I am recruiting for a fully-funded PhD studentship!

An exciting opportunity to work on social prescribing roll-outs in schools in England.

The student will get to work with me and Daniel Hayes, PhD in the wonderful Social Biobehavioural Research Group Behavioural Science & Health UCL UCL IEHC

#phdchat #socialprescribing

Illness, Identity transformation. New blog. abetternhs.net/2023/10/03/dia… cc The Nocturnists

Look at the date on this Tweet. Then feel sad at how undervalued general practice is. If this level of benefit was obtained from a drug, then funding would be found, and intense pressure put on government from those who were denied it. But it's not. It's 'just' General Practice.

New publication📣

How did financial adversity affect health and wellbeing during the #COVID19 pandemic?

Reduced household income & rising living costs contributed towards poor health outcomes:

Tom May Henry Aughterson Dr Daisy Fancourt & Dr Alex Burton
bit.ly/3K057xX

First tweet in a long while but this one clearly needs to be shared as widely as possible

Long COVID and mental health: what are the key factors affecting well-being?

Article alert! Dr Alex Burton Henry Aughterson Dr Daisy Fancourt and Dr Keir Philip have examined how the symptoms, uncertainty and treatment options of COVID impinge upon daily life

bit.ly/36UykJr

Our new paper out

Major milestone! Our QUAL researchers have interviewed 400 ppl to help us better understand how #COVID19 has affected thousands of ppl in the UK.

Congrats team! And a big thank you to our participants!

Dr Alex Burton Tom May Dr Alison McKinlay, PhD Henry Aughterson Jo Dawes 🇪🇺 💙 Dr Katey Warran

3/3 And meet two of our researchers, Jo Dawes 🇪🇺 💙 and Henry Aughterson who describe their respective research on the health of people experiencing homelessness and the mental health benefits of social prescribing.

Factors shaping the mental health and wellbeing of people experiencing #LongCovid : a qualitative study

'I had no life. I was only existing’
Henry Aughterson, Dr Daisy Fancourt
et al

medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

It's fitting that Henry Aughterson is closing the event here today at #NetworkMARCHshowcase . The @NetworkMARCH has really championed and involved ECRs in all of their activities, and it's great to see that this has also happened here today at this celebration of the network.

Henry Aughterson Leisure activities have an impact on multiple layers including psychological, societal and biological processes says Henry Aughterson at #NetworkMARCHshowcase

Henry Aughterson We hope to support the design of more theory-driven, cross-disciplinary studies (and interventions) that explicitly consider the mechanisms underlying the effects of leisure activities on mental and physical health, says Henry Aughterson at #NetworkMARCHshowcase

You can read the full paper by Henry Aughterson and colleagues in The Lancet Psychiatry: How leisure activities affect health: a narrative review and multi-level theoretical framework of mechanisms of action …1-4b96-9bc2-88b2eb5c4964.filesusr.com/ugd/3d9db5_7c5… #NetworkMARCHshowcase