understand the experiences of young carers. www.arc-nt.nihr.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

We are recruiting three research fellows to work in Equalise, our new ESRC Centre. See the link below and feel free to share widely www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

This work with Alejandra Letelier Rodríguez and @rebeccalacey.bsky.social suggests caring has become more common for young people since the pandemic. More awareness and support is required.

Great opportunity to be part ion this fantastic new Centre that's embarking on a 5 year research programme to tackle health inequalities.

Delighted to see the publication of my first PhD study last week! Thank you to my lovely supervisors @jessiebaldwin.bsky.social & @rebeccalacey.bsky.social, to Helen Fisher and the wider E-Risk Study team for being so supportive throughout the (lengthy) review process! doi.org/10.1111/jcpp...

If you’re interested in Social epidemiology here’s an account to follow, the international social epidemiology society @ises-epi.bsky.social , for webinars, events & information sharing ⏬⏬

📢The Guardian is now officially on Bluesky @theguardian.com

Want to do a PhD in health inequalities? The first 3 of our new Equalise Centre studentships are open for applications. Details here: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Thanks for all the follows! We hold a regular webinar series with guest speakers, & our next webinar will be held in January. Last month, Professor Maria Glymour and Dr. Frank Pega spoke at our career panel webinar. You can watch a recording of it on our website here: social-epi.org/our-events

Present your research at the 2025 Understanding Society Scientific Conference @usociety.bsky.social - Call for abstracts. www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/news/2024/11... Looking for papers on: Research using Understanding Society or any other household panel study ...

We have 4 post-doctoral positions, working with linked data to improve public health and health services with www.liverpool.ac.uk/population-h... and www.liverpool.ac.uk/civic-health... #episky #econsky #AcademicSky @profbuchan.bsky.social

Lots of great Social Epidemiology researchers in this thread ⬇️ #EpiSky #MedSky

Today the ESRC have announced their new Centres and we are one of them ☺️. Introducing the new ESRC Centre for Lifecourse Health Equity. Led by Yvonne Kelly, Anne McMunn & me as Deputy. ESRC post here: www.ukri.org/news/32m-for... We did it! ☺️

Wise words: "Better to admit that you walked through the wrong door than spend your life in the wrong room."