📣Launched today! A cross-sector, nation-wide survey to build an inclusive picture of who is working on what kinds of behavioural research and in which parts of the UK💬 Take the survey now: qualtrics.ucl.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_bI…

Hey BBC will there be more episodes of The Assembly?

Interested in both health & climate change related behaviours? ❤️ 🌍
Myself and Dr Tess Davis (she/her) are setting up the new UK Society for Behavioural Medicine climate change SIG to increase opportunities to share and collaborate across this important area. Please complete this survey to join or find out more ⬇️

⁦BPS statement on qualifications - this is positive news, watch this space! ⁦BPS DHP⁩ bps.org.uk/news/statement…

Great work from Adam Danquah …epublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Karen Tidswell David Patrick Lucie BD Diane Ashiru, PhD Dentists are the second highest in UK too - more than the total number of antibiotic items prescribed in hospitals.

One difference in UK is that prophylactic antibiotic prescribing is <1% of total antibiotic use by dentists.

doi.org/10.1017%2Fice.… may be if interest

Dentists are the second highest prescribers of antimicrobials in BC Canada (grey line on these charts). Really interesting to hear David Patrick telling us about his analysis. Lucie BD Diane Ashiru, PhD

8 years ago I went to Uganda with
The Change Exchange . I was awed by the hard working health care professionals. I gained a new appreciation for the NHS. I realised my own skills in applying behaviour change. It catalysed my continuing interest in maternal health. It changed my life.

Have you completed an MSc in health psych and looking for the next steps?
⁦BPS DHP⁩
This fully funded studentship on sexual function and #MS may be got you.
1 week left to apply 👇 findaphd.com/phds/project/i…

This article about behavioural mechanisms of action (specified in an extensive ontology) in WellcomeOpenResearch has been viewed more than 500 times! If you are interested in behaviour & how it changes, or theoretical processes of change, do read wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/8-337… Human Behaviour-Change Project

I think the main issue with this campaign - and even in their response to criticism- is that it is the ‘carers’ gaze’ and in centring carers it objectifies people living with the disease.

#ALFAFellows , the Kenyan Chapter, are part of the wider Leadership strengthening initiative at the Commonwealth Pharmacists Association , empowering African Pharmacists across 8 countries to foster #AMS
Welldone Dr Muringu #CwPAMS

*Message from the BPS Division of Health Psychology Committee*. We've been fielding concerns from members about the closure of some independent routes. We share these concerns and have written an open letter to the BPS, seeking urgent clarifications

drive.google.com/file/d/1MMtoC-…

*Message from the BPS Division of Health Psychology Committee*. We've been fielding concerns from members about the closure of some independent routes. We share these concerns and have written an open letter to the BPS, seeking urgent clarifications tinyurl.com/mry7xus6

Crucial information

This WHO/Europe report shows how behavioral and cultural insights to improve health and well-being are valued across the European member states. Still, we are not fully exploiting its potential and can do better.

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For anyone who missed this - keeping an eye on what British Psychological Society are planning re stage two qualifications bps.org.uk/news/review-bp…

🦠Increasing antimicrobial resistance means that crucial drugs are no longer effective for treating many infections.
🔗Michael Bottery, Prof Michael Brokhurst, Lucie BD, Prof Michael Bromley, and Wendy Thompson explore ways to tackle antimicrobial resistance: ow.ly/zpiQ50QMkrN

Is it just me or does this study have nothing to say about whether doing well at GCSEs ‘leads to’ better wellbeing? Am I missing something? york.ac.uk/news-and-event…“While%20GCSE%20grades%20most%20strongly,emotional%20development%20including%20better%20wellbeing.