Proud to have been part of the team organising this year's QMUL Centre for Psychiatry & Mental Health #BlackHistoryMonth event. Looking forward to running more important sessions in the future.

And just like that its the end of year celebrations 🥳. Thank you ASSET Research Group it’s been a pleasure working with you all. Congrats on a phenomenal year 🎉👏🏽🥂 Sania shakoor Erin Lawrence Abi Thomson Laura Havers Alina Marinca Carolina Gabutti Dr Federica Biotti QMUL Centre for Psychiatry & Mental Health

A brilliant evening at the LISS-DTP Winter Gathering yesterday presenting the preliminary findings of my systematic review titled “Understanding the Demographic and Psychosocial Risk Factors for Physical Multimorbidity in Psychosis”🎄 Dr Georgina M Hosang QMUL Centre for Psychiatry & Mental Health ASSET Research Group

The fabulous Abi Thomson presenting her work on self-directed interventions for the improvement of emotion regulation in adolescents at the LISS-DTP Winter Gathering last night! QMUL Centre for Psychiatry & Mental Health ASSET Research Group Dr Georgina M Hosang

Irene Gonzalez-Calvo presenting her impressive work yesterday on the association of perinatal factors and youth subclinical hypomania. Incredibly proud to work alongside such talented LISS-DTP PhD students in the ASSET Research Group! QMUL Centre for Psychiatry & Mental Health Dr Georgina M Hosang

Well done 👏🏽 Abi Thomson Erin Lawrence & Irene for presenting their important PhD work covering a range of topics inc #emotionregulation #multimirbidity & #hypomania. Papers to follow in 2024! Wolfson Institute of Population Health QMUL Centre for Psychiatry & Mental Health Prof Bonamy Oliver (she/her) Prof Angelica Ronald Prof. Kamaldeep Bhui CBE ASSET Research Group

Excited to celebrate the start of the Co-Pic project to address ethnic health inequalities in #psychosis with lived experience & co-design at its core Prof. Kamaldeep Bhui CBE Dr Roisin Mooney Erin Lawrence Oxford Psychiatry Wolfson Institute of Population Health QMUL Centre for Psychiatry & Mental Health

Really enjoying the rich & lively conversations about effective patient and public involvement in mental health research. Central to this is the importance & value placed on lived experience in the project #co-pics Prof. Kamaldeep Bhui CBE Dr Roisin Mooney Erin Lawrence ASSET Research Group

It was a pleasure to present this work to the ASSET Research Group 📈Really enjoying working with Sania shakoor on this exciting project. Paper in prep! 📝QMUL Centre for Psychiatry & Mental Health

📢New paper📢 Delighted to see our paper on the feasibility and reliability of a smartphone application for monitoring future #dementia risk out now in The British Journal of Psychiatry Graham Reid Ivan Koychev Triin Ojakäär Jenny Barnett BJPsych Journals cambridge.org/core/journals/…

📣calling adolescent mental health researchers working in Greater London📍participate in focus grps to improve youth involvement esp in underserved grps. Led by Abi Thomson from our ASSET Research Group funded by NIHR Applied Research Collaboration North Thames Pls RT Prof Helen L. Fisher Louise Arseneault Prof. Kamaldeep Bhui CBE Megan Armstrong

A #SIRS2024 Conference highlight is Humma Andleeb 🍉 highlighting the importance of lived experience involvement in socioeconomic determinants research and how we need to make research safe for lived experience, and how qual can tell us what epidemiologists might miss.

Delighted to have presented my SR findings on the psychosocial risk factors for multimorbidity in psychosis at Schizophrenia International Research Society #SIRS2024! 🌎❤️ So grateful to my wonderful supervisors Dr Georgina M Hosang Prof. Kamaldeep Bhui CBE Mark Freestone and colleagues at ASSET Research Group for their support!

The symposium on social determinants of health in psychosis was a #SIRS2024 highlight for me. Feeling motivated to apply the knowledge I've gained to my own PhD research.

That’s a wrap! What a brilliant time at Schizophrenia International Research Society. I have learnt so much and met some amazing researchers, all in the most beautiful city! Looking forward to sharing my reflections with my wonderful team ASSET Research Group in London and applying this knowledge to my PhD! 🇮🇹🍕📝

Irene Gonzalez Calvo from my lab ASSET Research Group presented her PhD work on perinatal risk factors & #hypomanic symptoms in young people at Centre for Youth Bipolar Disorder Youth Bipolar Conference in March. Great forum to present these interesting findings 📊 Wolfson Institute of Population Health QMUL Centre for Psychiatry & Mental Health Prof Angelica Ronald

Superb talk🎙️by the fantastic Dr Thomas Richardson on #BipolarDisorder in terms of psychological therapies , financial difficulties 💷 & the role of childhood adversity. We had to celebrate with a Whitechapel curry lunch 🥘 Wolfson Institute of Population Health QMUL Centre for Psychiatry & Mental Health Dr Federica Biotti Erin Lawrence

🚨 Still time to apply for this funded PhD with me and the amazing Nathan Davies Claudia Dr Abi Woodward 🚨

An amazing day of celebrations and wish lists for our QMUL Centre for Psychiatry & Mental Health Centre 🥳 Exciting plans for the future and more impactful research and teaching to come…!

🚨New paper🚨 prospective study showing that maternal smoking, alcohol consumption & stress during pregnancy are linked to hypomanic symptoms in offspring at ages 16 & 26. Well done🏅 Irene Gonzalez-Calvo for leading this work Elsevier Psychiatry #JournalofAffectiveDisorders