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Emma Soneson

@emmasoneson.bsky.social
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Senior Postdoc @ Oxford Psychiatry & Fulford Junior Research Fellow @ Somerville College. Researching children & young people's mental health, with a focus on the intersections of mental health & education 🌻 (she/her)

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Holly Bear @drhollybear.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
We’re running a new study exploring how young people use AI chatbots like ChatGPT for mental health support. If you’re aged 16-25, live in the UK, and have used AI chatbots for mental health, we’d love to hear from you!! @oxchildpsych.bsky.social @emmasoneson.bsky.social 👉 lnkd.in/eQSRzyej
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Emma Soneson @emmasoneson.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
A fascinating project + you'd be hard pressed to find a better supervisory team than this one! Come join our team @oxchildpsych.bsky.social! 🌻
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Prof Alexandra Pitman @alexandrapitman.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
⏰Post-doctoral #qualitative job alert! (closes 14/9/25). @uclpsychiatry.bsky.social is recruiting for a #Qualitative Post‑Doctoral Research Associate to join our #suicide & #selfharm research team on a @nihr.bsky.social grant investigating acceptability of close obs 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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Emma Soneson @emmasoneson.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
PAID OPPORTUNITY: 🏠 I'm looking to speak with some #homeschooling families (parents & carers / children & young people) in the UK about a potential research project around mental health and wellbeing in this community. Please share & get in touch (emma.soneson@psych.ox.ac.uk) for more details!
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Darío Moreno-Agostino @dmorenoagostino.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
📢 Job opportunity! 📢 I am recruiting a 2-year postdoc to join me at @clscohorts.bsky.social to work on a SUPER exciting project on the quantitative study of intersectional inequalities in youth mental health across time and place! See www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... for more info and how to apply!
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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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Somerville College, Oxford @somervillecollege.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
It's fifth week in Oxford, which - naturally - means alpacas! Somerville JCR's welfare team organised the visit of these lovely guys, along with some sheep, goats, and other animals. We hope all our students got the chance to say hello!
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Emma Soneson @emmasoneson.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Very fortunate to have shared two years at @somervillecollege.bsky.social with the wonderful Jan Royall & adore her new (hot pink!) portrait from Tania Rivilis, revealed last week 🎀🌸💓
Jan Royall (Principal, Somerville College) and Emma Soneson in front of Jan's new portrait by Tania Rivilis. Portrait portrays Jan in Pink jacket against pink background.
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Emma Soneson @emmasoneson.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Thanks for your kind words Ola ☺️ Hadn't thought about the specific tie to girls being 'more willing' to report sx but that's a really interesting link.
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Emma Soneson @emmasoneson.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
With thanks to @simonrwhite.bsky.social & @minafazeloxford.bsky.social for another fun collab & to our fantastic summer intern Puneetha Goli for her important contributions!
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Emma Soneson @emmasoneson.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Key takeaway? Research-related concerns are common amongst adolescents & have implications for data accuracy and completeness. Deliberate design & analysis that incorporates this complexity are needed to ensure we are accurately capturing the voices of all young people.
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Emma Soneson @emmasoneson.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
🗝️ MISSING DATA was more common amongst those who reported that their concerns affected their accuracy (aORs wrt those not reporting impacted accuracy = 1.53 - 3.38). 🗝️ Substantial VARIATIONS in SCORE distributions on measures of mental illness & adversity according to presence/absence of concerns.
Graph shows a 5x3 panel of plots where rows represent the 5 concerns and columns represent the three measures of mental illness and adversity (L-R Short Child Maltreatment Questionnaire, RCADS-11, DAWBA eating disorder screening questions). The general trend shown is that those without concerns have score distributions quite separate (better mental health; less adversity) from those reporting concerns (regardless of whether they said the concern impacted their accuracy). This is particularly striking for the RCADS-11.
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Emma Soneson @emmasoneson.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
🗝️ Concerns were MORE PREVALENT amongst gender diverse students (aOR wrt boys = 5.7), gender non-disclosing students (aOR = 4.4) & girls (aOR = 2.5) BUT gender diverse adolescents less likely to report that their concerns prevented them from answering accurately. 🗝️ Less variation by age/ethnicity.
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Emma Soneson @emmasoneson.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
🗝️ 46.0% (8,160/17,729) of students endorsed ≥1 concern related to privacy, confidentiality, and data use & 28.8% (5,300/17,729) ≥2. 🗝️ 29.2% (2,379/8,160) of those with concerns reported that their concern(s) prevented them from answering '100% accurately'.
Graph (Fig 1 here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1054139X25001107) shows proportion of students endorsing five different research related concerns, including concerns about parents, someone at home, and peers seeing their answers; a concern that the survey was not actually confidential; and a concern about how data would be used. Graph also shows whether students reported that their concern impacted the accuracy of their answers.

Most common concern is about adults at school seeing answers (31.1%), followed by belief that survey was not actually confidential (21.4%). Approx. 30% of individuals with each concern between 21.9 & 28.7% reported that the concern impacted the accuracy of their answers.
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Emma Soneson @emmasoneson.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Are adolescents sensitive about sensitive data? In our new @oxwell.bsky.social publication, we explore students' concerns about taking part in research including sensitive topics such as mental health & maltreatment. Headlines below, w/ substantial implications for research design & analysis ⬇️
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Are Adolescents Sensitive About Sensitive Data? Exploring Student Concerns About Privacy, Confidentiality, and Data Use in Health Research
We quantitively explored adolescents' concerns about privacy, confidentiality, and data use in health research and their potential impact on the accur…
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Emma Soneson @emmasoneson.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Went to my first May Morning at @magdalenoxford.bsky.social yesterday! It was a truly magical thing & I'm so grateful to Hinako for the invite 🌸🌷🌻🪻
Photo of Emma, Hinako, and Mina standing in front of the wisteria at Magdalen college. Photo shows a crowd on their feet looking up to the Magdalen tower for the choir.
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Amy Orben @orbenamy.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
New Paper! I'm truly excited to share @natematias.bsky.social and my new Policy Forum in Science published yesterday. We evaluate science's ability to address technological harms, and offer recommendations for what could be done to improve on the status quo: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Fixing the science of digital technology harms
Technology development outpaces scientific assessment of impacts
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Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford @oxfordpsychiatry.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
The Vice-Chancellor’s Awards are a university-wide celebration of our outstanding people. We’re pleased that members from the Department of Psychiatry have been shortlisted across four categories. Learn more about our nominees 👇
Vice-Chancellor Awards 2025
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Oxford Child & Adolescent Psychiatry @oxchildpsych.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
It's been a busy 48 hours for our senior postdocs @drhollybear.bsky.social & @emmasoneson.bsky.social, who were invited by BBC South Today & Radio Oxford to talk about the latest Oxfordshire Director of Public Health Annual Report on Children & Young People's #mentalhealth. Links below👇
Photo shows a behind-the-scenes shot from the BBC South Today filming, with a desktop computer showing multiple camera angles. The largest angle is a closeup of Holly smiling. Photo shows a behind-the-scenes shot from the BBC South Today filming, as a wide angle of Holly and host Tom sat on a rounded sofa posed to discuss the Director of Public Health Report.Screenshot from a news article (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c7vn6821e6eo) that shows Emma smiling outdoors in Somerville College, and text including a quote from Emma bout the importance of inequalities in mental health.
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Somerville College, Oxford @somervillecollege.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Our brilliant JRF Dr Emma Soneson @emmasoneson.bsky.social was on the BBC last night discussing the mental health of Oxfordshire's children and young people: "When people think about Oxfordshire they think of this magnificent university town and forget about a lot of the inequalities."
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Children's mental health 'worse in deprived Oxfordshire areas'
The director of public health presented an overview of the mental health of children to councillors.
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Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford @oxfordpsychiatry.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
A report by Oxfordshire County Council has found children living in poorer areas are more likely to experience mental health issues. It drew on Oxwell Student Survey findings & our senior postdoc @emmasoneson.bsky.social spoke to the BBC about it. Read the story 👇 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Emma Soneson @emmasoneson.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Addressing #inequalities across the county is essential for shifting the dial in children & young people's #mentalhealth. Great to see this as a focus of the new Director of Public Health Annual Report for Oxfordshire. Lots of work to be done, but equally, lots to be hopeful about.
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Children's mental health 'worse in deprived Oxfordshire areas'
The director of public health presented an overview of the mental health of children to councillors.
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Emma Soneson @emmasoneson.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
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Emma Soneson @emmasoneson.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
New findings from @oxwell.bsky.social reinforce calls to shift to a more nuanced view of teens + tech. Interesting read from colleagues @drhollybear.bsky.social, @minafazeloxford.bsky.social & @drskripka.bsky.social!
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OxWell Study @oxwell.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Great to see Lea Satala presenting her OxWell findings at the @nihr.bsky.social Undergraduate Internship Programme Celebration Event in London this morning! Lea undertook an 8-wk internship with @oxchildpsych.bsky.social last summer & did some really impactful work around adolescent self-harm.
Lea presenting findings from her OxWell internship at a conference.
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Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford @oxfordpsychiatry.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
In the Department of Psychiatry, we're proud to have research teams working on a range of projects to understand more about the experiences and particular mental health needs of LGBT+ people. Read more 👇 tinyurl.com/3mtz3evw #LGBTHistoryMonth @emmasoneson.bsky.social
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LGBT+ Research in the Department of Psychiatry
A summary of what some of how some of our research groups are undertaking research with LGBT+ people in the department.
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Oxford Child & Adolescent Psychiatry @oxchildpsych.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
So proud of our shining star Anne Stewart 🌟 (& CAP friends Caz Nahman and Joanna Adams), whose book - Overcoming Worries About Body Image and Eating - launched today at @brasenoseoxford.bsky.social 📚 Huge potential to make a huge difference for young people!
L to R: CAP team members Holly Bear, Anne Stewart, and Hinako Irei smiling and holding copies of Anne's bookCaz, Joanna, and Anne speaking on a panel about their bookPanel of six authors and editor of the two books
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Mental Health Research Incubator @mhrincubator.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Struggling with that #mentalhealth #research fellowship application? Apply for our 2025 Writing Retreat! It offers structured writing time & guidance from senior colleagues & panel members on how to write a good application & sell it to the funder. 👇 mentalhealthresearch.org.uk/writing-retr...
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Louise Arseneault @larseneault.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
🖥️One tool. Endless possibilities! The #AtlasLongitudinalDatasets allows you to do more than explore datasets from around the world. You can compare features, use a list or map view, narrow down with filters and save your searches. Check it out here: atlaslongitudinaldatasets.ac.uk
 An image describing the function of the Atlas of Longitudinal Datasets featuring three screens with screenshots of the website featuring the text:
One tool, endless possibilities.
Explore thousands of datasets using a designated search engine.
Use filters to narrow down your search to the datasets most relevant to your research questions. 
View datasets as part of a list or on a map.
Compare the unique features of datasets. 
Save your search terms and results.
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Joel Mittleman @joeljm.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
The CDC’s Youth Risk Behavior Survey has monitored the wellbeing of America’s high school students since 1991. Since 2015, it’s been a vital source of data on LGBQ youth. In 2023, it provided the first ever nationally representative sample of transgender teens. As of this morning, it’s gone.
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Emma Soneson @emmasoneson.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Loved being part of this discussion! Have a listen to hear us chat about harnessing the power of today's young people, creating meaningful change in our communities, and my 'beef' with one of the most commonly-used phrases in our field... 👀 Thanks for having me, @gatescambridge.bsky.social!
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Amalie Schumann @amalieschumann.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
We're looking for parents who can help shape our research plans, focusing on the needs of siblings when a young person has an eating disorder. Please click the link or scan the QR code to learn more and get involved! 🌻💭 psychiatryoxford.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience @kingsioppn.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
We’re at @wellcometrust.bsky.social for the launch of the Atlas of Longitudinal Datasets - a free online platform that maps longitudinal datasets around the world🌎 @larseneault.bsky.social @mqmentalhealth.bsky.social 🔗https://atlaslongitudinaldatasets.ac.uk/ #AtlasLongitudinalDatasets
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Maria Loades @marialoades.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
I just did a post about this paper from @emmasoneson.bsky.social @minafazeloxford.bsky.social et al - sharing the key messages IMO on LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/posts/maria-...
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Maria Loades on LinkedIn: Networks of care for the modern adolescent | Psychological Medicine |…
🌟 New Insights on Adolescent Mental Health Support 🌟 I just read Mina Fazel et al's recent article "Networks of care for the modern adolescent" published…
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Emma Soneson @emmasoneson.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Great to see these findings published!
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Kapil Sayal @kapilsayal.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
📣 New Research! It took 6 years but we got there! The STADIA trial reports… What we did: Large multi-centre #RCT with 1225 children and young people with emotional difficulties referred to #CAMHS across England, followed-up for 18 months. 6 Headline findings… see below… (1/7)
Stadia RCT publication
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OxWell Study @oxwell.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Social jetlag = the mismatch between social & biological time ✈️😴 Our new @oxwell.bsky.social study of ~20K #children & #adolescents shows an average jetlag of ~2 hrs 🕑 . ⬆️ jetlag was associated w/ weekend bedtime setting 🛌, & #socialmedia use 📱 and #gaming 🎮 before #sleep Read more below 👇
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Social jetlag and sleep habits in children and adolescents: Associations with autonomy (bedtime setting and electronics curfew) and electronic media use before sleep
For young people attending school, social jetlag (SJL) refers to discrepancy in sleep/wake timing between school days and weekends. This study investigated SJL in school-aged children and adolescen...
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Maya Ogonah @mayogonah.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
🚨Just published! Our umbrella review of health outcomes following traumatic brain injury is live in Nature Mental Health (open access). 24 systematic reviews and meta-analyses covering 31M participants. Suggests long-term treatment is important after TBI.🧵https://doi.org/10.1038/s44220-024-00356-5
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OxWell Study @oxwell.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
New @oxwell.bsky.social study out today puts the #youthvoice centre stage in understanding the availability, accessibility & acceptability of #mentalhealth support in the UK. PRESS RELEASE ➡️ www.psych.ox.ac.uk/news/radical... ARTICLE ➡️ www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Radical rethink of mental health support for adolescents needed – new study
Young people have given important insights into what mental health support they prefer and what does not work for them or meet their needs, as part of a major new study of thousands of adolescents.
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OxWell Study @oxwell.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Implications for designing systems that meet young people's needs & expectations incl. 👨‍👨‍👦 'supporting the supporters' = informal networks YP turn to most 💷 thinking carefully about how we allocate limited resources 🏳️‍⚧️ designing support for & with groups not optimally served by current systems
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Emma Soneson @emmasoneson.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
👋 @simonrwhite.bsky.social
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Emma Soneson @emmasoneson.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Feeling hopeful that these findings can help bring the #youthvoice to the fore in service design, implementation & evaluation & looking forward to learning with stakeholders about next steps for improving the accessibility & acceptability of #mentalhealth support for our young people 🌻
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Emma Soneson @emmasoneson.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
We've had the privilege over the past year of discussing these networks with services, third sector orgs, schools, policymakers & others and have worked together to understand how to take action based on these findings.
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Emma Soneson @emmasoneson.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Key findings (cont.): 🗝️ GROUPS OF CONCERN 5 | #Gender diverse & gender non-disclosing adolescents accessed many types of support but found them generally less helpful than did their peers. 6 | Adolescents who didn't find their parent/carer helpful found very little else helpful either.
[Figure 4 from paper] Shows 4 network diagrams that show patterns of access and perceived helpfulness by gender (all, girl, boy, gender diverse/gender non-disclosing).[Figure 6 from paper] 6 network diagrams comparing 3 focal support types (parents/carers, school MH teams, and CAMHS), with lefthand networks representing those who found the focal type helpful and righthand showing those who did not find it helpful.
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Emma Soneson @emmasoneson.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Key findings (cont.): 🗝️ HELPFULNESS 3 | Friends & family were perceived as *most* helpful (incl. for adolescents w/ #mentalhealth difficulties). 4 | #CAMHS and helpline/online support were perceived as *least* helpful (ESP. for adolescents with #mentalhealth difficulties).
[Figure 3 from the publication]: shows 2 network diagrams showing patterns of access and perceived helpfulness for those with sub-clinical and clinical RCADS scores (a measure of depression and anxiety)
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Emma Soneson @emmasoneson.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Key findings: 🗝️ PATTERNS OF ACCESS 1 | Many adolescents report having accessed #mentalhealth support in the last year (27% of our @oxwell.bsky.social sample) & around half of these have accessed 2+ types. 2 | Friends & family were most common, followed by schools & then health & social care.
[Figure 2 from the publication]: shows a network diagram of 18 different types of mental health support young people report accessing in the last year, alongside perceived helpfulness.
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Emma Soneson @emmasoneson.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
*Networks of care for the modern adolescent* 🫶🌻 In our new paper, we combine a #network approach + applied research lens to explore where #youngpeople are accessing #mentalhealth support & how helpful they find it. w/ Simon R White & @minafazeloxford.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
[Figure 2 from the publication]: shows a network diagram of 18 different types of mental health support young people report accessing in the last year, alongside perceived helpfulness.
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Oxford Child & Adolescent Psychiatry @oxchildpsych.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Lots of celebrations this week, incl.: 👉 a Secret Santa Sock Exchange 🔁🧦 👉 the Departmental Christmas Party (a screening of 'Paddington in Peru'!) 🐻🇬🇧 👉 a team murder mystery event at Oxford Castle 👀🏰 We also said 'bye for now' to Shona, our lovely group administrator who's off to go have a baby 👶
Photo of Shona sitting in front of a TV screen with a fireplace projected onto it, holding a hand-knitted blanket and sitting behind a bookshelf filled with books and soft toys.The Oxford Child & Adolescent Psychiatry team exchanging socks during their monthly meeting.The Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Group at the murder mystery Christmas party in the Oxford Castle.Members of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry examining the 'murdered' Victorian era mannequin during the murder mystery party.
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Emma Soneson @emmasoneson.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Yaaaay @amalieschumann.bsky.social 💃
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Oxford Child & Adolescent Psychiatry @oxchildpsych.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Today @minafazeloxford.bsky.social & @emmasoneson.bsky.social journeyed to London to join colleagues from around the country for a meeting of the Adolescent Health Study. Our team is excited to help shape this major study & ensure it keeps #mentalhealth at its heart!
Selfie of Mina Fazel & Emma Soneson in front of some holiday greenery in London. Lucy Bowes & Mina Fazel holding a brain plush toy in the Wellcome Collection gift shop.
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Emma Soneson @emmasoneson.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Done! :)
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