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Willem Stander @willemjstander.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Exciting news: our NIHR-funded COLLAGE study is now officially underway at @imh-uob.bsky.social, exploring how care-experienced young people in England seek mental health support. We’re also thrilled to welcome @errwallace.bsky.social to the research team! 🌈🧠 www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2025/na...

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New study to explore how care-experienced young people seek mental health support - University of Birmingham

NIHR-funded research project will explore barriers and resources for young people seeking mental health support in England.

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Emma Rebecca Wallace @errwallace.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

If you are attending the International Society of Critical Health Psychology conference this week in Galway, come along to the O’hEocha Theatre on Friday at 2:30pm. I'll be discussing the impact of 'negotiating multiple minoritised identities' with trans and gender-diverse youth in N.Ireland👇

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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

NEW: The Cass Review into UK trans healthcare is 'deeply flawed', containing biased research, outdated data, and manipulated evidence, an international team of experts has said Read more on this story: www.thenational.scot/news/2516682...

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Emma Rebecca Wallace @errwallace.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Paper accepted at BMC Public Health this week 🙂 'Mental health disorders, childhood adversities, and recent stressors as risk factors for non-suicidal self-injury and suicidality among LGBTQA+ higher education students'. Thanks to co-authors - paper coming soon! 👀

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Scott @scottcuthbertson.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

I’ll tell you what I see when I look at the #RainbowMap 2025, which was published this morning, an absolute failure of government. The UK once stood proudly at the top of Europe on LGBTI legal equality. Now we’ve slipped into the yellow. Well done to all the countries continuing to make progress.

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Alfonso Pezzella @alfpezzella.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

New Publication Alert 📢 I am proud to share my latest publication where we explored how school practices across 13 European countries impact the mental health of sexual and gender minority (SGM) youth. 🔗 Read the full article: link.springer.com/article/10.1... #lgbtqi #mentalhealth #inclusion

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TransHealthNow @dadtrans.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Practical things you can do as a Cis ally: - Write to your MP - Protest - Give funds to Trans led advocacy groups - Use whatever social capital you have to support your workplace, your kids schools, your communities to resist the erasure of Trans people from public life.

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Heather Paterson @heatherpaterson.co.uk · 26/04/2025

Another update to the map of protests against the Supreme Court judgement (Green markers for completed demos, red for upcoming) www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/e... I make that 72 protests and counting now Keep following and supporting @whatthetrans.com for updates

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Supreme Court Ruling Protests - Google My Maps

Supreme Court Ruling Protests

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Hilary Causer @drhilarycauser.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

There is still plenty of time to apply for our FUNDED #PhD opportunities in the School of Health Sciences at @uniofsurrey.bsky.social If you are interested in women nurses experiences of #Whistleblowing or #Bullying take a look. Closing date 11th May. www.surrey.ac.uk/fees-and-fun...

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Studentships | University of Surrey

Browse our frequently updated list of self-funded to fully-funded studentships open for applications.

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Willem Stander @willemjstander.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Funded PhD opportunity about LGBTQ+ people & adult social care with an incredible supervisory team at the University of Bristol consisting of Profs @jasonschaub.bsky.social & David Abbott. Applications due 15/05/25 with PhD starting September 2025. More info here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMP621/p...

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PhD Studentship: LGBTQ+ people and adult social care at University of Bristol

Discover a PhD Studentship: LGBTQ+ people and adult social care on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other PhD opportunities.

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Emma Rebecca Wallace @errwallace.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

We’ve just published our first paper with @psyarxivbot.bsky.social Our qualitative (IPA) paper explores the complex intersection of sexual orientation, gender identity, and suicidality among transgender and gender-diverse young people in Northern Ireland. Read it here: doi.org/10.31234/osf...

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Emma Rebecca Wallace @errwallace.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Thanks so much for highlighting this Madi. Protective factors, particularly individual and community strengths and resiliency are so often over-shadowed. Glad we could emphasise this in our scoping review. Of course, we wish LGBTQ+ young people did not need this resiliency in the first place! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

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Causeway Pride @causewaypride.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

The Executive Ban isn't just about puberty blockers but about the systemic failure of Stormont to cater to LGBTQ community needs... Not one single mention of LGBTQ people in the new Programme for Government. PRIDE IS A PROTEST! And we will continue to use it to call their failures out!

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Emma Rebecca Wallace @errwallace.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

A heartfelt thank you to Professor Latu at Queens University, for inviting me to give a 2-hr guest lecture on LGBTQA+ suicide prevention. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ We discussed gender and sexuality norms, heteronormativity, minority stress, intersectionality, queer theory, healthcare needs, and some research findings.

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Emma Rebecca Wallace @errwallace.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Today marks five years since the first same-sex marriages took place in N.Ireland 🥳 I love my wife so much, I married her twice. Only joking, we were just being discriminated against the first time 😉 #NorthernIreland #Equality 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈

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Emma Rebecca Wallace @errwallace.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Doing a PhD is hard, but never underestimate the value of doing work that you are passionate about, to feel seen and heard, and like you belong somewhere. The past two years have changed my life immeasurably, and I will always be so grateful. Keep going! 😊 #phdlife

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Emma Rebecca Wallace @errwallace.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Delighted to have been invited back to Queens University to give a guest lecture on 6th Feb. Massive thanks to Professor Latu. We will be discussing sexuality and gender norms in suicide research, some research findings, and theories inc. minority stress, intersectionality and queer theory. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

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Emma Rebecca Wallace @errwallace.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Day 14: Book challenge ‘Queer data: Using gender, sex, and sexuality data for action’ - Kevin Guyan @kevinguyan.bsky.social

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Emma Rebecca Wallace @errwallace.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

This was a real highlight of my summer; forming a symposium on LGBTQ+ inclusion at the BPS Social Psychology section conference, with Dr Phoebe McKenna-Plumley, Dr Stephanie Burns, Dr Liadh Timmons, and Dr Lorraine McDonagh. Lovely to see a photo of us all together 🙂

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Emma Rebecca Wallace @errwallace.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Day 13: book challenge Who’s afraid of gender? Judith Butler

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Emma Rebecca Wallace @errwallace.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Day 12: book challenge “Nineteen eighty-four” 👀 George Orwell #bookchallenge

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Emma Rebecca Wallace @errwallace.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Day 11: book challenge Girl, woman, other - Bernardine Evaristo #bookchallenge

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Emma Rebecca Wallace @errwallace.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Day 10: book challenge “Invisible women” - Caroline Criado Perez

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 12/12/2024

In a story sent out to newsrooms around the world, AP calls puberty blockers a 'common approach' to treatment for trans kids and highlights how the UK ban goes against 'standards held by medical groups elsewhere, including the European and World Professional Associations for Transgender Health'

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The Sun Times (Owen Sound)12 Dec 2024
The British government on Wednesday indefinitely banned puberty blockers for children with gender dysphoria after independent experts found there was an unacceptable safety risk in prescribing the medication. The decision, which will be revisited in 2027, effectively bans a common approach to medical gender transitions for youths. It also goes against standards held by medical groups elsewhere, including the European and World Professional Associations for Transgender Health, as well as the American Medical Association. The announcement comes after a judge this summer upheld an emergency ban in a ruling that said the treatment was potentially harmful. The ban applies across the United Kingdom after consultation with the Scottish and Welsh governments, and an agreement with Northern Ireland. It does not apply to those already receiving puberty blockers for gender dysphoria, to their use in clinical studies or in treatment of children with precocious puberty, an uncommon medical condition that causes puberty to begin abnormally early. “We need to act with caution and care when it comes to this vulnerable group of young people, and follow the expert advice,” Health Secretary Wes Streeting said. The Associated Press

Article Name:BRITAIN BANS BLOCKERS FOR SOME
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Cllr Anthony Flynn @antoflynnser.greenpartyni.org · 11/12/2024

In August, a Sinn Fein spokesperson said decisions around puberty blockers should be left to medical professionals, not politicians. Sinn Fein & Alliance ministers then implement a ban without publishing any evidence, so what has changed? Where are the allies within those parties to call this out?

In a statement, a Sinn Féin spokesperson said the party "accepts the current medical advice from the chief medical officer" and that they will monitor the British Medical Association's review of the Cass Report.

"To be clear, our position is that clinical and health care is best determined by doctors and clinicians - not politicians - and needs to be informed by the clinical and scientific evidence," the spokesperson added.

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Emma Rebecca Wallace @errwallace.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Day 9: book challenge “Nothing special: Living Zen” - Charlotte Joko Beck #bookchallenge

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Emma Rebecca Wallace @errwallace.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Gender affirming care is suicide prevention. And, there is plenty of evidence if only people would stop wilfully ignoring it to suit their agenda. #TransRightsareHumanRights 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️

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uklgbtpol.bsky.social @uklgbtpol.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

A Joint Statement from LGBT+ Lib Dems, Out for Independence, LGBTIQA+ Greens and Rainbow Greens on the UK Puberty Blockers ban.

The decision to ban puberty blockers across the UK, by the Westminster Labour Government and the Northern Ireland Executive, is incredibly distressing and dangerous. Putting thousands of young trans people at immense risk.

We have seen young trans people scale buildings, march in the streets, and camp outside England’s Department for Education, for days on end. And for almost a hundred days, left paper coffins outside the constituency office of the UK’s Health Secretary, Labour MP Wes Streeting, warning him of the dangers of a ban.

And despite urgent pleas by trans people. It was ignored. The inhumanity of weaponising the healthcare of marginalised young people, putting lives at risk, is unforgivable.

As justification, decision makers keep pointing to the Cass Review, which has been previously condemned by medical organisations, and ourselves. It has been found to be poorly researched and cherry-picked for political purposes; its scientific literacy is on the level of the anti-vax movement. The review, we note, is deeply ableist towards neurodiverse trans young people—further pathologising and infantilising them, clearly ignoring the principle of Gillick Competency.

We have seen the review being biased against trans people, favouring the opinions of conversion therapists over trans communities.

The review recommends forcing patients to engage in a medical trial to access a treatment for which there is over 40 years of evidence in favour of its overwhelming safety. These trials would be grossly unethical and medically incompetent. The proposal of double-blind tests goes against any standard practice for a medical trial of this kind.

The pseudo-scientific decision of an unqualified, non-clinician, to impose a ban on accessing essential healthcare is already a dangerous precedent to set, with other potential long-term ramifications for the continued safety and independence of our NHS systems from politicisation.

Additionally, the undermining of Scottish and Welsh devolution by the UK Labour Government – by making a unilateral decision without consulting the devolved Health Secretaries and Parliaments – further erodes the already strained relationships of the public with the UK Government, as well as their health security under Westminster.

We call on Wes Streeting and the UK Labour government as a whole, and progressive parties in the Northern Ireland Executive, to both condemn, and reverse this ban immediately. We also demand that the UK Government commit to working with the devolved nations, rather than using or imposing upon them.

To the young trans people reading this, we hear you, and we will push as hard as we can, as you deserve better than this.

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Emma Rebecca Wallace @errwallace.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Very concerned about the consequences of this decision on the quality of life, and mental wellbeing of trans and gender diverse young people in Northern Ireland. Assurances that this wouldn’t happen seemingly out the window.

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Emma Rebecca Wallace @errwallace.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Day 8: book challenge “The body keeps the score” - Bessel Van Der Kolk

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Emma Rebecca Wallace @errwallace.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Day 7: book challenge “The god delusion” - Richard Dawkins #bookchallenge

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Emma Rebecca Wallace @errwallace.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Day 6: book challenge “I know why the caged bird sings” Maya Angelou #bookchallenge

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Emma Rebecca Wallace @errwallace.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Day 5: book challenge ‘Queer theory now’ 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ #bookchallenge

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Emma Rebecca Wallace @errwallace.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Book challenge: day 4 Moved into the hallway now… “Hardcore Zen” - Brad Warner 🪷

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Emma Rebecca Wallace @errwallace.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Day 3: book challenge “Clarity and connection” 👥 - Yung Pueblo #bookchallenge

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Emma Rebecca Wallace @errwallace.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Day 2: Book challenge “When it is darkest” 💡 - Professor Rory O’Connor #bookchallenge

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Emma Rebecca Wallace @errwallace.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Day 1: Book challenge “The seven necessary sins for women and girls” - Mona Eltahawy ✊🏻✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿 #bookchallenge

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Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Finally, University of the Year 2024: it’s Ulster University! The judges were wowed by Ulster’s progress in research, particularly in medical technology and quantum computing, in teaching, student experience & graduate outcomes, as well as helping foster peace and prosperity. Congratulations! 🕊️

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James Downs @jamesldowns.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Do read my latest paper out today on the nuances of “trauma informed care” that may be under-appreciated in mental health services: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Whose trauma is it anyway? Creating more equitable mental healthcare in a system that harms | BJPsych Bulletin | Cambridge Core

Whose trauma is it anyway? Creating more equitable mental healthcare in a system that harms

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Benjamin Getenet @benjamingetenet.fr · 23/11/2024

🏳️‍🌈 Understanding Suicidality in LGBTQ+ Youth A review explores the risk and protective factors affecting suicidality in LGBTQ+ youth (14-25), using a socio-ecological model. It highlights personal, social, and systemic influences. Here's a breakdown.👇 #LGBTQ #MentalHealth

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Laura Gallagher @lauragallagher.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Follow me for a flurry of initial posts which taper off over the next few weeks as the novelty wanes and then sporadic announcements when I have something to boast about like a publication or finally submitting my thesis.

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Dr Orla Parslow-Breen @drorlapb.bsky.social · 08/09/2024

Delighted to see Ulster Uni Psychology coming in at 7th out of 116 courses in the UK. Rankings aren’t perfect, but it is a fantastic endorsement of our excellent BSc Psychology programme and all my lovely colleagues.

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Audrey T. Carroll @audreytcarroll.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

What are your research interests? Some of mine 👇🏻 Creative Writing Studies. Hybrid & experimental CW. Queer Studies. Bi Studies. Gender Studies. Disability Studies. Queering narrative. Disability poetics. Accessibility. Inclusive & embodied pedagogy. Research-creation. Public humanities.

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Jaycee Kennett @jayceekennett.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

What are your research interests? Some of mine 👇 Self-injury, mental healthcare policy and provision, bodily autonomy, queer theory, trans and non-binary lives, Foucauldian discourse analysis, phenomenology, mixed-methods, and evidence synthesis.

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