The potential overturning of conversion therapy bans highlights something wider: therapy isn’t “anything goes.” We don’t just say or practise whatever we think or believe — our work is guided by evidence, ethics, and professional standards. #SCOTUS #therapy

We’re looking for LGBQ individuals who’ve had NHS therapy (in the past year) to share experiences of topics that felt hard to discuss. I’m supervising this project — see the poster in Millie’s post for details. #LGBTQ #Mentalhealth #Psychotherapy #NHS

LGBT+ Health Evidence Review - NHS England The evidence submission process will close on Sunday, 7 September 2025. #LGBT #NHS www.england.nhs.uk/about/equali...

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LGBTQ+ in clinical psychology training in the UK: The sound of silence journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

This is the 2017 study bmcpsychiatry.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... Another study we did using data from a German clinic journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... After the many rejections of both manuscripts, which I did not experience before, I decided to move away from LGB-related research.

UK study: LGB patients benefit as well from psychotherapy as heterosexual pts. We did a similar study in 2017, it was very hard to get it published, maybe bc results didn't fit the narrative. Don't get me wrong, homophobia is real, also in healthcare. We need to get rid of biases in research, too

1/ 📢 Pleased to share that our new paper is now published in Psychological Medicine! We looked at therapy outcomes for LGB patients compared to heterosexual patients in NHS Talking Therapies. Here’s a short thread on what we found 👇 🔗 doi.org/10.1017/S003...

Prof. John Pachankis directs one of the world’s leading academic centers on LGBTQ+ mental health research. In March, the initiative lost all eight of its federal NIH grants and contracts totaling about $5 million. Pachankis reached out to Jamie Marks. Marks' gift saved the study: m.yale.edu/c7t9

One of Paul Flowers’ concluding points in his keynote was the importance of supporting the next generation of qualitative researchers. I think mentorship from more experienced researchers is very advantageous—not only for early career success in academia, but also for achieving impact #qmip2025

In his keynote, Paul Flowers highlighted the use of logic models—within qualitative intervention development—as a key tool for building team consensus, supporting theorising, and shaping commissioning briefs. #qmip2025

Michael Larkin also discusses AI in qualitative analysis. Similar to Virginia Braun’s points, "we" are the instrument of analysis. AI simply identifies topics that are spoken about; it is not performing analysis, and we need to resist the idea that AI is doing an analysis #qmip2025

Braun says no (yeah nah) to AI. That coding and analysis is a human endeavour. Coding should not be thought of as a laborious task that needs to be completed quickly and “free from bias”, but rather as a worthwhile, enjoyable, and creative experience, where we are the interpreters #qmip2025

"LGBT+ people have a reputation for doing remarkable things against huge odds, with little broad support, and I see that possibility in my students and trainees today." - Prof. John Pachankis www.nature.com/artic...

🌈 Supervising a study on avoided topics in therapy for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and queer (LGBQ) individuals. 💬 When developing the study idea, LGBQ participants told us: “what was left unsaid mattered most.” 🔁 Please repost to support this research.

A moment that changed me: I went to read to a blind man - and discovered his hidden gay heroism www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

The evidence supports CBT as a first-line treatment for many mental disorders, although the quality of the evidence is limited. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Job losses across UK higher education continue to rise www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...

"It is important, therefore, not to embrace new therapies too easily but to focus on other innovations that will result in better outcomes, such as increased frequency of sessions, feedback to patients, and better matching the needs of patients to the expertise of therapists."

Chance, luck, and ignorance: how to put our uncertainty into numbers - David Spiegelhalter www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cybn...

Oxford's First Folios, Friends of the Bodleian Annual Lecture 2024 Professor Emma Smith #Shakespeare #Books www.youtube.com/watch?v=coRR...

@paulari.bsky.social I loved your audiobook Camp ❤️. Please record your book "Fabulosa!" There is a market! www.amazon.co.uk/Camp-Story-A...

While I have a lovely qualitative research audience, let me point you towards my most downloaded and influential piece of writing: HOW MANY QUALITATIVE INTERVIEWS IS ENOUGH? eprints.ncrm.ac.uk/id/eprint/22...

And my piece doing a pushback on assumptions of bias in qualitative research www.ncrm.ac.uk/resources/on... If you have useful resources, please add.

All (serious) psychotherapies are equal. Source: Pim Cuijpers and Bruce Wampold. www.mindstewpodcast.com/e024/

In clinical research, you will often receive feedback on study design, stats, and/or data analysis from an editor or reviewer that is simply wrong. Here is a list of common "statistical myths" and references you can use to push back. discourse.datamethods.org/t/reference-...