Perinatal Mental Health Social Research

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Our paper on walking/wheeling with children looks at historical, political, geographical, cultural, and structural barriers to mobilities, and explores social justice through widening access to walking/wheeling for families. #walking #wheeling #families

🏳️‍🌈 Join us for the inaugural LGBTQ+ Families Research Network Meeting!
🎤 Guest speaker: Dr Zoe Darwin
💬 Topic: James Lind Alliance PSP for LGBTQIA+ Perinatal Mental Health
🗓 Wed 3 Dec, 2–3pm | 💻 Online | FREE
👉 Sign up: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/research-p...
#LGBTQFamilies #Research

Do you work with Muslim mothers during pregnancy or in the first few years after birth? Help us design a walking group for Muslim mothers! Join us for a one-hour online focus group with other professionals/practitioners/volunteers. Contact ruth.naughton-doe@york.ac.uk for more information.

Exploring Nature-Based Interventions for Parents and Caregivers: Insights from a One-Day Conference - ARC This blog covers insights from a one-day conference focused on nature-based interventions designed to support parents and caregivers. It likely explores how outdoor activities, natural environments, a...

🌿 NEW BLOG: Exploring Nature-Based Interventions for Parents and Caregivers

Discover insights from a groundbreaking one-day conference on how nature can transform parenting and caregiving.

🔗 Read more: arc-yh.nihr.ac.uk/resources/bl...

We’d like to hear from young dads (aged 16-25) who can share their experiences to help influence policy and support practice for the benefit of young parents.

Please share with any young dads who might be interested in participating, or with your wider networks!

Full details below 👇

Read @ruthndwrites.bsky.social insightful report on how we can stop perinatal loneliness. It highlights the need for family friendly professional support in the perinatal period.

How can we stop perinatal loneliness? Read our report about ways we can address the crisis in loneliness - we need more professional support, a family friendly society, greater parental leave and social groups designed with parents #loneliness #endloneliness #perinatal

figshare.com/articles/onl...

@bpsofficial.bsky.social @bapmofficial.bsky.social @perinatalresearch.bsky.social @thementalelf.bsky.social @rcpsych.bsky.social @kingsioppn.bsky.social

Two illustrations of parents with children. Text reads: Perinatal loneliness. New parents are at an increased risk of loneliness, which adversely affects parental and infant health and well-being.

New parents are at high risk for loneliness. 💔

@ruthndwrites.bsky.social has led researchers, practitioners and people with lived experience to write a consensus statement exploring what we know about loneliness, and directions for research, policy and practice: bmjopen.bmj.com/content/bmjo...

Are you an academic mental health researcher with lived experience? Come along to our friendly and supportive network meeting to hear from Dr Veenu Gupta, Assistant Professor in Lived Experience Research. We'll also be discussing teaching with lived experience. Sign up to the event below!

Image shows person sitting at a desk with their back to the camera, wearing headphones, their hand on a computer mouse, watching a webinar on a computer monitor. Text advertises: This CPC-CG Webinar will take place on Thursday 5 June at 12:00 UK Time. Anna Tarrant, Professor of Sociology at the University of Lincoln will be delivering a presentation entitled, "Partnering and parenting in the context of young fatherhood: how young fathers navigate family complexity, intimacy, and intergenerational ties".

THIS WEEK's #CPCCGWebinar ⤵️

👩‍💻 @profatarrant.bsky.social will discuss findings from the @ukri.org @followingyff.bsky.social study on how young #fathers navigate their romantic and intergenerational relationships over time in the context of early #parenthood

Register: www.cpc.ac.uk/activities/f...

Text on a coral background reads: "Children’s social care involvement in the first 1,001 days: Changing hearts and minds. Tuesday 15 July 2025, from 10:00am to 5:00pm at King’s College London, Bush House, London WC2B 4BG" There is a graphic of a pregnant person.

Join us (in person or online) to rethink support for families involved with children’s social care in the first 1001 days of their child's life. Hear from people with lived experience, practitioners and policymakers at this important event. 👇

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/childrens-...

Proud to share our new BMJ Open paper on perinatal loneliness—featuring leading researchers + community voices from the UK and beyond. A topic taken seriously in the UK, and still overlooked in the US.
🔗 bmjopen.bmj.com/content/15/5...
#PerinatalMentalHealth #Loneliness

@nihrspcr.bsky.social @nihr.bsky.social @nihrarcs.bsky.social

#loneliness #naturebased #perinatalmentalhealth @sarah-blower.bsky.social @familywellbeinguoy.bsky.social @uoysbs.bsky.social @ruthndwrites.bsky.social

What are the benefits of nature-based interventions in the early years? What are the future directions for research and practice? This amazing graphic summarises the reflections of 30 academics and practitioners who met at our conference! We will be sharing a blog soon, but enjoy this for now!

Perinatal Loneliness Impact Form I am keen to track any impacts that the perinatal loneliness research project has had either on individuals, professionals, services or research. I'd be so grateful if you could complete the form belo...

Have you learnt anything new from hearing about/reading about my perinatal loneliness research? Has this translated into differences in your practice/research/personal experiences? If so, i'd be so grateful if you could complete this form: forms.gle/K6hh2z7VM3Xf...

Bradford project produces ‘outstanding’ rise in children’s physical activity JU:MP programme included co-design of play spaces, exercise in faith settings and interventions in schools

Great article in The Guardian about the success of the JU:MP programme in Bradford.

This is what place-based working is all about - co-creating solutions with local people ⬇️

Physical activity increasing by 70 minutes on average per week 🙌

#ActivePartnerships

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Day 2 of the NIHR School for Social Care Research Conference and I’m excited to present the findings and outputs from the Coproducing Solutions to Perinatal Loneliness Project with lived-experience public contributor Amy Chidley

@nihr.bsky.social @nihrspcr.bsky.social @uoysbs.bsky.social

Today (part of) our team presented our ongoing study that aims to improve perinatal support for young mothers and birthing parents at the NIHR School for Social Care Research Conference. What a treat to meet in person on a sunny day! #nihrsscr #nihr #perinatalmentalhealth

A rare in person meeting for (part) of the research team co-designing a perinatal walking group for Muslim mothers to reduce loneliness 🌳

#perinatalmentalhealth #nature-based #nature #muslimparents

We are looking for UK-based professionals or organisations that support Muslim parents, and/or deliver nature-based interventions to any parent. We need support for research to codesign a perinatal walking group for Muslim mothers. Meetings online between June-December 2025. Please share!

Empowering parents, and those around them, with mental health knowledge before, during and after pregnancy.

New #PerinatalMentalHealth resources. Due date: 5 May 2025.

#ItStartsWithAwareness #MMHAW25

Fun day today with one of my favourite collaborators @zoedarwin.bsky.social filming a piece about our research evaluating BDCT’s Ready to Relate intervention @familywellbeinguoy.bsky.social #parentinfantrelationships #infantmentalhealth #perinatalmentalhealth #readytorelate

Lived Experience Network for Scholars (LENS) Online Meet-up An support and information network for academic mental health and addiction researchers with lived experience

Joining the 1st LENS (Lived Experience Network for Scholars) meet-up today - a space for UK researchers with lived experience of #mentalhealth or #addiction

Proud to be here as a PhD student, survivor & academic

Join us for the next session ⬇️⬇️⬇️

#LENSnetwork #PhD #researchers #livedexperience

We're sharing this call-out from Uni of York, led by @ruthndwrites.bsky.social so you can share your documents about the incredible work YOU do with young mothers & birthing parents during the perinatal period. Submit to sw-perinatal-research@york.ac.uk & find out more at perinatalsupport.co.uk

You cannot legislate away a person, who they are, how they feel, how their friends and loved ones see them.

I stand with my trans friends forever and always. X

New OHID research suggests 1 in 4 women experience #PerinatalMentalHealth issues, higher than previous estimates of 1 in 5.

With rates as high as 27.5% in North East England, we must ensure all new and expectant parents get the support they need, regardless of background or postcode.