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Sarah Bakirci

@sarahbakirci.bsky.social
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PhD candidate in Mental Health Science at UCL funded by the Wellcome Trust | alum Yale & McGill University | Interested in timing effects in mental health |

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Sarah Bakirci @sarahbakirci.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
It is with great pride that I share my first PhD paper, now published in European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry! 🎉 This study examined whether the relationship between the timing of bullying during childhood and adolescence and later depressive symptoms in late adolescence and emerging adulthood.
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Sarah Bakirci @sarahbakirci.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Feeling incredibly honoured to have received the #PLOSMentalHealth Early Career Researcher award for my presentations at the 7th Global Mental Health Summit in Cape Town. It’s been an absolute pleasure attending the conference! #GMHS2025
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Sarah Bakirci @sarahbakirci.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Looking forward to our session tomorrow!
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Sarah Bakirci @sarahbakirci.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Looking forward to running a session alongside @tommetherell.com @zefreeman.com on the challenges of public engagement in a post-truth society during #SIPS2025 in Budapest! Hope to see you there for an open and informative discussion!
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Sarah Bakirci @sarahbakirci.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Grading student assessments will be the death of me.. How does anyone get anything else done during this season.
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Tom Metherell @tommetherell.com · 04/03/2025
Time to reflect on our retreat! In January the students of the UCL-Wellcome PhD programme in Mental Health Science were lucky to be able to get together again to share wisdom, relax and reconnect with each other. We wrote about our experience on our blog: www.mentalhealthscience.org/blogs/ucl-we...
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UCL-Wellcome Mental Health Science PhD Retreat 2025 — Mental Health Science
The students on the programme share their experience on our 3rd annual retreat!
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Sarah Bakirci @sarahbakirci.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
I sometimes feel overwhelmed with steep learning curves. Because of the pressure I put on myself, I can end up procrastinating forever. When I finally muster the mental energy to begin, I either realize that 1) it wasn’t that bad or that 2) the work is going to take much longer than expected.
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Sarah Bakirci @sarahbakirci.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Passed my PhD upgrade viva today! Two more years to go.
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Tom Metherell @tommetherell.com · 11/11/2024
How do you solve a problem like measuring social media? To celebrate the launch of my new website (❗), I wrote a piece about how my PhD research is going and why I'm doing it. www.tommetherell.com/blog/measuri...
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How do you solve a problem like measuring social media?
At the halfway point of my PhD, I take a moment to reflect on what it is I’m trying to do and where my project sits in the social media & mental health research space.
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Sarah Bakirci @sarahbakirci.bsky.social · 24/10/2024
Was great attending the MQ and DATAMIND workshop on using NLPs in mental health followed by a data science meeting discussing the strengths and challenges of data linkage. Thanks @tom-metherell.bsky.social for capturing my first poster of my PhD.
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