Faith Martin

From Cultural Plan to cultural practice: why the Citizens for Culture handover matters Yesterday at Watershed, I had the privilege of witnessing a milestone for culture and democracy in the West of England: the formal handover of the Citizens for Culture Cultural Plan to the region’s…

Citizens for Culture Cultural Plan handed over to WECA at Watershed yesterday. The value will only land if recommendations translate into visible decisions and delivery with accountability baked into existing governance.

My reflections here: delegatesandtrustees.wordpress.com/2026/01/16/f...

Over 80% of adolescents who die by suicide live in LMICs, like Rwanda.

Intergenerational trauma, conflict & other complex challenges contribute to high rates of youth self-harm in the country. A new study led by Dr Faith Martin reveals more: https://bit.ly/3Nbhf2O

@psy-fm.bsky.social #MedSky

Don't miss the latest Research Webinar from the International Association for Suicide Prevention and the International Academy of Suicide Research, chaired by Prof Chan Lai Fong.

📅 22 Jan 2026

🗣️ Featuring:
Dr Atsuro Tsutsumi
Dr Muhammad Hanif Bin Abd Latif
Dr Ravivarma Rao

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Re: running groups for people living with long term conditions. Most groups are *group education* (‘expert’ leads group) and full of content. In contrast *group activation* relies on facilitation and learning from each other with little formal content. See Irvine Yalom’s common factors.

If anyone missed the launch event last week for our guidance on more inclusive workplaces for academics with ELC, the recording is now available on our website (along with the guidance) exhaustioneconomy.uk/guidance/ @alisonallam.bsky.social @catherinehale.bsky.social @equihealthfutures.bsky.social

Absolutely! It’s been incredible working on projects with different parents over the years, hearing again and again that shame, blame - and how services/systems sometimes deepen that.

Very keen to connect with others - reposts, signposts, info etc all gratefully received!

It strikes me that a framework for parent support is needed, that pulls out commonalities for parents across the different children’s needs, whilst seeking to acknowledge the differences and important features of different circumstances. Not sure how to take this forward and keen to gain input

Thanks Charlie! I’ve been involved in various projects over the years for “interventions” for parents of kids with various needs, and noticed that pattern of isolation, huge co-ordination demands, numerous practical challenges, then also those internal psych processes of self-blame, worry etc.

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Some great information coming up on how to get involved in youth mental health research along with lots of interesting news of research success stories - don't miss out, your voice matters!

Hello people researching and/or supporting #parents of children with mental or physical health problems, neurodiversity, learning challenges etc, we are thinking about the similarities in needs for parental wellbeing re having a child with different challenges. Join our network! tinyurl.com/bdm6zv9j

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Why does improving parental wellbeing matter, for parents of children with additional needs eg mental health problems, acute & chronic health difficulties, & challenges re neurodivergence?

Are we doing enough to support parents?

What good practice and needs?

#parents #parenting #mentalhealth

We are a long way indeed from systematically collecting and acting on the voices of patients. Abolishing Healthwatch and handing responsibility for its work to ICBs (which are themselves undergoing massive reorganisation) is in my own view a very bad move indeed by DHSC.

Culturally and structurally embedded pathways to youth self-harm in Rwanda: perspectives from young people, parents, and healthcare providers - BMC Psychology Background Self-harm (with and without fatal intent) among young people in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) remain under-researched despite disproportionately high rates. Little is known about...

Youth self-harm in Rwanda isn’t just an individual struggle, it’s shaped by culture, family dynamics, poverty & community responses.

We need structural, culturally-grounded prevention and support.

Read more bmcpsychology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

@psychologybath.bsky.social

Culturally and structurally embedded pathways to youth self-harm in Rwanda: perspectives from young people, parents, and healthcare providers - BMC Psychology Background Self-harm (with and without fatal intent) among young people in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) remain under-researched despite disproportionately high rates. Little is known about...

Youth self-harm in Rwanda isn’t just an individual struggle, it’s shaped by culture, family dynamics, poverty & community responses.

We need structural, culturally-grounded prevention and support.

Read more bmcpsychology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

@psychologybath.bsky.social

Thank you for coming to my TED Talk 🎤

If you’ve read this far and still need convincing, please check out our preprint arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820 and this infographic: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
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We’re asking research funders & universities to step up because together, they have the leverage - and frankly, the responsibility - to stop the drain and redirect billions currently flowing to commercial publishers 💸 back into community-owned systems that serve science, not profit.
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Can you imagine what else we could do with that money?
Fund researchers, students, labs, infrastructure… which all sounds better to me than enriching a publishing oligopoly. 3/n

Why? 🤑
In just the last 5 years, 4 publishers made $US 41 billion in revenue and $14.7B in profit - money that largely comes from taxpayer-funded research budgets.

For context: the entire 2024 NSF budget was $9B USD.
@elsevierconnect.bsky.social made $3.9B that year at a 38% profit margin. 2/n

Our paper on improving statistical reporting in psychology is now online 🎉

As a part of this paper, we also created the Transparent Statistical Reporting in Psychology checklist, which researchers can use to improve their statistical reporting practices

www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Really good! 👏🏻🤣

The research on which this guidance is based was funded by @isrfoundation.bsky.social guided by an advisory board with members from @ucu.org.uk @nadsn.bsky.social @longcovidsupport.bsky.social & chronic illness inclusion. Collaborative with @equihealthfutures.bsky.social & @alisonallam.bsky.social

Long COVID and Society This is the first book to bring together academics and activists living with Long COVID to explore the social impacts of the new complex chronic condition.

Now published! My edited book ‘Long COVID and Society’ - my introduction is free to read for everyone. Download from the link below and check out the others chapters too (Chapter 14, about LC children and families, is also open access)

link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

📢📢 We are recruiting a postdoctoral researcher with strong qual and quant skills for an exciting new project to increase access to a digital intervention for child anxiety problems in Thailand, the Philippines, Chile, Pakistan and Japan! Closes 14 Nov. my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

🎤 Proposals for our Centre for Qualitative Research, University of Bath Qualitative Research Symposium at University of Bath School of Management are open until November 7th!
Find out more and submit your talk, symposium and workshop abstracts here:
www.bath.ac.uk/events/quali...
#qualitative

This is not a research project itself, rather an attempt to make connections with other researchers or practitioners, to start talking ideas. We are looking for funding to do discussions directly with parents - so look out for future news!

Are you interested in meeting to discuss research, to plan potential research funding applications, sharing ideas? Join our new network focused on how to support parents, primarily with their own wellbeing re impact of their child’s additional needs. See first message for the link…

Is there a way we can develop a framework for services to improve how they think about the parents' wellbeing, within services for the child and family? Perhaps there are ones with parents of children with some needs, but not others. Or, have we missed it, and it already exists?

Hello people researching and/or supporting #parents of children with mental or physical health problems, neurodiversity, learning challenges etc, we are thinking about the similarities in needs for parental wellbeing re having a child with different challenges. Join our network! tinyurl.com/bdm6zv9j

DLD is a lifelong condition and it does make lots of things more challenging. BUT once a person's needs are identified and they are supported they can thrive.
This is why we need far more awareness of Developmental Language Disorder (DLD)! www.naplic.org.uk/developmenta...
#DevLangDis #DLDday

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