📣 We're recruiting 2 funded (UK home-fees) PhD students for our All About Me project - exploring strengths-based assessment in neurodivergent children/young people transitioning from Early Years to Primary, and Primary to Secondary. More info here: lnkd.in/e36645GY Deadline Wednesday 22nd Oct
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Are you passionate about both youth mental health and wellbeing and statistics, and keen to share your skills and enthusiasm with others?
If so this could be just the job for you!
Postdoc statistician in the new Oxford Centre for Emerging Minds
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22.09.2025 15:49 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
We're very lucky to be at #OHBRCNDConf2025 today. So much to think about and do together!
Huge thanks to the organisers and participants. Here is a sneak peak of somebof our TOPIC team sharing their work 👏 👏
19.09.2025 13:08 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Cathy delivering a keynote talk at the European Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Therapies conference in Glasgow
Emily presenting a secondary analysis of OSI data from the OSI-GROWS project (osiresearch.org.uk/osi-grows) at the European Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Therapies conference in Glasgow
Lucy presenting a poster from the iCATS study (osiresearch.org.uk/icats) at the 17th International Conference on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology in Roehampton
It's been a busy few weeks for the STAR-CAT team, presenting OSI research at various conferences! Here's Chief Investigator @cathycreswell.bsky.social and Trial Coordinator @emilykwhitaker.bsky.social speaking at #EABCT2025 and Senior Trial Manager @lucyannataylor.bsky.social at ICCAP ⭐
18.09.2025 14:48 — 👍 13 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
@oxfordpsychiatry.bsky.social @oxhealthbrc.bsky.social @oxexppsy.bsky.social @nihrmindtech.bsky.social
12.09.2025 13:43 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Be part of shaping a better digital future for young people’s mental health. With keynote from our @cathycreswell.bsky.social
❓Digital Youth x MindTech Conference
📅Thursday 13th November 2025
📍County Hall, London Southbank
‼️Early bird rate ends Monday 15th!
Find out more and book bit.ly/DY13NOV
12.09.2025 13:37 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
📣A milestone for child mental health research
Prof Cathy Creswell, OH BRC Theme Lead, will co-lead Oxford’s new Centre for Emerging Minds advancing research to support youth mental health, thanks to a £27m gift from The Paul Foundation.
🌐 tinyurl.com/yvrb3tn4
22.08.2025 12:55 — 👍 13 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
Impact of exposure to community and school violence during adolescence in the African context: systematic review | BJPsych International | Cambridge Core
Impact of exposure to community and school violence during adolescence in the African context: systematic review
📢 Our systematic review, led by Bomikazi Lupindo, is out in BJPsych International!
We examined how school and community violence affect adolescents’ mental health in Sub-Saharan Africa.
#YouthMentalHealth @topicgroup.bsky.social @oxexppsy.bsky.social
📄Read full article here ➡️ bit.ly/424I4tT
03.09.2025 10:17 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Vacancies
For current vacancies, follow the links below. These pages are updated regularly as new positions become available. Opportunities may arise for researchers, teaching and support staff, and graduate st...
📢📢 Business manager and grants/finance assistant needed for our exciting new research centre!
If you are excited about supporting research that makes a difference to children and families, take a look at these vacancies
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05.09.2025 08:57 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Case Studies – Mental Health Research
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No two journeys in #mentalhealth or #addiction research are the same.
Read the different career journeys & reflections of researchers in the MHR Incubator's case study section, featuring a wide range of professionals and specialists
29.08.2025 08:55 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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📢📢 If you are passionate about supporting research that makes a difference to children and families take a look at these new exciting job opportunities within our new centre:
Head of Operations and Engagment
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EA to the Director
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29.08.2025 10:05 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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📢📢📢 Are you a health economist? Are you interested in children and young people’s mental health and influencing policy? If so, come and work with us!
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18.08.2025 13:21 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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📢📢 We are hiring 3 postdocs to join us in our new Oxford Centre for Emerging Minds Research on an exciting new project to develop a strengths-based assessment toolkit to support neurodivergent children and young people:
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
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13.08.2025 07:51 — 👍 4 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
Parent Carer Research Network - For Researchers
Find out more about partnering with parents and carers of children and young people for your mental health research via our Parent Carer Research Network.
📢Looking for parents/carers to be involved in research either as participants or as part of PPI?
✍️Share details of projects/opportunity in our form - see on our webpage under 'How to Apply'
www.parentcarerresearchnetwork.org.uk/researchers
📅Deadline for inclusion in next newsletter is August 20th
07.08.2025 13:57 — 👍 7 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
We are so excited to let you know that from October we will become part of the new Oxford Centre for Emerging Minds Research! This is a really exciting moment for youth mental health and wellbeing research and practice!
www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-08...
06.08.2025 16:52 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
The 6 things everyone should know about body-focused repetitive behaviours (BFRBs)
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The 6 things everybody should know about body focused repetitive behaviours (BFRBs)👇
In this new video, Professor Clare Mackay - aka The Trich Prof - shares the things she wished more people knew about BFRBs: tinyurl.com/4hbybrp2
@claremackay.bsky.social
29.07.2025 10:31 — 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Are you interested in a career in HR and supporting child mental health research?
Come and work with us:
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
(Spoiler also here for some exciting news to be formally announced very soon)
25.07.2025 08:19 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
We're excited to announce that the trial is now open to recruitment! Welcome to our very first site, Cambridge Community Services NHS Trust 👋
Over the next two years we will be aiming to recruit 650 families - have a read of our website to find out more: osiresearch.org.uk/star-cat 👈
07.05.2025 09:35 — 👍 17 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 2
Happy #InternationalClinicalTrialsDay 🎉
Here's our Trial Manager Kelsey with some merchandise from the STAR-CAT trial at @oxprimarycare.bsky.social's stall!
#ICTD2025 #CTD2025 #UKCTUNetwork @ukcrc-ctu.org.uk @topicgroup.bsky.social
20.05.2025 14:52 — 👍 16 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
It's been a busy week for the STAR-CAT team! We've been preparing packs of merchandise for our first few recruited families to welcome them into the study! 🛍️✨
13.06.2025 15:10 — 👍 15 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
It's #Red4Research day - a day to recognise all those who participate in, support and deliver research! Here's the STAR-CAT team marking the occasion by wearing red. A big thank you to everyone involved in our study for making the research happen 😻 #Red4Research2025
20.06.2025 08:21 — 👍 18 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
This should be great! Do join us ⬇️⬇️
14.07.2025 15:03 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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📢📢📢 Fantastic jobs alert!
Come and join us on a new project exploring character strengths and neurodiversity.
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru... - Research Assistant
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru... - Postdoc
11.07.2025 10:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Definitely worth watching this fantastic video to hear more about the brilliant WISDOM school's mental health research network ⬇️⬇️⬇️
10.07.2025 16:42 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
It's not too late to register for our upcoming webinar exploring the power of mixed methods in #mentalhealth #research.
Featuring insights from a newly published BMJ Mental Health paper by ECRs & a panel of expert voices across the research landscape!👇
mentalhealthresearch.org.uk/advancingmix...
08.07.2025 15:53 — 👍 8 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
The NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) is a collaboration between the University of Oxford and Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust to fund medical research.
The NIHR OH BRC, based at Oxford Health NHS FT is run in partnership with University of Oxford with 13 partner university and NHS Trusts across England.
We design collaborative immersive experiences that bring young people together, boosting mental health and sense of belonging ✨
Funded by the EU and UKRI.
https://www.augmentedsocialplay.com/
Supporting applied health and care research for local populations. One of 15 regional @nihr.bsky.social Applied Research Collaborations – @nihrarcs.bsky.social
Oxford University's Medical Sciences Division is an internationally recognised centre of excellence for biomedical and clinical research and teaching, comprised of 16 core departments and the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences. www.medsci.ox.ac.uk
The UK’s campaign for improving health opportunities. Together, let's #MakeHealthEqual.
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We are a new independent think tank and delivery unit dedicated to improving the lives of children, young people, and families. Our Exec Chair is Baroness Anne Longfield.
Associate Professor in Psychology, University of East Anglia. Researcher in adolescent mental health and sleep.
Our aim is to promote the healthy mental and physical development of children, adolescents & their families globally, irrespective of life circumstances.
Learn more here: https://www.psych.ox.ac.uk/research/cap
Associate Professor at the University of Sussex. Work focused on parental mental health and the intergenerational transmission of mental health challenges.
Professor of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of Nottingham | Clinical Academic | Children & Young People's Mental Health Services Research
https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/medicine/people/kapil.sayal
the Cognitive Behaviour Therapist | Behavioural & Cognitive Psychotherapy
Managing Editor @stephcurnow
tCBT E-i-C @thwaites
BCP E-I-C @ psalkovskis
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Clinical Psychologist, Oxford Health NHS and University of Oxford
Clinical Lead, Clinical Psychologist
AnDY Oxford Research Clinic
https://andyoxford.mhid.org.uk/
TOPIC Group, University of Oxford
https://bsky.app/profile/topicgroup.bsky.social
Own views. She/Her.
NIHR Advanced Fellow and Clinical Psychologist, based at King's College London.
DPhil (PhD) student in Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford 🎓
Researching digital interventions for child anxiety problems 💻
SupporTing pARents and their autistic Children through Anxiety Treatment osiresearch.org.uk/star-cat
University of Oxford | TOPIC Research Group | PI: Cathy Creswell
The UK Psychological Trauma Society is the society for professionals who work with psychological trauma and traumatic stress.
ukpts.org
Member society of the European Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ESTSS).
