Don’t look bark in anger.

[Indiana Jones voice]: Snakes… why does it always have to be snakes? 🐍

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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Competition time! Hidden in this photo are some subtle, subliminal clues regarding where I am going today. First person to guess correctly wins a prize 🏆

Haters will say this is fake

One is going to Parklife day 2. The other is going to watch Storage Hunters all afternoon under a blanket. Both rock n roll, just in different ways

Almost exactly 30 years after watching REM at what was then the McAlpine stadium, very excited to be back to watch Blossoms and Stereophonics. I haven’t aged a day 🤪

Frontiers | Universal, school-based, interventions to improve emotional outcomes in children and young people: a systematic review and meta-analysis IntroductionThere is debate into the impact of universal, school-based interventions to improve emotional outcomes. Previous reviews have only focused on anx...

🚨 Paper alert 🚨 There’s a lot of debate at the moment around universal, interventions in schools. A thread 🧵

Our new meta-analysis, published today, shows they can work in reducing symptoms of depression and anxiety.

www.frontiersin.org/journals/chi...

Findings discussed more below…

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Massive congratulations to @devikhanna.bsky.social who smashed her viva today and is now our first official @beewelluk.bsky.social PhD!!!

It’s not every day you get to meet a sporting legend but last night that dream came true for Arne Slot

We are really pleased to be taking an in-depth look at School Belonging this evening with teachers and professionals from our #BeeWell regions and across the country.

@neilhumphrey.bsky.social currently sharing key research findings. Looking forward to practical tips and hosting discussions too!

Bought this window feeder for birds but this greedy shithouse isn’t giving them a look in. The kids have named him Squeaky and this is his third visit today

“We’re seeing in our Greater Manchester data, young people’s sense of hope and optimism for the future is just now, over the past two years recovered to pre-pandemic levels. “But there’s still many young people experiencing different challenges in their lives.”

@neilhumphrey.bsky.social speaks about the richness of @beewelluk.bsky.social data in Greater Manchester, and how it can inform interventions based on the causes of low wellbeing.

“Say hello to my little friend!” All conferences need a conference dog 🤩 #camh25

We are excited to share with you the findings from the BeeProud project; a collaborative study conducted by academic researchers at UoM and young researchers at @theproudtrust.bsky.social.

Building on #BeeWell survey findings, BeeProud explored the experiences of LGBTQIA+ young people.

✅ Creepy Westworld design
✅ Doing some kind of weird Irish jig
✅ Hanging from a big hook like it ran into Leatherface from TCM

…. absolute NOPE. Enough technological advancement already. This is nightmare fuel.

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Eldest daughter passed her driving test this week. Insurance quotes have been… interesting 😳

Education for Wellbeing Education for Wellbeing, led in partnership by mental health charity Anna Freud and UCL, tested five interventions and involved more than 30,000 primary and secondary school students. Education for Wellbeing was a large-scale research programme, funded by the Department for Education, involving two randomised control trials. Through Education for Wellbeing, we evaluated a range of mental health and wellbeing interventions being delivered in primary and secondary schools. Our aim was to examine the impact of these approaches on children and young people’s mental health. The programme ran between 2018 and 2024. Across England, 32,655 pupils across 513 schools participated in Education for Wellbeing. The Anna Freud Schools Division delivered the interventions within the programme and the Evidence-Based Practice Unit evaluated the approaches, examining their impact on pupils’ mental health and wellbeing. 

After collaborating with @jess-deighton.bsky.social @neilhumphrey.bsky.social @pravpatalay.bsky.social and many others since early 2017, the results of the "Education for Wellbeing" programme are out.

Top-level summary here
www.annafreud.org/research/cur...

#RCT #CACE #AnnaFreud #HealthEconomics

YouTube video by Teachers Talk Radio Education Tonight - LIVE

This #WorldRadioDay why not listen back to our Academic Lead @neilhumphrey.bsky.social's guest appearance on @ttradioofficial.bsky.social?

He covered mental health, data, school culture, optimism and more.

Watch and listen back to the show here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sw_j...

Landmark study reveals promising mental health interventions for schools An intervention that helps students normalise their everyday emotions is the ‘most promising’ of several approaches for supporting mental health, according to results from one of the world’s largest s...

NEW: UoM researchers have played a key role in a groundbreaking mental health trial, aimed at improving mental health awareness and wellbeing in schools 🧠

@beewelluk.bsky.social @neilhumphrey.bsky.social

Read more about this landmark study ⬇️

www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/p...

Led by @josemarquez.bsky.social @margaritap.bsky.social @qiqicheng.bsky.social and @reihaneh-farzinnia.bsky.social

Longitudinal relationships across sleep, physical activity, and mental wellbeing in early-to-mid-adolescence: a developmental cascades investigation - Quality of Life Research Purpose Sleep (SL), physical activity (PA), and wellbeing (WB) are three factors linked to positive development in adolescence. Despite theoretical support and some empirical evidence of developmental...

New #beewell open access registered report on the longitudinal links between sleep, physical activity and wellbeing in adolescence: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Longitudinal Relationships Across Bullying Victimization, Friendship and Social Support, and Internalizing Symptoms in Early-to-Middle Adolescence: A Developmental Cascades Investigation - Journal of ... Current understanding of the longitudinal relationships between different aspects of peer relationships and mental health problems in early- to mid-adolescence is limited. In particular, the role play...

First paper of 2025 🥳
Open access so fill yer boots

[HUMS Bicentenary PhD] Understanding ethnic inequalities in mental health and wellbeing among young people in the UK at The University of Manchester on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - [HUMS Bicentenary PhD] Understanding ethnic inequalities in mental health and wellbeing among young people in the UK at The University of Manchester, listed on FindAPhD.com

📢FUNDED PHD:

Ethnic inequalities in adolescent mental health & wellbeing. Apply by 24/1/25

If this sounds like you -pls apply. If it sounds like someone you know -pls share! 🙏
@identitiesjournal.bsky.social @stuarthallfdn.bsky.social @neilhumphrey.bsky.social
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Whole survey was co designed with young people so we know it covers topics that are important to them, which helps with engagement. Lots of hard work signing schools up and encouraging them to complete. And we provide feedback through interactive dashboards so the schools can act on the data 👍

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Waited to post until I had something BIG to say… delighted to report that over 55,000 young people from 220+ schools completed the #beewell survey this year 😎🥳