📢New Top 10! Check out the published priorities for future research around Polycystic Ovary Syndrome: buff.ly/r296eFy Congratulations to everyone involved in the PSP. Find out more about the PSP here: buff.ly/BHUuSmE

Take a look at this exciting new report by @ktacheson.bsky.social - “Power and Potential: A Global Blueprint for Youth-Led Decision-Making" ⭐ The report focuses on moving away from tokenism and instead providing young people with power 💛 www.churchilltrust.com.au/fellow/katie...

Children’s wellbeing is still in decline, according to @childrenssociety.bsky.social's #GoodChildhoodReport 2025. We back their recommendations to reclaim hope and call for the government to take decisive action to overturn this damaging decline: www.childrenssociety.org.uk/good-childhood

Read the report here bci-hub.org/documents/ep... And find out more about the Agency project here mcpin.org/project/agen... and Agency-in-Practice mcpin.org/project/agen... @ipanalysis.bsky.social @lisabortolotti.com @matthewbroome.bsky.social @rachelred94.bsky.social @mcpinypnetwork.bsky.social

What does music and mental health mean to you? For our Young People's Advisory Group of young Black people living in/connected to London, it's everything from the links between fashion, music and mental health and self-expression, to the criminalisation of Drill music...

🚨New Opportunity🚨 You can find out more by scanning the QR code in the thread below 👇

New Opportunity! 🌎 Researchers from the University of Sussex are looking for young adults aged 18-34 to test out a climate action chatbot to support young adults in navigating climate concern. Find out more here 👉https://tinyurl.com/4kyfur24

We’re delighted to share with you ‘Life as a neurodivergent student’. We worked with a brilliant steering group of neurodivergent students to create a series of free resources featuring advice and reflections on navigating university life with neurodivergence. Read more: https://bit.ly/47qUaR2

Agency-In-Practice YPAG member, Josh, shares about attending his second ever conference, Qualitative Methods in Psychology, and how it built on what he has learned as a young person finding his feet at big events! Read his blog here 👉 tinyurl.com/28aefjw4

🚨New opportunity!! Are you a young person that has been involved in the research process? Get involved in shaping a book all about youth involvement! Find out more below 👇

🚨New Opportunity🚨 This research study is aiming to investigate why autistic young people may develop low-self esteem, and the impact of this on their mental health. Researchers aim to complete interviews with young people to understand more about their lived experience. Find out more below 👇

📣 New Opportunity! Join the Lived Experience Collaboration Platform Working Group to play a key role in shaping the platform and its first two modules: • Child and youth mental health collaboration • Safeguarding in lived experience collaboration Apply here: mcpin.org/research-opp...

It's World Mental Health Day 🌍! Some members of our Young People's Team have reflected on this years theme: 'Access to services - mental health in catastrophes and emergencies'.

🚨New Opportunity🚨 Bradford 2025 and MIND have come together to create a short mental health film, with the aim of raising awareness and erasing the stigma around young people's mental health in Bradford. We are looking for a variety of young contributors with lived experience. Link below 👇

October is ADHD awareness month 🧡 Did you know that young people with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are around five-times more likely to experience depression than those without?

For this year, the theme for Black History Month is Standing Firm in Power and Pride – so what better time to introduce the B.Life project, or simply put: ‘Black Life, period.’

Interesting blog about the ATTUNE project which explored adverse childhood experiences using art 🎨 A key finding was the importance of validating YP's experiences - something echoed through our Agency project! Excited to see more about the Ace of Hearts game www.ukri.org/blog/ukri-fu...

Young people are shaping the future of mental health research 🧠✨ The McPin Foundation’s Young People’s Advisory Group is working with us at E-Risk@30, bringing lived experience, insight, and creativity to every stage 💬🔍 @mcpinfoundation.bsky.social @mcpinypnetwork.bsky.social

Are you interested in getting involved in mental health research as a young person, or want to know how future patient & public involvement could be better? Our ‘emerging practice in PPI’ paper came up with recurring themes & recommendations for doing this work. Find out more 👇

🚨New Opportunity!!🚨 Researchers are looking for young people ages 18-29 with lived experience of depression to take part in a research study. This study looks to compare the cultural differences between the experiences of young people in the UK and China. Find out more mcpin.org/research-opp...

🚨New opportunity!! Content warning: Self harm We are asking for 15 young people to take part in a one off individual one-to-one interview up to 1 hour long to talk about their experience waiting for NHS mental health services. Check out the poster to find out more!

📣 Researchers from the University of Manchester are looking for young people aged 16-25 to join an advisory group for the VoiceIn study. Young advisors will input and feedback on the VoiceIn app,an app that makes it easier for people to get involved in health research. mcpin.org/research-opp...

@unibirmingham.bsky.social & @wellcometrust.bsky.social are looking for people aged 11-25, professionals, researchers & families to complete a survey on how to shape future youth engagement in mental health services 🧠 Vouchers provided for completing both surveys! bham.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

The time has come for the young people from the Peer Action Collective to share their research! Join this online showcase to hear directly from these young people as they share their research and uncover how collaboration can create safer communities. tinyurl.com/v25wfkas

Did you receive a diagnosis of psychosis or bipolar as a young person? Take part in this study exploring how young people experienced receiving a diagnosis of psychosis and/or bipolar disorder & being offered antipsychotic medication. Sharing your story could help improve mental health services.

Our YPAG have been involved in this insightful paper on the topic of paediatric mental health liaison services 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Take a look to learn more about the impact of these services on children and young people's mental and physical health 💛 link.springer.com/article/10.1... #YoungPeoplesMentalHealth

*Are you a parent of a child under 3 years?* *Do you have experience of psychosis?* Help Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust to explore approaches in supporting parents with psychosis, and their children: mcpin.org/research-opp...

Participation opportunity! Researchers at KCL are exploring eco-anxiety in young people aged 16-29 mcpin.org/research-opp...

Some highlights also included a beautifully nuanced talk on AI and qual methods from @ginnybraun.bsky.social, a thoughtful and powerful discussion of lived experience and identity in research from @heathermsutherland.bsky.social, and a collaborative talk from @mcpinypnetwork.bsky.social #QMIP2025

Presentation complete! We enjoyed sharing our approach to dialogical co-analysis with young people with the Qualitative research community at @qmip.bsky.social thanks for having us! 😀 #QMIP2025

We're at the Qualitative methods in psychology conference - Another opportunity to share our approach to doing co-analysis with young people as part of our Agency-In-practice project 👌 Let's goooo! #QMIP2025

With McPin, we prepared a set of suggestions for supporting young people, based on our research on the Agency Projects. What do you think of our leaflet? www.canva.com/design... #YouthMentalHealth #EpistemicInjustice #philsky #philpsy

What are the do's and don't's when having a conversation with a young person about their mental health? Check out the cheat sheet leaflet for adults, designed by Philosopher @lisabortolotti.com with input from our Agency-in-practice Young People's Advisory Group mcpin.org/resource/age...

New podcast! My take on our agency projects. Spanning motivation, challenges, methods, outcomes, and future applications. #philsky #philpsy #epistemicinjustice open.spotify.com/episode/76Uf...

Check out this new blog where Lived Experience Advisory Panel (LEAP) members and Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) facilitator share reflections on training sessions for complex statistical methods. mcpin.org/training-liv...

Not quite an end-of-project wrap-up for the 'Agency-in-practice' team (because like Columbo, there's always 'Just one more thing ...') but a great chance to enjoy what we've all achieved together, on what has been The Best and Loveliest Project to collaborate on.

Enjoyed lunching in London with this lovely lot today as part of celebrating our Agency-In-practice project led by the incredible @ipanalysis.bsky.social great to see the YPAG in person. Next steps - disseminating our youth co-analysis methodology far and wide!

Learning about how the ATTUNE team co-created a game with young people exploring adverse childhood experiences

Today we're hanging out at ATTUNE's impact & dissemination conference, project exploring the impact of adverse childhood experiences on CYP mental health. Looking forward to learning from you! 👍

In this blog Tom, Young People's Advisory Group (YPAG) member and experienced co-researcher shares his takeaways. With advice on getting involved in and working with young people in research, as part of the EXCITE project. mcpin.org/youth-resear... #involvement @mcpinypnetwork.bsky.social

Yesterday we had our @mcpinypnetwork.bsky.social YPAG kickoff meeting for exploring the relationship between adverse childhood experiences and anxiety across UK and Brazil - led by University of Bristol. We'll also be training our Brazil colleagues in meaningful youth involvement practices 🌎

Check out this podcast hosted by the University of Sheffield where a panel of 3 experts discuss Target Trials, research using real world evidence (service data) to assess the efficacy of different digital and NHS talking therapies for anxiety and depression player.sheffield.ac.uk/events/realw...

🚨🚨New Opportunity!! Content warning – self-harm. Get involved in a new study relating to sleep and self-harm in young people. Please get in touch with @bethjmartin.bsky.social or click the link below to find out more! 👇 mcpin.org/research-opp...

Got 5 mins? Check out this blog! This piece comes from the Influence of Influencers project:Exploring how the stories told by social media influencers impact the mental health of young people. We work with 14 youth advisors on this fantastic and informative project! blog.bham.ac.uk/influencerst...

🚨🚨 We have an exciting new opportunity to join a new one year project on developing a CAMHS (Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services) single session intervention for children and young people. Check out the link below to find out more 👇

This morning on BBC Radio 4, there was a piece called "All About Twins" in the All in the Mind Programme and the study we work on called E-Risk was mentioned! You can listen here: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

In May, 2 of our McPin team members along with 2 young people with lived experience spoke at an event, addressing the question "what makes an emotionally healthy school?". In this blog piece, they share their reflections from the event. Got 5 mins? Give it a read! 🙂 mcpin.org/what-makes-a...

Listening again to this podcast by McPin on how to protect young people's agency in interactions with mental health practitioners. So proud to be a small part of it! youtu.be/DnN1ZJK37WQ... #philsky #epistemicinjustice @mcpinypnetwork.bsky.social‬

Researchers at the University of Brighton are looking for young people and their parents/guardians/caregivers to investigate the impact of social media use on mental well-being 🧠 If you are interested or have any questions, please email Dora ([email protected])

The govt is asking the public to share evidence/thoughts to help shape the first ever Men’s Health Strategy for England – including on mental health. More info here - share your thoughts to make sure the strategy’s shaped by lived experience 👉 bit.ly/4jiE26V Deadline 11:59pm 17 July.