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TOPIC Research Team @topicgroup.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Come and work with us! Seeking an 80% fte postdoctoral trial researcher to work on a feasibility trial of a new intervention for childhood OCD in routine child mental health services my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

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Dr Simona Skripkauskaite @drskripka.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

A new open access paper in collab with Carolina Guzman Holst, @lucyfoulkes.bsky.social, and MYRIAD team examining differential responses to a universal school based intervention. Massive respect to the MYRIAD team for allowing us to investigate if their intervention was potentially harming CYP.

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Mental Health Research Incubator @mhrincubator.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

"My career path has been winding, but my motivation has never wavered." 💼 In our latest case study, Dr Simona Skripkauskaite reflects on variety - both in her career path as a #mentalhealth #researcher, and in her day-to-day. Read more: 🔎 mentalhealthresearch.org.uk/case-studies...

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University of Oxford @ox.ac.uk · 06/08/2025

A pioneering research centre aimed at achieving better mental health outcomes for children, young people and families will be established at Oxford University thanks to a £27 million gift from The Paul Foundation. Find out more ⬇️

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£27 million gift funds new Oxford Centre for Emerging Minds Research

A pioneering research centre aimed at achieving better mental health outcomes for children, young people and families will be established at the University of Oxford thanks to a £27 million gift from

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Holly Bear @drhollybear.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Our latest paper is now out in Current Psychology: 🔗 link.springer.com/article/10.1... Based on data from over 14,000 adolescents we found: It’s not just how much time young people spend online-it’s what they’re doing & what they’re exposed to that matters.

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Isolation despite hyper-connectivity? The association between adolescents’ mental health and online behaviours in a large study of school-aged students - Current Psychology

Smartphone use has risen rapidly amongst adolescents over the last decade, as has the rates of common mental disorders. This has raised widespread concerns about direct links between adolescents’ gene...

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Dr Simona Skripkauskaite @drskripka.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Over the last year, #CoSpace has worked with young people in the UK and #Japan to co-create #international recommendations for #MentalHealthSupport Here is what they said: Supported by @topicgroup.bsky.social @oxexppsy.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk @ukri.org JSPS LeadersUnlocked NCCHD FTCJ everybeing

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Many of the parents blaming social media for their teens’ mental health struggles are just deflecting blame from their own violence and abuse. And that’s what the report finds. Adults’ violence is one of the major reasons teens struggle.

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NIHR Biomedical Research Centre: Oxford Health @oxhealthbrc.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

👏Colleagues from our BRC’s Mental Health in Development Theme have established the Wisdom network, bringing together primary and secondary schools in England with academic researchers to enable #mentalhealth research that benefits school communities. Get involved: tinyurl.com/wisdomnetwork

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Lars Klintwall @larsklintwall.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Published! ”Perceived causal symptom network of adolescent mental health issues”. n = 55 depressed teenagers (PHQ9 > 9) picked symptoms from a predefined list (including criteria for depression, purple nodes), specified these in their own words, and then rated causal relations.

Symptom network showing that some nodes are more central than others: stress, procrastination and overthinking

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Nick Davies @njdavies.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

New research from the IFS showing the closure of youth centres during the 2010s was shortsighted. For every £1 saved, the costs to affected users, crime victims and public spending in the police and the criminal justice system amount to £2.85 ifs.org.uk/publications...

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The effects of youth clubs on education and crime | Institute for Fiscal Studies

Using quasi-experimental variation from austerity-related cuts, I provide the first causal estimates of youth clubs' effects on education and crime.

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