Our latest paper, examining evidence of social isolation and loneliness service provision for military widows, is now available 👇

#PLOSONE : Understanding evidence and provision of services around social isolation and loneliness of military ... dx.plos.org/10.1371/journa…

At the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will remember them

#LestWeForget #RemembranceSunday #TwoMinutesSilence

We are recruiting UK Military Veterans for a Brain Health study based in the North East! If interested please contact Elliott: [email protected]

.Paul Watson will be presenting key findings and future plans from our One is Too Many study at the Armed Forces Covenant Fund Trust 's #veteran suicide prevention conference on Wednesday!

You can join the conference here:
covenantfund.org.uk/2023/09/14/tru…

Last week Paul Watson from the @NorthernHub provided an update of the findings, where we are at and what next to the participants from the Daparian Foundation Trauma Fellowship & Society. This project was to develop an intervention to reduce #socialisolation of #veterans with #PTSD funded by the Armed Forces Covenant Fund Trust

It was lovely to have our PhD student Mary visit today for a results analysis session!

Huge congratulations to Dr Helen Cullen for passing her PhD viva with minor amendments yesterday 🥳

Thank you to Helen's examiners Prof. Glenda Cook and Dr Christine W. Hartmann as well as Prof. Marco Tomietto for chairing!

We had a wonderful time celebrating last night ❤️

A snippet of little superstars who brought the evaluation and the voice of a participant to life. Funded by Fuse and produced by @CARROStudio pleased to be part of the evaluation team alongside Dr Lynette (Harland) SHOTTON Dr Amy Johnson Matt Breckons - link to the full film below

Evaluation of the Little Orange Book - The evaluation team included myself, Dr Lynette (Harland) SHOTTON, Dr Amy Johnson and Matt Breckons. The film was funded by Fuse and the evaluation was funded by NENC Child Health & Wellbeing Network and commissioned by North East and North Cumbria NHS #research #NHS
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With this important first step of a public apology, comes the publication of the LGBT Veterans Independent Review.

We once again give our thanks to those Veterans who bravely shared their stories in order to see a brighter future for all LGBT+ Veterans. Thank you. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🇬🇧
gov.uk/government/pub…

‘A day we’d hoped for but sometimes wondered if it would happen. More importantly, this is the day thousands of Veterans who’s lives have been blighted by the cruel ban have been waiting for. It’s a true watershed moment for LGBT+ Veterans.’ - Craig Jones MBE

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📢🚨 The Review reports are now LIVE!! 🚨📢

Access them on our website, lgbtveterans.independent-review.uk

A HUGE thank you to all of you who supported the Review and submitted your story.

A historic day. An apology was made today by Rishi Sunak 23 years since the ban was lifted. You can read more about the experiences of LGBT+ veterans and the impact of the ban in our final report.

Read the report here👉researchportal.northumbria.ac.uk/en/publication…

Members of the hub presented the initial findings on our Food Insecurity project to the funders SSAFA and Armed Forces Covenant Fund Trust today in London. We're working on the final report and hope to share this soon!

Happy Armed Forces Day!

A huge thank you to everyone in the #armedforces community!

#SaluteOurForces #ArmedForcesDay

It is Dr Alison Osborne's last week in the Northern Hub! We wish her every success and a huge thank you from all of us for all of her hard work and dedication over the last 8 years as a Senior Research Assistant in the Hub.

Happy #ReservesDay ! Thank you to Reservists for your dedication and contribution to your work in both the #ArmedForces and #CivvyStreet !

#ArmedForces Day #SaluteOurForces #ArmedForces Week #ArmedForces

Brilliant to present and showcase our film focusing on our evaluation of the Little Orange Book today with Dr Lynette (Harland) SHOTTON, OT Child (Kat Carruthers), Matt Breckons and Alice! Really interesting event on creative engagement and dissemination in research.

#FuseRE

Wonderful to present our Little Orange Book film at the Fuse event alongside Alice Gair and the research team Dr Lynette (Harland) SHOTTON Dr Amy Johnson Matt Breckons and hearing about other fantastic creative projects in the North East #FuseRE

Privileged to attend this roundtable discussion on #veterans experience of #loneliness and #socialisolation last week. Such an important topic.