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1/. Today we publish our National Institute for Health and Care Research report on #WardSonar the 1st attempt to ask patients on acute mental health wards to measure and report changes in perceptions of safety in real-time. journalslibrary.nihr.ac.uk/hsdr/UDBQ8402/…

To mark #SuicidePreventionday Una Foye and I spoke to The Full of Beans Podcast about our ongoing work on self-harm, suicide and Eating disorders. Thanks for having us and facing this challenging topic head on. rss.com/podcasts/fullo…. Thx to MQ & Rosetrees Trust

Huge congratulations Dr Hannah Lewis who has just successfully defended her PhD and is now officially Dr Lewis, proud supervisor / mom moment! #PhDone

So proud to be releasing this passion project that Consider Eating Disorders in Men , Una Foye , and I have been working on. Link: nottingham.ac.uk/helmopen/rlos/… It’s free to use and we really think it can make a difference if the right people see it. The images and animation are by ✨ Stacy Bias - stacybias.bsky.social ✨

Really interesting blog by John Baker - great to shed light on units treating eating disorders having the highest rates of coercive measures; often unspoken and unseen

Complete my survey about developing a podcast around self-harm: lnkd.in/dAwvfJp3 Running self-harm support services I felt there were so many unrepresented experiences. I'd like to explore these in a podcast & would love your views! #selfharm #NSSI #intersectionality

Celebrating Maudsley Charity with Alan Simpson 💙 Sahil, our lived experience researcher projects, and many others tonight, presenting some of our Maudsley Charity funded research.

All eyes on the ward: the use and impact of surveillance in inpatient mental health settings buff.ly/49aqQO8 "The evidence base does not support the use of surveillance technologies and intended outcomes are not being achieved."

The Mental Health Policy Research Unit has published a systematic review on surveillance technologies in inpatient mental healthcare settings. In this thread, my colleague Dr Jess Griffiths and I will outline the study and the main results and implications. 1/7

🚨 We're Hiring: Post-Doctoral Research Associate in Mental Health Policy Research 📍 Location: King’s College London 📝 Contract: Full-time, fixed-term 31 Dec 2028 ⏰ Apply By: 02 January 2025 💼 More: bit.ly/3Di39Yo Sonia Johnson Alan Simpson 💙 #MentalHealthResearch

We are recruiting for a research assistant to join us at HSPRD IOPPN as part of the Mental Health Policy Research Unit team. We conduct research to inform national mental health policy. All the details are here: kcl.ac.uk/jobs/102531-re…

Tickets for our #PeerSupport in #MentalHealth webinar are selling FAST! Get in quick to avoid disappointment 👇🏽 Looking forward to hearing from Mental Health Policy Research Unit Chairs Sonia Johnson & Dr Andrew Grundy PhD (acgrundy.bsky.social), & speakers Steve Gillard, Una Foye, Ruth Cooper, Natasha Lyons & Co-Production Collective

Men, we need your help to help other men! (Link is in the bio) We want to hear men’s ideas of how eating/exercise/body image healthcare resources can be engaging for men. Your ideas will support the next phase: a co-design of guidelines to inform future resource development.

🔔 Inpatient mental health staff 🔔 📢 Have your voice heard! 📢 Have you worked on an adult #inpatient #mentalhealth #psychiatric ward? We are keen to learn about your experiences managing incidents of #selfharm. Details of our interview study can be found below ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️

I'm at very early stages of designing research on safety & restrictive practices in Eating Disorder inpatient wards - we need lived experience voices to join an advisory panel. Spaces are very limited, for info register here forms.office.com/e/SVUmyJgFKD or email [email protected]

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For one mid-career academic scientist, precarity is becoming unbearable. But they are too experienced for entry-level industry jobs and too inexperienced for senior ones. They’ve stayed too long and are stuck – ‘somewhere between too much and not enough’ timeshighereducation.com/depth/im-tired…

New research from Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience NIHR BioResource has identified a range of weight loss behaviours associated with #eatingdisorders which are not currently included in assessment criteria: maudsleybrc.nihr.ac.uk/posts/2025/jun… EDGI UK GLADStudy 📽️First author Saakshi Kakar explains:👇

🚨New paper alert! In my first first-author paper for my #PhD, we explored free-text responses from 1,600+ people with #eatingdisorders to better understand the diverse behaviours used to lose weight, many of which fall outside diagnostic criteria Here's what we found👇