Ahead of our national webinar this afternoon, OxWell PI Mina Fazel summarises some of the key areas we're looking into & how we're amplifying young voices to lead to real-world change.

DPhil candidate Hinako Irei sitting at the OxWell booth, branded with banners.

Photo shows crowd gathering at Westgate half term event.

Photo shows two young people learning about OxWell at the booth *USED WITH PERMISSION FROM YP & PARENTS*

OxWell stickers, summaries, and materials for the booth.

Scenes from our booth today at the Westgate! Great to meet so many #OxWellStudents, families, and teachers; share some early 2025 results & hear what they think we should be doing with the findings.

#research

*New research* from team members @emmasoneson.bsky.social, @minafazeloxford.bsky.social, Puneetha Goli & @simonrwhite.bsky.social on adolescents' concerns about taking part in health & well-being research.

Full text here: www.jahonline.org/article/S105...

#mentalhealth #research

We were really pleased that this report engaged so thoughtfully with our findings, making sure #youthvoice really is central in everything we do in children & young people's #mentalhealth.

Watch/listen/read to see what @drhollybear.bsky.social & @emmasoneson.bsky.social made of the report ⬇️

What teens see and do online matters.

New research from our team looks at how digital experiences relate to mental health & what we can do about it.

A must-read for parents, educators, and mental health researchers and policymakers.

Lea presenting findings from her OxWell internship at a conference.

Great to see Lea Satala presenting her OxWell findings at the @nihr.bsky.social Undergraduate Internship Programme Celebration Event in London this morning!

Lea undertook an 8-wk internship with @oxchildpsych.bsky.social last summer & did some really impactful work around adolescent self-harm.

With the fantastic Gaby Illingworth, Tanya Manchanda, @drskripka.bsky.social, @minafazeloxford.bsky.social & Felicity Waite!

Social jetlag and sleep habits in children and adolescents: Associations with autonomy (bedtime setting and electronics curfew) and electronic media use before sleep For young people attending school, social jetlag (SJL) refers to discrepancy in sleep/wake timing between school days and weekends. This study investigated SJL in school-aged children and adolescen...

Social jetlag = the mismatch between social & biological time ✈️😴

Our new @oxwell.bsky.social study of ~20K #children & #adolescents shows an average jetlag of ~2 hrs 🕑 .

⬆️ jetlag was associated w/ weekend bedtime setting 🛌, & #socialmedia use 📱 and #gaming 🎮 before #sleep

Read more below 👇

New study calls for radical rethink of mental health support for Young people have given important insights into what mental health support they prefer and what does not work for them or meet their needs, as part of a major new study of thousands of adolescents.

Young people have given insights into what mental health support they prefer and what does not work for them or meet their needs, as part of a new study.

The findings used data from nearly 24,000 people aged between 11-18 who participated in @oxwell.bsky.social survey⬇️
www.ox.ac.uk/news/2024-12...

w/ @simonrwhite.bsky.social, @emmasoneson.bsky.social & @minafazeloxford.bsky.social and many other stakeholders along the way

Implications for designing systems that meet young people's needs & expectations incl.

👨‍👨‍👦 'supporting the supporters' = informal networks YP turn to most

💷 thinking carefully about how we allocate limited resources

🏳️‍⚧️ designing support for & with groups not optimally served by current systems

[Figure 2 from paper] Shows proportion of adolescents accessing 18 types of MH support & proportion accessing them finding them helpful.

We found that #adolescents are accessing multiple types of support across informal, semi-formal, and formal spheres w/ substantial variability in perceived helpfulness.

Radical rethink of mental health support for adolescents needed – new study Young people have given important insights into what mental health support they prefer and what does not work for them or meet their needs, as part of a major new study of thousands of adolescents.

New @oxwell.bsky.social study out today puts the #youthvoice centre stage in understanding the availability, accessibility & acceptability of #mentalhealth support in the UK.

PRESS RELEASE ➡️ www.psych.ox.ac.uk/news/radical...

ARTICLE ➡️ www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Photo of Shona sitting in front of a TV screen with a fireplace projected onto it, holding a hand-knitted blanket and sitting behind a bookshelf filled with books and soft toys.

Photo of the Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Team with Shona in the middle.

Today marks @oxwell.bsky.social Programme Manager Shona's last day for a little while... 🐣

Our study wouldn't be the same without her, and we are so grateful for everything she's done over the past few years 🫶

Best of luck in this new adventure, Shona!

Selfie of Mina Fazel & Emma Soneson in front of some holiday greenery in London.

Lucy Bowes & Mina Fazel holding a brain plush toy in the Wellcome Collection gift shop.

Today @minafazeloxford.bsky.social & @emmasoneson.bsky.social journeyed to London to join colleagues from around the country for a meeting of the Adolescent Health Study.

Our team is excited to help shape this major study & ensure it keeps #mentalhealth at its heart!

In our first Bluesky 🦋 post, we want to share our Perspective paper just out in @bmj.com BMJ Mental Health on how to inclusively & accurately measure gender in adolescent health research, with lessons we've learnt over the past few years of OxWell 👇

mentalhealth.bmj.com/content/27/1...