Rachel Wilcock

Spring symbolises growth and new beginnings, and so does parenthood 🌸

Leisure-time physical activity and transitions into and through parenthood by @dremilylovett1.bsky.social & @profandysmith.bsky.social explores leisure and family life.

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The Silent Experts: Why We Should Listen to Children | Dr Céline Benoit | Assistant Professor at University of Nottingham | Season 8 Episode 3 | #125 Re-Educated · Episode

A topic close to my heart

“Why we should listen to children” - the silenced experts

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Teachers’ experiences of school-based mental health literacy programmes: a qualitative study of tackling the blues Concern about school pupils' mental health has increased globally. Mental health programmes in state schools, including those provided by external partners, have also expanded. However, little rese...

New paper 🤩📣 What are teachers' views and experiences of externally provided mental health literacy programmes? We explored this through the Tackling the Blues programme.

You can read it here in Educational Review, open access! #mentalhealthliteracy

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Advancing mixed methods in mental health research In the mental health research field, there is a need for effective and robust methodological approaches that are able to address complexity. In this article, we reassert the importance of mixed method...

NEW PAPER: How do we advance mixed methods in mental health research?

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Mixed methods are widely recognised as valuable in mental health research, but aren’t as embedded as we’d hope and there are a lot of challenges that individual researchers and teams must navigate… 1/

Researchers’ mental health in emotionally demanding research warrants immediate attention: new paper outlines best practices Introduction As the spotlight on researchers' mental health grows, especially for those immersed in emotionally demanding research (EDR), the need for robust support strategies becomes more evident.  ...

Really happy to see this paper published today! We identified best practices to promote researchers' mental health in emotionally demanding research. Thank you to all involved in this project, especially the participants for their invaluable expertise!
🔗 Read the paper here: doi.org/10.1080/1748...

Department for Education. Effectiveness of school mental health awareness interventions Universal approaches in English secondary schools February 2025

Important new evidence published today: large-scale DofE trial (N=12,166) found that two universal MH awareness interventions, in secondary schools, led to an *increase* in emotional symptoms at long term (9-12 month) follow up

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We too advocate for coproduced mental health programmes in schools, with all stakeholders (including children and young people) represented in this process.

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4) Strengthened programme acceptability by fostering more pupil-to-pupil conversations which were perceived to positively contribute to stigma reduction and help-seeking efficacy.

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3) External partners' complementary expertise helped build capacity for delivering MHL work flexibly in schools, strengthened teachers' confidence, and expanded their understanding of pupils' diverse mental health needs.

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2) The collaborative approach helped align TtB to the values, ethos, and strategic priorities of the school, including existing whole-school approaches to mental health within and beyond the curriculum.

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Our key findings were:
1) TtB provided schools and teachers the opportunity to work with external organisations committed to working with, rather than on or for, them over the school year.

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Teachers’ experiences of school-based mental health literacy programmes: a qualitative study of tackling the blues Concern about school pupils' mental health has increased globally. Mental health programmes in state schools, including those provided by external partners, have also expanded. However, little rese...

New paper 🤩📣 What are teachers' views and experiences of externally provided mental health literacy programmes? We explored this through the Tackling the Blues programme.

You can read it here in Educational Review, open access! #mentalhealthliteracy

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Designing community sports-based programmes for men with mental illness: A qualitative study of the Offload rugby league programme Despite the increasing appeal of community sport programmes which focus on men's mental health, the key design characteristics of these programmes, an…

So I'm spending lots of my time writing this project up! I will have the first paper from that project to share v. soon! In the meantime, here is my paper from the evaluation of a men's mental health programme I conducted with the great team I work with 👇: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Tackling the Blues | 11 | v2 | A sport and arts-based mental health pr This chapter discusses the initial design and development of an on-going sport and education-based mental health programme – Tackling the Blues (TtB) – which

I've spent the last 2.5 years researching a school-based mental health literacy programme. Some info about the programme is here 👇
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I've joined over here 👋. My research focuses on mental health education and literacy in schools and communities!