Maria Kolitsida

YouTube video by University of Birmingham Creating Safe Spaces: World Suicide Prevention Day | University of Birmingham

The self-harm and suicide prevention research group at the @imh-uob.bsky.social aim to understand and tackle the risks of self-harm and suicide across different contexts.

Watch this video where
@willemjstander.bsky.social, @mkolitsida.bsky.social and I discuss our work.

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An image depicting paper ripped across the middle to reveal the words 'Presenations coming soon, stay tuned'. At the top of the image is The SPRINT Project logo, with information about the conference at the bottom of the image: 1st International Congress on Safe Sport Research, Quebec City, Canada, June 18-20, 2025. #ICSSR2025

Looking forward to sharing the next chapter of our #safedanceresearch on 'Safeguarding and abuse prevention policies of UK Dance Organisations' at #ICSSR2025

with Erin Sanchez, @georgiabird.bsky.social , @mkolitsida.bsky.social , @gracetidmarsh.bsky.social , @maryquinton.bsky.social

Looking forward to sharing the results of our scoping review on on 'Abuse and Harm in Dance at #ICSSR2025

with Erin Sanchez, @mkolitsida.bsky.social , @gracetidmarsh.bsky.social , @maryquinton.bsky.social
@jenncumming.bsky.social

On 26th Feb, our team were recognised for their public engagement work! 🎉

Congratulations to @mkolitsida.bsky.social, @maryquinton.bsky.social, @gracetidmarsh.bsky.social, & @jenncumming.bsky.social for nominations and recognitions.

👉 Find out more www.sprintproject.org/post/success...

This would of course not have been possible without our collaborators at One Dance UK and NIDMS helping us proactively involve people in dance in designing this research and sharing our findings with them. An applied project driven from those in dance for those in dance form begging to end. 🩰

This is a wonderful recognition of the ESRC funded work @jenncumming.bsky.social, Dr Anna Lavis, Erin Sanchez and I have done to research, create and share resources to support those at risk of self-harm in dance education.

This morning I attended the @unibirmingham.bsky.social Public Engagement Awards and found out I have been highly commended for the Alice Roberts PGR Excellence in Public Engagement Award for the public engagement activities surrounding my PhD project.

🩰 Thank you to the Royal Academy of Dance for hosting this event allowing us to share my PhD research on self-harm in dance with 173 dance educators! 🩰
@jenncumming.bsky.social
Click the link to find out more 👇🏻

‼️New paper out‼️

It has been an honor to join Dr Glykeria Skamagki, @dptblackburn.bsky.social, Dr Daniel Biggs, Dr Cameron Black and Dr Sivaramkumar Shanmugam in conducting this vital piece of research on #burnout in #physiotherapists.

@unibirmingham.bsky.social

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The BMJ will remunerate patient and public reviewers The BMJ will offer £50 for reviews by patients and the public From January 2025 patients and members of the public who complete a review for The BMJ will be offered £50 or a 12 month online subscript...

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#PatientEngagement

Last day of work, doing some marking and the cat walked over with purpose, sat on my marking scheme and refused to move for an hour until she fell asleep on said marking scheme.

This can only mean it is time to close everything down for the year?!

Have a good festive break everyone!🎄

It was an absolute pleasure to be involved in this work. Thank you for having me on board!

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Alongside all the staff & young people at St Basils, it has also been great to work alongside Prof. @jenncumming.bsky.social, Dr @maryquinton.bsky.social, @mkolitsida.bsky.social & Prof. Jessica Pykett. Thank you to the ESRC & Cooke and Wolstenholme Charitable Trust for their support & funding.

A real privilege to present the overview of a 3-year evaluation of St Basils Transition Hub service to Birmingham City Council today alongside @georgiabird.bsky.social

#youthhomelessness #servicedelivery #serviceevaluation #strengthsbased #implementation

Image of first page of journal article, including journal name (Youth), publisher name (MDPI), title of article (Mental Skills Training for Youth Experiencing Multiple Disadvantage), names of authors (Jennifer Cumming, Mary L. Quinton, Grace Tidmarsh, and Sally Reynard), author affilitiona, article asbtarct, and key words.

📢 NEW PAPER & BLOG POST ALERT ⤵️

We're excited to share the latest insights from the SPRINT project, highlighting strengths-based mental skills training interventions for disadvantaged youth.

www.mdpi.com/2673-995X/4/...

@maryquinton.bsky.social
@gracetidmarsh.bsky.social
Dr Sally Reynard

I have created a starter pack to follow people researching, practicing, or sharing dance psychology. Please let me know if you would like to be added. go.bsky.app/2GJUn6v

How social comparison impacts dancers A new study by Rasheed and Runswick (2024) published in the Journal of Dance Education explores a topic very familiar to those of us who have spent time training and performing in dance: social comp...

🩰 Just wrote about a recent study on how social comparison affects dancers, shedding light on the psychological challenges of performing in a competitive world.

Check it out: amelianewton.co.uk/blog/how-soc...

Would love to hear your thoughts!

Thank you Gill! I appreciate this coming from you and your wealth of psych knowledge and wisdom 🤍

As part of this we are currently evaluating the feasibility and acceptability of an educational workshop on self-harm for those in dance education. We are looking to conclude this work at end of December and with limited spaces left please get in touch if you are interested.

Having the support of the public engagement team has meant that we are able to disseminate this information to a broader scale of shareholders, ensuring our work reaches those it is intended for.

It’s been great to connect with and learn from others who take a similar approach to their research.

Beautiful day spent at The Exchange for the Public and Cultural Engagement Day hosted by the Public Engagement Team at the University of Birmingham ☀️

A big part of my PhD involves sharing our research findings with those in dance to help support them with self-harm concerns in dance students.

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Work within a multidisciplinary team led by Care Policy and Evaluation Centre at LSE with Action on Postpartum Psychosis on realist evaluation of a third-sector peer support model for women with severe mental illness during the perinatal period

My weather app showed an expected stop for around 10 am when I check at 6:30 this morning. That clearly did not happen and it now says noon if that helps? Hope all goes well.

Thanks for making this!

Starter pack for Mental Health and Physical Activity Research - please take a look, share or ask to join!

go.bsky.app/tSiurc

I have created a sport and exercise psychology starter pack to help as more of us from this field move over from other platforms. Let me know if you'd like to be added to the starter pack 🧠 go.bsky.app/Su4tmmW

#SportPsychology #ExercisePsychology #SportandExercise #AcademicSky

Could I be added the please?

Brilliant idea!!

It has been excellent to get some protected writing time after presenting this work at the International Association of Dance Medicine and Science Annual Conference in Rimini, Italy a couple of week ago 🩰