Great story in @theguardian.com sharing the latest @beewelluk.bsky.social @uomseed.bsky.social research looking at prevalence & impact of isolation in schools. More detail in here 👉 tinyurl.com/yffvjp4x @erthornton.bsky.social @neilhumphrey.bsky.social @olademk.bsky.social @qiqicheng.bsky.social

#tbt #euspr2025 in Berlin last week. Great to share my research on how school & neighbourhood can shape young people’s mental health & wellbeing (much as I am not a fan of the academic poster!) And great to spend time with lovely colleagues @annieobrien.bsky.social @suzannehamilton.bsky.social

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"If we get this right, it will be the most important thing we have done in this Bill - but, at the moment, there is no measurement,” said Lord Gus O’Donnell in yesterday’s Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill debate. 🔗 www.ourwellbeingourvoice.org 🎥 Watch his speech below 👇

On the long trek home from #BERA2025 & thought I'd share highlights from the week: 1. Presenting preliminary findings from my review about how the school teens go to & the neighbourhood they live in can influence mental health & wellbeing - bonus, I snuck in references to Harry Potter & Neighbours😊

Great 1st day at #bera2025. Particularly enjoyed listening to Karen Fox and a group of Y7s who shared their co-creation experiences - including renaming some of our ‘boring’ research words. No more data collection, it’s now ways of discovery!

Interesting piece in @schoolsweek.bsky.social on the role of the school environment in students mental health. Next week I'll be sharing preliminary findings from a review about this at #BERA2025 looking at what we know & where we need more evidence before making changes. tinyurl.com/5bmy48d8

LGBTQ+ young people in the UK face a severe, unequal mental health crisis. Services like Free2Talk offer life-changing, cost-effective help, but they need greater support. 1/7 pbe.co.uk/publications...

Working from home with possibly the neediest pets ever!

What if they were ours? @aneezapervez.bsky.social on moral failure and the lives of Palestinian children. www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...

A great few days of training! Watch out for new presentations and videos from the @beewelluk.bsky.social team putting all these skills into practice 🎥 🎬 🎤 I'm also looking forward to using what I learnt at #BERA2025 @beranews.bsky.social and #EUSPR2025 in September!

This week, we spent the day in London with @pbe.co.uk, @thefea.bsky.social and @childrenssociety.bsky.social to workshop our next steps on the Our Wellbeing, Our Voice campaign. Want to get involved? Visit: www.ourwellbeingourvoice.org #OurWellbeing 📸 See a photo of the team in action below!

The Our Wellbeing, Our Voice coalition has reached 60 members!👏 60 leading organisations - most recently @ascl-uk.bsky.social - have joined our call for national children and young people's wellbeing measurement. For more information, head to: www.ourwellbeingourvoice.org #OurWellbeing

It was great to work on this paper using @beewelluk.bsky.social data to look at how neighbourhood deprivation influences young people's mental health and wellbeing - full paper is here: www.mdpi.com/3362394 - and this is a great summary below 👇

"Labour must finally – and properly – measure children’s wellbeing" Check out the piece by Lord O'Donnell in @schoolsweek.bsky.social, arguing for a children and young people's wellbeing measurement programme👇 schoolsweek.co.uk/labour-must-... #OurWellbeing

"Many Dutch children enjoy a freedom of movement that most American kids don’t, which might be the key to why Dutch kids are the happiest kids in the world, according to a 2025 UNICEF report," writes Mary Frances Ruskell. | Essay

"If we want to shift from firefighting crises to offering earlier, more effective support, we need better information to guide schools, inform local services & shape national policy." Great article in @schoolsweek.bsky.social on measuring young people's wellbeing: schoolsweek.co.uk/labour-must-...

Working hard 🐶 🐾 🖥️ #bringyourdogtoworkday

Sure Start centres saved UK government £2 for every £1 spent, study finds

'Schools could track pupils’ happiness in push to improve wellbeing' Thanks to @thetimes.com for highlighting our call for national wellbeing measurement. @beewelluk.bsky.social @thefea.bsky.social @probonoecon.bsky.social @childrenssociety.bsky.social @uomseed.bsky.social shorturl.at/62kqo

We are so excited to share the latest headline findings from our #BeeWell survey in Greater Manchester! 👉https://www.greatermanchester-ca.gov.uk/news/beewell-survey-highlights-wellbeing-priorities-and-challenges-for-young-people-in-greater-manchester/ 🧵

Looking forward to hearing this great line-up of speakers talking about why we need to measure children and young people's wellbeing and the best ways to go about doing this. #ourwellbeing

No wifi at home today, so time for some ‘light’ reading with occasional cuddles from Luna and Mercury too - not sure they’re a fan of the story though…😕 🐶🐈‍⬛

Excited to share this paper on my Masters dissertation - it’s taken a while! Thanks to Alex Hennessey for all your support! We looked at how teacher student relationships can reduce adolescent distress by fostering mindfulness skills 👇 www.frontiersin.org/journals/edu... #education #mentalhealth

Great blog by @megancuttsphd.bsky.social and Mairi Jeffrey sharing some of their research highlighting why it's so important to listen to the voices of young people with SEND about school support and wellbeing 👇

Wow - what a January!! The #OurWellbeing campaign for a national youth wellbeing measurement programme has been making waves - with lots of good news so far this year. A busy and an exciting time! Here's what's been happening:🧵

Late to share this as I was avoiding social media and Traitors spoilers... but it was great to work on this paper looking at the longitudinal relationships between bullying, friendship and social support, and internalising symptoms in adolescents 👇 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

In 2022, 197,000 young people left secondary school with low wellbeing—equivalent to six children in every class. The Children’s Wellbeing & Schools Bill is a welcome step, but measuring wellbeing nationally could provide the evidence we need to support them better.

Great to see Victoria Collins MP for Harpenden and Berkhamsted, raise the importance of national wellbeing measurement during today’s Second Reading of the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill! @victoria-collins.bsky.social Thank you for your support in championing this issue! #OurWellbeing

Great summary.. but national wellbeing measurement is the missing part of the Children's Wellbeing & Schools Bill... Find out why & read our response with @thefea.bsky.social @probonoecon.bsky.social @childrenssociety.bsky.social @beewelluk.bsky.social 👇 beewellprogramme.org/the-children...

Happy days to be done with title and abstract screening for my #scopingreview before the Christmas break! 😀🎄🥳

🌟 We are delighted to announce that the winner of the 2024 BERA Public Engagement and Impact Award is the initiative, #BeeWell: Making Young People’s Wellbeing Everybody’s Business, led by the University of Manchester. Find out more: www.bera.ac.uk/news/bera-an...