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Amanda (Mandy) Hughes

@ammhughes.bsky.social
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Social epidemiologist researching inequalities in mental health, body weight, and the role of stigma at @uob-ieu.bsky.social. Lover of cinema and mountains. Views my own. research-information.bris.ac.uk/en/…

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Amanda (Mandy) Hughes @ammhughes.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Our new paper in BMJ Public Health finds being bullied at work predicts long-term weight gain. Adds to evidence that workplace bullying harms health and strengthens the case for regulatory measures to tackle it. With @domignon.bsky.social @uob-ieu.bsky.social bmjpublichealth.bmj.com/content/4/2/...
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Body mass index and workplace bullying: exploring causality in two general population Norwegian surveys, the HUNT study and the Norwegian Mother, Father and Child Cohort Study (MoBa)
Introduction To interrogate whether reported associations between body mass index (BMI) and workplace bullying (WPB) reflect an impact of weight on bullying, an impact of bullying on weight or confoun...
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Amanda (Mandy) Hughes @ammhughes.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Study of UK accents suggests people with Received Pronunciation (in male voice) deemed less likely to commit various crimes than other groups, but this didn't hold for sexual assault. May suggest perceptions about who commits (diff types of) crimes is changing www.frontiersin.org/journals/com...
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Frontiers | Stereotyped accent judgements in forensic contexts: listener perceptions of social traits and types of behaviour
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