New paper!! Excited to share our new piece outlining an ECR perspective on children and young people's mental health research. We offer suggestions around funding, research practice, and institutional governance and processes to support a more socially just, equitable, and rigorous science.

Thoroughly enjoyed a day at the Institute for Health and Care Improvement's research showcase yesterday. Had the chance to share some findings and lessons from a current project with @ercaldwell.bsky.social, meet new people, and learn about the range of coproduced projects across disciplines here.

Here in beautiful Utrecht for the first time at #BRNet2025, ready to present our poster on co-production in body representation research today!

Hosted the first meeting of the Yorkshire Eating Disorder Research Network today. Despite a heavy dose of imposter syndrome-induced nerves earlier, it was great to share discussions about challenges, facilitators, and priorities with others who understand the challenges of working in this area.

A great lab day out yesterday to present some research with @gburton221.bsky.social and @ercaldwell.bsky.social at a @tewv.bsky.social research event. Brilliant to hear about the projects being done through the trust and their ongoing commitment to real coproduction. Also got to see some ducklings!

Looking forward to our next meeting in a few weeks!

Just out! Our peer-reviewed critique of the Cass Review has been published by BMC Medical Research Methodology. Please read and share. We show that the Cass Review is fatally flawed and should not be the basis for policy or practice in transgender healthcare. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Day two in Edinburgh; looking forward to hearing about the incredible research that is being done across the Eating Disorder Research Network. Any conference with @edaceatingautism.bsky.social branded fidget spinners gets my vote!

A great first day in (sunny!) Edinburgh at the Eating Disorder ECR Network event. So valuable to share conversations about the context we're in, especially around funding and coproduction. It can be a lonely space and these events really help to combat that isolation.

Being on a two and a half hour long train journey is a really good time to completely dismantle an article. Just cut about six pages and it's already all the better for it. @harrietbarratt.bsky.social we are doing The Thing and it's strangely liberating!

Getting excited for the #BRNet conference in July! Will be presenting work around coproducing body representation research with @gburton221.bsky.social + @ercaldwell.bsky.social and get to travel with brilliant collaborators like @cejpreston.bsky.social + @annacrossland.bsky.social. Can't wait!

Absolute joy to be bringing this network together with @ruthndwrites.bsky.social!

I've come away from our first meeting feeling such a wave of appreciation for community, solidarity, and the bravery and wisdom of everyone who is trying to disrupt the professional-personal binary in mental health research. Looking forward to next time very much!

Are you interested in marginalization and how this influences eating disorders? We have space for 3 more group members to contribute to a research project on these issues. We have funding to pay for attendance at four meetings; the role can be as involved as you wish. Get in touch for more details!

For me, so much of doing coproduction with young people can be summed up in this photo. We hear alot about outputs, impact, publications, but less about this: hanging out and eating a takeaway. I do really believe, though, that this is the foundation for the rest of it. (1/n)

Happy to have a chapter in upcoming collection on double empathy, coauthored with @drlornaham.bsky.social - we consider double empathy in the HE classroom drawing on our experience and inclusive approaches. pavpub.com/health-and-s...

Late to the party due to forgetting BlueSky exists but! I'm super proud of this piece and look forward to taking this train of thought further in the future TL;DR of it: BMI should be used with careful and specifc consideration, nuance, and contextual acknowledgement #BMI

"If lived experience is mediated, edited, and filtered to fit institutional needs, does it still belong to those who lived it?" @projectsoulstride.bsky.social unpacks the increasing sanitisation of lived experience, and calls for a fundamental shift in the movement. www.nsun.org.uk/lived-experi...

Sign up to learn about the new Lived Experience Network for Scholars (LENS). Alongside presentations from organisers Dr Ruth Naughton-Doe and Dr Ruth Knight, McPin will be sharing advice on managing lived experience disclosure. 1st May 1pm-2.30pm #research www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lived-expe...

Sign up link here!

Super excited about an upcoming project with @ruthndwrites.bsky.social (kindly funded by @mhrincubator.bsky.social) If you're a mental health researcher with lived experience, watch this space!

Come and be part of a really important project investigating how changing the recruitment, relationships and redeployment of early career researchers could improve research culture

Romana and I were delighted to be interviewed for @acamh.bsky.social about our recent scoping review about Patient and Public Involvement methods in child and adolescent mental health. You can listed to the podcast here! acamhlearn.org/Learning/No_...

This week has not been ideal. I realise there is a lot going on at the moment, but the previously somewhat slow but now feels more rapid crisis unfolding in UK HE is really hitting close to home at present

Who hasn’t been innocently hanging out at the inauguration of a man dubbed by people in his own party as the next Hitler and accidentally performed a Nazi salute that could only be more blatant if it was accompanied by a tiny finger moustache? thedailytism.com/the-autistic...

Festive coffee scheming with @cejpreston.bsky.social this morning, planning to overhaul the eating disorder research universe. Having a PhD supervisor who has turned into such an amazing mentor and collaborator makes me feel very lucky.

I often tell my advanced graduate students who are looking to get their work published that, if you're not getting multiple journal rejections, you're not doing your job right. So, to provide continuing inspiration, I've uploaded the annual update to my CV of Journal Article Rejections:

There should be a word for wealthy white cishet men who suddenly embrace being autistic solely to try to avoid accountability for their shitty behavior.

Snowflake on nose situation.

Last weeks graduation from YSJ. Proud to have gratuated with a distinction, Masters by Research in Psychology. Very grateful for the women who took part in my research and for a wonderfully supportive supervisor @ruthknight.bsky.social. 🥂👩‍🎓

My father lost 4 siblings before the age of 10 to diseases for which we now routinely have vaccines: polio and smallpox. (Abetted by the British policy of inflicting famine on the region.) Those aunts & uncles would be alive today, and I would gladly trade them for RFK & his minions.

Had a meeting with the film-maker (www.jonnyrandall.co.uk/about) who will hopefully be working on our coproduced project with The Island funded by the Institute for Social Justice. I love getting to collaborate with super creative and interesting people to share research findings; perk of the job.

My first post on this platform is a good one! Celebrating our post doc Emy's recent publication reviewing eating disorder treatment outcomes for Autistic people. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

This! So many participants I have worked with have said that they just want us to try - that effort itself will be so valued, even if we get it wrong.

So fortunate to have the best Masters students. Yesterday Cheryl graduated with an MRes and today she presented her project to our research group. She is an exceptional, reflexive, and considerate researcher and it was such a joy to be her supervisor. Also look at those slides!

I'm recruiting for an RA on a mixed methods project hoping to co-produce a more intersectional understanding of EDs. At the mo it will be 1.5 days a week for 9 months, with some flexibility on when/where. Please share widely and let me know if you have Qs! Link here shorturl.at/uoPOj

I see we’re confusing “punk rock” with “being a shitty bigot” again

We're recruiting for a new Associate Head at YSJ Psychology! Exciting opportunity to get to lead a friendly and inclusive community doing ambitious and interesting research. Please share! jobs.yorksj.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

Brilliant talk on mental imagery and CBT by @blackwellse.bsky.social at YSJ Psychology this evening. Got me thinking about the role of imagery and EDs... Also especially good to see our foundation year students brave enough to ask questions!

Super exciting role available - a Chair in Mental Health in our wonderful department! Please come and work with us and the growing group of MH researchers (both in the Department and across the broader uni and region). Please share, and I'm more than happy to chat to anyone keen! #PsychSciSky

This, but I also particularly enjoyed the Koyaanisqatsi reference in this episode.

Much of the discussion of open science centers on detecting fraud or errors, but a big, and arguably bigger, benefit is in efficiency. Take the simple example of code. How much collective time is lost when scholars start from scratch, rather than building (w/ attribution) on other scholars' code?

"Still punk rock," I whisper as I lower myself gingerly into a hot bath full of epsom salts.

Super cool new work (don't often say that re coggy) from YSJ colleagues Jen and Helgi about autistic traits and mental time travel. Love seeing neurodiversity informed ideas outside of typical areas. This really exemplifies for me how we can implement a ND approach in psych research more generally.

Brilliant day at the CREW research showcase sharing our work around diversifying understandings of eating disorders through VR. Sometimes academia is properly great, and today was one of those days. When Prof Schmidt said "every mistake is a treasure" in the ED field, I felt it in my heart.

Come and work with us! We're looking for two lecturers and one senior lecturer to join our friendly and inclusive department.

One thought that keeps coming up for me in relation to this decision is that it exacerbates this idea in academia of EDI work being a disposable add on, instead of something that should be built in to our research practice.