Very proud my first lead-author paper has been published! Shows the importance of #ppi in looking at stigma and misconceptions in tweets

I feel like a proper academic now - blind peer review process and a reviewer asks us to review our own paper 😀 Professor Dame Til Wykes Georgie Hudson Nick Cummins Link to the paper if anyone is interested: nature.com/articles/s4153…

New paper out looking at mental health service users' views of stigma on Twitter during #COVID19 doi.org/10.1080/096382… Professor Dame Til Wykes Sagar Jilka Sonja Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience

🚨ATTENTION PROSPECTIVE UCL MENTAL HEALTH PHD STUDENTS 🚨Ever wondered what the selection committee is looking for? Want to know what to expect at interview? Join our online "Roadshow" for the UCL 4-year PhD in Mental Health, Oct 11th 11am BST, signup here eventbrite.com/e/roadshow-4-y…

.Georgie Hudson, a research assistant at our BRC, writes about a study published in Journal of Mental Health which analysed stigma on Twitter during the #COVID19 pandemic from the perspective of #mentalhealth service users. maudsleybrc.nihr.ac.uk/posts/2022/aug…

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📢 New paper out! 📢 We found that mental health service users rate wellbeing apps very differently from professional reviewers. Also app store reviews are not sufficient to provide the information they want. Thanks for the support Young Person's Mental Health Advisory Group! Sagar Jilka Professor Dame Til Wykes Sonja

What do mental health service users want to know when choosing a mental health app? Is this different to what professionals think? Find out in our new paper in JMIR Publications w/ Georgie Hudson Professor Dame Til Wykes Stephen Schueller One Mind PsyberGuide, advice from Young Person's Mental Health Advisory Group & support from NIHR Maudsley Biomedical Research Centre (BRC)

Jon Roiser 🟣 Wellcome Anna Remington @PascoFearon A very warm welcome to the 6 new students joining the Wellcome UCL 4 year #PhD program in #mentalhealth science UCL Institute of Mental Health this year: Quentin Dercon Erin Dawe Lane Merle Schlief Sarah Bakirci Georgie Hudson @tom_metherell. Inducted & ready for interdisciplinary training!

We are now accepting applications for Sept 2023 start on UCL Wellcome 4-year PhD in Mental Health Science. Applications will close Monday 9 January 23:59GMT . Find out more about how to apply and watch a recording from the recent online roadshow at: buff.ly/2ZSACkb

📢📢📢Why do swear words sound the way they do? We tested whether the sounds of swear words are not arbitrary but particularly suited to express profanity. A (frigging fun) 🧵

NEW PAPER out BJPsych Journals Open - The impact of patient involvement on participant opinions of information sheets bit.ly/3IwTlKG #ppi is high on the research agenda, and service users do provide valuable input to create more accessible study documents (less jargon) (1/2)

New research looks at the impact of patient involvement on information sheets for study participants: bit.ly/3GEMbBi The study was supported by our #PPIE programme, including Professor Dame Professor Dame Til Wykes, Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement, NIHR Maudsley BRC.

New #IoMHconf23 podcast now live! Featuring Scott Kim talking about assisted dying and louis appleby talking about suicide prevention youtube.com/watch?v=vB8AWp… #AssistedDying #Suicide #SuicidePrevention #Podcast 🧵 THREAD

Big thanks to Andie Ashdown for a great The Mental Elf blog on our avoidable harm in mental health social care scoping review paper 😊 Tina Coldham BEM Georgie Hudson

Last chance to apply for this great PhD scheme! Definitely recommend applying if you're considering a PhD in mental health

📣Exciting RA position with Quentin Huys and our wonderful Applied Computational Psychiatry lab UCL Psychiatry Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry!📣 Work on a longitudinal study examining the processes engaged by psychotherapy in the NHS: ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/se… Apply and share!

Our new paper, published today in @TheLancetPsych, examines the detrimental effects of the Conservatives Government's #HostileEnvironment policy & subsequent #Windrush scandal on #mentalhealth in the UK. sciencedirect.com/science/articl… We find that: 1/n

🔥 off the press: A systematic review by Khani et al examining pharmacogenetic testing outcomes in people undergoing antipsychotic treatment 💊 Free to read 👇 Georgie Hudson Georgina Mills Alvin Richards-Belle @benskov @BarbaraMBarrett Lily Huajie Jin nature.com/articles/s4422…