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Jade Davies (she/her)

@jadedavies.bsky.social
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PhD researcher at @uomseed.bsky.social @uniofmanchester.bsky.social. Interested in understanding and addressing disparities in mental health. Currently researching social media use and adolescent mental health. so-me-study.org.

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Jade Davies (she/her) @jadedavies.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Excited to share the first paper from my PhD! 🥳 Media coverage reflects and shapes people's attitudes on important topics. It tells us which issues are important and how we should think about them. We reviewed >300 newspaper articles to understand how they discuss young people's social media use.
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The representation of adolescent social media use: a systematic review and content analysis of UK newspaper articles
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Jade Davies (she/her) @jadedavies.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
📣 Calling all education professionals working in/with Greater Manchester schools and colleges! Join us online for our next Mental Health & Wellbeing in Education network meeting, where Dr Charlotte Bagnall will be discussing all things transition. Sign up here: forms.office.com/e/GYVEN8CsD8
Online event from 5-6 pm on Thursday, 10th July 2025. Join us at our next network meeting for practitioners and researchers interested in mental health and wellbeing in education. In this meeting, Dr Charlotte Bagnall (from the University of Manchester) will share insights from the pilot of a 17-week primary-secondary transition curriculum. Sign-up link in the main post. Queries: stephanie.ray-2@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk
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Ellen Lavender (she/they) @ellenrlavender.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Hello! I'm looking for teachers to take part in upcoming research projects for my PhD. If you're a teacher interested in taking part the link is here: york.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... I'd appreciate it if you could share with any teachers you know too who might be interested!
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The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health @lancetchildadol.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
📣 New Comment on reporting of research with #Adolescents and #Youth engagement as part of the @thelancet.com Commission on #AdolescentHealth Comment here 👉 www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... #YouthHealth #MedSky @jasonmnagata.bsky.social Lancet Commission here 👉 bit.ly/4k14Vgo
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Reporting of research with adolescent and youth engagement
Active engagement of adolescents and youth in adolescent-focused studies aims to improve the quality of research and the translation of findings into everyday care, and to give researchers a greater u...
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Jade Davies (she/her) @jadedavies.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
My Masters research on supporting autistic students in the transition to university is free to access until 2nd May! Really pleased to see part 1 of the full special issue out, and looking forward to sitting down with a brew and reading the other papers in the issue 🫖🥰
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Dr Aimee Grant @draimeegrant.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
New article out on @theconversation.com on why many Autistic adults don't like puzzle pieces symbols being used to represent us: theconversation.com/why-the-auti... #Autism #ActuallyAutistic
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Why the autism jigsaw puzzle piece is such a problematic symbol
To many autistic people, the puzzle piece represents stigma, exclusion and a harmful push to make them conform.
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Learning and Work Institute @learnworkuk.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Young people's opportunities vary significantly depending on where they live. 📍 Our updated Youth Opportunity Index gives a relative measure of education and employment opportunities for young people across England's local and combined authorities. Explore our interactive map and tables. ⬇️
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Youth Opportunity Index 2025 - Learning and Work Institute
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Jade Davies (she/her) @jadedavies.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Wanted to reshare this paper I'm super proud of, on Autistic identity! We found that external acceptance and support are critically important for developing a positive Autistic identity, which is in turn linked to better mental health. Read the full paper, for free, here: doi.org/10.1002/aur....
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Autistic identity: A systematic review of quantitative research
We reviewed existing research on Autistic identity and its links to mental health and wellbeing. We found that having a positive Autistic identity is important for mental health, and that having supp...
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#BeeWell @beewelluk.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
One of our #BeeWell headline findings for Greater Manchester this year is girls’ physical activity.🧵 1 in 3 young people in Year 10 are meeting the recommended 1 hour of physical activity per day, but this drops to 23% of girls (just less than 1 in 4), compared to 44% of boys.
An infographic that reads 1 in 3 (33%) of young people in Year 10 are doing one hour of physical activity per day. However, this drops to 1 in 3 (23%) of Year 10 girls. This is compared to 44% of Year 10 boys.
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Jade Davies (she/her) @jadedavies.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
A bit late to be posting, but better late than never! Two weeks ago, I had the privilege of attending the 7th IAYMH conference in Vancouver, Canada 🇨🇦🍁 #IAYMH2025
The stage at the 7th IAYMH conference venue in Vancouver, Canada. The backdrop of the stage says: 'IAYMH 2025 Vancouver. 7th International Conference. Turning the Tide: creating a global blueprint for prevention and integrated care in youth mental health.'
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Mark Brown @markoneinfour.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
The last 20 years of campaigning around mental ill-health, distress and trauma focused too little on changing the material circumstances of those who live with mental ill-health as disability. In answering the question 'what is the place of those unwell in society?' the answer is now 'marginalised'
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Centre for Research in Autism and Education @craeioe.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
New paper alert “I did what I could to earn some money and be of use”: A qualitative exploration of autistic people’s journeys to career success and fulfilment. A summary: crae.ioe.ac.uk/i-did... #AutRes 1/2
A purple graphic with a pale lilac background featuring two simplified, outlined figures standing close together with one arm around the other. To the right is a quote in bold dark purple text: “That’s what’s kept me there… the fact that people are so nice.” The top-left corner reads “Social Connections in the Workplace” in light purple text. In the bottom margin is a reference in small text: “Davies et al. (2024). ‘I did what I could to earn some money and be of use’: A qualitative exploration of autistic people’s journeys to career success and fulfilment. Autism.” To the top-right, the UCL logo appears in white against a purple background.
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Jade Davies (she/her) @jadedavies.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
GREAT news on my final working day of the year – the final paper I worked on at @craeioe.bsky.social is live in @journalautism.bsky.social 🥳 Free to read, here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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‘I did what I could to earn some money and be of use’: A qualitative exploration of autistic people’s journeys to career success and fulfilment - Jade Davies, Rachel Melinek, Adam Livesey, Estelle Kil...
Employment contributes to well-being, yet many autistic people who want to work face barriers to meaningful employment. Much research focuses solely on employme...
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Dr Lucy Foulkes @lucyfoulkes.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
For anyone working in adolescent mental health: I *really* recommend reading this important paper about the most commonly used questionnaires (inc SDQ) In short: most of them have poor psychometric properties, so do we even know what they are measuring? www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... (cont)
Estimating adolescent mental health in the general
population: current challenges and opportunities
Louise Black, Margarita Panayiotou, Neil Humphrey
Adolescence is a period of change and increased mental health difficulties, which are important for lifetime outcomes.
Adolescent mental health is therefore an active research area, with large samples often drawing on self-report general
measures (ie, not disorder-specific or focused on a narrow outcome). We argue that these measures have a key role in
our understanding of issues such as prevalence, antecedents, prevention, and intervention, however, measurement
has been given little attention and high-quality measures do not tend to be available or used. We offer insights into
historical and psychometric challenges that have contributed to current problems and highlight the implications of
relying on poor measures, which at their worst can be biased and unethical. We make recommendations for research
and practice on selecting measures and improving the evidence base and make a call to action to reject low-quality
measurement in this field.
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Jayne B @jayneb.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Fascinating critical insight into the world of adolescent mental health, social media and research methodology last night with @jadedavies.bsky.social. Voice of CYP in SM/MH research and policy must be taken seriously, especially when SM is a sphere of supportive interactions for many.
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Eiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
In light of Australia’s social media ban, here a brief reminder why bans do not address the core issues they are meant to solve, w @margaritap.bsky.social. eiko-fried.com/social-media...
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Social media bans don't address youth mental health problems » Eiko Fried
I co-wrote this piece with the fantastic Margarita Panayiotou, Senior Lecturer at the University of Manchester who’s work focuses on psychometrics, measurement, social media & adolescent mental health...
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Rose Matthews (they/them) 🏳️‍🌈 @rosematthews.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Good to see #retirement being addressed. It’s often wrongly assumed #Autistic people don’t have #careers so this isn’t an issue. It is! Researching autistic people’s experiences of retiring with @jadedavies.bsky.social et al encouraged me to plan & prepare discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10... #AutRes
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Fergus Murray @oolong.co.uk · 22/11/2024
Why it matters that individuals literally can't be neurodiverse. #Neurodiversity
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Andrew Przybylski @shuhbillskee.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Maybe, and just hear me out for a moment... National health / human rights / technology legislation shouldn't be based on a poorly researched pop psych book?
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Jade Davies (she/her) @jadedavies.bsky.social · 01/11/2024
"The right support is life-changing and the wrong support is life-ending” – powerful words from an autistic young person in our new study, published yesterday in Autism in Adulthood. Free for 30 days: authorcite.com/view.aspx?doi=… #autres
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Margarita Panayiotou @margaritap.bsky.social · 11/10/2024
What scale development and cognitive interview prep looks like. From a critical reading of Normal People's chapter on responding to a depression measure, to lunch at the best place on campus. @jadedavies.bsky.social @reihaneh-farzinnia.bsky.social
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