A rare *fully funded* DPhil studentship with our team @oxfordpsychiatry.bsky.social has just launched! Check it out & don't hesitate to be in touch ⬇️

Out today in BJPsych Open: Fragmentation in adolescent health care provision In this editorial, @minafazeloxford.bsky.social & @emmasoneson.bsky.social describe the perils of fragmentation in adolescent health care and consider what's needed to enhance provision. Read here ⬇️

🌍🧠 Final call! We are recruiting a Senior Researcher in Child Mental Health and Climate Change — an innovative new post linking psychiatry, global health, and climate resilience. Closes 16 June — just days left to apply. Please share!

After a quiet spell here (because it’s been very busy!) — a big #OxWell update 📣🧠 Over 40,000 students have taken part in the 2025 survey so far — THANK YOU to every student who shared their voice 💬💛

Today our team took a well-deserved trip to go hang out with alpacas down at the @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social Radcliffe Camera 🦙 As Very Serious Researchers in mental health, we're pleased to rate this experience a 10/10 for promoting staff #wellbeing & highly recommend nationwide implementation!

👏 Galit Geulayov and Emma Soneson were highly commended in the Research Culture award for pioneering a new approach to mentoring future researchers. @emmasoneson.bsky.social 📷Cyrus Mower

With Psychiatry represented in six nominations in the University of Oxford Vice Chancellor's Awards, we are so pleased and proud of all of our finalists. Now the results are in...

It's a good day for our team with *TWO* new papers fresh off the press! 💃 @drhollybear.bsky.social et al. on incentives in app research ➡️ www.cambridge.org/core/journal... @emmasoneson.bsky.social et al. on adolescent concerns about health & wellbeing research ➡️ www.jahonline.org/article/S105...

We're so excited to advertise a new Senior Researcher post (with an *open-ended* contract!) in climate change & children's mental health 🌍 Come join us & help shape the future of this critical research area. More details here ➡️ source.data.ox.ac.uk/vacancies/17...

DPhil student Boluwatife Cole on her research into predicting adversity and mental health from neural networks. #PsychAwayDay More on Boluwatife’s work here 👇 www.psych.ox.ac.uk/team/boluwat...

Now DPhil student @amalieschumann.bsky.social with a qualitative study on sibling understanding of Anorexia Nervosa in childhood. #PsychAwayDay More on Amalie ⬇️ www.psych.ox.ac.uk/team/amalie-...

Great to see so many VC Awards nominees from our Department, including team members @emmasoneson.bsky.social & @digadulit.bsky.social, who've been shortlisted for the Research Culture Award 👏

It's been a busy 48 hours for our senior postdocs @drhollybear.bsky.social & @emmasoneson.bsky.social, who were invited by BBC South Today & Radio Oxford to talk about the latest Oxfordshire Director of Public Health Annual Report on Children & Young People's #mentalhealth. Links below👇

I wrote a blog explaining why I believe administrative #Data is useful and how it can help us understand #MentalHealth support needs in #Neurodiversity better. Read it here: 🔗 www.adruk.org/news-publica... #supporttheyouth @oxexppsy.bsky.social @oxchildpsych.bsky.social

Our latest paper is now out in Current Psychology: 🔗 link.springer.com/article/10.1... Based on data from over 14,000 adolescents we found: It’s not just how much time young people spend online-it’s what they’re doing & what they’re exposed to that matters.

Well done, Lea! 👏

5 years ago #OxfMedSci celebrated a centenary of women as full members of @ox.ac.uk with achievements of 100 Women of Medical Sciences. Some have moved on to new challenges, or are now in different positions, but they remain inspirational. This #IWD take moment to meet them. www.medsci.ox.ac.uk/...

On Wednesday @amalieschumann.bsky.social & @minafazeloxford.bsky.social took part in the #EatingDisorderAwarenessDay Conference hosted by the CAMHS Eating Disorder Service in Oxford. #EatingDisordersAwarenessWeek

So proud of our shining star Anne Stewart 🌟 (& CAP friends Caz Nahman and Joanna Adams), whose book - Overcoming Worries About Body Image and Eating - launched today at @brasenoseoxford.bsky.social 📚 Huge potential to make a huge difference for young people!

A helpful reminder from our very thoughtful DPhil student @amalieschumann.bsky.social: It’s #EatingDisordersAwarenessWeek. BEAT’s guidance is a valuable resource for anyone posting or communicating about #eatingdisorders. Let’s raise awareness with sensitivity and care. #EDAW2025

Loved being part of this discussion! Have a listen to hear us chat about harnessing the power of today's young people, creating meaningful change in our communities, and my 'beef' with one of the most commonly-used phrases in our field... 👀 Thanks for having me, @gatescambridge.bsky.social!

🔎The Atlas of Longitudinal Datasets is open for use! Filter, compare, save and explore your way through over 1,600 datasets from around the world, with even more to come. Find the #AtlasLongitudinalDatasets here: www.atlaslongitudinaldatasets.ac.uk @wellcometrust.bsky.social

Great to see Profs Kam Bhui, @minafazeloxford.bsky.social, @cathycreswell.bsky.social & David Ndetei discuss resilience & mental health amongst young people in India, Kenya & globally at @somervillecollege.bsky.social this evening. Lots of interesting discussion & ideas. #mentalhealth

Help our team learn how to support siblings of young people with #eatingdisorders. These groups will help us improve an intervention for these often overlooked young people. #mentalhealth #research

We’re at @wellcometrust.bsky.social for the launch of the Atlas of Longitudinal Datasets - a free online platform that maps longitudinal datasets around the world🌎 @larseneault.bsky.social @mqmentalhealth.bsky.social 🔗https://atlaslongitudinaldatasets.ac.uk/ #AtlasLongitudinalDatasets

📣 New Research! It took 6 years but we got there! The STADIA trial reports… What we did: Large multi-centre #RCT with 1225 children and young people with emotional difficulties referred to #CAMHS across England, followed-up for 18 months. 6 Headline findings… see below… (1/7)

Another new paper from the @oxwell.bsky.social team here at Child & Adolescent Psychiatry! 📘 Read (free) to learn about social jetlag in young people: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New @oxwell.bsky.social study out today puts the #youthvoice centre stage in understanding the availability, accessibility & acceptability of #mentalhealth support in the UK. PRESS RELEASE ➡️ www.psych.ox.ac.uk/news/radical... ARTICLE ➡️ www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

*Networks of care for the modern adolescent* 🫶🌻 In our new paper, we combine a #network approach + applied research lens to explore where #youngpeople are accessing #mentalhealth support & how helpful they find it. w/ Simon R White & @minafazeloxford.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Lots of celebrations this week, incl.: 👉 a Secret Santa Sock Exchange 🔁🧦 👉 the Departmental Christmas Party (a screening of 'Paddington in Peru'!) 🐻🇬🇧 👉 a team murder mystery event at Oxford Castle 👀🏰 We also said 'bye for now' to Shona, our lovely group administrator who's off to go have a baby 👶

Congratulations to our fabulous DPhil student @amalieschumann.bsky.social for a successful transfer viva (first year oral exam) - she said she even ENJOYED it (thanks, examiners Kam & Eleanor)! Onwards!! 👏🥳🎉

Today @minafazeloxford.bsky.social & @emmasoneson.bsky.social journeyed to London to join colleagues from around the country for a meeting of the Adolescent Health Study. Our team is excited to help shape this major study & ensure it keeps #mentalhealth at its heart!