As debate continues around proposed social media and AI chatbot restrictions for UK children, members of our team have been contributing evidence and expertise through media interviews, journalist briefings and commentary this week. Featured by BBC News, New Scientist and Oxford News. Links below👇

A rare *fully funded* DPhil studentship with our team @oxfordpsychiatry.bsky.social has just launched! Check it out & don't hesitate to be in touch ⬇️

Holly Bear @drhollybear.bsky.social · 11mo ago

🚨 Interested in a fully funded DPhil at Oxford? 🌏 We’re recruiting for an MRC iCASE studentship on conversational AI for youth mental health. Join an amazing team using youth voice to shape global digital health. ⏳ Deadline: 2 Dec 2025 💡 Get in touch to chat! 🔗 More info: tinyurl.com/4ua4j46h

Out today in BJPsych Open: Fragmentation in adolescent health care provision In this editorial, @minafazeloxford.bsky.social & @emmasoneson.bsky.social describe the perils of fragmentation in adolescent health care and consider what's needed to enhance provision. Read here ⬇️

🌍🧠 Final call! We are recruiting a Senior Researcher in Child Mental Health and Climate Change — an innovative new post linking psychiatry, global health, and climate resilience. Closes 16 June — just days left to apply. Please share!

After a quiet spell here (because it’s been very busy!) — a big #OxWell update 📣🧠 Over 40,000 students have taken part in the 2025 survey so far — THANK YOU to every student who shared their voice 💬💛

Today our team took a well-deserved trip to go hang out with alpacas down at the @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social Radcliffe Camera 🦙 As Very Serious Researchers in mental health, we're pleased to rate this experience a 10/10 for promoting staff #wellbeing & highly recommend nationwide implementation!

👏 Galit Geulayov and Emma Soneson were highly commended in the Research Culture award for pioneering a new approach to mentoring future researchers. @emmasoneson.bsky.social 📷Cyrus Mower

With Psychiatry represented in six nominations in the University of Oxford Vice Chancellor's Awards, we are so pleased and proud of all of our finalists. Now the results are in...

It's a good day for our team with *TWO* new papers fresh off the press! 💃 @drhollybear.bsky.social et al. on incentives in app research ➡️ www.cambridge.org/core/journal... @emmasoneson.bsky.social et al. on adolescent concerns about health & wellbeing research ➡️ www.jahonline.org/article/S105...

We're so excited to advertise a new Senior Researcher post (with an *open-ended* contract!) in climate change & children's mental health 🌍 Come join us & help shape the future of this critical research area. More details here ➡️ source.data.ox.ac.uk/vacancies/17...

DPhil student Boluwatife Cole on her research into predicting adversity and mental health from neural networks. #PsychAwayDay More on Boluwatife’s work here 👇 www.psych.ox.ac.uk/team/boluwat...

Now DPhil student @amalieschumann.bsky.social with a qualitative study on sibling understanding of Anorexia Nervosa in childhood. #PsychAwayDay More on Amalie ⬇️ www.psych.ox.ac.uk/team/amalie-...

Great to see so many VC Awards nominees from our Department, including team members @emmasoneson.bsky.social & @digadulit.bsky.social, who've been shortlisted for the Research Culture Award 👏

Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford@oxfordpsychiatry.bsky.social · last yr.

Dr Emma Soneson @emmasoneson.bsky.social and Dr Galit Geulayov have been shortlisted for the Research Culture Award for their commitment to supporting students through the NIHR Undergraduate Internship Programme. This included providing personalised feedback to 429 applicants! 📝

It's been a busy 48 hours for our senior postdocs @drhollybear.bsky.social & @emmasoneson.bsky.social, who were invited by BBC South Today & Radio Oxford to talk about the latest Oxfordshire Director of Public Health Annual Report on Children & Young People's #mentalhealth. Links below👇

I wrote a blog explaining why I believe administrative #Data is useful and how it can help us understand #MentalHealth support needs in #Neurodiversity better. Read it here: 🔗 www.adruk.org/news-publica... #supporttheyouth @oxexppsy.bsky.social @oxchildpsych.bsky.social

A roadmap to better support for neurodivergent children

ADR UK Research Fellow Dr Simona Skripkauskaite believes linked administrative data research could help build a more supportive and responsive system that me...

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Our latest paper is now out in Current Psychology: 🔗 link.springer.com/article/10.1... Based on data from over 14,000 adolescents we found: It’s not just how much time young people spend online-it’s what they’re doing & what they’re exposed to that matters.

Isolation despite hyper-connectivity? The association between adolescents’ mental health and online behaviours in a large study of school-aged students - Current Psychology

Smartphone use has risen rapidly amongst adolescents over the last decade, as has the rates of common mental disorders. This has raised widespread concerns about direct links between adolescents’ gene...

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Well done, Lea! 👏

OxWell Study@oxwell.bsky.social · last yr.

Great to see Lea Satala presenting her OxWell findings at the @nihr.bsky.social Undergraduate Internship Programme Celebration Event in London this morning! Lea undertook an 8-wk internship with @oxchildpsych.bsky.social last summer & did some really impactful work around adolescent self-harm.

5 years ago #OxfMedSci celebrated a centenary of women as full members of @ox.ac.uk with achievements of 100 Women of Medical Sciences. Some have moved on to new challenges, or are now in different positions, but they remain inspirational. This #IWD take moment to meet them. www.medsci.ox.ac.uk/...

100 Women of Oxford Medical Sciences

100 years since women were admitted as full members of the University of Oxford, women now hold vital posts at all levels of this institution. Medical Sciences Division asked 100 of these women to take part in a project to showcase diversity of roles they now hold. Launching on Thursday 11 February, each day they will be bringing you a new group of incredible women working across the Medical Sciences Division, each reflecting on their journeys, their place in Medical Sciences and their vision for the next 100 years.

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On Wednesday @amalieschumann.bsky.social & @minafazeloxford.bsky.social took part in the #EatingDisorderAwarenessDay Conference hosted by the CAMHS Eating Disorder Service in Oxford. #EatingDisordersAwarenessWeek

So proud of our shining star Anne Stewart 🌟 (& CAP friends Caz Nahman and Joanna Adams), whose book - Overcoming Worries About Body Image and Eating - launched today at @brasenoseoxford.bsky.social 📚 Huge potential to make a huge difference for young people!

A helpful reminder from our very thoughtful DPhil student @amalieschumann.bsky.social: It’s #EatingDisordersAwarenessWeek. BEAT’s guidance is a valuable resource for anyone posting or communicating about #eatingdisorders. Let’s raise awareness with sensitivity and care. #EDAW2025

Beat on LinkedIn: #eatingdisordersawarenessweek #edaw2025 #anyoneanytime

Monday is the start of Eating Disorders Awareness Week, which will be filled with fundraising, stories, stats, support, and ways that you can help - one of…

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Loved being part of this discussion! Have a listen to hear us chat about harnessing the power of today's young people, creating meaningful change in our communities, and my 'beef' with one of the most commonly-used phrases in our field... 👀 Thanks for having me, @gatescambridge.bsky.social!

Gates Cambridge@gatescambridge.bsky.social · 2y ago

The 2nd season of the Gates Cambridge So, now what? podcast begins with a discussion on how to make the world a better place for young people. Listen here - www.gatescambridge.org/about/news/f... With @emmasoneson.bsky.social, @Blanca Pi-Sunyer & Kevin Beckford

🔎The Atlas of Longitudinal Datasets is open for use! Filter, compare, save and explore your way through over 1,600 datasets from around the world, with even more to come. Find the #AtlasLongitudinalDatasets here: www.atlaslongitudinaldatasets.ac.uk @wellcometrust.bsky.social

Great to see Profs Kam Bhui, @minafazeloxford.bsky.social, @cathycreswell.bsky.social & David Ndetei discuss resilience & mental health amongst young people in India, Kenya & globally at @somervillecollege.bsky.social this evening. Lots of interesting discussion & ideas. #mentalhealth

Help our team learn how to support siblings of young people with #eatingdisorders. These groups will help us improve an intervention for these often overlooked young people. #mentalhealth #research

Amalie Schumann@amalieschumann.bsky.social · 2y ago

We're looking for parents who can help shape our research plans, focusing on the needs of siblings when a young person has an eating disorder. Please click the link or scan the QR code to learn more and get involved! 🌻💭 psychiatryoxford.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

We’re at @wellcometrust.bsky.social for the launch of the Atlas of Longitudinal Datasets - a free online platform that maps longitudinal datasets around the world🌎 @larseneault.bsky.social @mqmentalhealth.bsky.social 🔗https://atlaslongitudinaldatasets.ac.uk/ #AtlasLongitudinalDatasets

📣 New Research! It took 6 years but we got there! The STADIA trial reports… What we did: Large multi-centre #RCT with 1225 children and young people with emotional difficulties referred to #CAMHS across England, followed-up for 18 months. 6 Headline findings… see below… (1/7)

Another new paper from the @oxwell.bsky.social team here at Child & Adolescent Psychiatry! 📘 Read (free) to learn about social jetlag in young people: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Social jetlag and sleep habits in children and adolescents: Associations with autonomy (bedtime setting and electronics curfew) and electronic media use before sleep

For young people attending school, social jetlag (SJL) refers to discrepancy in sleep/wake timing between school days and weekends. This study investigated SJL in school-aged children and adolescen...

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OxWell Study@oxwell.bsky.social · 2y ago

Social jetlag = the mismatch between social & biological time ✈️😴 Our new @oxwell.bsky.social study of ~20K #children & #adolescents shows an average jetlag of ~2 hrs 🕑 . ⬆️ jetlag was associated w/ weekend bedtime setting 🛌, & #socialmedia use 📱 and #gaming 🎮 before #sleep Read more below 👇

New @oxwell.bsky.social study out today puts the #youthvoice centre stage in understanding the availability, accessibility & acceptability of #mentalhealth support in the UK. PRESS RELEASE ➡️ www.psych.ox.ac.uk/news/radical... ARTICLE ➡️ www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Radical rethink of mental health support for adolescents needed – new study

Young people have given important insights into what mental health support they prefer and what does not work for them or meet their needs, as part of a major new study of thousands of adolescents.

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*Networks of care for the modern adolescent* 🫶🌻 In our new paper, we combine a #network approach + applied research lens to explore where #youngpeople are accessing #mentalhealth support & how helpful they find it. w/ Simon R White & @minafazeloxford.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...