Do you have an opportunity relevant for #mentalhealth & #addiction researchers? 🤔
Our #OppUp page lists upcoming events, funding calls & more for mental health & addiction researchers and we'd love to share yours!
Submit your entry below 👇
mentalhealthresearch.org.uk/opportunities-update
Are you interested in taking the next step in your #mentalhealth or #addiction #research career? 👣
The MHR Incubator has a guide to help you progress your career - whether you're starting out or trying to establish independence.
Check it out here:👇
mentalhealthresearch.org.uk/take-the-nex...
Interested in building your problem solving skills and gain insights about the career challenges you may face?
Check out our Peer Coaching (PeCo) 2026 programme and apply now! 👇️
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Sakshi Rajesh
"I am continually inspired by all the brilliant DPhil students working alongside me. The DPhil can often feel like a marathon, but witnessing others learn, grow, and hit milestones is what keeps me going."
'60 Seconds With' DPhil student Sakshi Rajesh: tinyurl.com/2s4d2fnr
Our Peer Coaching (PeCo) 2026 programme equips #mentalhealth #researchers with the skills to problem solve and gain insights about the career challenges you (or your colleagues) may face.
Apply to PeCo now! 👇️
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Come and work with us!
Seeking an 80% fte postdoctoral trial researcher to work on a feasibility trial of a new intervention for childhood OCD in routine child mental health services
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Do you have experience with our OSI platform?
Our partners at KoaHealth are recruiting a new OSI trainer!
For more info see: babcp.com/jobs/koa-hea...
Overall anxiety disorders were relatively low on both groups after 1 year but the intervention was superior to usual practice on measures of anxiety symptoms and interference and all other secondary outcome and mechanism measures! 2/2
📢 New trial just out!
Evaluated brief digitally supported parent led CBT for young children at risk of anxiety disorders, identified through schools. 1/2
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📢📢 Come and work with us! We have a postdoc and a research assistant role available on the brilliant OCD-EMPOWER trial which is testing a new digitally supported intervention to help parents/carers help their children overcome OCD.
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Japan-UK Dialogue: Understanding Hikikomori through Lived Experience & Research
This upcoming talk, focused on "Hikikomori" (prolonged social withdrawal), aims to bridge the gap between academic research and lived experience
📆 Fri Feb 27th 2026, 10.30am–12pm
Register now!
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Got an opportunity relevant for #mentalhealth & #addiction researchers? 🤔
Our #OppUp page lists upcoming events, funding calls & more for mental health & addiction researchers and we'd love to share yours!
Submit your entry below 👇
mentalhealthresearch.org.uk/opportunities-update
We're on a mission to learn more about excessive worry in young people, and how to help those who experience it. Could your school or youth organisation help? Register your interest here: tinyurl.com/2c4jm59p
For #ChildrensMentalHealthWeek, the WISDOM network are encouraging schools and colleges to join with research that strengthens understanding on children's mental health.
This year's theme is "This Is My Place", promoting inclusive and nurturing environments for young people.
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Read more about the findings from the study in the programme report: digitalyouth.ac.uk/wp-content/u...
DIORA (Dynamic Interplay of Online Risk and Resilience in Adolescence) took place under the UKRI-funded project Digital Youth
#ChildrensMentalHealthWeek #DigitalBalance
Today is #SaferInternetDay
The DIORA study looked at what young people do online and how it makes them feel
The animation below designed with young people turns the findings from the UKRI-funded study into bite-sized practical tips looking at how these experiences shape mental health and wellbeing
Understanding hikikomori through lived experience and research.
Upcoming online event convened by our visiting colleague Professor Motohiro Sakai - do join, it’s guaranteed to be a fascinating and informative event.
Incredible achievement- congratulations to the @starcatstudy.bsky.social team and all the clinical teams involved 🙌
Run - don't walk - to apply for our fully-funded GROW 2026 Researcher Development Programme for #mentalhealth & #addiction early career researchers! 💫
⏰ Mon 2 March, 12pm
Don't miss your chance to apply for this incredible opportunity! 👇
mentalhealthresearch.org.uk/grow
📣Are you looking to build your research career around creating environments in which primary school aged children’s strengths and abilities are identified and enabled? Come and work with us in this exciting research fellowship
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📣 Come and work with us! Seeking an enthusiastic postdoctoral researcher to work across our Strengths based and All About Me projects- more info here
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NIHR National Institute for Health and Care Research. Applied Research Collaborations. Top 25 stories of 2025.
Happy New Year from all the NIHR Applied Research Collaborations (ARCs) across the country!
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Here are our 25 most popular newsletter stories from 2025:
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What a variety!
Scroll to the end to see the top-most clicked-on stories
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Are you interested in taking the next step in your #mentalhealth or #addiction #research career? 👣
The MHR Incubator has a guide to help you progress your career - whether you're starting out or trying to establish independence.
Check it out here:👇
mentalhealthresearch.org.uk/take-the-nex...
Reminder: The MHR Incubator is #hiring! We are looking for an enthusiastic individual to help us run events, manage budgets and co-lead the Incubator. Apply now to be a part of our friendly team!
Know anybody who fits the bill? Please share this job description with them!
Want to find other #mentalhealth & #addiction researchers? 🔎 Or are you keen for others to find you?
Check out our interactive #mentalhealth researchers map! Start building your #network, now!
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Work with our team at @topicgroup.bsky.social (Now called Oxford Centre for Emerging Minds Research)! We're hiring a postdoc and a research fellow on projects related to neurodiversity and strengths in children and adolescents. Links below:
New year new job? Come and work with us as the manager for the Mental Health in Development theme of the @oxhealthbrc.bsky.social.
Post available 60% fte until 31/3/28.
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🎄❄️Happy holidays! ❄️🎄
Wishing you and your loved ones a great holiday season and a happy New Year! 🌟
We're on leave until January but can't wait to show you what's in store for the MHR Incubator 2026! See you in the new year 👋
Happy Holidays from the STAR-CAT team!
As the year comes to an end, we want to say a big thank you to all of the families and clinical services who have been involved in the study so far! 🌟
We hope everyone has a relaxing break over the festive period 🎄⛄
"My career path has been winding, but my motivation has never wavered."
💼 Dr Simona Skripkauskaite reflects on variety - both in her career path as a #mentalhealth #researcher, and in her day-to-day.
To read about Simona's experience & other researchers', click below 🔎
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