Safeguards against #DomesticAbuse and coercion in the #AssistedDying bill must be strengthened, urge Gene Feder, Elizabeth Cook and @mcmanussally.bsky.social in this opinion piece in @bmj.com ⬇️ www.bmj.com/content/390/... @nihrspcr.bsky.social @sapc.ac.uk @bristoluni.bsky.social #GPSky #MedSky

In my last role at SIPHER, I helped develop a systems map of the Wider Social Determinants of Mental Health (with a Scotland focus). You can explore it here: sipher_publicmentalhealth.layeredsystemsmaps.com/view/public_... 1/5

Thank you @mcmanussally.bsky.social for the invite to present my work to @sarahdangar.bsky.social and the rest of your team at City University. Really interesting discussions and great to hear about all the interesting projects you have going on.

Really proud to say that my systematic review and meta-analysis on domestic and sexual violence and abuse services and interventions has been published! Read it here: bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... @anniebunce.bsky.social @mcmanussally.bsky.social @matthewprina.bsky.social

New police figures out this week about the link between suicide & domestic abuse. Such an important wake-up call. My eyes were opened by the report by @agenda-alliance.bsky.social @mcmanussally.bsky.social - well worth a look ⬇️ @nazirafzal.bsky.social

Happy International Women’s Day! I am very lucky to work with some brilliant women @violenceandsociety.bsky.social and @vision-research.bsky.social. You can find some on here @mcmanussally.bsky.social @vanessagash.bsky.social @anniebunce.bsky.social @lizzie-cook.bsky.social @andri-i.bsky.social #IWD

Really pleased to share that our rapid systematic review on adolescent domestic abuse has now been published link.springer.com/article/10.1... . The article focuses on risk & protective factors. Brilliant to work with such a good team on this. @drsophiecarlisle.bsky.social @ktbg1.bsky.social

Our January newsletter is now live ❄️ mailchi.mp/respect/resp... We covered: 🔹Launch of our 2022/2023 Impact Report 🔹The first APPG on Perpetrators of Domestic Abuse meeting 🔹Landmark report from The Respect Young People's Service. 🔹Celebrating newly Respect accredited services And much more...

The Respect Young People’s Service offers several training courses to support practitioners who work with young people causing harm in their relationships and have developed tools and resources to address teenage relationship abuse. Email [email protected] to find out more and book your course.

ONS friends have asked me to share a vacancy: Data Governance Officer Focus will be to support the governance of the access, use and sharing of data for research and statistical purposes Closes 28 January www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi...

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

Our Practitioner in Residence @ktbg1.bsky.social and I have written a policy brief highlighting the findings and recommendations from ongoing research and stakeholder engagement into abuse in teenage relationships carried out by the @vision-research.bsky.social vision.city.ac.uk/news/address...

There's still time to submit your proposal for our UK Census User Conference 2025 in Manchester! Full details at our website: ukdataservice.ac.uk/2024/12/17/c...

📢 Job opportunity! 📢 Dr Gemma Knowles @kingsioppn.bsky.social is recruiting two 2-year full-time postdocs to join our soon-to-start project on the causes and potential solutions to gender inequalities in youth mental health! See www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/103685-... for more info on post and how to apply!

Happy New Year wveryone - if you are able please consder sposoring my www.winterrun.co.uk/fundraisers/...

Delighted to have had my analysis of cybercrime victimisation data from the Crime Survey for England and Wales published in the open access, peer-reviewed scientific journal PLOS One! Thanks to all my co-authors for their fantastic input. journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Managed to squeeze in one last publication for 2024 - what a year! Huge thanks to the brilliant Prof. Vanessa Munro and Lotte Young Andrade - I have loved working with you on this project. doi.org/10.1111/jols...

Cybercrime victimisation in older adults: Ben Havers' analysis of Crime Survey for England and Wales with @claudiacooper.bsky.social aand others shows older people more vulnerable to repeat victimisation and financial loss journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Brilliant to be working with @ktbg1.bsky.social as our Practitioner in Residence on @vision-research.bsky.social research into adolescent domestic abuse. Here is more information about the national work Katy will be doing as part of her project: vision.city.ac.uk/news/deputy-...

Oh exciting. I just got a bit of funding to support an event in LGBT history month titled ‘Responding to LGBT+ Domestic Abuse: The History of the Movement and a Vision for its Future’. As a start to planning this, if anyone is interested in stories of organising and activism, get in touch.

Hello bsky. Good to be here. I'm hiring! Can't think of a better inaugural post than to share details of new 2-year research fellow post we're advertising for an outstanding epidemiogist to join my team to work on improving population mental health. tinyurl.com/28mlykr9 #CausalSky #EpiSky

Violence against older people is strongly associated with poor mental health https://buff.ly/3VtQBmQ Sophie Carlisle explores the prevalence of violence against older people and how this relates to mental health. This is the third blog in our #16DaysOfActivism2024 series. #Violence #Abuse #IPV

Calling all artists under the age of 12 or 12 to 17 - please help design a cover for the next CAPSS report - chance to win £50

with VISION consortium (vision.city.ac.uk) support - Iran-based NGO Mehre Shams Afarid, IKWRO, a team of Iranian animators, Ladan Hashemi and many others produced these short films on domestic violence, including on recognising tech abuse: youtu.be/wtflT6uWlUw

"many still don’t understand what violence truly is. Raising awareness is the solution" said one respondent to this survey on violence against women and girls (VAWG) in Iran. Results explored in these incredible animations, from Ladan Hashemi and many collaborators youtu.be/PQOchFKZ6U0

Today, @rapecrisis.bsky.social CEO @ciarabergman.bsky.social has publicly and directly criticised the total absence of the sexual violence reduction - or any VAWG mission related mention - in the PMs milestones speech & the real term cut in victim services funding. rapecrisis.org.uk/news/our-ceo...

We are lookkng fir a research assistant to work on a feasibility trial of a self-directed intervention for teenagers awaiting psychotherapy www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49384/

📉To this end, we want to see a national domestic abuse data dashboard which draws together qualitative and quantitative data from survivors, frontline domestic abuse services, Maracs and local authorities. Read our full response. safelives.org.uk/news-views/r...

Thanks @safelives.bsky.social: Data held by police only provides a partial picture of the actual level of domestic abuse experienced, as only 1 in 5 people report to the police -we need a national domestic abuse data dashboard which draws together qual/quant data from survivors, services, Maracs LAs

Day 5 of #16DaysofActivism2024 - We have published a range of systematic, scoping & rapid evidence reviews. Topics include a scoping review of the effectiveness of domestic abuse services and a lit review on use of computational text analysis to study IPV: vision.city.ac.uk/evidence-syn...

🗺️The Atlas of Longitudinal Datasets, our new @wellcometrust.bsky.social funded research platform designed to increase the discoverability of longitudinal data across the world, is almost ready to launch! Sign up to be invited to our launch webinar -> www.landscaping-longitudinal-research.com/webinar

📢📢📢New article out! On violence and insecure #migration status in Globalization and Health journal: read it here rdcu.be/d1gTT Reporting of violence victimization should never result in immigration enforcement. Everyone deserves to be free from violence. W/ Annie Bunce, Hannah Manzur & Natalia Lewis

Share these powerful animations exploring economic abuse and coercive control - result of an international collaboration led by Dr Ladan Hashemi, alongside multiple NGOs, universities, the brilliant IKWRO (ikwro.org.uk) and an incredible Iranian production team www.youtube.com/@WomenResear...

New article out on using unsupervised machine learning to find profiles of domestic abuse perpetrators. Great to work on this with Kat Hadjimatheou, Alejandro Quiroz Flores and Taylor Skevington. academic.oup.com/policing/art...

Kintsugi is a Japanese art of repairing broken pottery and other ceramics using lacquer and powdered gold, silver, or platinum. Kintsugi translates to "joining with gold". Instead of hiding cracks, kintsugi highlights them with gold to tell the story of the object, finding beauty in damage.

My first post on Bluesky :) We’re hiring! We’re looking for a postdoc research associate, to come work with us in our national population mental health consortium. If you’re into psych epi, public health & tackling mental health inequities take a look ⏬ www.timeshighereducation.com/unijobs/mini...

This doesn't happen often! We have a vacancy for a P/T (21 hrs) Researcher at the Femicide Census. We're looking for a feminist with strong research skills, the ability to deal with the emotional impact of the subject matter and the desire to make a difference to join our tiny but brilliant team.

The Guardian view on children’s homes: cap profits and don’t stop there | Editorial

You might not have to leave your home to escape economic abuse. We’ve compiled essential information that may help you stay safely in your home ⬇️🏠

Are you or do you know a teenager who struggles with low mood? If so we want to hear from you & you can find out more about what we are doing here www.cam.ac.uk/stories/ATTE...

Hi everyone! Let me introduce myself. I’m a passionate advocate for #publichealth, #equity & impact. My public health work has spanned decades - from tackling #HIV/AIDS to leading London's response to COVID-19. I'll be sharing insights on wellbeing, disease trends & building healthier communities.

Other epi disciplines already have their lovely starter packs, so for establishing parity of esteem, here comes the psychiatric epidemiology starter pack 👇 go.bsky.app/ADVqVyp Please nominate other people to grow our ranks ☺️

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/...

📣JOB ALERT! Are you interested in psychiatric epidemiology? We are looking for a PhD student or postdoc to join our team in beautiful Aarhus (Denmark)! We welcome all applicants (regardless of gender, culture, country of origin, etc). bit.ly/AUepi2023 #EpiSky #demography Please share🙂

Job of a lifetime opportunity with @kareningalasmith.bsky.social and team

I'm delighted to introduce a new SIPHER report by Natalie Dewison, @profkatsmith and I, our 1st as part of new programme seeking a move towards a more preventive policy approach to mental health in Scotland. Here's a wee thread (BlueSky first 👍🏻) and link to PDF: www.gla.ac.uk/media/Media_...

Adults with learning disability are at increased risk of mental and physical health conditions, and have reduced life expectancy compared to the general population doi.org/10.3399/BJGP...

Fantastic opportunity here for anyone interested in pursing a #PhD in violence against women #VAWG. Fully funded PhD based at Nottingham Trent and working with the wonderful Juno Women's Aid ufncollaboratory.ac.uk/volunteering...

🆕We have a fantastic new feature on the #CatalogueMHM! Click our new Harmony icon to export a standard measure to the Harmony harmonisation platform! Check it out now on www.cataloguementalhealth.ac.uk @kingsioppn.bsky.social @thementalelf.bsky.social @closer-uk.bsky.social