📢 NEW PURRBLE STUDY 📢 Introducing our latest #digital #Intervention #Purrble study. If you are 16-25 years old, part of the LGBTI+ umbrella, experience thoughts of self-harm, and would like to meet purrble visit tinyurl.com/meetPurrble1

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👇 recruitment has started for our RCT! Lots of planning has gone into this - find the protocol at BMJ Open. 🥰 We're looking for #LGBTQ young people to take part in a new study! See below for more information.

Latest Purrble paper outlining our RCT with young LGBTQ people who experience self-harm. The lovely Seonaid Cleare is running this while I'm on mat leave! Get in touch if you want more details or to participate! bmjopen.bmj.com/content/14/1/e…

📢📢 New week, new paper from our fantastic Purrble team, an outline of their RCT study co-designed with members of our young persons advisory group Sprouting Minds

Registered for an online webinar on mat leave; weird that I feel mum guilt but also job guilt for that. The age old conundrum of not feeling XXX enough.

📢Research job alert! Who? Someone with a health psych/behav science background for a 30 month postdoc What? Support Julia Allan to run patient workshops and optimise an existing digital intervention (ASICA app) for people with melanoma. More info? 👉🏽stir.ac.uk/about/work-at-…

If you are: 16-25 years old, part of the #LGBTIQ + community, experience thoughts of self-harm, and would like to take part in #digital #Intervention study with #Purrble, our new study may be of interest. for info: tinyurl.com/meetPurrble1

My book is always slightly out of reach when the baby falls asleep on me... same applied to coffee, water, anything else of vague value

The age of ‘publish or perish’ is over. The age of ‘publish AND perish’ has begun.

Ivy's first webinar: codesign storytelling and reducing stigma towards people with mental health issues 💚

🔥Come do a PhD with the wonderful Maddie Groom Sarah Cassidy and me Jo Lockwood We're looking for candidates for a 3-year Joan Browne legacy funded PhD studying self-harm and suicide in autistic girls and those with suspected autism. Apply by 1 May. jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?r…

The pre-proof for my latest paper is now available online and free to read! We demonstrate a lack of evidence for self-harm assessment tools developed or validated for autistic adults, and highlight the need for more research to measure and understand self-harm in autism.

netECR doing its thing and bringing together ECRs working to promote positive change. Important recommendations in the article:

Heading to Notts Trans Pride with the Pastel Project. Watch out for Jess Hunt speaking on behalf of the organisation from 12pm!

First day of interviewing our LGBTQ+ young people about their experience of Purrble and thinking about helpful resources for self-harm. Nice to be back at data collection!

📢Recruiting #autisticadults with #livedexperience of #selfharm and/or #selfinjury, who live in the UK📢 Complete an online survey to help develop a better self-harm assessment tool with and for autistic adults. For more info/ to take part: tinyurl.com/58xrseta (or scan QR)

RCT recruitment is closed🎉🎉🎉 155 LGBTQ+ young people took part to evaluate the impact of Purrble on emotion regulation, anxiety, depression, and self-harmful thoughts 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Keep eyes out for updates.

Young people I'm currently interviewing and whose data I'm analysing are so wise! Definitely wasn't this switched on at their ages. I'm really excited to share their perspectives and experiences soon.