The stress of precarious contracts and grant writing whilst trying to be the mum my daughter deserves is all getting blown away on Kinder Scout today! Feeling lucky!

This is a great opportunity to be part of CRESR SHU and work with colleagues across the University and our region including darts and CAST theatre, two arts organisations in Doncaster

Everyone needs to know this. Britain's broken welfare system is leaving our community on the brink – video | UK news | The Guardian theguardian.com/uk-news/video/…

On #IWD2024 campaigners like fatherhoodinst PregnantThenScrewed highlight the poor state of parental leave in the UK, affecting women & men.

Also timely to share our feature on supporting young dads and the transformative power of inclusive support

bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-…

More parental leave for Dads and non-birthing parents will help reduce loneliness experienced by all parents - couples spend more time together, and two pairs of hands means everyone gets more rest, support, quality time with baby and time to look after the household.

Supporting unpaid carers around hospital leave for people detained under the Mental Health Act (1983) in England: carer and practitioner perspectives -

“The S.17 Standard consists of 10 steps for practitioners to follow to increase and encourage the greater involvement and support of carers around s.17 leave.”

Registration and call for abstracts is now available for the 10th International Conference on Social Work in Health and Mental Health in Melbourne - forumgroup.eventsair.com/2024-icswhmh/. (There's an online option too)

New paper reporting findings of NIHR School for Social Care Research study on supporting carers when leave is provided to detained patients - with Nicola Moran Ruth Naughton-Doe Mark Wilberforce and Emma Wakeman. Please check out our new s.17 leave Standard:
bmcpsychiatry.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

Coming Soon! Three NIHR Research Schools' Mental Health Programme new funding opportunities to be launched on 19 February 2024: tinyurl.com/MH-announce

#MentalHealth Claire Ashmore NIHR School for Public Health Research NIHR School for Social Care Research We are NIHR NIHR Research

Read about Social Work MSc students publishing high-quality research, strengthening the research-practice link, and influencing practice and policy. Read our review of published dissertations from one programme. Really enjoyed contributing to this interesting paper. #socialwork

Interested in Open Research? A case study of my open reseach approach is now available online.

Interested in how to co-create a dads group?

Instigating father-inclusive practice interventions with young fathers and multi-agency professionals: the transformative potential of qualitative longitudinal and co-creative methodologies FRS Journal

bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journals/…

Good News!

Our highly regarded GROW programme is back for another year, now supporting #ECRs in mental health and addiction research roles.

Details of who can apply and how, can be found on our website!

We are NIHR The Mental Elf MQ

mentalhealthresearch.org.uk/grow-2024-now-…

My week: flitting between brain bending work and doing drawings of people waiting for trains for Lyra. She keeps me grounded 😂❤️

Upcoming primary care conference NIHR School for Primary Care Research has a #mentalhealth SIG - could this👇 be an opportunity for you? (or your colleagues? Pls share!😎)

Rachael Kelley Faraz Mughal Elizabeth Hughes CMHP RCN MH Forum Professor Ian Maidment
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Dire state of maternal mental health care is having a devastating impact on families | Letter theguardian.com/society/2023/d…

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