CSMH Seminar Series: Four Horsemen – Zoom, Wed 14 Oct 2026 - Four Horsemen: How uncertainty, evaluation, loss of belonging and lack of opportunity for recovery are driving a mental crisis in young peo...

This position paper has been collectively written and co-produced by the Lived Experience Advisory Board at the ESRC Centre for Society and Mental Health, along with a survivor researcher, lived exper...

Social isolation and loneliness have been associated with poor health and increased risk for mortality, and inflammation might explain this link. We used data from the Danish TRIAGE Study of acutely a...

In this talk, drawn from our recent book, Causal Inference and the People’s health, we interrogate these debates, critique inadequate attempts at their resolution, and offer a path forward—by embracin...

This seminar explores the role of racism, experienced over the life course, in structuring ethnic inequalities in health.

This Primer & Provocation roundtable brings together interdisciplinary researchers working on social inequalities in mental health to critically reflect on the challenges, consequences, and possibilit...

The year 2025 has been hard for anyone working in migration policy and practice, as we continue to defend and justify the need for a humane and just immigration system. The environment continues…

In this seminar, Professor Michelle Pace discusses her recent and timely publication of Un–welcome to Denmark. The Paradigm Shift and Refugee Integration.

This presentation will examine how historical events such as massacres illuminate the brutality of the empire and its lasting impact on postcolonial communities.

In this interactive session, the value of experiential knowledge is celebrated, and the key attitudes, features and ways of organisational working that help realise it are identified, as are the obsta...

Dr Murray will discuss the environments of English youth and their association with mental health.

Asylum-seekers and refugees are at high risk of mental health problems because of adverse experiences before, during, and after their journeys. Many of these individuals are placed in immigration…

This presentation draws on empirical findings based on Albanian young people’s lived experience of the UK’s asylum process.

New research has examined the image-posting habits on social media of young people who self-harm.

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New research from the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, supported by the Population Mental Health Consortium and ESRC Centre for Society and Mental Health, has found that social excl...

In this blog, Catherine explains why flexible working must sit at the centre of the employer-led approach to supporting people to remain in work and closing the disability employment gap. She…

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Background Little is known about the mechanisms underlying associations between air pollution exposure in childhood and mental health disorders in adulthood.Objective To examine the prospective associ...

Children's ability to recognize emotions in the facial expressions of others is critical for their social functioning and self-regulation. Children exposed to adversity often show differences in their ability to recognize emotions. However, most prior research has relied on clinical or high-risk sam …

A fast-paced science presentation competition which values engaging, innovative talks that connect with the public.

In this talk, Hanna Kienzler will share insights into community inclusion and participation of people with severe mental illness in Palestine.

The number of people who are out of work for health reasons has grown by 800,000 since 2019.

It isn’t just social isolation that’s a risk factor for self harm.

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Wondering how, post COVID-19, people around you perceive their environment? Do you know whereabouts in your neighbourhood people might feel anxious? How could aspects of the neighbourhood be changed s...

An online seminar on how sociology can enrich participatory research agendas.

Our sense of belonging, or rootedness, is strengthened by the individual and collective changes we make to our surroundings, often through the everyday practices that create connections,…

Journal of Youth and Adolescence - Peer-relationships are critically important for adolescent behavior, but how peer-friendship network composition and structure influence adolescent self-harm is...

Latent Class Analysis is a powerful statistical method for uncovering hidden subgroups in populations, widely used across social and health sciences.

An online seminar on how sociology can enrich participatory research agendas.