Super excited and thankful to have been awarded this funding from @medresfdn.bsky.social I will examine whether engaging in the arts can protect against self-harm and suicide in young people + use these findings to co-produce an arts and wellbeing prevention programme for schools 🎨🎭🎥🎶

If you are an ECR in mental health and addiction research and are interested in learning about a range of qualitative and quantitative research methods, head over to the @mhrincubator.bsky.social website, where sign-ups are live for The Big Methods Exchange! mentalhealthresearch.org.uk/tbme/

Submit your evidence of interventions that improve outcomes, quality of care or system performance for children and young people and help shape the upcoming children and young people's modern service framework. eu.surveymonkey.com/r/CYPCallfor...

Really enjoyed my first time attending #ICRMC #ICRMC25 and presenting our creative bunting activity with @lizjestico.bsky.social! Thanks to @drhelenkara.bsky.social and all the organisers for a fantastic conference See you next year!

@nmwarne.bsky.social #ICRMC25 use of Bunting for reflection on research- story of co-producing an art and wellbeing programme for schools @drhelenkara.bsky.social

Great job opportunity to work in the SASH group at Uni of Bristol with the fantastic @drknipe.bsky.social!

Come see the fantastic poster by @lizjestico.bsky.social at #ESCAP2025 @escaponline.bsky.social at D3.123! Results from creative focus groups to understand the barriers and facilitators to a school art and wellbeing programme 🏫🎨

Our new study led by Dr Annie Jeffery in CPRD/HES finds high mortality and physical health admissions across all eating disorder diagnoses with evidence of disparities across gender, ethnicity, and deprivation. Men in particular have higher mortality and admissions. doi.org/10.1192/bjp....

It’s an absolute joy to be working with these YPAG co-facilitators on the Create for Confidence project. They are enhancing our research in so many ways and we love working with them @nmwarne.bsky.social

The 2025 national #ARCseminar series on: The healing power of creative arts 💃🏾🎷🎵 7 May: Improving #MentalHealth & wellbeing with creative arts 🎭🎤🖌️ 11 June: Exploring lived experience with creative arts 🎵🕺🎭 9 July: Creative arts for #dementia eventbrite.com/cc/nihr-arcs...

Looking forward to this event!

Online platforms need to improve the ways they moderate self-harm and suicide content, to keep moderators and users safe New study led by @zoehaime.bsky.social and Lucy Biddle has been published in Digital Society bit.ly/4gNukIF

New paper looking at the #mental health and #qualityoflife of #academicresearchers. Do we think systematically enough about the #wellbeing of researchers who work with challenging data in the same way we do (and clearly must) about our participants? rdcu.be/d92qu

Do you know any early career researchers in the UK who have contributed something special to improve research practices? The call for the 2025 Dorothy Bishop award is open now! Nominations close on 26 January 2025. www.ukrn.org/2024/12/12/t...

Interested in mental health/young people's mental health? We have got post doc jobs out to advert now! www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy... - this is part of the NIHR award to Bath, and the post doc opportunities are very exciting. Working potentially across work packages and getting training too!

See our guidelines on how to make a safe space to support mental health and wellbeing: www.redcatchcommunitygarden.com/safespacespr... Co-designed with Redcatch Community Garden and adults + young people from the local community