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Ola Demkowicz

@olademk.bsky.social
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Researching adolescent mental health mechanisms & inequality | Mixed methods | Senior Lecturer, Psychology of Education | University of Manchester | She/her | 🐝🌱📚🏳️‍🌈🐈

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Kathryn Mills-Webb @kathrynmw.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Great story in @theguardian.com sharing the latest @beewelluk.bsky.social @uomseed.bsky.social research looking at prevalence & impact of isolation in schools. More detail in here 👉 tinyurl.com/yffvjp4x @erthornton.bsky.social @neilhumphrey.bsky.social @olademk.bsky.social @qiqicheng.bsky.social
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<em>British Educational Research Journal</em> | BERA Journal | Wiley Online Library
Internal exclusion (isolation) is a behaviour management approach involving the temporary relocation of a pupil from their classroom to a designated isolation space as a consequence of disruptive beh...
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Lucinda Powell @lucindap0well.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Join the conversation #PsychologyintheClassroom where @olademk.bsky.social explores adolescent girls’ mental health challenges, social media’s role in coping, and how schools can be part of the solution. A conversation you shouldn't miss! 💬👧📱 changingstatesofmind.libsyn.com/creating-saf...
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Ola Demkowicz @olademk.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Returning from leave to officially start my sabbatical! Mostly working on paper edits today to get in before a deadline, but also starting the day with some bell hooks in the sun… … and a grant rejection to really kick things off on the right note 🫠
A photo of a chapter heading from bell hooks’ “feminism is for everybody” overlooking a local park
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Koraly @drkoraly.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Special Issue Call at Developmental Psychology! From Stress to Strength: Emotion Regulation, Adaptive Development and Resilience in the Face of Adversity Led by Assaf Oshri, Amanda Morris, Amanda Guyer This issue explores when, how, and for whom regulatory processes promote resilience. 1/3
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SMArT-IE @smart-ie.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
What are we up to right now? We are recruiting university mental health counsellors for interviews! We want to hear your thoughts on digital interventions like Togetherall in third-level education - What works, what doesn't and how can it be improved?
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Ola Demkowicz @olademk.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
As of today I am officially on research sabbatical for a year! I’ll miss teaching but am excited to have a year to read, write, and think…
A postcard on my door that says “opening hours” and shows Monday to Sunday as closed
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Eiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Psychologists & related fields: what is a big methods question that you believe remains somewhat unanswered & that you'd love to see adressed? There may be an opportunity for a large-scale meta-science project with many teams trying to figure out a question. Any thoughts welcome! #psychscisky
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Ola Demkowicz @olademk.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
A critical call to integrity for psychologists by @aneezapervez.bsky.social on the lives of Palestinian children: “Our journals, our classrooms, and our professional statements will remain as evidence of what we chose to confront, and what we chose to ignore.” www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...
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What if they were ours? | BPS
Aneeza Pervez on moral failure and the lives of Palestinian children.
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Mental Health Research Incubator @mhrincubator.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
We're still thinking about the discussion and insights gleamed from our recent webinar on Advancing Mixed Methods. Missed the webinar? Don't worry, @olademk.bsky.social published a great reflective piece that shares some of the main themes & points from the session! Check it out now👇
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Ola Demkowicz @olademk.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
NEW PAPER! Thrilled to share this piece on early career perspectives on the future of child and youth mental health research, envisioning a field that continues strides in embracing complexity, centring diverse voices, and facilitating sustainable environments and systems bit.ly/455VxCv
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Meeting of minds: imagining the future of child and youth mental health research from an early career perspective | BJPsych Bulletin | Cambridge Core
Meeting of minds: imagining the future of child and youth mental health research from an early career perspective
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Ola Demkowicz @olademk.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
New report on understanding the drivers of declining youth mental health To effectively respond to worsening mental health, we need to understand not just what is happening, but *why* We used an evidence-based approach to unpack common explanations 1/🧵 youthfuturesfoundation.org/publication/...
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Understanding drivers of recent trends in young people’s mental health - Youth Futures Foundation
Research report exploring the reasons for the recent decline in mental health among 14 to 24-year-olds in England
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Lara 'Challah Black Girl' M @blewishand.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
“Black women continue to face systemic inequalities in maternity care, from discrimination and unmet pain relief to dismissed concerns. These shocking figures expose a healthcare system that too often fails black mothers and puts lives at risk,” www.theguardian.com/... 1/2
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Half of black women in UK who raise concerns during labour did not receive suitable help, study finds
Maternity experiences of more than 1,000 pregnant people found black women up to four times more likely to die in childbirth
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Aidan Wright @aidangcw.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
This paper looks SUPER interesting and helpful. Can’t wait to read it! Internalizing disorders as shape-shifters: Understanding individual and cultural heterogeneity in the presentation of symptoms. psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...
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Ola Demkowicz @olademk.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Are you interested in how we can advance mixed methods in mental health research?🧩 We’ve shared reflections on our recent paper on this issue and on our linked webinar/panel 🧑‍💻 Check out the link below (where you can also find a link to our paper, some key guidance, and a webinar recording) ⛓️‍💥
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Ruth Knight @ruthknight.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
New paper!! Excited to share our new piece outlining an ECR perspective on children and young people's mental health research. We offer suggestions around funding, research practice, and institutional governance and processes to support a more socially just, equitable, and rigorous science.
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Mental Health Research Incubator @mhrincubator.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Did you catch our recent webinar on advancing mixed methods? Our panel of researchers, colleagues @bmj.com , @mqmentalhealth.bsky.social & @nihr.bsky.social had a rich & wide-ranging discussion - check out @olademk.bsky.social reflections here mentalhealthresearch.org.uk/reflecting-o...
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Reflecting on mixed methods in mental health research – Mental Health Research
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Emma James @emljames.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
📣 New job alert! I'm looking for a 2-year research assistant for a project on word learning from childhood to adulthood. Come and join us in lovely York! Please RT 🙏 @yorkpsychology.bsky.social jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/rese...
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Jobs - The University of York
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Ola Demkowicz @olademk.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
New report on understanding the drivers of declining youth mental health To effectively respond to worsening mental health, we need to understand not just what is happening, but *why* We used an evidence-based approach to unpack common explanations 1/🧵 youthfuturesfoundation.org/publication/...
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Understanding drivers of recent trends in young people’s mental health - Youth Futures Foundation
Research report exploring the reasons for the recent decline in mental health among 14 to 24-year-olds in England
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Dan Hayes @danhayesphd.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Youth mental health difficulties have increased in prevalence (rather than better awareness) and key drivers likely include economic precarity, smartphone use, sleep quality and closure of youth services. An excellent piece of research led by @olademk.bsky.social
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Barry Wright @barrywright.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Important report out this month exploring youth mental health in England, with highlights including decline in the myriad tapestry of youth services since 2010 youthfuturesfoundation.org/wp-content/u... @jess-deighton.bsky.social @olademk.bsky.social @lucyfoulkes.bsky.social
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Wellesley Centers for Women @wcwonline.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
The @apajournals.bsky.social's AI and Adolescent Wellbeing health advisory was cited in a @time.com article about the problematic nature of therapy chatbots. Senior Research Scientist Linda Charmaraman was a member of the expert advisory panel for the health advisory! [1/3] #devpsy #scipub #cogpsyc
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IN THE NEWS
A Psychiatrist Posed As a Teen With Therapy Chatbots. The Conversations Were Alarming
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Ola Demkowicz @olademk.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Hello! 👋 Are you working in child and adolescent mental health research? BlueSky’s felt quiet recently and I’m hoping that we can get back on track… Did you know there’s not 1 but 2 starter packs to help connect CAMH researchers here? Let me know if you want to be added! go.bsky.app/TbtddRW
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Mental Health Research Incubator @mhrincubator.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Fellowship Application Day 2025 run online by @nihr-rss.bsky.social on 17 Sept - a REALLY important opportunity for anyone wanting to go for an NIHR Doctoral or Postdoctoral Award... and *free!* Not to be missed! 😀 mentalhealthresearch.org.uk/rss-fellowsh...
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RSS Fellowship application day 2025! – 17 September – Mental Health Research
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neilhumphrey.bsky.social @neilhumphrey.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Very important and absolutely fascinating report on youth mental health trends and their drivers by @olademk.bsky.social and colleagues out today. Absolutely essential reading!
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Jess Deighton @jess-deighton.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Very important report out today from the Youth Futures Foundation exploring factors accounting for escalating mental health problems in young people. Lead by fantastic colleagues from the University of Manchester (@olademk.bsky.social et al). Report here: youthfuturesfoundation.org/what-we-do/f...
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Understanding young people’s declining mental health - Youth Futures Foundation
Exploring drivers of worsening mental health among 14-24 year olds through a first-of-its-kind study for England
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Calli McMurray @callimcflurry.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
NEW: The NIH removed gender identity variables from the latest ABCD study data release. This counteracts the goals of the study "by pretending that some aspects of adolescent brain development don’t exist," @nicolagrissom.bsky.social told me. Read more: www.thetransmitter.org/gender/abcd-...
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ABCD Study omits gender-identity data from latest release
The removal counteracts the goals of the longitudinal study by “pretending that some aspects of adolescent brain development don’t exist,” says sex differences researcher Nicola Grissom.
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Dr Madeleine Pownall @maddipow.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
I love Registered Reports because it's no fun wrestling with reviewers about design decisions that we can do nothing about after data collection. But still, SO few journals in my research area accept them. So I just fired off a load of this email. Here if you want to do the same: osf.io/n6bx9
screenshot of an email to editors, that is available in full in the link in the post
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Marc Joanisse @drmarcj.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
My university has announced a special international graduate fellowship for PhD students whose acceptance at a US university has been rescinded. Check it out: grad.uwo.ca/finances/wes...
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US-CAN Doctoral Excellence Award
Western University, in vibrant London, Ontario, delivers an academic and student experience second to none.
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Healthier Futures at the University of Manchester @healthierfutures.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Centring joy, connection and dignity in anti-poverty activism. 🪧 📢 😁 @smhall.bsky.social is a champion for tackling the causes and consequences of poverty with and for communities and grassroots organisations. #healthierfuturesuom #fairerhealthforall #healthinequalities
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 29/06/2025
Teachers don't need more tech. They need smaller classes and more (paid) time for prep and instruction. But alas, the tech option means more profit for billionaires, while the latter would cost billionaires more in taxes. And so, in our current kleptocracy, tech is what teachers are going to get...
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Stephen Curry @scurry.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
This New Yorker piece on “What Did Elon Musk Accomplish at DOGE?” provides lots of material that the @royalsociety.org could add to their biography of their honoured fellow. What a shining light he is for truth, evidence and rigour. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Screenshot from linked article reads “Before DOGE, U.S.A.I.D. had played a leading role in collecting health data in poorer countries on child and maternal mortality, disease incidents, malnutrition, and access to clean water. Now the ability to gather that information-"the early-warning system for the next pandemic," as Natsios put it-was gone. A network of aid companies had established a global supply chain for medications, antiretrovirals, and vaccines. It's now unclear what will happen to the contracts for that system, which cost a few billion dollars a year, paid for by U.S.A.I.D. "There's no way of doing this stuff without big contractors, because they're worldwide contracts," Natsios said. "No N.G.O. can fill that gap."”Screenshot from linked article reads “That Sunday, Musk posted a chart suggesting that there were three hundred and ninety-eight million active Social Security numbers. "Yes, there are FAR more 'eligible' social security numbers than there are citizens in the USA," he wrote.
"This might be the biggest fraud in history."
S.S.A. officials were peeved. A week earlier, a few of them had patiently explained to Bobba that the chart contained not the number of people receiving Social Security benefits but, rather, the total number of people without death records.
When officials asked Bobba about Musk's post, he said, "I told him everything you told me. He just tweeted it anyway."”Screenshot from linked article reads “I asked the former S.S.A. official, who had worked closely with several DOGE coders, what he thought of their abilities. "In general, they were all pretty talented for their level of experience," he said. "If we'd taken them on as junior hires, they would probably have progressed pretty quickly in a hierarchical organization." But, by design, they existed outside the civil service, with little guidance on what to do and why. "They all seemed pretty desperate for Elon to say that they were doing good," the former official said. "There was a lot of 'What does E. want?' 'Did you see what E. said?' "The former official compared the situation to the science-fiction novel "Ender's Game," by Orson Scott Card, in which a team of children who are invited by the military to play an elaborate video game are unknowingly operating actual weapons of war.”
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Hannah R Snyder @hannahrsnyder.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Hi developmental psychopathology friends– I'm going to be taking over and completely revamping my departments old "disorders of childhood" course into a sleek, modern, developmental psychopathology course. Mixed grad/undergrad. Pretty please share syllabi, fav readings +assignments, etc? 🙏
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Ola Demkowicz @olademk.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
A qualitative research question! Often the methods I’ve used necessitate recording & verbatim transcripts We’re planning work with professionals in many roles to map systems in practice, & I wonder if field notes might suffice? Also looking in literature but I’m keen to hear people’s reflections!
A pad and paper next to a recording device
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Ola Demkowicz @olademk.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
This resurfaced some discussions I had with colleagues last year and I’d love to know people’s thoughts: as youth mental health researchers, how comfortable do people feel describing their work as public health, and why?
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Mental Health Research Incubator @mhrincubator.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Join us online (14 July, 1–2pm) for a special webinar exploring the power of mixed methods in #mentalhealth #research. Featuring insights from a newly published BMJ Mental Health paper by ECRs & a panel of expert voices across the research landscape!👇 mentalhealthresearch.org.uk/advancingmix...
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Ola Demkowicz @olademk.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
How can we advance mixed methods in mental health research? Join us 14 July, 1–2pm BST, for a webinar on the potential, challenges, and future of mixed methods We'll discuss our recent BMJ paper and hear from panellists ft researcher, editor, and charity perspectives Details and sign up below!
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Ola Demkowicz @olademk.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
How can we advance mixed methods in mental health research? Join us 14 July, 1–2pm BST, for a webinar on the potential, challenges, and future of mixed methods We'll discuss our recent BMJ paper and hear from panellists ft researcher, editor, and charity perspectives Details and sign up below!
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Ola Demkowicz @olademk.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
This resurfaced some discussions I had with colleagues last year and I’d love to know people’s thoughts: as youth mental health researchers, how comfortable do people feel describing their work as public health, and why?
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Ola Demkowicz @olademk.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
An energising trip this week to Cardiff to give a talk on declining youth mental health at @wolfsoncentre.bsky.social and spend time exploring public health lenses and opportunities with Rhiannon Evans at @deciphercentre.bsky.social Heading off to make copious notes and explore grant pathways!
A view out over Cardiff from the Decipher centre
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Behavioural Research UK (BR-UK) @behaviourresuk.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
❗ CLOSING THIS WEEK – Reminder that applications for this Research Associate position based at Cardiff University closes this Thursday. Click below for further information!
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Ola Demkowicz @olademk.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
In Cardiff for a couple of days this week to give a talk and spend some time with collaborators. Was pleasantly surprised by the view from my hotel!
Cardiff Castle visible right outside my hotel window!
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The Children's Society @childrenssociety.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Students across the UK are heads down this exam season. Whether it’s GCSEs or A-Levels, young people are feeling the pressure more than ever. It’s vital to prioritise young people’s wellbeing amidst the academic stress. Learn how adults can help: www.childrenssociety.org.uk/what-we-do/b...
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A parent's guide to exams | The Children's Society
Exam season is a difficult time for young people. How can parents take the pressure off and help their children through their GCSEs and A-Levels?
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Ola Demkowicz @olademk.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
I’m genuinely astounded by this research and the coverage of it. The sheer dismissal of how complex the manosphere is, and the slow shifting of norms and values it works through, is incredible. Attempts to defang networks of male supremacy is exactly how we enable them.
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Veronika Koller @veronikakoller.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
When your team's work - based on six years of research - gets cited but the core message is ignored, because 38 men say it's no big deal 😡 @mantrap.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Society may have overestimated risk of the ‘manosphere’, UK researchers say
Many who engage are ‘discriminating and value-driven’, with a minority consuming ‘extremely misogynistic content’, study for Ofcom suggests
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Ruth Plackett @rplackett.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
🧠 Excited for our upcoming webinar 🔍 Exploring the power of mixed methods in #MentalHealth #Research 📅 14 July | 🕐 1–2pm 📄 Featuring insights from an expert panel! 🔗 Don’t miss it! tinyurl.com/28t89jmm @nihrspcr.bsky.social @nihrspcr.bsky.social @ucl-primarycare.bsky.social
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Register to attend the webinar – Advancing Mixed Methods in Mental Health Research – Mental Health Research
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Mike Morrison @mikemorrison.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
I wondered what WORKED about this in their smaller trail that they felt confident scaling it up. Apparently, support. 46% of authors were up for publishing reviews (with lots of per-field variation). That's...pretty good? #SciPub www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Nature is trialling transparent peer review — the early results are encouraging
Last year, nearly half of Nature authors agreed to publish anonymous referee reports. We hope that more will consider doing so this year.
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Susannah Walker @susannahwalker.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
This comes from engagement work with teenage girls in a park in York. And you see all those things with two dots by them. Those make up 90%+ of what we currently provide for young people in public space. Whereas the things that girls want - they just aren't there. Let's do better.
A list of park facilities with dots by them, representing what teenage girls would want to see more of in parks.  Popular are swings, hammocks and balancing beams and climbing logs; unpopular are skate parks, basketball courts, BMX tracks, MUGAs.
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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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Omid V. Ebrahimi @omidvebrahimi.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
How does where we live – urban, rural, or in-between – relate to our mental health? 🌆🏞️ In this cross-national study, we investigate the links between urbanicity, anxiety and depressive disorders in 500,000 adults across the UK, Norway, and New Zealand 🧵 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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