Personally and professionally 2025 has been pretty tough. But the one thing I’ve been reminded of is the importance of breaks, & how great colleagues help make sure you get them. Here’s just a few of the shows I’ve see this year - this is a favourite way of spending my days off!

Poignant evening with @wearetradehealth.bsky.social marking trans day of remembrance with a fairy light lit walk and then a moment of reflection. Remember the dead and fight for the living #TDOR

Mindfulness in a box. Buying Lego is basically self care at this stage.

Thrilled to share my latest publication, undertaken in collaboration with the Australian College of Critical Care Nurses End-of-Life Advisory Panel, exploring nurse and family perspectives on #end-of-life care for children in #ICU. Full text available here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

How do siblings of critically ill infants experience the #NICU? Come along to #Siblings in #PedsICU Research Interest Group to hear Dr Suza Trajkovski discuss findings from her integrative review and offer suggestions for support! Date: Nov 18th @ 8am AEDT Find out more: [email protected]

I had a great chat with Rupa from St Louis for the Incubator podcast, talking about how we train in neonatology in the UK, and my research www.the-incubator.org/post/343-inv...

Don’t post here much. Definitely don’t atm as I am in the middle of an ocean.

Welcome to 2025. #ItsDoctorActually #EverydaySexism

Interested in how visiting relatives in #ICU or #PICU impacts children? Come along to the #Siblings in #PedsICU Research Interest Group to hear A/Prof Giulia Lamiani discuss her recent study findings & share tips for support! Date: Aug 18th @ 5:30pm AEST Find out more: [email protected]

I’m delighted that I’ve received Senior Fellowship of the HEA. Especially pleased that this was in part due to my role in supporting student welfare. @advancehe.bsky.social #SFHEA

🚨🚨🚨 Warning ‼️ The #pccs2025 conference early bird window closes in 2 weeks. If you want to get your tickets at the discounted rate make sure to book before the window ends on 1st August. Follow the link below to book www.pccsbelfast25.com #pedsicu #giantsteps

New research published in @lancetchildadol.bsky.social, using data from @picanetaudit.bsky.social (commissioned by @hqip.bsky.social), highlights inequalities in UK paediatric intensive care. www.hqip.org.uk/news/picanet...

Read the full article here: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... #OpenAccess #OA #PCCSky

A great day at @pccsociety.bsky.social Acute Transport Group talking all things #PedsICU. Thanks for having me, as always! Great to run our research prioritisation exercise. Watch this space! 👀 @picanetaudit.bsky.social

📣 PhD opportunity 📣 Want to do a PhD exploring how children’s home environments interact with their health? Take a look, I hear the supervisors are great #PedsICU #PhDChat ufncollaboratory.ac.uk/improving-th...

I know working in a hospital is hard, but remember when you are rude to a patient because you are grumpy or stressed, they may literally be having the worse day of their life already.

Another day, another film I won’t see. But I’m sure he won’t want to sit on my knee forever so I’d never push him off. Although at nearly 7 years old he is well over half my height now! #AuntieRara

We proudly welcome Prof. Joseph Manning as the newly elected Nursing President of #ESPNIC! Congratulations! 💫 #CriticalCare #CriticalCareNurses #ScientificLeadership #PedsICU #NICU

Want to know more about supporting #siblings in #PICU? Come along to the #Siblings in #PedsICU Research Interest Group to hear Kate Strickland present on the role of CLT, and practical tips to support siblings & families! Date: May 12th, @ 4:30pm AEST Find out more: [email protected]

🎉World PICU Awareness Week 2025 begins today! 🌍This week, we celebrate the incredible professionals in pediatric intensive care, champions of resilience, innovation, and hope. 🎙️Daily global podcast series starts with Oceania! 🔗https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GEN6o6BxNQ&feature=youtu.be #WPAW25

Are you the parent/carer of a child who has been cared for in #PedsICU?* We are looking for support on the Paediatric Intensive Care Audit Network Steering Group. Interested? Feel free to email me: [email protected] *We'd also love to hear from any young adults with lived experience

Are you the parent/carer of a child who has been cared for in #PedsICU?* We are looking for support on the Paediatric Intensive Care Audit Network Steering Group. Interested? Feel free to email me: [email protected] *We'd also love to hear from any young adults with lived experience

When you want to watch the film, but everyone has to be as close to you as humanely possible #PaddingtonInPeru

An afternoon of live orchestra performing “how to train your dragon”. One of my fave films, exceptional music, and a great day out with my wonderful Dad.

So pleased with our MedPride postcards/leaflets! MedPride is a staff-student group working to improve LGBTQ+ inclusivity in medicine at Leicester & beyond. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Yes my hair is blue

I am good not thinking about five years ago. We are here and we are in this moment. We are together and we are happy. I’ve seen awful and I don’t need to look back again.

How lucky am I that I get to be Chair of the Trustees for this awesome charity in the year it turns 25?! 🥳🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

I’m looking forward to attending, and speaking at, this super important day focusing on how we can improve care for these children in (and outside of) #PedsICU

🌟 Today I gave the "Rising Star" lecture to The Neonatal Society! 🌟 Absolutely delighted to have been recognised for my contributions to perinatal and paediatric epidemiology today by The Neonatal Society. Huge thanks to my wonderful colleagues & friends for supporting me!

On #InternationalWomensDay I want to wish my niece Piper a happy second birthday. The most fiercely independently girl I know. You entered the world with a bang. Never change, the world needs you stubborn and fierce 🔥 love #AuntieRara

On #InternationalWomensDay I want to wish my niece Piper a happy second birthday. The most fiercely independently girl I know. You entered the world with a bang. Never change, the world needs you stubborn and fierce 🔥 love #AuntieRara

Have you witnessed or experienced hate targeting the LGBTQ+ community in #Leicestershire? Join us for our community safety training sessions - share your experiences, know your rights, stay safe, get support Next event: 8th March, 11:00-15:00, Hinckley Sign up: forms.office.com/e/C9ue3V6D3A

Today is #RaraAppreciationDay so if you haven’t met them yet these are my niblings: Caleb (6.5 years) & Piper (2 next week). They don’t call me Auntie (in fact they have an Auntie Sarah) they call me Rara. We have lots of adventures together. Here we are last year on World Book Day 🙃

As #LGBTHistoryMonth comes to an end, we want to celebrate Trade’s own history of activism and social change. Trade started out as a community response to HIV in Leicester in the 1990s. Do you recognise anyone in the photos? We’d love to hear your memories of Trade’s early days.

The PICANet data dashboard has now been refreshed to include the provisional data from October 2024. You can access it via our website here: picanet.org.uk/data-collect...

So delighted to see this publication out in print, a topic I’m really passionate about, exploring the concept of family in #PedsICU Family Centred Care research. Excellently led by our wonderful joint first authors @ashleighebutler.bsky.social & @ebichard.bsky.social

Absolutely thrilled to share my latest publication, exploring the concept of family in #PICU #FCC research. An important milestone as the first publication from the #Siblings in #PedsICU International Research Interest Group too! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

We all should all learn something from a (nearly) two year old, seeing her first ever rainbow, demanding to be taken outside and then refusing to move till it vanished despite getting soaked 🌈 #AuntieRara

Woah, I’m taking back everything I’ve ever said about Valentines Day, the perfect card does exist ❤️ #ValentinesDay #GalentinesDay

On International Day of Women and Girls in Science this is what a woman in science looks like: -a BSc Maths - MSc Med Stats - PhD Neonatal Epidemiology - Chartered Statistician - Associate Prof & Co-PI of @picanetaudit.bsky.social - Lover of bright dresses; post-apocalyptic fiction; 80s pop & Lego

3 days left to submit your abstract for #ESPNIC 2025! Share your findings with global #neonatal and #paediatric #IntensiveCare community! Deadline: Friday, 7 February, 2025! Submit here✅ : bit.ly/ESPNIC-Abstr... Register now☑️ : bit.ly/ESPNIC-REGIS...

Interested in supporting all things LGBTQ+ health? The excellent @wearetradehealth.bsky.social (I am the Chair of their Trustees) have arrived on BlueSky! Trade also support *anyone* affected by HIV. Give them a follow to hear more about our work 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

It’s February! It’s #LGBTQHistoryMonth and I can’t wait to show you what we’ve planned to commemorate inclusivity in healthcare. More next week! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Interested in the experiences of siblings in #PICU? Come along to the #Siblings in #PedsICU Research Interest Group to hear Dr Lizzie Bichard present her PhD findings from The heArt sibLings imPact Study (ALPS). Date: Feb 5th, 2025, at 8am AEDT Find out more at: [email protected]

We’re excited to be on Bluesky & connect with our members & the global #PedsICU community!

The PICANet data dashboard has now been refreshed to include the provisional data from September 2024. You can access it via our website here: picanet.org.uk/data-collect...

MedPRIDE have our first (small but important) celebration of LGBTQ+ history month landing this February. Watch this space! To read more about the work of MedPRIDE take a look at our website, we have more planned! le.ac.uk/cls/cls-equa...

Proud that work from my @nihr.bsky.social Advanced Fellowship was selected as Editor's Choice in the January edition of Australian Critical Care: Creating a home with a critically ill child. Take a look (available open access): www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @josephcmanning.bsky.social

I don’t really do New Year’s resolutions, but like every year I aim to try & approach everything positively (moaning allowed now & then!) & do more things I love. Im enjoying my work & next week got a day off to see Hamilton (again!)