Very happy to share my very first, first author paper published in QJEP. We explored children's behavioural and affective responses to uncertainty. Thank you to Experimental Psychology Society for the funding. And to Lily FitzGibbon and Professor Helen Dodd for being the best!

📢📢 New research administrator needed (40-50%fte) to join our busy team. Please share widely ⬇️⬇️
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecruit…

This is a group that'd being really thoughtfully developed by a team of wonderful people who want to make sure parents' and carers' voices are central to research on #youthmentalhealth . Please consider joining or sharing with your networks!

📢📢 2 new research assistant posts! The STAR-CAT trial is building on our Co-CAT Study to evaluate treatment for anxiety for autistic children in routine services. Please share widely
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PhD viva complete. So thankful for the amazing bunch of supervisors (Professor Helen Dodd , Dr Rachel McCloy and Jayne Morriss), examiners (Mark Freeston and Rachel Pye) & chair Katie LH Gray who have gone above and beyond. I feel as though I may sleep for a week. Doctoral and Researcher College, Uni of Reading Psychology & Clinical Language Sciences at Reading

The WISDOM Research Network had our first official foray into the world at Oxfordshire SEND Live yesterday. We met some fantastic people doing excellent work, and look forward to welcoming them to the Network! wisdomnetwork.org.uk TOPIC Research Group NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre

If you have #riskyplay research that might be relevant to our review please send it our way. 👇

RTs appreciated so that we can spread the word. ChYMe Play England

Join us in beautiful Stirling to work with the best colleagues and fabulous students. Fantastic opportunities for interdisciplinary research collaboration. A great location for work and play. Get in touch if you want to chat all things Stirling

I attended this thought provoking workshop last week and am currently working to put some of my learnings into practice. Thanks to all who organised it!

🚨 Job posting! Dr Marina Bazhydai
and I are advertising a 3yr #postdoc #ResearchAssociate Lancaster Psychology
starting in Sept 2024 to develop a multi-dimensional test battery assessing #curiosity in primary age children funded by The Leverhulme Trust

🚨 Funded PhD opportunities University of Stirling!

Come and join the #AccessibleEnvironments Cluster for an interdisciplinary PhD project about children and young people’s access to public spaces!

Deadline 25th March.

Get in touch to discuss proposal ideas!
stir.ac.uk/research/resea…

FUNDED PhD opportunity with me & wonderful Oxford Brookes NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre colleagues (Drs Johnny Collett & Ben Weedon) using OxWell Study data to inform #PublicHealth approaches to #PhysicalActivity 🏃🤸🧘

Apply by 8th April ➡️ brookes.ac.uk/courses/resear…

Still a few spaces on Parenting Special Children's online course for adoptive/foster parents & carers of children affected by trauma. Starts next week & thanks to National Lottery funding, is available at a heavily subsidised cost. Email [email protected] to book

📣Final few days to hear from paediatric therapists who provide psychological therapy or speech therapy in the NHS, Local Authority or HSC setting in the UK. Thank you for those who have completed & shared the survey to colleagues 🙏🏼. The 💻 survey will close this Thursday 22/2.

This is my PhD supervisor Professor Helen Dodd being her awesome self, advocating for children’s adventurous play and its benefits for children’s mental health.

A very useful post. I have had surveys plagued by bots and there are some helpful strategies suggested here to spot them.

I wanted to bring together some of the things we found during the first phase of my #UKRIFIF research about #play & #mentalhealth in a way that is useful and accessible

And here it is...
bit.ly/hdplayreport

Please share widely! Hope it's useful (let me know!)
UK Research and Innovation

This We are NIHR scheme is a real opportunity for ECRs to help improve DEI in health research through hosting *funded* internships for undergraduates.

Looking forward to putting in an application & would highly encourage others to as well! Incubator for Mental Health Research