Dr Sarah Blower (she/her)
@sarah-blower.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Child Development and Family Wellbeing at the University of York. Researcher interested in intervention design, implementation & evaluation, infant mental health, measures and evidence to improve outcomes for children and families.
What are the benefits of nature-based interventions in the early years? What are the future directions for research and practice? This amazing graphic summarises the reflections of 30 academics and practitioners who met at our conference! We will be sharing a blog soon, but enjoy this for now!
Having a fantastic day at our nature based interventions event in Sheffield and always a pleasure to catch up with the lovely Prof Louise Tracey #EYnature
We are looking forward to our #iHVEBP2025 Conference tomorrow! This year’s conference is very poignant, the challenges that our babies, children & families face have been laid bare – we are now collectively focused on delivering solutions. #HealthVisiting buff.ly/rHpdGKk
I’m coming for you bank holiday weekend! Online exercise class this morning, washing in the machine and one very wild garden to now immerse myself in 💪🏻🏃♀️👩🏼🌾🪴🌸🌷🌻🪻💪🏻
How about we start celebrating higher education as a nation? How about we start shouting, loudly, of the social good of higher education? How about we talk of the nurses, the doctors, the teachers, the social workers, educated at universities? How about we celebrate the artists, the writers, 1/
Fun day today with one of my favourite collaborators @zoedarwin.bsky.social filming a piece about our research evaluating BDCT’s Ready to Relate intervention @familywellbeinguoy.bsky.social #parentinfantrelationships #infantmentalhealth #perinatalmentalhealth #readytorelate
Read more 👇🏻 about our quasi-experimental evaluations of early life interventions in partnership with Born in Bradford’s Better Start cohort #BIBBS
Family Wellbeing Research@familywellbeinguoy.bsky.social · last yr.Early years interventions can support parents in the #First1000Days, but there are gaps in the research evidence... We're bridging this gap using #quasi-experimental methods and #qualitative evaluations with several #earlyyears #interventions designed to support parent and child wellbeing 👩👧...
How can nature make a difference for families with young children? We're working with parents/caregivers, Phoenix Wellbeing & Hull Museums to understand how nature-based groups like Tree Babies & Tots boost family wellbeing and parent-child connections. Exciting findings coming soon!
**New Policy Brief: @arc-yharc.bsky.social researchers at the University of York support practitioners in Hull to disseminate a new initiative to improve access to care for families with young children. Read more: arc-yh.nihr.ac.uk/nihr-arc-yor...
Fantastic research job opportunity here 👇🏻 working with the lovely and brilliant @ruthndwrites.bsky.social jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/rese...
Jobs - The University of York
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Just 2 weeks left to share your views on @commonshealth.bsky.social's first 1000 days inquiry! This is a great opportunity to make the case for why compassionate #PerinatalMentalHealth care is vital for giving babies the best start in life. Find out more: committees.parliament.uk/call-for-evi...
Call for Evidence - Committees - UK Parliament
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I absolutely loved listening to this during lockdown and still recommend it to my team and students when we have writing weeks. Must confess I haven’t watched it so I had no idea about the Easter eggs!!! #legendsofUoYLibrary
University of York Library@uoylibrary.bsky.social · last yr.In November 2020 when the pandemic was in full swing and the library had recently reopened, but loads of people were still unable to visit, we made this: Library home from home: 2 hours of pure Morrell #LibrarySounds. It has over 1,200 hours of watch-time so far! 🧵
Mental health problems among young people have risen significantly in recent years. But a wide range of preventive measures could reverse the rise & reduce the risks. We've set out evidence-based actions across childhood which could enable young people to thrive 👇 tinyurl.com/4dxsn69k
Mental health problems can cast a long shadow over a child's life. But this isn’t inevitable. We’re backing @centreformh.bsky.social advice to the Government so that every child has the best chance of good #MentalHealth buff.ly/dPgjrvp #InvestInChildhood
Hey 👋🏻@kellyhollingsworth.bsky.social welcome to bluesky! X
👋 Meet the team... 👋 Our team is led by @sarah-blower.bsky.social. Sarah specialises in the design, implementation and evaluation of interventions to improve the health and wellbeing of children and their families, and works collaboratively with charities, local authorities and other organisations.
We are looking for autistic children & young people aged 11-18 to participate in a survey about improving the accessibility of CAMHS in the UK. Views can be shared by writing, recording a voice note, or drawing & labelling a picture. Link in QR code below or here: ljmu.questionpro.eu/a/TakeSurvey...
Today, OXPIP's founder Sue Gerhardt launches her new book "1001 days: How Our First Years Shape our Lifelong Health". We're giving away one free copy chosen at random from the people who retweet one of our social media posts by 8th April. Available to purchase from today.
Our paper now available looking at how executive function (inc #workingmemory) & processing speed mediate r/ship btw SES & educational attainment with Rachael Cheung @sarah-blower.bsky.social @richjallen.bsky.social & led by @kate-mooney.bsky.social #devsci #cogsci link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Do executive functions and processing speed mediate the relationship between socioeconomic status and educational achievement? Analysis of an observational birth cohort study - BMC Psychology
Background There are large and persistent social inequalities in children’s educational attainment, with children from more socioeconomically disadvantaged families consistently having lower attainmen...
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Hello legends of @uoylibrary.bsky.social please could I be added to the UoY starter pack? Ta very muchly 👋🏻
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/nature-bas... Organised by @ruthndwrites.bsky.social and @katemorto.bsky.social with @arc-yharc.bsky.social
Nature-based activities for parents, carers and children (0-5)
A day of sharing, learning and networking with researchers and practitioners involved in nature-based activities in the early years
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Join our event to talk about how nature-based interventions can support families with young children! This event is for parents/caregivers, researchers and practitioners to come together and share ideas. Register at the link below 👇 Tues 13 May in Sheffield.
We’ve joined Bluesky! We’re excited to start sharing our research about #earlyyears #interventions and #measures to reduce inequalities in the health, development, and wellbeing of babies, children, and young people, and their #families. Find out more here: www.york.ac.uk/healthscienc...
Family Wellbeing Team - Our research, The University of York
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Finally made the move to Bluesky! Delighted to see so many familiar faces here and looking forward to connecting again. Please also follow my amazing team at @familywellbeinguoy.bsky.social for news and updates about our research projects, publications and events.
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