Preprint of first PhD paper out now! 👇

Religious minority status is an important social determinant of mental health, but vastly overlooked in the literature. We summarise studies on religious disparities in mental health & propose a conceptual framework for future research.

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I *love* teaching collider bias with dice. And seeing the shocked (and angry) faces when the (seemingly) paradoxical results are revealed 😂

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Course delegates rolling dice

Room showing all delegates in the course

Day 3 of #CausalIntroCourse

Rolling dice to understand collider bias and conditional dependencies 🎲📈

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A Visual Introduction to Hierarchical Models A visual explanation of multi-level modeling

Need to explain (or understand) linear mixed effects regressions, random intercepts, and random slopes? Look no further than "A Visual Introduction to Hierarchical Models" by Michael Freeman, 2017. It's a banger!

Day 1 at #IAYMH2025! So fortunate to be here with 900+ other people passionate about supporting youth mental health… 29% of participants are young people too - love to see the conference opening up and actually valuing young people’s voices 🥰

UCL-Wellcome Mental Health Science PhD Retreat 2025 — Mental Health Science The students on the programme share their experience on our 3rd annual retreat!

Time to reflect on our retreat! In January the students of the UCL-Wellcome PhD programme in Mental Health Science were lucky to be able to get together again to share wisdom, relax and reconnect with each other. We wrote about our experience on our blog: www.mentalhealthscience.org/blogs/ucl-we...

A manifesto for a globally diverse, equitable, and inclusive open science - Communications Psychology Psychology must embrace more responsible practices in design, reporting, generalisation, and evaluation of research to counteract the spectre of Questionable Generalisability Practices and the issue o...

So excited to see this in print! A manifesto paving the way for responsible generalisation and co-authorship practices in open science - with an incredible team of scholars!

Very much inspired by the benchmark Munafò et al. manifesto for reproducible science
www.nature.com/articles/s44...

The impact of maternal lifetime stressor exposure on child effortful control in the preschool years: Findings from the behavior Outlook Norwegian Developmental study We carried out this study to explore the role of maternal lifetime stressor exposure on child effortful control at age 4 years, using data from the Be…

My masters paper now (finally) published! 🎉

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
We didn’t find an impact of maternal lifetime exposure to stressors on child effortful control. Socioeconomic risk and gender were far stronger predictors.

Free for everyone to read online within 24h… :)

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- Recently emigrated to the UK from a low- or middle-income country in the last 2 years
- Self-identify as having experienced, or currently experience, mental health difficulties
- Have a UK bank account to receive renumeration in GBP

We're recruiting up to 3 #livedexperience advisors for a project on social & community determinants of youth mental health globally. £25/hour. Please spread the word if you know anyone who's eligible! 👇

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