The Prime Minister’s claims of a ‘sicknote culture’ where mental ill health is confused with ‘everyday worries’ are not based on robust evidence - and could lead to policies that do more harm than good.
Our response in full 👇🧵 centreformentalhealth.org.uk/news/item/gove…

Asset Based Community Development: Co-Designing an Asset-Based Evaluation Study for Community Research - Jane South, Susan Coan, Jenny Woodward, Anne-Marie Bagnall, Simon Rippon, 2024
#ABCD #CommunityDevelopment #AssetBased Leeds Beckett Research The School of Health, Leeds Beckett University
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/21…

Great webinar thanks Emma Lawrance judi kidger Fiona Duncan - the need for collaboration across public mental health and climate change agendas! Faculty of Public Health World Federation of Public Health Associations

Less than a week to apply for these Embedded Researcher posts (£48,350 to £56,021). An exciting opportunity to address health inequalities in Wakefield jobs.ac.uk/job/DGN046/emb……
Wakefield Council The School of Health, Leeds Beckett University St George's Community Centre

Yes. Why investing in prevention needs long term evaluation. bbc.co.uk/news/education…

The Faculty’s special interest groups organised a series of webinars to mark #GPHW24 , taking place from 8 to 12 April.

This year’s GPHW theme is 'Fostering Peace as a Prerequisite for Equitable Health'.

Please head to our website to register!

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Working with Care Quality Commission, Clarity and Leeds Beckett, we have published a report and toolkit for ICS members to support them to tackle health inequalities. You can access the the toolkit here. 👉 nhsconfed.org/toolkits/how-e…

Our Shaping Places for Healthier Lives award holders are changing local systems to build healthier places for all. This video was made at our recent event - a wonderful celebration of all the learning so far & chance to finally meet each other in person The Health Foundation LGA Wellbeing

Racism a ‘cause of poor mental health’ and prevents access to support: brilliant exploration of issues raised in our report this week by ⁦Nadine White.⁩ independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…

Stolen from Architektoniczki on LinkedIn but just 👀 at these graphs. The movement patterns of boys and girls in a Spanish school playground. Boys take up the centre, girls are literally marginalised. And what they learn in school they take into public space.
What a surprise.

A brand new CPD module has been published to the Royal College of Psychiatrists eLearning Hub.

'Health inequalities' was kindly funded by NHS England and authored by Vas , Jude Stansfield, Eliazar Luna, Jean Strelitz and Dr Verity Williams.

Access this module for free:🔗bit.ly/3HGh6y8

Our MSc Public Health - Health Promotion can be done completely online or in-person Leeds Beckett DM me for more info

leedsbeckett.ac.uk/courses/public…

Grt 2 c ⁦⁦James Nobles⁩ leading the bunch morning 1 of ⁦Montane Spine Race⁩ ⁦The School of Health, Leeds Beckett University⁩

Is the training in awareness of what is putting mental health at risk and how to change that?

Our new #review paper looking at the role of community resilience and social capital on mental health in public health emergency and disaster response is now live on BMC Public Health. 🧵⬇️

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38082247/

Professor Neil Greenberg Richard Amlôt Jude Stansfield EPR HPRU

Spot on from New Local our research Research and Enterprise at Leeds Beckett in partnership with Locality funded by Arts and Humanities Research Council showed that community anchor organisations are key to developing relationships with communities but usually not part of local strategies - especially the NHS Helen Chatterjee

Blackpool has huge potential. By mobilising it’s community assets and natural environment the aspiration is to co create a place that is a live/work destination for the 21st century. Dr. Arif Rajpura
ARC North West Coast Division of Health Research, Lancaster University Blackpool Council blackpool
theconversation.com/blackpool-why-…

New induction pack launched by Public Health Scotland for local suicide prevention delivery leads by Suicide Prevention Scotland link.medium.com/UfpF32RJuFb