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28 today! This time last year I was in a proper mental health crisis, today I’m feeling the best I have done in years. Thanks to my awesome medical team and partner 😊 🎈

Not something you see everyday: someone reversing down a one way road to get a parking spot.

@mplsoxford.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk folks please do check out our programme for #MHAW2025 www.mpls.ox.ac.uk/equality-div... a week full of excellent workshops and activities!

Eventful day having to file a police report after witnessing a teenager push a gentleman off his bike in front of my car. Luckily the gentleman did not get run over, but did break his Tibia!

Social prescribing helps people connect with their communities for better health and wellbeing 🤝 Our Oxford Social Prescribing Research Network brings together 250 members from across the world to share innovations and research findings💡 On #SocialPrescribingDay, find out more about their work 👇

‼️ ATTENTION ‼️ Calls for abstracts are now open for the 2025 BSA medical sociology conference at Northumbria Uni. Welcoming to ECRs and those working within medical sociology or related disciplines: www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b...

There is still plenty of time to apply for this prize 🏆! Please RT! #sociology #medicalsociology #socialscience

Delighted to have my partner Ben home after a tough recovery from colorectal surgery. Thank you to all the wonderful doctors and nurses at the Churchill hospital in Oxford who looked after him.

Are you interested in pursuing a DPhil?    Check out this fully funded DPhil opportunity on advancing stewardship approaches!  💡 Mixed-methods approach tailored to your experience  💲 4-year funding with annual stipend   🌎 Open to UK & international applicants Apply by 28 March: bit.ly/4blMIad

Thinking of my lovely partner, Ben, who is having a life changing operation today.

My little hamster, Pickle, brings me so much joy 🥹

❗ATTENTION SOCIAL SCIENTISTS❗ The Foundation for the Sociology of Health and Illness is seeking nomination for the 2025 Book Prize. This awarded to the authors or editors of a book making a significant contribution to medical sociology 👀😱. Reward of £1,000 🤑 Apply here: shorturl.at/sHn0Z PLEASE RT!

Why should you take our MSc in Evidence-Based Health Care? Recent alumna Athina Metaxa shares her positive experiences of the MSc, the Systematic Reviews module and her delight at having a paper published in the prestigious BMJ in her new blog ⬇️ bit.ly/4gKhYRz

Spreading some love this Valentine’s Day 🌹

❗ATTENTION SOCIAL SCIENTISTS❗ The Foundation for the Sociology of Health and Illness is seeking nomination for the 2025 Book Prize. This awarded to the authors or editors of a book making a significant contribution to medical sociology 👀😱. Reward of £1,000 🤑 Apply here: shorturl.at/sHn0Z PLEASE RT!

Our fab office manager has translated results from my #ConversationAnalysis #BehaviourChange research into a nudge to get people to put stuff in the dishwasher. Previously ‘there is no dishwasher fairy, you need to put your items in the dishwasher’ now a good news delivery… let’s see if it works 😬

Beautiful flowers from my mum, in laws, and friend Sabrina for passing my DPhil last week. Surreal opening presents with ‘Dr’ on.

Thank you for all the lovely messages on my news yesterday. It doesn’t feel real. I’m extremely tired and having some well deserved rest 💚

Rosamund Snow scholars Amelia Talbot (DPhil Primary Health Care, 2020) and Jeremy Leslie-Spinks (DPhil Primary Health Care, 2020) share their research projects and journeys! ✨ The Rosamund Snow Scholarship deadline has been extended to 14 February. www.phc.ox.ac.uk/news/rosamun...

My first Bluesky to announce that today I passed my DPhil (PhD)! Thank you to my wonderful examiners Teresa and Carolyn. Also shout out to my supervisors, especially @charlottealbury.bsky.social who is just super awesome and consistently went above and beyond. She is the reason I’m here today 💚💚

So so proud of my sister @ameliatalbot.bsky.social who passed her #PhD viva with minor corrections today from Oxford University! Congrats Dr Talbs!! 🎉 🥳

Hey, early-career academics (and others) working in mental health and lived experience research, how about giving @ameliatalbot.bsky.social a follow on her passed-my-PhD day? 🙏

Join us in congratulating @ameliatalbot.bsky.social in passing her PhD viva!

🎓Congratulations to Dr @ameliatalbot.bsky.social on a successful viva. 🎓 Amelia is a social scientist who researches mental health, particularly treatment resistant depression @oxprimarycare.bsky.social. Her thesis focussed on experiences of treatment resistant depression in a primary care context.