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Dr Emily Emmott

@ehemmott.bsky.social
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Associate Prof in Biological Anthropology, bringing Evolution to Public Health. Director of Education at UCL Anthropology. Profile: profiles.ucl.ac.uk/30051

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Dr Emily Emmott @ehemmott.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Maternity Cover role in Environmental Anthropology at UCL, within our Biological Anthropology section. We are a nice bunch - Apply by 7th October! www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
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UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
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Marc Robinson-Rechavi @marcrr.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Open position of Associate Professor in Behavioral ecology and cultural evolution at the @dee-unil.bsky.social! You can toggle the ad to English on top right: wwwfbm.unil.ch/releve/appli...
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Dr Emily Emmott @ehemmott.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Exploring autophotography as a quasi-naturalistic observational method. In Evolutionary Anthropology, participant observations are super important - but sometimes, we can't follow people! Autophotography could work as one of the solutions to address these challenges. doi.org/10.1002/evan...
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Diversifying Methods in Evolutionary Anthropology: Autophotography as a Tool for Quasi‐Naturalistic Observation of Human Behavior
A comprehensive evolutionary account of human behavior demands simultaneous consideration of biology, local ecology, and culture. Historically, evolutionary anthropology integrated these dimensions t...
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Dr Emily Emmott @ehemmott.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Hello! Thanks so much for your careful thoughts and feedback. Never know if people read these things 🙂 Happy to chat further!!
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Vivek V. Venkataraman @vivek123.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Our new paper is out in Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health! Led by the amazing @marinawatowich.bsky.social What drives worsening cardiometabolic health during urbanization in Indigenous populations? We expected it to be diet. But actually, it was the built environment.
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Built environment is a key driver of cardiometabolic health in two indigenous groups undergoing rapid lifestyle change
AbstractBackground. Globally, subsistence-level societies are experiencing rapid urbanization and concomitant increases in cardiometabolic diseases. Genera
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Dr Emily Emmott @ehemmott.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
"Caregiver discourse revealed tensions between everyday norms and dominant public health messaging around children’s weight."
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Dr Emily Emmott @ehemmott.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
New Paper Published in collaboration with MSc Medical Anthropology students (now graduates!) and the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities 🥳 academic.oup.com/jpubhealth/a...
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Parental beliefs and practices around child weight in London, England: insights from qualitative photo-elicitation interviews
AbstractBackground. Childhood overweight and obesity remain global public health concerns, yet caregiver engagement with prevention and support services is
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Dr Emily Emmott @ehemmott.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
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Dr Emily Emmott @ehemmott.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
We're looking for an Associate Lecturer in Evolutionary Anthropology (mainly teaching Evo Med and Stats at UCL Anthro) as maternity cover! Please share - closing date 30th April www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
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UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
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EHBEA @ehbea.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
🚨MASTER AND SCHOLARSHIP ANOUNCEMENT🚨 The MSc in Human Evolution and Behaviour at University College London is a broad-based programme run by experts in the field. This year they are excited to share 2 bursaries for Home/UK students, and 1 for International students - based on financial need.
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Dr Emily Emmott @ehemmott.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Just looking through some breastfeeding public health posters, and pleasantly surprised by the newer NHS ones. We've come a long way from posters telling women it's natural/instinctive & breastfeeding means love and care.
A4 poster of baby latching onto breast, with NHS and Better Health/Start for Life logo. Large text at the top says "It's ok I'm new to this too." Smaller text at the bottom says "If they could tell you, they'd say to give it a go. Visit Start for Life for support."
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Dr Emily Emmott @ehemmott.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Are you an international student wanting to study an MA/MSc at UCL Anthropology? Take a look at the UCL Global Scholarships for Master's study, based on financial need: www.ucl.ac.uk/scholarships...
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UCL Global Master's Scholarship
The UCL Global Master's Scholarship aims to enable and encourage international students from lower income backgrounds to pursue full-time Master's degree studies at UCL.
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Dr Emily Emmott @ehemmott.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
A reminder that we have MSc/MA bursaries for home fee students at UCL Anthropology!
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Dr Emily Emmott @ehemmott.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Early view of our Special Issue on the Anthropology of Adolescence at the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute is now available! Take a look at our introduction here, which also provides summaries of all the papers in the special issue: doi.org/10.1111/1467...
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Human Behavior & Evolution Society @humbehevosoc.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Two postdoctoral opportunities in evolutionary anthropology at Duke University! The Pontzer Lab is hiring for projects on human ecology, energetics, and aging & health. More info: www.hbes.com/two-postdoct...
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Two postdoctoral opportunities in evolutionary anthropology at Duke - HBES
https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30783 Position Description The Pontzer Lab in the Department of Evolutionary Anthropology at Duke University seeks two Postdoctoral Associates for research in h...
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Dr Emily Emmott @ehemmott.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
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Dr Emily Emmott @ehemmott.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Take a look at our postgrad programmes here: www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo... We have great programmes like MSc Human Evolution and Behaviour and MSc Medical Anthropology!
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Graduate Taught
Through critical, sensitive debate and analysis, students explore what it means to be human and apply their insights to today's domestic and global challenges.
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Dr Emily Emmott @ehemmott.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Funding for students!! New £6k UCL Anthropology MSc Bursary for Home students: www.ucl.ac.uk/scholarships... You can also apply to the £10k UCL Bursary at the same time - so if you get both, it should cover all your fees & a chunk of living costs🤞 www.ucl.ac.uk/scholarships...
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Julia Scott Memorial Bursary
The aim of the Julia Scott Memorial Bursary is intended to enable students in financial need to pursue their postgraduate studies in the Anthropology Department at UCL.
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Sheina Lew-Levy @sheinalew.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
@durhampsych.bsky.social current has 5 (FIVE!!) PhD studentships being advertised! 3 to work with me on children as agents of cultural evolution 2 to work with @drboothroyd.bsky.social on examining school-based body image interventions. Please share and apply! www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...
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Fees and Funding - Durham University
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Abbey Page @abbeyepage.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
This is a great thing to do - I did it, loved it and it underpinned a Phil Trans B special issue 💜 If you want any advice DM me Also my (with @drsarahmyers.bsky.social and @ehemmott.bsky.social successful application is on the EHBEA website to help guide you…. Just saying there’s still time 🕰️
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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
"It is crucial to make psychology inclusive of all the world's people but vitally important to do this in ways that are respectful, ethical & empirically accurate. I weigh the promises & pitfalls of research in small-scale societies & discuss how we can improve our research practices moving forward"
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Psychology Within and Without the State | Annual Reviews
Psychological research in small-scale societies is crucial for what it stands to tell us about human psychological diversity. However, people in these communities, typically Indigenous communities in ...
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Dr Emily Emmott @ehemmott.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
There are lots of other findings in the paper🙂 It was nice to see findings align with evolutionary approaches to public health - that people don't live their lives prioritising health - but no space for discussion about this in the paper. Will leave that for another time!
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Dr Emily Emmott @ehemmott.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
It was clear in my interviews that parental experiences in pregnancy and birth were strongly influencing how parents viewed their children's BMI measurements being taken at school as part of the National Child Measurement Programme. Depersonalised care has long-term impact!
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Dr Emily Emmott @ehemmott.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
These participants often went to great length recalling their pregnancy/birth/postnatal experiences, where medical measurements were used bluntly to place them in "high risk" categories without careful consultation. This led to poor experiences & manifested as mistrust in healthcare + measurements.
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Dr Emily Emmott @ehemmott.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
BUT: If parents had negative experiences of medical measurements in the past, they rejected the usefulness of PH initiatives to measure children's BMI. Like other parents, they viewed BMI as uncertain, but felt suspicion and discomfort around BMI being used as a diagnosis of "unhealthy weight."
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Dr Emily Emmott @ehemmott.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Finding which I found most interesting: Parents understood BMI as an imprecise measure. Many parents nonetheless found it as a useful indicator to track children's growth. They accepted the uncertainty of BMI, combined it with other info, and used it to check children's physical growth.
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Dr Emily Emmott @ehemmott.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
New preprint! "Parental beliefs and practices around child weight in London, England: insights from qualitative photo-elicitation interviews" We explored how parents view child weight + weight-related behaviours, and discuss implications for public health practice. doi.org/10.31235/osf...
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Dr Emily Emmott @ehemmott.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Calling Medical Anthropologists - job at UCL Anthropology (cover for colleague who recently got ERC grant). Teaching to start in January 2026. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
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UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
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Dr Emily Emmott @ehemmott.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
It's so traumatising! Sorry if you've had to go through it too!
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Dr Emily Emmott @ehemmott.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
And you tell your GP and midwife how awful it is, but they just don't... get it. They tell you to "go to A&E if you can't keep liquid down." But this advice is totally pointless when you are constantly drinking and constantly vomiting. Should you go to A&E... all the time???
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Dr Emily Emmott @ehemmott.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
People often underestimate how awful pregnancy sickness is. They think it's just vomiting. It's not. It feels like your body is decomposing. You're in so much pain. You can't move. As this women says - it feels like you're going to die. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Severe pregnancy sickness leads to abortions in women, mum says
Sarah Spooner's husband once called an ambulance as she could not get off the floor due to the pain.
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Dr Emily Emmott @ehemmott.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
And here is a short blog about the paper, written for teens (but anyone can read it!): www.adolescentsociality.com/post/researc...
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Research: Is teenage angst universal? Comparing England and Japan
We are happy to announce that our research based on the "In My Life" photography project in England and Japan has just been published in the Journal of Adolescent Research.Below, lead author Dr Emily ...
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Dr Emily Emmott @ehemmott.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
New paper! What do teens in England and Japan view as important, and what does that tell us about adolescence? Straddling anthropology and psychology, a massive piece of work that took 8 years from conception to publication. And one of my favourite projects 🙂 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Adolescence as a Key Period of Identity Development and Connectedness: A Comparative Autophotography Study in England and Japan - Emily H. Emmott, Yasuo Ihara, Yudai Tokumasu, Mari Nozaki, Atsuko Sait...
Adolescence is identified as a key period for identity development, but anthropological literature hints at cross-cultural variations. Past research suggests Ja...
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Dr Emily Emmott @ehemmott.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
What a lovely memento!
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Heart-Pages @heart-pages.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Jane Lancaster, my doctoral adviser, was a giant in our field. She taught me one can be assertive and kind at the same time. Her legacy of both research and mentorship spans across the globe. Dr. Jane Lancaster, Pioneer in Human Evolutionary Sciences (1935-2025) share.google/TdRdZD6eD5nR...
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In Memoriam: Dr. Jane Lancaster, Pioneer in Human Evolutionary Sciences (1935-2025) :: Anthropology | The University of New Mexico
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
The distance between what is in happening Gaza, fully backed with US dollars and political support, and the reaction of American politicians who by and large just don’t seem to care or support it is just completely brain-breaking. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/w...
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Aid Groups Blame Israel’s Gaza Restrictions for ‘Mass Starvation’
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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
“Parenting is never perfect. Cultures raise children differently, shaping adults valued by their own standards. But one truth emerges: Learning to care for others should start long before having a baby” www.sapiens.org/biology/to-r...
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To Raise Children, We Must First Raise Parents
An anthropologist compares her early motherhood in London with child care experiences in a hunter-gatherer community of Central Africa.
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Dr Emily Emmott @ehemmott.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Thanks, I will flag this to the student/PI!
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Dr Emily Emmott @ehemmott.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Have 15 mins spare? One of our MSc students from UCL Anthropology is investigating global attitudes to breastfeeding. Anyone can take part, from anywhere in the world! Available in various languages (select on top-right dropdown box) 日本語バージョンもあります! Click link to take part👉 tinyurl.com/2t4us4ss
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 05/07/2025
AI summaries kill search traffic. This has been an obvious consequence of Google's AI summary strategy since its inception. Apparently the training data is so valuable that Google is willing to risk the neck of the goose that lays golden eggs. Screenshot: thebullshitmachines.com/lesson-9-blu...
Screenshot from Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines (Bergstrom and West 2025).

People wandering through a desert mirage, with the text:

"We anticipate powerful, damaging spillover effects. If no one follows web links, there will be few incentives for people to create high-quality content in the first place.

Meanwhile large language models make it easy to produce low-quality content at the touch of a button. Quality human-created information may be swamped by AI-generated bullshit."
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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
A comparison of 2 industrialised populations (Italy, Singapore) with 2 indigenous populations (Tsimane, Bolivia & Orang Asli, Malaysia) suggests inflammaging - age-associated increase in chronic inflammation, considered a hallmark of aging - is a byproduct of industrialisation, not a human universal
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Nonuniversality of inflammaging across human populations - Nature Aging
Analyzing readouts of inflammaging across four cohorts, Franck and colleagues identify strong variation and observe that inflammaging, in its known form, primarily emerges in industrialized—but not no...
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Dr Emily Emmott @ehemmott.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
So please, consider writing to your MP! Find your MP Here: members.parliament.uk/FindYourMP?f... Template letter: docs.google.com/document/d/1... Supporting statement from RCOG: www.rcog.org.uk/news/the-rco... Proposed amendment: bills.parliament.uk/bills/3938/s...
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Find your MP - MPs and Lords - UK Parliament
Enter your postcode, location, MPs name or job title to find the name and contact details of your local MP.
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Dr Emily Emmott @ehemmott.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Laws are clumsy, but healthcare is complex - and they don't fit well together. A "one size fits all" approach doesn't work for healthcare, and prescriptive legislation will always lead to someone suffering unnecessarily. Today it's someone else's shocking story, but it could easily be yours or mine.
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Dr Emily Emmott @ehemmott.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Access to safe abortions is an important part of reproductive healthcare. The current law *criminalises* abortions over 24 weeks, meaning some women who miscarry later undergo police investigations, adding to their distress and trauma (you can read about that here: observer.co.uk/news/nationa... )
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Police could search homes and phones after pregnancy loss | The Observer
New national guidance suggests officers look for menstrual tracking apps or abortion drugs
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Dr Emily Emmott @ehemmott.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
UK Peeps: Please consider writing to your MP, asking them to support Amendment NC17 to the Crime and Policing Bill to decriminalise abortions. This *does not* mean that people will now get access to "illegal abortions"; it simply means that abortions will no longer be treated as a criminal matter. 👇
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Laure Spake @lspake.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
🚨 Seeking practitioners, researchers, or students involved in forensic anthropology and/or skeletal trauma interpretation 🚨 Help us understand how forensic practitioners interpret gun shot and other trauma on long bones by participating in a short survey! binghamton.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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Dr Emily Emmott @ehemmott.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
"...when it comes to all-class [mental health] lessons, we should listen to the evidence, and to young people themselves. We came up with a good idea, we spent a lot of time and money testing it, and we have our answer. Given the evidence, we should now stop doing those lessons."
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Mental-health lessons in schools sound like a great idea. The trouble is, they don’t work | Lucy Foulkes
All-class therapy sessions don’t help, and may even make matters worse. The evidence shows we need different solutions, says Dr Lucy Foulkes, an academic psychologist at Oxford University
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Dr Lucy Foulkes @lucyfoulkes.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
I’m in the Guardian today, arguing that we should stop them all-class mental health lessons in schools I've thought very carefully about ‘going public’ with this, because it's a sensitive argument to make, especially in the face of so many young people struggling. (cont 🧵) tinyurl.com/vun92cz7
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Mental-health lessons in schools sound like a great idea. The trouble is, they don’t work | Lucy Foulkes
All-class therapy sessions don’t help, and may even make matters worse. The evidence shows we need different solutions, says Dr Lucy Foulkes, an academic psychologist at Oxford University
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Dr Emily Emmott @ehemmott.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
A reminder that there is a Home fee bursery for UCL Masters degree programmes! Join us at UCL Anthropology! www.ucl.ac.uk/scholarships...
Eligibility
Candidates must fulfil all of the following criteria:

be ordinarily resident in the UK or Ireland and eligible to pay Home fee rate OR be a Ukrainian student granted Home fee status as part of the Ukraine Scheme;
have commenced undergraduate study no earlier than the 2012/13 academic session;
have an annual household income of £42,875 or less;
not have previously been awarded the Master's Bursary for prior Master's study;
AND have submitted a complete admission application (including the submission of references) for a full-time or part-time standalone Master's degree* at UCL in 2025/26. The flexible study mode is not eligible.
 Must be a standalone Master's rather than the Master's element of an integrated undergraduate degree such as MEng, MPharm, etc.
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Dr Emily Emmott @ehemmott.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Could you remind me how long the seminars are?
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