I’ll be using large epidemiological datasets to further our understanding of how supportive factors can improve mental health outcomes in trans and gender diverse youth.

There’s a lot still to do before I fly away, but I am beyond thrilled to shake things up in my life and career. 2/2

I can now officially announce that this September I will be relocating to Canada! Back in December I was offered a research fellowship with the APEAL Lab 🥰 1/2

The social determinants of mental health and disorder: evidence, prevention and recommendations People exposed to more unfavourable social circumstances are more vulnerable to poor mental health over their life course, in ways that are often determined by structural factors which generate and pe...

Among the 12 @uclpsychiatry.bsky.social papers selected for the Christmas season is this 2024 review from @kirkbride.bsky.social & collaborators on the social determinants of mental health and disorder, published in World Psychiatry pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

‘Why Is the Chubby Guy Running?’: Trans Pregnancy, Fatness, and Cultural Intelligibility Since the late 2000s trans pregnancy has received increasing public and academic attention, and stories of the ‘pregnant man’ have become a media staple. Existing research has critiqued such spectacu...

New peer-reviewed article from the Trans Pregnancy Project, free to read, download, and share!

We look at how men and non-binary individuals carrying a baby often seem to be perceived as fat rather than pregnant, and explore what this means for the intelligibility of gendered bodies.

The ties that bind: Understanding the mental health consequences of the Windrush Scandal and hostile immigration policies on survivors in the UK The Home Office Windrush Scandal of 2018 has had major implications for the wellbeing of survivors and is thought to have affected more than 15,000 in…

When I think of how horribly the state has treated the windrush generation, I am incandescent with rage. That comes across in this paper I am sure. I won’t stop till justice is realised. we move.

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New article: The association between microaggressions and mental health among UK trans people I have a new article out in the journal Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, co-authored with colleagues at University College London. It reports on the findings of a study led by Talen …

If trans people experience more microaggressions, they're more likely to have worse mental health. That's the finding of a survey of 787 UK trans adults conducted by @drtalenwright.bsky.social, which we wrote up together.

Is this helpful or stating the obvious? I wrote a blog post to explore.

The association between microaggressions and mental health among UK trans people: a cross-sectional study - Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology Purpose Epidemiological studies investigating the mental health impacts of microaggressions in the trans population have tended to have methodological limitations, including a lack of validated measur...

🚨New paper alert 🚨

Now out in Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, my first PhD paper is available for all to read!

Read the full text here:

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