The self-harm and suicide prevention research group at the @imh-uob.bsky.social aim to understand and tackle the risks of self-harm and suicide across different contexts. Watch this video where @willemjstander.bsky.social, @mkolitsida.bsky.social and I discuss our work. youtu.be/9q2Qvi9PtuU?...

Creating Safe Spaces: World Suicide Prevention Day | University of Birmingham

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Looking forward to sharing the next chapter of our #safedanceresearch on 'Safeguarding and abuse prevention policies of UK Dance Organisations' at #ICSSR2025 with Erin Sanchez, @georgiabird.bsky.social , @mkolitsida.bsky.social , @gracetidmarsh.bsky.social , @maryquinton.bsky.social

Looking forward to sharing the results of our scoping review on on 'Abuse and Harm in Dance at #ICSSR2025 with Erin Sanchez, @mkolitsida.bsky.social , @gracetidmarsh.bsky.social , @maryquinton.bsky.social @jenncumming.bsky.social

On 26th Feb, our team were recognised for their public engagement work! 🎉 Congratulations to @mkolitsida.bsky.social, @maryquinton.bsky.social, @gracetidmarsh.bsky.social, & @jenncumming.bsky.social for nominations and recognitions. 👉 Find out more www.sprintproject.org/post/success...

This morning I attended the @unibirmingham.bsky.social Public Engagement Awards and found out I have been highly commended for the Alice Roberts PGR Excellence in Public Engagement Award for the public engagement activities surrounding my PhD project.

🩰 Thank you to the Royal Academy of Dance for hosting this event allowing us to share my PhD research on self-harm in dance with 173 dance educators! 🩰 @jenncumming.bsky.social Click the link to find out more 👇🏻

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🌟 Exciting News! 🌟 This week, @mkolitsida.bsky.social delivered an incredible presentation on self-harm prevention in dance education at the Royal Academy of Dance. See our latest blog to find out more: www.sprintproject.org/post/self-ha... #MentalHealth #DanceEducation

‼️New paper out‼️ It has been an honor to join Dr Glykeria Skamagki, @dptblackburn.bsky.social, Dr Daniel Biggs, Dr Cameron Black and Dr Sivaramkumar Shanmugam in conducting this vital piece of research on #burnout in #physiotherapists. @unibirmingham.bsky.social journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

The BMJ will remunerate patient and public reviewers | The BMJ www.bmj.com/content/387/... #PatientEngagement

The BMJ will remunerate patient and public reviewers

The BMJ will offer £50 for reviews by patients and the public From January 2025 patients and members of the public who complete a review for The BMJ will be offered £50 or a 12 month online subscript...

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Last day of work, doing some marking and the cat walked over with purpose, sat on my marking scheme and refused to move for an hour until she fell asleep on said marking scheme. This can only mean it is time to close everything down for the year?! Have a good festive break everyone!🎄

Alongside all the staff & young people at St Basils, it has also been great to work alongside Prof. @jenncumming.bsky.social, Dr @maryquinton.bsky.social, @mkolitsida.bsky.social & Prof. Jessica Pykett. Thank you to the ESRC & Cooke and Wolstenholme Charitable Trust for their support & funding.

A real privilege to present the overview of a 3-year evaluation of St Basils Transition Hub service to Birmingham City Council today alongside @georgiabird.bsky.social #youthhomelessness #servicedelivery #serviceevaluation #strengthsbased #implementation

📢 NEW PAPER & BLOG POST ALERT ⤵️ We're excited to share the latest insights from the SPRINT project, highlighting strengths-based mental skills training interventions for disadvantaged youth. www.mdpi.com/2673-995X/4/... @maryquinton.bsky.social @gracetidmarsh.bsky.social Dr Sally Reynard

I have created a starter pack to follow people researching, practicing, or sharing dance psychology. Please let me know if you would like to be added. go.bsky.app/2GJUn6v

🩰 Just wrote about a recent study on how social comparison affects dancers, shedding light on the psychological challenges of performing in a competitive world. Check it out: amelianewton.co.uk/blog/how-soc... Would love to hear your thoughts!

How social comparison impacts dancers

A new study by Rasheed and Runswick (2024) published in the Journal of Dance Education explores a topic very familiar to those of us who have spent time training and performing in dance: social comp...

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Beautiful day spent at The Exchange for the Public and Cultural Engagement Day hosted by the Public Engagement Team at the University of Birmingham ☀️ A big part of my PhD involves sharing our research findings with those in dance to help support them with self-harm concerns in dance students.

🔊 JOB ALERT www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKQ664/r... Work within a multidisciplinary team led by Care Policy and Evaluation Centre at LSE with Action on Postpartum Psychosis on realist evaluation of a third-sector peer support model for women with severe mental illness during the perinatal period

Research Officer (0.5 FTE) at London School of Economics and Political Science

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Starter pack for Mental Health and Physical Activity Research - please take a look, share or ask to join! go.bsky.app/tSiurc

I have created a sport and exercise psychology starter pack to help as more of us from this field move over from other platforms. Let me know if you'd like to be added to the starter pack 🧠 go.bsky.app/Su4tmmW #SportPsychology #ExercisePsychology #SportandExercise #AcademicSky

It has been excellent to get some protected writing time after presenting this work at the International Association of Dance Medicine and Science Annual Conference in Rimini, Italy a couple of week ago 🩰

An excellent few days having the most beautiful writing mates for the SPRINT Project writing retreat. Achieved some good progress on my PhD manuscript on dance teachers responses to self-harm in private dance education and the overall team’s work on safeguarding and abuse prevention in dance 🦌