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HeAL Health Applications Lab

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HeAL: Health Applications Lab @ Heriot-Watt University. Interdisciplinary social science research on health, wellbeing, healthcare systems, inequality, and policy. Producing evidence for more effective and equitable healthcare.

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Scottish Economic Society @scoteconsociety.bsky.social · 2mo ago

📢 Research opportunity for students and recent graduates Colleagues at Lancaster University are recruiting neurodivergent students and recent graduates of UK business schools to join a co-researcher advisory group. 🔗 linktr.ee/standpoint #EconSky #Research #Neurodiversity

Recruitment poster for a research advisory group. The poster asks: "Are you neurodivergent?" and invites people who are self-identifying or professionally identified, and who are current students or recent graduates of a UK business school (e.g. bachelor's, master's, MBA, or PhD), to help shape what a neuroinclusive business school could be. Participants are invited to join as co-researchers in a small advisory group alongside neurodivergent staff and students from across the UK. A QR code and the link https://linktr.ee/standpoint are provided to register interest. Logos at the bottom include the North West Social Science Doctoral Training Partnership, UKRI Economic and Social Research Council, Lancaster University, and The John and Lorna Wing Foundation, along with ethics approval and open access information.

Rachel Forshaw @rachelforshaw.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Operation Health! at the British Academy Festival of Ideas. Participants explored NHS resource allocation in 1974, discovering that similar outcomes could emerge from very different levels of provision, but with different trade-offs. @britishacademy.bsky.social heal-researchhub.github.io/nhs-74/

Dr Rachel Forshaw at the British Academy Festival of Ideas delivering Operation Health!, a workshop based on the NHS-74 project. Small groups discuss patient cases and allocate limited healthcare resources using historical NHS data from 1974.

Workshop materials from Operation Health! showing patient cards, resource tokens, and historical maps of NHS provision in 1974. Participants use these materials to make decisions about treatment, waiting lists, and healthcare capacity under resource constraints.

HeAL Health Applications Lab @heallab.bsky.social · 4mo ago

What happens to health when work suddenly stops? New research suggests the answer depends on how meaningful that work feels. HeAL director, Dr Rachel Forshaw, will be presenting new evidence from the UK furlough scheme at #CeLMRHERU2026 #HealthEconomics #WorkAndHealth #OccupationalHealth #EconSky

Conference programme for the CeLMR–HERU 2026 event, "Work. Life. Health. Connecting the Dots on Socioeconomic Wellbeing," held at the University of Aberdeen on 3 June 2026. The schedule includes presentations on work, health, wellbeing, labour economics, healthcare policy, social mobility, and public health, with keynote talks from NHS Grampian and the University of Oxford. Rachel Forshaw (Health Applications Lab, Heriot-Watt University) presents "The Health Effects of Occupational Meaningfulness: Evidence from the UK Furlough Scheme" at 15:10.

Glasgow Centre for Population Health @thegcph.bsky.social · 4mo ago

📣New GCPH report: the first national census analysis of LGBT+ health and wellbeing in Scotland, in collaboration with LGBT Health & Wellbeing. This #Pride month, the evidence is clear: inequalities persist. They are measurable and actionable. Read more: www.gcph.co.uk/latest/publi...

The Health Foundation @healthfoundation.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Join our upcoming webinar, Tackling economic inactivity: local action on mental health and employment, taking place on Thursday 25 June. We will explore how integrating mental health and employment support can help more people enter, stay in, and thrive at work. Register now ⬇️

Long-term sickness is now the primary driver of economic inactivity, with mental health conditions accounting for a significant and growing proportion of this trend.

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HeAL Health Applications Lab @heallab.bsky.social · 4mo ago

What do the Enhanced Games reveal about sport and anti-doping? HeAL Lab co-director April Henning weighs in for @nature.com.

Nature@nature.com · 4mo ago

The Enhanced Games, which permits the use of performance-enhancing drugs, exposes flaws in the sporting world, says April Henning go.nature.com/3R8SbLT

The Health Foundation @healthfoundation.bsky.social · 4mo ago

In this recent blog, @swjatwell.bsky.social and @luisaptg.bsky.social look at government efforts to make the fit notes system more effective, and what could help ensure success. Read more⬇️ https://bit.ly/4fbnJdX

The image shows a blue graphic with text saying 'a more effective system will require joined-up conversations between the health care professionals providing clinical input, employers, employees and other relevant services.'

Scottish Economic Society @scoteconsociety.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Early View 📢 Mental well-being among young people in the UK has worsened sharply in recent years - especially for women under 25. Blanchflower, Bryson, and Bell examine long-run evidence in: "Deteriorating Mental Well-Being of the Young in the UK" doi.org/10.1111/sjpe.70050 #EconSky

First page of the Scottish Journal of Political Economy article “Deteriorating Mental Well-Being of the Young in the UK” by David G. Blanchflower, Alex Bryson, and David N. F. Bell.

HeAL Health Applications Lab @heallab.bsky.social · 4mo ago

HeAL is Heriot-Watt University’s interdisciplinary social science lab for health and healthcare research, focused on wellbeing, inequality, healthcare systems, and policy evaluation. Follow for research, publications, and discussion on health, policy, and society.