Join our team! Research Fellow in Population Health Data Science (NIHR ARC North Thames & Care City London) – close date 26th April.   ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/se…)

It's time for our Research #FridayinFocus. This week, we're spotlighting a new paper led by Dr Ruth Plackett out now in JMIR Publications on: The Impact of Social Media Use on UK Adolescents' Mental Health What's it all about? 🧵 buff.ly/3M5UvyF #mentalhealth #socialmedia

Social media: How (some) use can be good for teenagers bbc.in/3mf0x5h

Our latest study findings were reported in The i Paper - Social media has no significant impact on teenagers' mental health generally, study suggests inews.co.uk/news/science/s… @jendykxhoorn Jessica Sheringham NIHR SPHR UCL IEHC UCL Primary Care & Population Health

Primary care is changing. These changes will bring advances, i.e. improved cancer diagnostic skills. Today on the blog we hear about eCREST, a tool to improve accuracy & speed in diagnostic decisions..⌛ Read👉bit.ly/3L107sI National Institute for Health and Care Research Jessica Sheringham UCL DAHR

Social media: a distraction and unfiltered space for fakenews and bullying? Or a way to mental connect with others and access information and social support? Dr Ruth Plackett considers the role of #socialmedia in #mentalhealth in The Conversation buff.ly/3EYFcEg

Excited to be at first face to face Health of the Public Symposium since lockdown #HoPSymposium2023

Fantastic presentation from Jessica Sheringham on their UCL Health of the Public grant on using administrative data on housing and health inequalities to reduce local health and care inequalities #UHoPSymposium2023 UCL IEHC UCL DAHR NIHR Applied Research Collaboration North Thames

Elizabeth Murray obituary. Medical researcher who was an early mover in using web-based tools to improve healthcare and established the UCL eHealth Unit. theguardian.com/society/2023/a…

Applications now open for Introduction to Evaluation Online. This introductory course supports health & care professionals evaluate local services & interventions. Free, flexible and #online! Apply by 15 May 23: arc-nt.nihr.ac.uk/learn-with-us/… #learnwithus #evaluation

How can the wider #primarycare team help to achieve earlier diagnosis of #cancer? In a recent blog for @CancerPrev_KCL, Jessica Sheringham (ARC NT) and Alistair Thorpe (UCL DAHR) present the eCREST tool to improve accuracy & speed in diagnostics! blogs.kcl.ac.uk/cancerpreventi…

Register now for this great new #NIHRARCs webinar series on #MentalHealth, launching on Wed 17 May! The webinar on Wed 12 July includes Dr Ruth Plackett on the relationship between #socialmedia use and the mental health of young people

Read our latest article exploring educators' thoughts on adopting #virtual patients in clinical reasoning #teaching Angelos Kassianos Jessica Sheringham Maria A Kambouri UCL DAHR UCL IEHC NIHR Applied Research Collaboration North Thames bmcmededuc.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

What happens when, and why in healthcare? New paper in BMJ Quality & Safety explores temporal structuring in stroke wards Cancer Screening, Prevention & Early Diagnosis qualitysafety.bmj.com/content/early/…

What does the average British person think about sex? In our NEW ep of #PublicHealthDisrupted, we speak to David Spiegelhalter & Cath Mercer to find out more about Natsal Study - The National Surveys of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles. Dr Xand van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈 Rochelle A. Burgess @thewrittenro.bsky.social 🎧👇bit.ly/43QH3V9

We're hiring! Come and work with two major qual dweebs (me and Suzanne Scott 🤓🤓) on an NIHR SPCR project about early cancer diagnosis (MODE study). It's a part-time (60%FTE), fixed term appointment for 27 months qmul.ac.uk/jobs/vacancies… ***CLOSING DATE 17th JULY***

Come work with us 💼 🏢 We are recruiting an Associate Lecturer (Teaching), who will support the NIHR ARC North Thames Academy team to support research capacity-building activities for health and care professionals. Apply by 2 July 👇 #capacitybuilding ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/se…

Please join London Research and Policy Partnership for this network-building event + rooftop drinks next Thursday 20th July at LSE Registration below for tickets 👇👇

⁦Alistair⁩ presenting ECREST study on physician associates at #HSRUK2023 ⁦Dr Ruth Plackett⁩ ⁦Angelos Kassianos⁩

Excited to present at SAPC great research comparing clinical reasoning skills between medical and physician associates students - results show comparable skills when using a virtual patient @AThorpe Angelos Kassianos Jessica Sheringham Maria A Kambouri #SAPCASM #primarycare