Excited to share the first paper from my PhD! 🥳 Media coverage reflects and shapes people's attitudes on important topics. It tells us which issues are important and how we should think about them. We reviewed >300 newspaper articles to understand how they discuss young people's social media use.

📣 Calling all education professionals working in/with Greater Manchester schools and colleges! Join us online for our next Mental Health & Wellbeing in Education network meeting, where Dr Charlotte Bagnall will be discussing all things transition. Sign up here: forms.office.com/e/GYVEN8CsD8

Hello! I'm looking for teachers to take part in upcoming research projects for my PhD. If you're a teacher interested in taking part the link is here: york.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... I'd appreciate it if you could share with any teachers you know too who might be interested!

📣 New Comment on reporting of research with #Adolescents and #Youth engagement as part of the @thelancet.com Commission on #AdolescentHealth Comment here 👉 www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... #YouthHealth #MedSky @jasonmnagata.bsky.social Lancet Commission here 👉 bit.ly/4k14Vgo

My Masters research on supporting autistic students in the transition to university is free to access until 2nd May! Really pleased to see part 1 of the full special issue out, and looking forward to sitting down with a brew and reading the other papers in the issue 🫖🥰

New article out on @theconversation.com on why many Autistic adults don't like puzzle pieces symbols being used to represent us: theconversation.com/why-the-auti... #Autism #ActuallyAutistic

Young people's opportunities vary significantly depending on where they live. 📍 Our updated Youth Opportunity Index gives a relative measure of education and employment opportunities for young people across England's local and combined authorities. Explore our interactive map and tables. ⬇️

Wanted to reshare this paper I'm super proud of, on Autistic identity! We found that external acceptance and support are critically important for developing a positive Autistic identity, which is in turn linked to better mental health. Read the full paper, for free, here: doi.org/10.1002/aur....

One of our #BeeWell headline findings for Greater Manchester this year is girls’ physical activity.🧵 1 in 3 young people in Year 10 are meeting the recommended 1 hour of physical activity per day, but this drops to 23% of girls (just less than 1 in 4), compared to 44% of boys.

A bit late to be posting, but better late than never! Two weeks ago, I had the privilege of attending the 7th IAYMH conference in Vancouver, Canada 🇨🇦🍁 #IAYMH2025

The last 20 years of campaigning around mental ill-health, distress and trauma focused too little on changing the material circumstances of those who live with mental ill-health as disability. In answering the question 'what is the place of those unwell in society?' the answer is now 'marginalised'

New paper alert “I did what I could to earn some money and be of use”: A qualitative exploration of autistic people’s journeys to career success and fulfilment. A summary: crae.ioe.ac.uk/i-did... #AutRes 1/2

GREAT news on my final working day of the year – the final paper I worked on at @craeioe.bsky.social is live in @journalautism.bsky.social 🥳 Free to read, here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

For anyone working in adolescent mental health: I *really* recommend reading this important paper about the most commonly used questionnaires (inc SDQ) In short: most of them have poor psychometric properties, so do we even know what they are measuring? www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... (cont)

Fascinating critical insight into the world of adolescent mental health, social media and research methodology last night with @jadedavies.bsky.social. Voice of CYP in SM/MH research and policy must be taken seriously, especially when SM is a sphere of supportive interactions for many.

In light of Australia’s social media ban, here a brief reminder why bans do not address the core issues they are meant to solve, w @margaritap.bsky.social. eiko-fried.com/social-media...

Good to see #retirement being addressed. It’s often wrongly assumed #Autistic people don’t have #careers so this isn’t an issue. It is! Researching autistic people’s experiences of retiring with @jadedavies.bsky.social et al encouraged me to plan & prepare discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10... #AutRes

Why it matters that individuals literally can't be neurodiverse. #Neurodiversity

Maybe, and just hear me out for a moment... National health / human rights / technology legislation shouldn't be based on a poorly researched pop psych book?

"The right support is life-changing and the wrong support is life-ending” – powerful words from an autistic young person in our new study, published yesterday in Autism in Adulthood. Free for 30 days: authorcite.com/view.aspx?doi=… #autreses

What scale development and cognitive interview prep looks like. From a critical reading of Normal People's chapter on responding to a depression measure, to lunch at the best place on campus. @jadedavies.bsky.social @reihaneh-farzinnia.bsky.social