Dr Phoebe Averill
@phoebeaverill.bsky.social
Current @betterhchub-kcl.bsky.social Postdoctoral Research Fellow with an interest in improving mental healthcare. Previously: @imperial-ighi.bsky.social postdoc and @thisinstitute.cam.ac.uk PhD student at @kingsioppn.bsky.social 📚 📍 London
Super excited to attend this next week!
Lisa Bortolotti@lisabortolotti.com · 2mo agoAre you ready for the event of the year, #projectEPIC summer school? @lalumera.bsky.social and I are excited to host participants from all over world in Emilia Romagna where we are from! 18 talks in 3 days, all on #epistemicinjustice in healthcare & its various applications #philsky #EPICBertinoro
Really glad to be attending #ENMESH2026 this week in Sofia, Bulgaria! 🇧🇬 Looking forward to presenting on Friday 19th June at 15:00 in Neptune Hall #1 on my @thisinstitute.cam.ac.uk funded work on safety in community mental health services.
🆕 REPORT ➡️ Mental health: attempted suicide while under the care of community services 📖 Read the report: buff.ly/AXbw7w8 #PatientSafety #NHS #MentalHealth #PSIRF
Join us on 20 May for an exciting evening of research with real‑world impact at @pintofscience.uk 2026! Our researchers will share insights across key health and care topics, including patient safety, diabetes and healthy ageing. Get your tickets: shorturl.at/IMOO6 #pint26
Important and timely report from @hssib.bsky.social about mental health crisis care in emergency departments and legislative challenges which arise
Health Services Safety Investigations Body (HSSIB)@hssib.bsky.social · 5mo ago🆕 REPORT ➡️ Mental health crisis care: legislative challenges in emergency departments 📖 Read the report: www.hssib.org.uk/patient-safe...
✨Really glad to jointly lead on a new King's @betterhchub-kcl.bsky.social Accelerator Grant funded project, together with my brilliant colleague @jayachatur.bsky.social and in partnership with interdisciplinary collaborators from @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social and Thalamos. 1/
Better Health & Care Hub@betterhchub-kcl.bsky.social · 6mo agoIntroducing our Accelerator Grant Awardees! 🚀 We’ve awarded seven grants of up to £20k to interdisciplinary projects – spanning five King’s faculties – to drive early‑stage research on pressing health and care challenges. Meet the awardees: shorturl.at/lNfWq
So great to see this write up on Sarindi’s amazing PhD research, delivered together with her lived experience partners. The @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social President’s Award for Societal Engagement is so well-deserved 🏆
Sarindi Aryasinghe@sarindiary.bsky.social · 6mo agoGrateful to have received @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social President's Award for Societal Engagement for my PhD aiming to address racism in maternity care through community advocacy. Thankful for my lived experience partners & supervision team @profhelenward.bsky.social @phoebeaverill.bsky.social ✨
How does patient experience compare across different #NHS services? In the latest surveys, #cancer patients responded most favourably of all the patient groups, while respondents to the Community Mental Health Survey rated their overall experience the lowest. Find out more: buff.ly/QoEDiCE
📣 Pleased that our published paper is now live in JMIR, based on work completed during my prior role at @imperialmed.bsky.social 🔎 We wanted to find out whether videos, embedded within the electronic patient record, may support improved care for older adult inpatients with frailty #geriatrics 1/
JMIR Publications@jmirpub.bsky.social · 8mo agoAcceptability, Feasibility, and Perceived Effectiveness of Video-Based Patient Records for Supporting Care Delivery to Older Adults With Frailty: Nonrandomized Mixed Methods Pilot Study
The BBC tells the story of Britain in a way Netflix simply cannot. In the year to come, please remember that | Tony Hall
The BBC tells the story of Britain in a way Netflix simply cannot. In the year to come, please remember that | Tony Hall
I love many shows on the streaming channels, but the BBC is our storyteller. It defines a nation and its culture – and we must defend it, says former BBC director general Tony Hall
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Thanks @the-polyphony.bsky.social for sharing your platform with us to give people a sense of what's in the new edited collection 'Recalibrating Stigma: sociologies of health and illness' Available as a free e-book or relatively inexpensive paperback 5/5 bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/recalibratin...
Recalibrating Stigma
Recalibrating Stigma - Sociologies of Health and Illness; Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Featuring original analyses from emerging leaders in medical sociology, this book r...
bristoluniversitypress.co.uk
✨ New publication! Pleased to share a new commentary co-authored with @jackandrews.bsky.social. We explore how adolescent social isolation is conceptualised and measured in school-based social network research. jech.bmj.com/content/earl...
Studying adolescent social isolation in school-based social networks: implications for health research
Adolescent peer relationships matter profoundly for mental and physical health.1 2 Social isolation from peers (ie, a lack of connection) is associated with increased risk of mental health problems an...
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Happy to share this paper just out: qualitysafety.bmj.com/content/earl... The Stable Shift Algorithm is a new tool to help people using Statistical Process Control decide when to re-establish control limits. 📈 #statisticalprocesscontrol #spc #qualityimprovement #improvementscience #datascience
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A really good day at the @mhrincubator.bsky.social gathering in Manchester!
Mental Health Research Incubator@mhrincubator.bsky.social · 10mo agoWe’re very excited to welcome researchers from our GROW & PeCo programmes, writing retreats, internships & more to the 2025 MHR Incubator Gathering! Have a really great day everyone! 😁
Hi, I'm v new to bsky. I'm a PhD student focusing on harm in UK mental health services, & I would like to hear about your experiences of harm in services between 2010-2025. (Mental health services includes NHS, charities, companies, private therapists & other orgs) 1/7 tinyurl.com/yt2ydvxx
New publication! ✨ "Peer-friendship Networks and Self-harm among Adolescents from Inner-city Schools: A Social Network Study" Published as part of my PhD research at the ESRC Centre for Society and Mental Health (@kingscsmh.bsky.social). 📄 Full paper here 👇 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Peer-friendship Networks and Self-harm among Adolescents from Inner-city Schools: A Social Network Study - Journal of Youth and Adolescence
Journal of Youth and Adolescence - Peer-relationships are critically important for adolescent behavior, but how peer-friendship network composition and structure influence adolescent self-harm is...
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*Journal editors*: we're looking for a suitable outlet for our paper which provides an indepth analysis of what happened at three of the anti-immigrant riots in the UK last year. Would your journal consider this paper? Please share? www.qeios.com/read/17ASAP
Understanding the 2024 Summer Riots in the UK: Three Case Studies
The wave of riots in England in summer 2024 were followed by swift policy responses before any detailed empirical investigation had been carried out. This paper presents case studies of the disorders ...
qeios.com
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Delighted to have this publication out at Patient Experience Journal This shares some of the findings from my PhD at @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social, funded by @thisinstitute.cam.ac.uk pxjournal.org/journal/vol1...
The future of health & care is inclusive, sustainable and community-led. Join us 10 Sept in London for the Better Health & Care Summit. 🎟 buytickets.at/betterhchub/...
Select tickets – Better Health & Care Summit – Coin Street Neighbourhood Centre
Join us for the Better Health & Care Summit, a half-day event exploring how we can scale inclusive, sustainable and communi...
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Bild has signed a joint letter sent to Health Secretary Wes Streeting today, calling for urgent action to get the LeDeR programme back on track and help save lives. Read the full letter at: autismaction.org.uk/statement/jo...
Inequity in action: Why minoritised ethnic patients are more often rapidly tranquilised & what needs to change New review shows minoritised ethnic patients are 32% more likely to get rapid tranquilisation in mental health hospitals. It’s a stark example of systemic racism & bias in care. 🧵 THREAD
#NewPost 🎉 Excited to be heading back south of the river to begin a new role as a @kingsbetterhchub.bsky.social Postdoctoral Research Fellow, hosted jointly by @kingsnmpc.bsky.social and @kingsioppn.bsky.social! 📚 I'll be developing new research focusing on #patientsafety in mental healthcare.
