Dr Abby Dunn
@abbydunn.bsky.social
Associate Professor at the University of Sussex and NIHR Advanced Fellow. Work focused on parental mental health and the intergenerational transmission of mental health challenges.
Make inpatient mental health hospitals places where family connection is supported. We are working with working with parents, children and young people, carers and healthcare professionals to develop new family visit rooms. Share your experieces. @sane.org.uk @mmhalliance.bsky.social
📢 Help us improve family rooms in mental health hospitals We want to find out about parents, children, carers, and healthcare professionals experiences of family visits to mental health inpatient units — and we’d really love to hear from you. 👉 find out more at inpatientfamilies.org.uk
Today begins the @nihr.bsky.social grant to improve inpatient facilities for parents who are hospitalised and their families. Very excited to colllaborate with @profsamch.bsky.social, Dr Eleanor Ratcliffe, Chloe Elsby-Pearson and Mark Oliver @researchspft.bsky.social @surreypsychology.bsky.social
Looking forward to joining @profsamch.bsky.social to talk about preventing intergenerational transmission of mental illness later at @rcpsych.bsky.social conference 2025
The Royal College of Psychiatrists@rcpsych.bsky.social · last yr.With RCPsych International Congress taking place in Wales, be sure to keep in touch with the action with coverage of Keynote speeches on X and the many events taking place via Instagram. Learn more about our social media channels rcpsych.ac.uk/about-us/soc...
Prevention of mental illness in children of parents with depression 10-min talk from Belinda Platt describing evidence-based interventions to prevent youth mental illness with a focus on an family-and group-based intervention. acamhlearn.org/Learning/Pre... #ACMHlearn
Prevention of mental illness in children of parents with depression
acamhlearn.org
Very much looking forward to being part of the Carers Week webinar today. Talking about the identification (or lack of it) of parents and their children by adult mental health services. @carers-uk.bsky.social @carers-week.bsky.social
Question: How do researchers who are investigating parenting (from any angle) ensure that fathers are involved?
Very excited to join this brilliant event. The curators have pulled together a fantastic programme in Crawley and Brighton.
Forthwrite@forthwrite.bsky.social · 2y ago
Great article! Now beavers are stars of @prospectmagazine.co.uk and @allaboutthearchers.bsky.social they are encroaching on capybara www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
How the Capybara Won My Heart—and Almost Everyone’s Else’s
It’s not hard to understand why capys have a cultlike following on Instagram and TikTok. I fell for the giant rodent decades ago.
newyorker.com
Prospect Magazine@prospectmagazine.co.uk · 2y agoThere’s a simple and cost-effective solution to flooding and water shortages. It’s got four legs, a flat tail and a talent for engineering, writes Prospect’s new climate columnist @timsmedley.bsky.social. www.prospectmagazine...
#PhD #IPV #postpartum #mental #illness - but move quickly, closes. 14 Feb 25
QMUL Centre for Psychiatry & Mental Health@qmulpsychiatry.bsky.social · 2y agoAnother fully funded PhD @qmul.ac.uk - -Experiences of postpartum survivors of Intimate Partner Violence with serious mental health illness - but move quickly, closes Friday 14th of Feb 25. Please share widely! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
PCPH @bsmspcph.bsky.social Our seminar this month is presented by Dr Abby Dunn @abbydunn.bsky.social . Please come along to Watson, 301 - all are welcome. Contact primarycareda@bsms.ac.uk for further information.
Rising rates of post-natal child removal are not a consequence of greater numbers of women with at-risk babies. As a society we should be working harder to prevent this www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
‘I can’t sleep, I’m terrified’: the rise in mothers having their babies taken away within days of giving birth in England
Charity finds ‘inhumane’ system is forcing women to defend themselves in court, sometimes from their hospital beds, while in fear of having their newborn child taken from them
theguardian.com
Writing week. Any academics out there will know why it's almost holiday vibes here. @academic-chatter.bsky.social
Very pleased to have this piece of work out in the world! We know that hospitalisation is difficult for parents and their families. Even small actions can support parent-child connection when a parent is being treated as an inpatient. @surreypsychology.bsky.social
NIHR Applied Research Collaboration Kent, Surrey and Sussex@arckss.bsky.social · 2y agoResearchers from Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, University of Sussex and University of Surrey have developed a new programme to help parents in psychiatric hospital stay connected with their children 🏥 Find out more here 👉 tinyurl.com/yc2vsvuf @abbydunn.bsky.social
