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Verena Hinze

@hinzeverena.bsky.social
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Arthritis UK Career Development Fellow in Psychiatry @UniofOxford. Research Fellow | Green Templeton College | University of Oxford Interested in adolescent mental health | suicide prevention | chronic pain | psychological methods.

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Medical Research UK @medicalresearchuk.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
New research led by Dr @hinzeverena.bsky.social on teenagers living with chronic pain highlights the importance of regular mental health support. ➡️ Read more: bit.ly/46TKEFa @arthritisuk.bsky.social @oxfordpsychiatry.bsky.social #ChronicPain
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Verena Hinze @hinzeverena.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
📢 I’m recruiting! Funded DPhil Studentship | University of Oxford | Psychiatry Mental Health Complexity & Service Inequalities in Adolescent Chronic Pain Apply by: 12:00noon (UK time), Fri 10 April 2026 Further details: shorturl.at/HpZZY @oxfordpsychiatry.bsky.social @willemkuyken.bsky.social
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Verena Hinze @hinzeverena.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
📢 I’m recruiting! Funded DPhil Studentship | University of Oxford | Psychiatry Mental Health Complexity & Service Inequalities in Adolescent Chronic Pain Apply by: 12:00noon (UK time), Fri 10 April 2026 Further details: shorturl.at/HpZZY @oxfordpsychiatry.bsky.social @willemkuyken.bsky.social
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Christian Webb, PhD @christianwebb.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
New paper from our team: Can ML identify which adolescents benefit most from school-based mindfulness? In 8,376 students (MYRIAD trial), models detected statistically significant but clinically negligible differential effects (d ≈ .07–.08). Precision prevention is hard...
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Niamh Dooley @niamhdooley.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Our new study on the prevalence of psychological distress among adolescents in Ireland is out. We looked at anonymous surveys from over 20,000 adolescents across Ireland and explored at how rates of poor mental health, repetitive self-harm and suicide attempt were changing. Read more below! ⤵️
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Trends in psychological distress among adolescents in Ireland: survey data from 2018 to 2023 & lived experience perspective - Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology
Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology - This study aimed to estimate the prevalence of poor mental health, repetitive self-harm, and suicide attempts among adolescents in Ireland between...
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Dr Lucy Foulkes @lucyfoulkes.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Last month, I found out I have hypermobile Ehlers Danlos Syndrome, after decades of chronic pain and medical disinterest. I've decided to write publicly about this, not just about hypermobility and its health impacts, but about how it feels when doctors don't care: medium.com/p/4fea6398b8ba
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Welcome to my body
After twenty years of pain and repeated medical dead ends, a stranger sent me a message on Instagram. It led to a diagnosis all the doctors…
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Verena Hinze @hinzeverena.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
📢 New paper alert Our new study in JAACAP Open explores how adolescents’ executive function relates to their mental health and wellbeing over time: doi.org/10.1016/j.ja...
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Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford @oxfordpsychiatry.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
As we welcome new students and staff this term, we know it can be daunting to start somewhere new, but getting to know people can help. Our Career Development Working Group have held skills sessions to help researchers network & collaborate. Here's their top tips 👇 youtube.com/shorts/U0dOO...
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Networking tips for researchers
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Verena Hinze @hinzeverena.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
It was a real pleasure to visit the Paediatric Pain Management Team at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children yesterday. Many thanks to @chriseccleston.bsky.social for the kind invitation, and to the whole team for such a warm welcome and the great discussions on this often overlooked topic.
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Verena Hinze @hinzeverena.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
So pleased to see this one out! :)
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Christian Webb, PhD @christianwebb.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
🚨 New research alert We applied machine learning to the large MYRIAD trial (84 schools and 8,376 UK teens) to ask: 👉 Which adolescents benefit most from mindfulness delivered in schools? Bottom line: One-size-fits-all doesn’t work. Paper link: tinyurl.com/vvpvfunh 1/n
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Verena Hinze @hinzeverena.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
I had such a wonderful time visiting SBRL. Thank you for the warm welcome, inspiring conversations, and the chance to discuss new ideas. Very grateful for the opportunity to connect and learn from you all! :)
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Rory O’Connor @roryoc.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Please share! New partnership with RSABI. Fully funded PhD scholarship (UK students only): Towards an enhanced understanding of suicide risk among those from agricultural backgrounds. Supervised by me and @katierobb.bsky.social Closing date: 21st July 2025 🔗 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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What a 🅿️ain 🅿️odcast @whatapain.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
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Rory O’Connor @roryoc.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
A Psychological Approach to Understanding & Preventing Suicide (Free Training) We’ve developed a suite of learning modules funded by NHS Education Scotland. The aim of these modules is to get to the heart of this most tragic of human outcomes. suicideresearch.info/resources/#n...
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The Lancet @thelancet.com · 20/05/2025
One in five of the population lives with chronic pain. In a new Review, authors discuss core principles for psychological pain management and practical advice for how to facilitate pain self-management in clinical practice: tinyurl.com/4fsjcdyc
Figure showing psychological interventions for chronic pain and alterations in neurobiological underpinnings. Copyright: 2025 Elsevier Ltd. All rights are reserved.
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Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford @oxfordpsychiatry.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
With Psychiatry represented in six nominations in the University of Oxford Vice Chancellor's Awards, we are so pleased and proud of all of our finalists. Now the results are in...
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Medical Research UK @medicalresearchuk.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
This week, @theguardian.com highlights the story of a chronic pain sufferer, who found meaningful relief through therapist-guided emotion management. Chronic pain can be devastating - that's why we're committed to supporting innovative, life-changing pain research. 🔍 📖 Read more: shorturl.at/P5KF4
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Chronic pain sent Jabez into a spiral of despair. Behaviour therapy brought her back
A new study has found that helping sufferers manage their emotions lessens their experience of chronic pain
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The ESM Item Repository @esmrepository.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
New blog post! 📣 Ever wanted to do more with your open-text experience sampling items, but were unsure 🤔 how to code the responses? @annalangener.bsky.social & @mariestadel.bsky.social show us how it's done with their new Shiny app for open-text ESM data: esmitemrepositoryinfo.com/blog-posts#M...
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Blog posts | ESM Item Repository
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What a 🅿️ain 🅿️odcast @whatapain.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Are you an AHP working with children and young people experiencing chronic pain? This three-session course will give you the knowledge and skills to provide effective, evidence-based support. Only £30! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/understand...
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Prof Sarah-Jayne Blakemore @sjblakemore.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Jonathan Haidt has written about the potential harms of social media to girls, but what about boys (currently being widely discussed following the Netflix drama 'Adolescence')? This blog from 2023 discusses the tendency of boys to retreat and withdraw substack.com/@jonathanhai...
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Why I'm Increasingly Worried About Boys, Too
Since the 1970s, boys have been pushed away from the real world and pulled into the virtual.
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What a 🅿️ain 🅿️odcast @whatapain.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
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Olivia Kirtley @oliviajkirtley.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Come and join @ginettelafit.bsky.social and I in Leuven after SAA to learn about #OpenScience for Experience Sampling/Ecological Momentary Assessment! More details in the post below. Please share! @ambulatory-assessment.org
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Verena Hinze @hinzeverena.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
📢 Come and join our team!
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Willem Kuyken @willemkuyken.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Job Opportunity: Research Assistant. Join our team at the University of Oxford Mindfulness Research Centre to support an #MBCT #RCT study of young people’s mental health. 📍 Based in Oxford, hybrid work available 📆 10-month post, apply by Feb 25! 🔗 my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
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Omid V. Ebrahimi @omidvebrahimi.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
How Accurate & Consistent are Self-Report responses via Visual Analogue Scales (VAS) in Ecological Momentary Assessment & Digital Studies? Examined in a large EMA study (N = 3,761) w/L. Cloos @bsiepe.bsky.social @marilynpicciri1.bsky.social @eikofried.bsky.social @shirleybwang.bsky.social ... 🧵:
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Rory O’Connor @roryoc.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
🆕 Please share 9th Suicide & Self-harm Early & Mid-Career Researchers' Forum Call for Abstracts Closing date 31st March. If you are an early or mid-career researcher working in the field of suicide or self-harm, this conference is for you. All welcome. 🔗 suicideresearch.info/2024/10/09/9...
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Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford @oxfordpsychiatry.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Hello Bluesky👋 Here at the University of Oxford's Department of Psychiatry, we conduct world-class research into brain and mental health. Our aim is to translate ground-breaking scientific discoveries into benefits for patients. Follow us for our latest news & more👇 tinyurl.com/yc3dhjmz
picture of the Department of Psychiatry building, people working in a lab, people talking to each other at desks, a group of people holding letters that spell 'psychiatry'
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 26/01/2025
The mind/body revolution: how the division between ‘mental’ and ‘physical’ illness fails us all
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The mind/body revolution: how the division between ‘mental’ and ‘physical’ illness fails us all
New research shows western medicine’s traditional split between brain and body is, in fact, far from clear cut – and could provide a breakthrough for many complex conditions Some years ago Camilla Nord suffered such persistent pain at the site of an old…
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Nicole Tang @nkytang.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Suicide risk is double in people with chronic pain. What can be done to reduce this risk? In our EJP paper, we found mental defeat a significant predictor of future suicide risk in people with chronic pain 🧪Open access: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Vivianne Tawfik, MD, PhD @vivtawfik-mdphd.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Great article on the importance and difficulty of treating & understanding chronic pain featuring many wonderful colleagues @robgereau.bsky.social @michelecuratolo.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/01/12/m...
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Chronic Pain Afflicts Billions of People. It’s Time for a Revolution. (Gift Article)
As many as two billion people suffer from it — including me. Can science finally bring us relief?
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Amy Orben @orbenamy.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
🚨 My team is hiring an undergraduate intern (UK universities only) - a great opportunity, if I can say so myself! Please share widely. Want more info? See here: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
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What a 🅿️ain 🅿️odcast @whatapain.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Young people advising others with chronic pain. This amazing animation was co-developed with young people with chronic pain, their parents, and clinicians at the Oxford Centre for Children & Young People in Pain. Thank you @hinzeverena.bsky.social mhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CW-YHWvB_lU
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Advice on living with chronic pain from and for young people with chronic pain
YouTube video by Verena Hinze
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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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What a 🅿️ain 🅿️odcast @whatapain.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
We conducted a qualitative study exploring the *individual* barriers adolescents face in achieving functional recovery from chronic pain. Using the 'Passenger on the Bus' metaphor, we aimed to identify the challenges that hinder their engagement with age-appropriate activities. #ChronicPain #ACT
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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 18/11/2024
We strongly suggest that academic publishers and other platforms that host research rapidly implement a Share to Bluesky button for their articles. Here's how: docs.bsky.app/docs/advance... #AcademicSky #HigherEd #Altmetrics
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Action Intent Links | Bluesky
Authors, websites, and apps can use action intent links to implement "Share on Bluesky" buttons, or similar in-app actions. Logged-in users will be directed to the corresponding action view in the Blu...
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Willem Kuyken @willemkuyken.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Our new paper on mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (#MBCT) for #depression suggests learning #mindfulness skills mediates MBCT’s effects. Especially for those with more severe depression. Learn more here: doi.org/10.1192/bjp.... Led by Jesus Montero-Marin #depression #MBCT
These are latent profiles for those who benefit most from MBCT or maintenance antidepressants
Profile 1 = less severe history of depression. 
Profile 2 = more severe history of depression.This shows the variety of changes in depressive symptoms through MBCT and maintenance antidepressant treatment.
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Emma Soneson @emmasoneson.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
RESEARCHERS & PRACTITIONERS IN SCHOOL MENTAL HEALTH 🏫📚🧠 to complement the lovely general C&A MH lists from @noraskjerdingstad.bsky.social (go.bsky.app/mJXZrD) & @olademk.bsky.social (go.bsky.app/KSGUBYg) Hoping this will be primarily crowd-sourced, so please tell me who to add: go.bsky.app/5EXucz1
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Tamsin Ford @tamsinford.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
We are looking for an energetic part time administrator to support a complex project researching mindfulness based cognitive therapy in teenagers - please RT and more information here www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49125/
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Research Administrator (Part Time, Fixed Term) - Job Opportunities - University of Cambridge
Research Administrator (Part Time, Fixed Term) in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Cambridge.
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Willem Kuyken @willemkuyken.bsky.social · 24/09/2024
📚 Beyond excited to hold the 1st copy of my new book today! It's been a labor of love, blending ancient wisdom with modern psychology—ideas that have enriched my life. I hope it resonates with readers just as much. Available in the US & for pre-order globally! 🔗https://bit.ly/m/MindfulnessforLife
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Dr. Ali Barry @aliibarry.com · 17/09/2024
The 2nd UK National Pain Survey has been launched. For UK-based adults living with chronic pain. #DisabilitySky 🧪 app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/dundee/uk-...
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UK National Pain Survey 2024
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Verena Hinze @hinzeverena.bsky.social · 02/07/2024
✨ It was a pleasure to work with the Social Media Team @uniofoxford.bsky.social to share the three main suggestions given from those who experience chronic pain first hand. 🙏 #ChronicPain www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5ZB...
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Three main suggestions from young people with chronic pain
Chronic pain is a huge challenge for many young people. It was a pleasure to work with the Social Media Team @oxforduniversity to share the three main sugges...
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Verena Hinze @hinzeverena.bsky.social · 24/11/2023
A fantastic opportunity to join our team (PI: Prof Willem Kuyken) as a full-time DPhil student (✨fully funded!✨) to work on psychological therapies at the University of Oxford. Funded through the Oxford Health NIHR Biomedical research centre. For questions, please do reach out. t.co/HLr8GuYYly
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Funding Opportunities
Competition for scholarships and grants to study in the UK is extremely competitive and there are usually strict requirements. You should check carefully that you are eligible to apply for a particula...
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Verena Hinze @hinzeverena.bsky.social · 16/11/2023
📢 Very pleased to share our new paper ▶️ Considering a broad range of school factors, we found that particularly school climate played an important role in students’ mental health and well-being over time. doi.org/10.1016/j.ja...
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Verena Hinze @hinzeverena.bsky.social · 02/11/2023
🤔 How can we improve recruitment rates to clinical studies and ensure equitable access to research opportunities? In this blog, I summarise the findings of the Count Me In project: www.psych.ox.ac.uk/news/a-new-a...
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A new approach to recruiting for clinical trials
‘Count Me In’: Transforming research practice in mental healthcare through a novel recruitment approach that offers access to a large and diverse patient cohort.
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