MatCHNet policy webinars (2025)
Webinar 17: The impact of Sure Start Northern Ireland on
health and social care (Meng Le Zhang, Cardiff University)
Webinar 18: Understanding associations between children’s housing
and health using quantitative data (Amy Clair, University of Adelaide)
Webinar 19: Evaluation of the UK Healthy Start Scheme
(Christina Vogel, City St George’s, University of London)
Missed any of our 2025 policy webinars on #childhealth? Our bitesize 15 min recordings are online - catch up now! matchnet.sphsu.gla.ac.uk/events/
#earlyyears #SureStartNI #housing #HealthyStart
@amy-clair.bsky.social
07.07.2025 13:30 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Thanks Meng Le Zhang @Cardiff University for a great webinar on Sure Start Northern Ireland. Interesting results on reduced social service intervention and esp for younger mothers. Look forward to hearing more in the autumn.
Thanks also to Emma Hitchen @Parenting Focus NI for chairing!
10.06.2025 14:47 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Final reminder about next week's #earlyyears webinar on Sure Start Norther Ireland 👇
Tuesday 10 June, 12.30pm
All welcome!
Please register: uofglasgow.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
04.06.2025 11:05 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A new report from the Collaboration for Health Equity in Scotland (CHES) highlights the gradient in inequality across health outcomes in Scotland, including some interesting local-level analysis.
www.instituteofhealthequity.org/resources-re...
09.05.2025 10:55 — 👍 1 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
MatCHNet webinar: Evaluation of the UK Healthy Start Scheme
Tuesday 24 June
12.30-1pm (BST)
The Maternal and Child Health Network warmly invite you to join our lunchtime webinar series, which will showcase existing evaluations of policy in the early years.
Christina Vogel of City St George’s, University of London will draw upon primary research data to i) evaluate how using the Healthy Start subsidy influences food purchasing, diet and broader child outcomes; ii) identify factors driving Healthy Start use; and iii) co-create strategies to optimise the scheme’s impact.
Interested in #earlyyears policy evaluation?
Come along to hear @christinaavogel.bsky.social present primary data to evaluate the UK Healthy Start Scheme.
📅24 June, 12.30pm
✍️Register now: uofglasgow.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
09.05.2025 13:22 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
MatCHNet webinar: Understanding associations between children’s housing and health using quantitative data
Tuesday 17 June
12.30-1pm (BST)
The Maternal and Child Health Network warmly invite you to join our lunchtime webinar series, which will showcase existing evaluations of policy in the early years.
Amy Clair from the Australian Centre for Housing Research, University of Adelaide will use data from the UK and Australia to give an overview of the evidence linking children’s housing and health with an emphasis on the shift towards private renting that characterises housing in the UK and Australia.
📢How does housing affect children's health?
Come along to hear @amy-clair.bsky.social present findings from #admindata in the UK and Australia.
📅17 June, 12.30pm
✍️Register now: uofglasgow.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
01.05.2025 10:35 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Our second webinar focussed on child poverty in Scotland and its relationship with health inequality.The webinar was chaired by Emma Congreve and featured co...
A Future at Risk: Child Poverty and Health Inequalities in Scotland
A recording of our second webinar, "A Future at Risk: Child Poverty and Health Inequalities in Scotland", is now online.
feat. Ruth Dundas, @chirstyresearch.bsky.social @hlrandolph.bsky.social and @emmanomics.bsky.social
Watch it here:
10.04.2025 09:39 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
MatCHNet webinar: The impact of Sure Start Northern Ireland on health and social care
Tuesday 10 June
12.30-1pm (BST)
The Maternal and Child Health Network warmly invite you to join our lunchtime webinar series, which will showcase existing evaluations of policy in the early years.
Meng Le Zhang from Cardiff University will discuss how using administrative data on children born in Northern Ireland can be used to measure the impact of Sure Start on: maternal and child health in the first 60 months of life, use of services and identification of developmental delays in children, and early parenting behaviours.
See www.gla.ac.uk/matchnet for details.
To stay in touch, please follow @MatCHNet_ or @MatCHNet.bsky.social
📢Interested in using #admindata to evaluate #earlyyears policy?
Come along to our lunchtime webinar to hear Meng Le Zhang (Cardiff University) talk about work on Sure Start Northern Ireland.
📅10 June, 12.30pm
✍️Register now: uofglasgow.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
08.04.2025 08:58 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
A Future at Risk: Child Poverty and Health Inequalities in Scotland
Join us for our second webinar, focusing on child poverty in Scotland and its relationship with health inequality.
Join us for our webinar, "A Future at Risk: Child Poverty and Health Inequalities in Scotland"
ft. @chirstyresearch.bsky.social @hlrandolph.bsky.social and Ruth Dundas on child poverty in Scotland and its relationship with health inequality.
Sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-future-a...
02.04.2025 08:43 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
𝐒𝐮𝐛𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐂𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐎𝐩𝐞𝐧!
𝐅𝐨𝐜𝐮𝐬: 𝐋𝐢𝐧𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐄𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐀𝐜𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐬 𝐂𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬
Leveraging data across multiple countries for improved research into children's health and education
SEE: ijpds.org/calls/educat...
03.04.2025 12:33 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Only 29% of local authorities in England report having enough childcare for at least 75% of children with SEND in their area.
Our new Childcare Survey published this week shows there are continued gaps in availability of childcare places for children with special educational needs and disabilities. bit.ly/Childcare2025Survey #ChildcareSurvey2025
21.03.2025 09:30 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Useful food-for-thought in Coram's analysis of childcare costs, which have increased by almost 5% for 3 to 4-year-olds.
20.03.2025 18:00 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
📢Interested in #earlyyears policy evaluations? Join our new lunchtime webinars
📅Tuesdays - June 10, 17 and 24
🕜12.30-1pm
Topics: 1. Sure Start Northern Ireland, 2. housing and children's health, and 3. UK Healthy Start Scheme
Register now: matchnet.sphsu.gla.ac.uk/events/
All welcome!
20.03.2025 14:49 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Wealth disparities and health inequalities - Scottish Health Equity Research Unit
Two new studies of the health impacts of cash transfers reach conflicting conclusions. Are there lessons for Scottish efforts to improve health and reduce health inequalities?
1/5 🧵 Wealth disparities & health inequalities: what does the latest research tell us?
A new study from Norway finds that people with lower wealth at age 37-38 have significantly higher mortality rates before 62. We explore what this means for Scotland. #HealthInequality #Wealth
13.03.2025 12:32 — 👍 0 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 1
We interviewed 40 experts on what works to deliver real change for children in poverty.
Raising incomes matters most, but every department and level of government has a role to play.
Good practice already happening in many parts of the UK, so effective collaboration and coordination will be key.
03.03.2025 13:52 — 👍 21 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0
Preview display of Engaging Children with Health Data: A Toolkit. Flips through slides.
Do you want to involve young children in health research?
This new toolkit includes interactive slides and hands-on activities to make #healthdata fun & accessible for young learners
Engaging Children with Health Data: A Toolkit
Explore: eprints.gla.ac.uk/345833/
#STEMEducation
26.02.2025 11:49 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Jobs - The University of York
Exciting opportunity to join the @changingrealities.bsky.social team at a time when the work we do together has never mattered more. Please do share widely
jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/rese...
25.02.2025 11:34 — 👍 17 🔁 24 💬 1 📌 5
A big, vast, grey area: Exploring the lived experiences of childcare for parents on Universal Credit
This report explores how parents in receipt of Universal Credit manage childcare costs, and their experiences of childcare and work conditionality requirements.
NEW study from @uniofbathipr.bsky.social explores the lived experiences of childcare for parents on Universal Credit.
Good to see the report support our call for an early years workforce strategy and recommendations on equalising access regardless of parent’s employment status
tinyurl.com/yyttr57m
20.02.2025 09:13 — 👍 4 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1
4.3 million children are in poverty
UK govt won’t see progress on child poverty by 2029 even with high economic growth 📢
Our analysis shows under our central scenario only Scotland will see child poverty rates fall by 2029 in part due to social security policies 1/5
29.01.2025 07:50 — 👍 241 🔁 228 💬 4 📌 46
MatCHNet webinar series (2024)
Webinar 14: Exploring the utility of routine perinatal mental health data for informing service provision: insights from the BiB4All cohort (Hollie Henderson, Bradford Institute for Health Research)
Webinar 15: The BEBOLD platform – Australia (Rhiannon Pilkington, University of Adelaide)
Webinar 16: The impacts of the UK Soft Drinks Industry Levy on child health (Jean Adams, University of Cambridge)
Missed any of our 2024 policy webinars on #childhealth?
Our bitesize 15 min recordings are online - catch up now!
matchnet.sphsu.gla.ac.uk/events/
12.02.2025 11:19 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Teachers' Research Exchange is an online community of practice for educational research in Ireland
TCRU researches children, families and social change. Our work focuses on inequality, migration, gender, parenting and diverse families, and on connecting research to policy, practice and public understanding.
Large-scale linkage study created using data from administrative and statistical sources, in Scotland.
https://sls.lscs.ac.uk/
Co-Creating Ireland's Public Involvement in Open Research Roadmap
ENGAGED is building a national roadmap to shape public involvement in open research in Ireland. We believe that research can and does play an important role in tackling societal challenges.
Lecturer at University of Bristol & member of Nutrition and Behaviour Unit. Big passion for 🥗🥙, looking at kids’ eating behaviour and how parents make decisions about food for their kids, with a side of helping families shift to more sustainable diets 🫘🍄🌱
We work nationally and in local neighbourhoods to build stronger communities where there is no one left out.
The Children's Rights Alliance for England (CRAE), part of Just for Kids Law, seeks full implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. Our vision is of a society where the human rights of all children are recognised and realised.
Head of Participation at Anna Freud.
The Lundy Model Network Lead.
One sixth of #MessageToMargaret
Founder and Director #TheSeanchaíCollective - Learning through Lived Experience
https://www.seanchaicollective.org/
NHS consultant and clinical researcher in Paediatric Infectious Diseases. Main interest childhood viral infections and vaccines to improve child health
Research Associate, University of Liverpool
Maternal & child nutrition | Global nutrition | Child development
Launched on March 1, 2021. Our team researches how young people use resources to prevent and overcome mental distress. Please see more at https://www.qmul.ac.uk/wiph/centres/centre-for-psychiatry-and-mental-health/youth-resilience-unit/
Professor of Psychology at Cardiff University Centre for Human Developmental Science / Teaching research methods / Researching how environments influence cognition communication & parenting
PhD (ESRC). Sexual & Reproductive health | Maternal & Neonatal health | Fertility | Inequities | Intersectionality | Mum to twin toddlers. Swansea/Oxfordshire.
We are an independent charitable organisation working to build a healthier UK.
www.health.org.uk
Applied microeconomist working on social policy, labour market, and immigration @fraserofallander.bsky.social (University of Strathclyde) (she/her) 🏳️🌈
Economist at @fraserofallander.org. Interest in employment and inequalities. Current projects include research on learning disabilities, child poverty, and low-paid work in the hospitality sector. Views my own
The Fraser of Allander Institute at the University of Strathclyde is an independent economic research unit providing expert analysis and insight on the Scottish economy. fraserofallander.org
We are at the forefront of #mentalhealth & #neuroscience #research. We collaborate across industries & disciplines to find answers to global #health challenges.
Research Fellow - Scottish Health Equity Research Unit .
Board of Parenting Across Scotland.
All views my own . Reposts indicate interest and not endorsement.
Coram is the UK’s first children’s charity, helping more than a million children, young people, families and professionals every year.
https://linktr.ee/wearecoram?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=6315b901-f777-415b-9780-2d97a2f0d4bd
