Dr Emily Emmott

It's so traumatising! Sorry if you've had to go through it too!

And you tell your GP and midwife how awful it is, but they just don't... get it.

They tell you to "go to A&E if you can't keep liquid down."

But this advice is totally pointless when you are constantly drinking and constantly vomiting. Should you go to A&E... all the time???

Severe pregnancy sickness leads to abortions in women, mum says Sarah Spooner's husband once called an ambulance as she could not get off the floor due to the pain.

People often underestimate how awful pregnancy sickness is.

They think it's just vomiting.

It's not. It feels like your body is decomposing. You're in so much pain. You can't move. As this women says - it feels like you're going to die.

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Research: Is teenage angst universal? Comparing England and Japan We are happy to announce that our research based on the "In My Life" photography project in England and Japan has just been published in the Journal of Adolescent Research.Below, lead author Dr Emily ...

And here is a short blog about the paper, written for teens (but anyone can read it!): www.adolescentsociality.com/post/researc...

Adolescence as a Key Period of Identity Development and Connectedness: A Comparative Autophotography Study in England and Japan - Emily H. Emmott, Yasuo Ihara, Yudai Tokumasu, Mari Nozaki, Atsuko Sait... Adolescence is identified as a key period for identity development, but anthropological literature hints at cross-cultural variations. Past research suggests Ja...

New paper!

What do teens in England and Japan view as important, and what does that tell us about adolescence?

Straddling anthropology and psychology, a massive piece of work that took 8 years from conception to publication. And one of my favourite projects 🙂

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What a lovely memento!

Jane Lancaster, my doctoral adviser, was a giant in our field. She taught me one can be assertive and kind at the same time.
Her legacy of both research and mentorship spans across the globe.
Dr. Jane Lancaster, Pioneer in Human Evolutionary Sciences (1935-2025) share.google/TdRdZD6eD5nR...

Aid Groups Blame Israel’s Gaza Restrictions for ‘Mass Starvation’

The distance between what is in happening Gaza, fully backed with US dollars and political support, and the reaction of American politicians who by and large just don’t seem to care or support it is just completely brain-breaking.

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To Raise Children, We Must First Raise Parents An anthropologist compares her early motherhood in London with child care experiences in a hunter-gatherer community of Central Africa.

“Parenting is never perfect. Cultures raise children differently, shaping adults valued by their own standards. But one truth emerges: Learning to care for others should start long before having a baby”

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Thanks, I will flag this to the student/PI!

Have 15 mins spare? One of our MSc students from UCL Anthropology is investigating global attitudes to breastfeeding. Anyone can take part, from anywhere in the world!

Available in various languages (select on top-right dropdown box)

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AI summaries kill search traffic. This has been an obvious consequence of Google's AI summary strategy since its inception.

Apparently the training data is so valuable that Google is willing to risk the neck of the goose that lays golden eggs.

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Nonuniversality of inflammaging across human populations - Nature Aging Analyzing readouts of inflammaging across four cohorts, Franck and colleagues identify strong variation and observe that inflammaging, in its known form, primarily emerges in industrialized—but not no...

A comparison of 2 industrialised populations (Italy, Singapore) with 2 indigenous populations (Tsimane, Bolivia & Orang Asli, Malaysia) suggests inflammaging - age-associated increase in chronic inflammation, considered a hallmark of aging - is a byproduct of industrialisation, not a human universal

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Laws are clumsy, but healthcare is complex - and they don't fit well together. A "one size fits all" approach doesn't work for healthcare, and prescriptive legislation will always lead to someone suffering unnecessarily. Today it's someone else's shocking story, but it could easily be yours or mine.

Police could search homes and phones after pregnancy loss | The Observer New national guidance suggests officers look for menstrual tracking apps or abortion drugs

Access to safe abortions is an important part of reproductive healthcare. The current law *criminalises* abortions over 24 weeks, meaning some women who miscarry later undergo police investigations, adding to their distress and trauma (you can read about that here: observer.co.uk/news/nationa... )

UK Peeps: Please consider writing to your MP, asking them to support Amendment NC17 to the Crime and Policing Bill to decriminalise abortions. This *does not* mean that people will now get access to "illegal abortions"; it simply means that abortions will no longer be treated as a criminal matter. 👇

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"...when it comes to all-class [mental health] lessons, we should listen to the evidence, and to young people themselves. We came up with a good idea, we spent a lot of time and money testing it, and we have our answer. Given the evidence, we should now stop doing those lessons."

Mental-health lessons in schools sound like a great idea. The trouble is, they don’t work | Lucy Foulkes All-class therapy sessions don’t help, and may even make matters worse. The evidence shows we need different solutions, says Dr Lucy Foulkes, an academic psychologist at Oxford University

I’m in the Guardian today, arguing that we should stop them all-class mental health lessons in schools

I've thought very carefully about ‘going public’ with this, because it's a sensitive argument to make, especially in the face of so many young people struggling.

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A reminder that there is a Home fee bursery for UCL Masters degree programmes!

Join us at UCL Anthropology!

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Could you remind me how long the seminars are?

ACE Outreach Awards CES will give out two awards of up to $2500 each to support activities that translate cultural evolution research for a non-academic audience or for students outside of the field of cultural evolution...

The 2025 Cultural Evolution Society awards are now open for applications!
-Outreach Award (2 awards, up to $2,500 each) forms.gle/Eq6BhtnptQLQ...
-ECR Grant (2 awards, up to $3,000 each) forms.gle/69DpptguwRqN...
-Building Research Capacity Award (1 award, up to $6,000) forms.gle/ZLGEW612GbZ4...

And just want to congratulate my co-author and MRes Anthropology graduate Imogen who got news of PhD funding today! Well done for all your hard work and persistence Imogen ❤️

New paper alert - Performance of Femininity as the Potential Determinant of Lower Well-Being Among Adolescent Girls in London, UK: An Exploratory Discourse Analysis - is there a sociological mechanism which is creating the gender gap in mental health outcomes at adolescence in the UK?

Quite the timing given current discussions around misogyny in schools. An example of pressures girls faced:

...we always hear from other people that like the boy group sat near us have heard [our discussion] and now they’re angry with us because they think our ideas are like not right or something.

Well done to my fantastic ex-student Imogen Hensler for her paper based on her MRes Anthropology research!

Performance of Femininity as the Potential Determinant of Lower Well-Being Among Adolescent Girls in London, UK: An Exploratory Discourse Analysis: doi.org/10.1177/1049...

🤩📣 New paper on participant-led methodological development for collecting high-resolution data on the post-natal period 👩‍🍼

with @drsarahmyers.bsky.social @ehemmott.bsky.social @rebeccasear.bsky.social and the Best Beginnings Team ❤️

funded by @britishacademy.bsky.social

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