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Postdoc researching loneliness, mental health and work at King's College London
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Is workplace loneliness just about feeling isolated from colleagues, or is there more to it?👨⚕️👷♀️ In our new paper in SPPE, we found that workplace loneliness goes beyond work relationships + can include disconnection from one’s organisation + society at large🧵
doi.org/10.1007/s00127-025-02925-0
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Conceptualising workplace loneliness: a qualitative investigation with UK workers - Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology
Purpose Loneliness has been identified as an important risk factor for mental health problems, and concern about its impact on workers’ health and wellbeing has grown in recent years. While a body of ...
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00127-025-02925-0
7 months ago
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Louise Arseneault
11 days ago
🔎Explore Mental Health data on the
#CatalogueMHM
! 🌿The Catalogue offers in-depth item-level information on mental health data collection at each wave across 63 longitudinal datasets from across the UK. Check it out here:
www.cataloguementalhealth.ac.uk
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Bridget Bryan
NIHR Maudsley Biomedical Research Centre (BRC)
26 days ago
As part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science, we shared new research into
#loneliness
and substance use in a
#zine-making
workshop, bringing together people with lived experience to create and connect.
www.maudsleybrc.nihr.ac.uk/posts/2025/n...
@kingscsmh.bsky.social
@kingsioppn.bsky.social
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Welcome Izzy!
add a skeleton here at some point
about 2 months ago
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Louise Arseneault
2 months ago
🎉We are celebrating 2,500+ datasets on the
#AtlasLongitudinalDatasets
! This milestone wouldn't be possible without our funder
@wellcometrust.bsky.social
,
#livedexperience
experts, and community of users! Thank you for supporting the Atlas! Find 2,500+ datasets on
atlaslongitudinaldatasets.ac.uk
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Louise Arseneault
3 months ago
Just back from
#SLLS2025
in Fribourg, Switzerland! We shared the
#AtlasLongitudinalDatasets
,
#CatalogueMHM
& how lived experience can shape longitudinal research (thanks Jan & Michael! 🙌). Email us at
[email protected]
if you would like a webinar!
@sllshome.bsky.social
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Bridget Bryan
ESRC Centre for Society and Mental Health
3 months ago
Are out of work benefits at a record high? Prof. Ben Geiger (
@benbgeiger.bsky.social
) from the ESRC Centre for Society & Mental Health explains that the official statistics are wildly misleading on BBC radio 4’s More or Less this morning. Have a listen!
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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More or Less - Is it true that out-of-work benefits have almost doubled? - BBC Sounds
Out-of-work benefits, French pensioners, surprising salmon and the truth about senses.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002jf2v
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Bridget Bryan
UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies
3 months ago
Day one of
@sllshome.bsky.social
#SLLS2025
- come meet our friendly team, including our mascot 🐻, at our stall opposite the reception desk. Find our list of CLS colleagues taking part here:
bit.ly/4lYhdXv
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ESRC Centre for Society and Mental Health
5 months ago
Many people experiencing mental ill health are trapped in cycles of worsening social exclusion. This article, 'Moving beyond Individual Placement and Support (IPS): person-centred approach to social inclusion and mental health', discusses this further.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Moving beyond IPS: person-centred approach to social inclusion and mental health | BJPsych Bulletin | Cambridge Core
Moving beyond IPS: person-centred approach to social inclusion and mental health
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/bjpsych-bulletin/article/moving-beyond-ips-personcentred-approach-to-social-inclusion-and-mental-health/4CAA4A6C894085A0CFC903113D040C36
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Bridget Bryan
ESRC Centre for Society and Mental Health
6 months ago
While almost all observers agree that social security in the UK isn't working as it should be, it's essential that any reforms are grounded in high-quality research evidence and listen to the voices of those most impacted:
www.kcl.ac.uk/news/spotlig...
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Gathering the evidence to reform the welfare system
The recent DWP Green Paper, entitled ‘Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working’ has provoked a great deal of discussion from policymakers, from researchers, and from dis...
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/news/spotlight/gathering-the-evidence-to-reform-the-welfare-system
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Louise Arseneault
6 months ago
🆕~80% of UK longitudinal datasets are accessible. Find out how in a new blog about the
#AtlasLongitudinalDatasets
!
@georginagbb.bsky.social
and Siann Hirani from the
#PALMteam
write about data accessibility and impact for the
@ukdataservice.bsky.social
🔗:
blog.ukdataservice.ac.uk/atlas-of-lon...
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Bridget Bryan
The Sociological Review Foundation
6 months ago
Sociology is at its most powerful when it disturbs us “in a good way”. So almost anything can be sociological; even analysing our relationship with our houseplants.
@carinrunciman.bsky.social
writes in the June magazine on The Sociological Review journal’s editorial choices.
buff.ly/R9DWhvA
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Bridget Bryan
UK Data Service Impact
6 months ago
🌍New on the Data impact blog 🌍
@georginagbb.bsky.social
and Siann Hirani introduce the
#AtlasLongitudinalDatasets
blog.ukdataservice.ac.uk/atlas-of-lon...
@larseneault.bsky.social
@wellcometrust.bsky.social
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Bridget Bryan
E-Risk Study
6 months ago
Recent paper using Millennium Cohort & E-Risk data finds that childhood neighbourhood deprivation is linked to mental health issues in late adolescence, and identifies key protective factors 🧠🏘️ 📄 Read more:
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
@kingsioppn.bsky.social
@kingscsmh.bsky.social
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Understanding and mitigating associations between childhood neighborhood deprivation and adolescent mental health in two UK birth cohorts | Development and Psychopathology | Cambridge Core
Understanding and mitigating associations between childhood neighborhood deprivation and adolescent mental health in two UK birth cohorts
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/development-and-psychopathology/article/understanding-and-mitigating-associations-between-childhood-neighborhood-deprivation-and-adolescent-mental-health-in-two-uk-birth-cohorts/DCE45E9880185F35A8B329E322F61A80
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Bridget Bryan
ABC News Bot (unofficial)
7 months ago
Former Alice Springs Coles worker Gene Hill says it was clear an Aboriginal man who died in police custody at the supermarket last week had a disability and needed extra support.
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Former Coles supermarket worker says Kumanjayi White clearly needed support
Former Alice Springs Coles worker Gene Hill says it was clear an Aboriginal man who died in police custody at the supermarket last week had a disability and needed extra support.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-03/alice-springs-coles-supermarket-kumanjayi-white-death-in-custody/105363560
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Bridget Bryan
BiB Research
9 months ago
It was a very happy (and sad) day on Saturday as we held our last Twins photoshoot with Ian Beesley at the beautiful City Hall! Our Twins will form part of Ian's exhibition at Salts Mill from 26th March until the end of the year!
borninbradford.nhs.uk/news/renowne...
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Bridget Bryan
Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience
7 months ago
New research led by the University of Greenwich in collaboration with IoPPN +
@kingscsmh.bsky.social
suggests although overall time spent online is linked with higher levels of loneliness, use of social media platforms may not be.
#SocialMedia
#Psychology
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Study finds links between social media and loneliness depend on the app
New research finds that although overall time spent online is linked with higher levels of loneliness, use of social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram and Twitter is not.
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/news/social-media-and-loneliness
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Bridget Bryan
The Conversation AUNZ
7 months ago
‘Loneliness’ is a modern word – but we have a lot to learn from how early modern nuns understood solitude.
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A not-so-modern epidemic: what 17th-century nuns can teach us about coping with loneliness
https://theconversation.com/a-not-so-modern-epidemic-what-17th-century-nuns-can-teach-us-about-coping-with-loneliness-249487
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ESRC Centre for Society and Mental Health
9 months ago
'The UK has a lot of people out of work because of mental illness – but listening to those affected reveals that’s rarely the whole story'
@annieirvine.bsky.social
in
@theconversation.com
today
theconversation.com/the-uk-has-a...
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The UK has a lot of people out of work because of mental illness – but listening to those affected reveals that’s rarely the whole story
Mental ill health is rarely the sole factor preventing people from finding and keeping a job.
https://theconversation.com/the-uk-has-a-lot-of-people-out-of-work-because-of-mental-illness-but-listening-to-those-affected-reveals-thats-rarely-the-whole-story-252891
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Is workplace loneliness just about feeling isolated from colleagues, or is there more to it?👨⚕️👷♀️ In our new paper in SPPE, we found that workplace loneliness goes beyond work relationships + can include disconnection from one’s organisation + society at large🧵
doi.org/10.1007/s00127-025-02925-0
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Conceptualising workplace loneliness: a qualitative investigation with UK workers - Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology
Purpose Loneliness has been identified as an important risk factor for mental health problems, and concern about its impact on workers’ health and wellbeing has grown in recent years. While a body of ...
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00127-025-02925-0
7 months ago
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Population Mental Health
8 months ago
Seed funding alert! Join us Friday 20 June, Midlands Arts Centre, Birmingham for a hands-on workshop where researchers, organisations & individuals will pitch new ideas on improving population mental health for children & young people. Submit your EOI by 16 May
#phiukpmh
phiuk.org/news/events/...
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Innovation lab: improving population mental health for children and young people
https://phiuk.org/news/events/innovation-lab-improving-population-mental-health-for-children-and-young-people
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