We are validating new measures of capacities underpinning #mentalhealth and #wellbeing . Could you please spare a few minutes to answer some questions to help us with the validation? Please share further if possible. Thank you! york.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bl…

📢ECRs in Scotland we're hosting a hack-a-thon where participants can: 1) learn about counterfactual analysis 2) get involved in data analyses/ papers using the methods

Datasets will include Understanding Society & MCS Child of the New Century

17th May 🗓️ in Edinburgh

social.sgsss.ac.uk/event/spring-i…

Our systematic review & pre-registered meta-analysis of growth mindset interventions on academic achievement psycnet.apa.org/record/2023-14… and our reply to commentaries is now out in Psychological Bulletin.

A (long) thread.

Riz Ahmed’s Defiance: how the visceral racism of 70s Britain gave way to a new era of identity politics | Kenan Malik theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Interview w Dr Samah Jabr, chair of ministry’s mental health unit. Relates to our discussions on X in last weeks /re environmental causes, where true recovery can only come from changes in environment. Includes horrifying child mental health stats :(

theguardian.com/world/2024/apr…

Fellowships in the Netherlands to Palestinian scholars, journalists, writers and artists at risk. Deadline for application: 21/05/2024. nias.knaw.nl/fellowships/sa…

This is your friendly reminder that your school-based screening processes should help you identify children at risk of word reading difficulties AND children at risk of oral language difficulties (~ 50% overlap). Early ID matters!
researchgate.net/publication/34…

Fellowships to Palestinian scholars and artists affected by war in Gaza. Please circulate widely
Deadline for application 21 May
xx.nz/ekuKq

New Institute for Fiscal Studies report out today on Sure Start, which I've been working on since I started here.

We've found Sure Start had a big positive effect on disadvantaged children's grades throughout school, with much larger effects coming from centres with more funding.

Have a read 👇

Early data suggests 6% fall in overseas master's enrolments at English universities this year, but some much bigger drops on some campuses, eg, Staffs -75%, UCA -54%, Leicester -45% timeshighereducation.com/news/english-u… via Paddy Jack

A study on what many of us already know: over 75% of internal service work in academia is done by women. “We were surprised by how brazenly the male researchers described their priorities, for example that they actively didn’t respond to emails”

kifinfo.no/en/2024/03/wom…

👋🏾Recruiting a Research Associate: 2 years from July 2024 for our Nuffield Foundation project 'Challenging Justice Inequalities with Children in Conflict with the Law' with CYCJ Scotland Strathclyde Law School and Strathclyde Institute of Education

Project Info: rb.gy/twlr7n

Apply: rb.gy/u6ti91

Intermediate #science knowledge predicts overconfidence

4 large surveys conducted over 30 years in 34 different territories in Europe and the USA (N>90 000) finds those with moderate amounts of knowledge possessed the highest level of overconfidence.
cell.com/trends/cogniti…

Read more about Manchester Metropolitan Uni 3rd century fellowship opportunity here 👇🏻👇🏻we are recruiting for a fellow in children’s wellbeing manmetjobs.mmu.ac.uk/jobs/vacancy/r…

Calling social scientists and health economists:

I’m trying to pull together as many official surveys as possible from as many countries as possible that track mental health (ideally including children, but adults-only will do).

I’m good for UK and US, anyone got any others? 🙏

THREAD: What is happening in UK universities is astonishing. Right now about quarter of universities are laying off staff. Almost all universities expect to make a loss this year. And the entire thing is happening in an effort to deceive the population about migration statistics.

New PhD studentship in adolescent mental health UCL Psychiatry

Does the mental health inequality between LGBTQ+ and cis/het adolescents vary between schools and, if so, why?

Using four large population-based datasets (epidemiology & statistics), quali & PPI

Apply here 👇

The British university system is being slowly strangled. The country will miss it when it’s gone.

This has been an inevitable consequence — slow but inexorable — of Tory policies.

But there’s nothing from Labour on how they might stop this slow death.

qmucu.org/qmul-transform…

Playground bullies do prosper – and go on to earn more in middle age theguardian.com/society/2024/m…

.University of Kent saves languages but confirms that anthropology and philosophy will close. The university intends to phase out teaching in areas also including art history and journalism, as UWE Bristol becomes latest to announce job cuts. Thomas Williams reports
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