Submissions are now open for the Menstruation Research Conference 2026!
🩸 Key Details:
📅 Conference dates: 7–8 July 2026
📍 Venue: Brighton and Sussex Medical School, University of Sussex
📝 Abstract submissions: Open now
⏰ Deadline: 5 March 2026
🔗 Submit your abstract here: lnkd.in/eeUriK_z
In our latest blog, 4M team member Sampurna Kundu, PhD shares her personal journey with PCOS, and how it inspired her research on menstrual and mental health 💜
Read her full blog here- 4mhealth.uk/2025/12/07/h...
📢 In our latest blog, we discuss why early or premature menopause matters, what factors contribute to it, and why we need more research around it.
🔗 Read more- 4mhealth.uk/2025/06/07/i...
✍🏽 Written by Dr. Sampurna Kundu, 4M team member
#womenshealth #menopauseawareness #earlymenopause
Our study is in the news: Heavy and painful periods are linked to missing school and lower GCSE results - something that anyone who menstruates could probably already tell you, but that is largely not discussed or ignored.
Well done to Gemma Sawyer @uob-ieu.bsky.social who did all the hard work
💡Premenstrual Disorders Awareness Month – April 2025
Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder (PMDD) affect millions, yet remain under-discussed and often misunderstood.
📰 Read our latest blog written by Chloe Apsey, to understand more and help us raise awareness: 4mhealth.uk/2025/04/24/p...
Okay and one final thing. The research highlighted a need for more qualitative research looking at experiences of eating disorders and menstruation, I really don't want to do that study myself as it's too triggering lol (at least not on my own) so genuinely pls lmk if you want to look into this!
New preprint article published (still going through revisions)
The article presents a subgroup analysis from my research on experiences of menstruation in psychiatric hospitals. This study looked at the experiences specific to eating disorder treatment
www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-5...
🚨Job Alert!🚨
We're launching a funded study on how period pain impacts adolescent girls’ lives & school engagement. Join our team.
🔹 Research Associate 👉 (www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy...)
🔹 Research Assistant 👉 (www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy...)
Please share! #PeriodPain #PainResearch
Prof Jane delved into feminist critiques of the medicalization of the reproductive body and discussed how these perspectives can inform support for women experiencing reproductive distress. She also shared insights from her own research that applied this approach.
#4mconsortium #4mseminarseries
Our first speaker of 2025, Prof Jane M. Ussher from Women’s Health Psychology at Western Sydney University, Australia, delivered her talk on “The Madness of Women: Myth and Experience”
Here are some glimpses from the thought provoking seminar session!
#womenshealth #4mconsortium #4mseminarseries
Do you experience problematic menstrual bleeding? Or do you treat or care for someone who does?
4M members Jackie Maybin, Gemma Sharp, and Lucky Saraswat are leading a James Lind Alliance Priority Setting Partnership to identify the most important questions for future research to address.
