The website for the Irish Loneliness Taskforce Research Network with ALONE is now live 👏 I'm glad to be a member and see this important work moving forward
🔗 lonelinessresearch.org

Is #loneliness just a 'fault' of individuals? We argue no. Check out our new paper OA in Political Psychology, with the esteemed Manuela Barreto and Pam Qualter, framing loneliness as a social justice issue in need of sociopolitical and structural solutions. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

🗣️ A reminder that there are still some spaces available in this research study. It’s really important to me that young people have the opportunity to share their experiences, and be heard.

If you work in the LGBTQ+, youth or mental health sector - Please drop me an email 📧

Delighted to have passed my viva on Friday & grateful to my examiners Professor Pamela Qualter & Professor Martin Dempster, & chair Dr. Ioana Latu. Huge thanks to my supervisors Dr. Jenny M Groarke, Professor Rhiannon Turner & Keming Yang for their guidance and support throughout. I'm #PhinisheD ! 📚

Do you have expertise in #qualitative health research? The CARES Lab is hiring a #postdoc !

ottawaheart.ca/career-opportu…

Come work with me on fun qualitative projects at a fantastic hospital Heart Institute in beautiful #Ottawa 🇨🇦.

📊We have just launched an exciting new mixed-methods survey exploring the use of music for loneliness regulation
#music #music science #loneliness #research

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🌏 Open to international participants!
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Lots of thought-provoking presentations at ISSEP - Existential Psychology Existential Psychology Preconference at #SPSP2024 yesterday - thanks to everyone who visited our poster on dimensions of loneliness!

Fully-funded PhD opportunity available in collaboration with Disability Action! We want to explore how disabled students in higher education navigate the university-to-employment pipeline. Deadline 12th Feb. For more info and to apply, see qub.ac.uk/courses/postgr…

Read the #Loneliness Inequalities Evidence Review put together by Wales Centre for Public Policy in partnership with loneliness researchers: a major review of published research on the nature and causes of loneliness inequalities wcpp.org.uk/?p=7397

📑 New research alert! 🌍 Our study explores how young adults faced the challenges of living alone during the COVID-19 pandemic. 🏠
Discover the impact on mental health and the role of technology in fostering connections.
Read more: shorturl.at/emqs1

#youth #loneliness

A new study led by our researchers has examined the evidence, in what is believed to be the largest review of Overdose Prevention Centres worldwide.

“There are so many misconceptions about OPCs – how they can help and what the evidence says. These are harm-reduction spaces which

Yesss! Our long awaited article is out on CJA.

“You’re Not Understood, and You’re Isolated”: A Narrative Account of Loneliness by Black Older Adults in Ontario, Canada | Canadian Journal on Aging / La Revue canadienne du vieillissement | Cambridge Core - bit.ly/3uXIPYh

See this Reclaim the Agenda blog I wrote for #16DaysNI for an overview, and some very early findings, from my PhD research into the use of previous sexual history evidence in NI! ⚖️👩‍⚖️

How do people describe their experiences of existential loneliness? 🌏💭🏝 

This new paper from my PhD includes reflections from 225 adults from 16-72 years old on this deep form of loneliness & the role of cognition, emotion, stress + mental health

🔗 doi.org/10.1186/s40359…

Now published in a Special Issue of Social Psychological Bulletin 'Reflections on the Credibility Revolution'. So proud of this! Joe's first, first-author paper and my first qualitative registered report. spb.psychopen.eu/index.php/spb/…

See this Psychology Today blog for a digest of our recent systematic review on experiences of #loneliness - thank you Susan Krauss Whitbourne PhD, ABPP!

Psychology Today blog 🔗 psychologytoday.com/us/blog/fulfil…

Full paper 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/174826…

🎉 New paper in Psychological Bulletin: Our meta-analytic review of longitudinal studies on the development of SWB across the life span doi.org/kts4

📚Press release: tinyurl.com/wzkzd2m4

with Maike Luhmann, Peter Hähner, J. Bühler, L. Dapp, E. Luciano, U. Orth🙏

Are you a researcher interested in the experience of parental loneliness in the first 1001 days? Join us for an online networking and research sharing event - the first meeting of the Parental loneliness research group. Please share :) #loneliness

**Just published**

First published study from my IrishResearchCouncil PhD 🎉

We interviewed emerging adults (18-25y) to understand their views and experiences of loneliness, and the causes of loneliness during this life-stage.

Open-access🔗: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/21…

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Experiences of Loneliness Across the Lifespan: A Systematic Review and Thematic Synthesis of Qualitative Studies Phoebe McKenna-Plumley Dr. Jenny M Groarke pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37327403/