As we approach World Mental Health Day we're delighted to announce a new international collaboration funded by @wellcometrust.bsky.social to investigate the risks, progression and outcomes of psychosis over time. Find out more: bit.ly/3TI50yh @kingscsmh.bsky.social

New research aims to untangle the causes and outcomes of psychosis | King's College London

Researchers from King’s College London, University College London, the Schizophrenia Research Foundation (Chennai, India), the University of Ibadan (Nigeria), and the University of the West Indies (Tr...

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📣 Join our first seminar of the new academic year with Dr Sarah Hughes CBE. She will discuss how uncertainty, evaluation, loss of belonging and lack of opportunity for recovery are driving a mental health crisis in young people. 📆 14 October 2026, 3.30pm to 4.30pm 📍 Online

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CSMH Seminar Series: Four Horsemen – Zoom, Wed 14 Oct 2026 - Four Horsemen: How uncertainty, evaluation, loss of belonging and lack of opportunity for recovery are driving a mental crisis in young peo...

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Position paper, "Exploring the value of lived experience in a mental health research centre," co-authored by the Lived Experience Advisory Board (LEAB), ESRC Centre for Society and Mental Health (CSMH). @hannakienzler.bsky.social @ukri.org @nsunnews.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Exploring the value of lived experience in a mental health research centre - Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

This position paper has been collectively written and co-produced by the Lived Experience Advisory Board at the ESRC Centre for Society and Mental Health, along with a survivor researcher, lived exper...

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Childhood social isolation 🚶‍♀️ → higher inflammation at 18 in E-Risk 🔥 But only suPAR holds after adjustments, and twin comparisons suggest shared family factors, not isolation alone, explain the link 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦🔗 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37992788/ @kingsioppn.bsky.social @kingscsmh.bsky.social

Social isolation, loneliness, and inflammation: A multi-cohort investigation in early and mid-adulthood - PubMed

Social isolation and loneliness have been associated with poor health and increased risk for mortality, and inflammation might explain this link. We used data from the Danish TRIAGE Study of acutely a...

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Sign up for our free seminar on 17 June 4-5pm: Introducing and Critiquing the Causal Revolution in Epidemiology. In this talk, Professor Sharon Schwartz and Associate Professor Seth Prins will discuss their recent book: "Causal Inference and the People’s health" www.kcl.ac.uk/events/intro...

Introducing and Critiquing the Causal Revolution in Epidemiology | King's College London

In this talk, drawn from our recent book, Causal Inference and the People’s health, we interrogate these debates, critique inadequate attempts at their resolution, and offer a path forward—by embracin...

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Sign up for our next CSMH Seminar series event: Focusing in on life course processes to understand how racism patterns ethnic inequities in health Speaker: Prof. Laia Becares Date and time: Wed 13th May 16:00-17:00 Sign up here for free: www.tickettailor.com/events/esrcc...

Focusing in on life course processes to understand how racism patterns ethnic inequities in health | King's College London

This seminar explores the role of racism, experienced over the life course, in structuring ethnic inequalities in health.

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Join us for our next Primers & Provocations series: Working with "missing" data: Strategies for equitable research with data that contain gaps, absences, and silences When: 2:00-3:30pm 5th May Where: Zoom Sign up here for free: www.kcl.ac.uk/events/worki...

Working with "missing" data: Strategies for equitable research with data that contain gaps, absences, and silences | King's College London

This Primer & Provocation roundtable brings together interdisciplinary researchers working on social inequalities in mental health to critically reflect on the challenges, consequences, and possibilit...

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How can mental health services tackle poverty and isolation to improve outcomes? Mental health services are failing to adequately address the social and economic needs of service users, despite these being critical to recovery, according to a major new body of research from King’s College London.

🧡Read our new Refugee Mental Health & Place Blog by members of the @helenbamber.bsky.social co-production group: "Co-producing research in a hostile environment: Reflections from practice" 🔗 www.kcl.ac.uk/co-producing...

Co-Producing Research in a Hostile Environment: Reflections from…

The year 2025 has been hard for anyone working in migration policy and practice, as we continue to defend and justify the need for a humane and just immigration system. The environment continues…

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🧠 Prospective vs. retrospective measures of childhood maltreatment often flag different people 🧑 🔍 More social support & better mental health → less retrospective recall 🔍 Higher SES & more positive family functioning → harder prospective detection @kingsioppn.bsky.social @kingscsmh.bsky.social

Sign up for the next Refugee Mental Health and Place Network seminar 4pm on 7 April! Professor Michelle Pace will discuss her recent and timely publication of 'Un-welcome to Denmark. The Paradigm Shift and Refugee Integration'. Register for free here: www.kcl.ac.uk/events/discu...

Discussion: Un–welcome to Denmark. The Paradigm Shift and Refugee Integration | King's College London

In this seminar, Professor Michelle Pace discusses her recent and timely publication of Un–welcome to Denmark. The Paradigm Shift and Refugee Integration.

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Welcome Marta, the newest member of the E‑Risk team! “Meeting the twins at 30 is a rare chance to explore identity, relationships, and wellbeing from childhood into adulthood 🧑‍🧒. I can't wait to get started with the team!” 💙 @kingsioppn.bsky.social @kingscsmh.bsky.social

Sign up for the next Refugee Mental Health and Place seminar: Talking About the Past and Reliving It: Colonial Violence, Diasporic Memory, and the Afterlives of Empire in Britain When: 24 March, 2pm Sign up for free: www.kcl.ac.uk/events/talki...

Talking About the Past and Reliving It: Colonial Violence, Diasporic Memory, and the Afterlives of Empire in Britain | King's College London

This presentation will examine how historical events such as massacres illuminate the brutality of the empire and its lasting impact on postcolonial communities.

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Interested in how lived experience involvement can enrich mental health research? Sign up to our seminar on 11 March to hear our Lived Experience Advisory Board discuss their position paper: “Exploring the Value of Lived Experience in a Mental Health Research Centre" www.kcl.ac.uk/events/trans...

The Alchemy of Involvement: Transmuting lived experience into experiential knowledge to enrich mental health research | King's College London

In this interactive session, the value of experiential knowledge is celebrated, and the key attitudes, features and ways of organisational working that help realise it are identified, as are the obsta...

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Interested in the link between young people in coastal communities and mental health? Join us next week for our seminar with Dr Emily Murray from the University of Essex, who will discuss the environments of English youth and their association with mental health. www.kcl.ac.uk/events/young...

Young people in coastal communities and mental health | King's College London

Dr Murray will discuss the environments of English youth and their association with mental health.

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At the @kingscsmh.bsky.social, we learned about a new method: "Q Methodology". ➡️Want to learn more about it? Check out our new Research Methods Toolkit page to find out what it is, how it is done, and how it looks in action. 🔗 researchmethodstoolkit.com/more-approac...

Across three cohorts, including the E-Risk Study, a paper led by Dr Kyle Bourassa found that young people with lifetime PTSD show elevated suPAR at age 18, a marker of chronic inflammation. A key insight into how trauma shapes long‑term health. 📚✨ @kingsioppn.bsky.social @kingscsmh.bsky.social

The number of adults seeking support for anxiety is rising. However, less than half of those who access treatment through NHS Talking Therapies reliably recover. We are proud to be one of 30 organisations supporting UKCP's campaign calling for an urgent update to the NICE anxiety guidelines.

Asylum-seekers and refugees are at high risk of mental health problems because of adverse experiences before, during, and after their journeys. Read Reem Saifeldeen's recent blog for the Refugee Mental Health and Place Network at King's College London: www.kcl.ac.uk/immigration-...

Immigration detention: A mental health crisis without borders

Asylum-seekers and refugees are at high risk of mental health problems because of adverse experiences before, during, and after their journeys. Many of these individuals are placed in immigration…

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We’re delighted to announce that the E‑Risk Team has now interviewed over 900 twins! 👯✨ A huge thank‑you to all the twins who’ve taken part — we can’t wait to meet the rest of you! 💙 @kingscsmh.bsky.social @kingsioppn.bsky.social

We're proud to have supported Dr Gemma Knowles' first phase of her Bridging Divides project. We are incredibly  pleased to see Gemma win the Medical Research Foundation Emerging Leaders Prize, enabling her team to dive deeper into boys’ experiences of sexism within this project.

Medical Research UK@medicalresearchuk.bsky.social · 9mo ago

📢 Announcing the winners of our 2025 Emerging Leaders Prize! 📢 Thanks to our generous donors, the award winners will be able to further their research into the underfunded area of children and young people's mental health, as well as developing their careers 👏 👉 Read more: https://bit.ly/4qK85co

How can we develop trauma-informed recommendations for the asylum process? Join the Refugee Mental Health and Place Network's seminar on how to create trauma-informed practice guidelines using participatory and co-production methods. On 11 Feb 4pm Free registration: www.kcl.ac.uk/events/traum...

Trauma-Informing the Asylum Process: Guidelines and Recommendations Co-developed with Young People Seeking Asylum | King's College London

This presentation draws on empirical findings based on Albanian young people’s lived experience of the UK’s asylum process.

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Self-harm among young people is rising, particularly those with mental health difficulties. New research from the IoPPN, in partnership with Young Minds, examined the social media posting behaviour of those who self-harm. www.kcl.ac.uk/news/young-p...

Young people may temporarily withdraw from social media use on the day they self-harm | King's College London

New research has examined the image-posting habits on social media of young people who self-harm.

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Come work with us! We are looking for a Research Assistant to join our Evidence Development and Incubation Team, which partners with government departments, public bodies, charities and other organisations to understand the impact of their work Apply by 16 February ➡️ www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/136005-...

Job opportunity - we need a fab new colleague to do quant research on work, welfare and mental health within @kingscsmh.bsky.social (closes 8 Feb) This is funded until Apr/28, but we'll support you in bids to extend it - please do circulate to suitable ppl! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQD294/p...

Postdoctoral Research Associate in Work, Welfare & Mental Health at King's College London

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How can we prevent early deaths in people with severe mental illness? New Centre-supported research has found that social exclusion in South London may be a contributing factor in higher mortality in those with schizophrenia-spectrum and bipolar affective disorders. bit.ly/454YLqC

Social exclusion contributes to higher mortality in people with schizophrenia and bipolar disorders, study finds | King's College London

New research from the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, supported by the Population Mental Health Consortium and ESRC Centre for Society and Mental Health, has found that social excl...

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💬 How we talk to our children matters, long after childhood. New findings from the E-Risk Study show that maternal warmth and negativity at age 10 are linked to mental health in adolescence. 📽 Watch Dr Alice Wickersham explain more in this video. @kingscsmh.bsky.social @kingsioppn.bsky.social

Will the Mayfield Review create pathways to work for disabled people? Catherine Hale explains why flexible working must sit at the centre of the employer-led approach to supporting people to stay in work. www.kcl.ac.uk/will-the-may... @catherinehale.bsky.social @kings-sga.bsky.social

Will the Mayfield Review create pathways to work for disabled people?

In this blog, Catherine explains why flexible working must sit at the centre of the employer-led approach to supporting people to remain in work and closing the disability employment gap. She…

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🧡🇵🇸Join our next online Refugee Mental Health and Place seminar with Dr Abdullah Aldiwan on "Psychological Support for Palestinian Refugees Amid Genocide and Structural Injustice" 🗓️04 December 2025 ⏲️16:00 - 17:30 GMT Sign-up: www.kcl.ac.uk/events/psych...

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Population Mental Health@popmhuk.bsky.social · 11mo ago

🔔Vacancy alert! Research Assistant with Population Mental Health! 🧠 Project management, PPI work & research output contributions. Deadline 30 Nov. Apply 👉 www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/131106-... @pubhealthjobsuk.bsky.social @phiuk.bsky.social @kingsioppn.bsky.social #MentalHealth #Research #JobOpportunity