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Alex Turner
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Not a famous musician. Multidisciplinary mixed methods researcher looking for interesting questions.

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 1d
Instead of conferring titles, gongs and baubles and then demanding those titles, gongs and baubles be removed…

…perhaps as a modern, mature polity we should have far fewer titles, gongs and baubles in the first place.

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Iain Porter @iainkporter.bsky.social · 2d
MPs will soon debate the annual benefits ‘Uprating Order' on how much benefits rise this year. But shockingly, support has never been set according to any logical calculation, like ensuring Universal Credit covers life's essentials - which @jrf-uk.bsky.social estimates cost £120 a week🧵1/4
Table showing JRF’s indicative estimate of the amount needed to afford essentials for a single adult and couple in 2026/27. In total (rounded) this is at least £120 a week for a single adult and £205 for a couple. It also shows how this breaks down into different categories. For example, the total for a single adult includes weekly amounts of £42 for food, £24 for electricity and gas, £7 for water, £7 for clothes and shoes, £8 for communications (including phones, internet and postage), £21 for travel and £13 for sundries (such as toiletries, haircuts, cleaning materials, bank charges).

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The Times & Sunday Times @thetimes.com · 5d
Fewer people are taking their children for the much-needed jabs and experts warn that even more dangerous illnesses could lurking be around the corner
Measles is coming back as vaccination rates fall. What’s next?
www.thetimes.com

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 6d
Homicides in England and Wales are at lowest level since 1977 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #BrokenBritain
Homicides at lowest level in nearly 50 years, ONS statistics show
The 499 cases of murder and manslaughter in the year to September are the lowest in England and Wales since 1977.
www.bbc.co.uk

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Education Policy Institute @edupolicyinst.bsky.social · Dec 17
New exploratory analysis examined behaviour policies from 45 state schools across three London boroughs.

We found that written policies vary in ways that align, to an extent, with outcomes linked to pupil wellbeing.

Read the full analysis: epi.org.uk/publications...

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Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience @kingsioppn.bsky.social · Dec 9
New research establishes direct causal link btw #cyberbullying + #anxiety in young people

Researchers (@larseneault.bsky.social, FredericThériault-Couture, Philip Shaw) are calling for policy makers to look beyond online safety when considering how to protect teenagers
www.kcl.ac.uk/news/debates...
Debates about bullying need to look beyond online safety say researchers | King's College London
Only two per cent of young people who experience cyberbullying by the age 18 report exclusively being abused online.
www.kcl.ac.uk

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UCL Centre for Education Policy & Equalising Opportunities @cepeo-ucl.bsky.social · Dec 5
A cautionary tale on interpreting the data you get from surveys across time from John Jerrim now up on the CEPEO blog: blogs.ucl.ac.uk/cepeo/2025/1...
Why one word can break your research – and why AI won’t help. A cautionary tale from PISA | UCL Centre for Education Policy and Equalising Opportunities (CEPEO)
UCL Homepage
blogs.ucl.ac.uk

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Prof Sarah-Jayne Blakemore @sjblakemore.bsky.social · Oct 20
New paper by brilliant final yer PhD student Blanca Piera Pi-Sunyer and colleagues, including 3 undergraduate students (Evans, Ratcliffe, Janaarthanan) 🤩

The Relationship between Perceived Friendship Quality and Self-Judgements in Adolescent Girls from London

journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....

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Centre for Mental Health @centreformh.bsky.social · Jul 22
Prisons are facing a mounting mental health crisis.

➡️ Rates of self-harm have more than tripled in the last decade
➡️ Among prisoners, 56% of men & 74% of women report having mental health problems
➡️ Too many unwell prisoners face long waits for transfer to hospital

We need change - now.
Invest in better mental health support for people in the criminal justice system, say charities - Centre for Mental Health
Investing in community mental health services would help to ease the pressure on the prison system by diverting more people from custody.
www.centreformentalhealth.org.uk

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Ola Demkowicz @olademk.bsky.social · Jul 17
New report on understanding the drivers of declining youth mental health

To effectively respond to worsening mental health, we need to understand not just what is happening, but *why*

We used an evidence-based approach to unpack common explanations

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youthfuturesfoundation.org/publication/...
Understanding drivers of recent trends in young people’s mental health - Youth Futures Foundation
Research report exploring the reasons for the recent decline in mental health among 14 to 24-year-olds in England
youthfuturesfoundation.org

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · Jun 17
In this age of AI and false citations, any mention of a legal case or public legal instrument should hyperlink to the original.

Just as previous generations used footnotes and citations, we should routinely link back to sources.

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NIHR Policy Research Unit in Mental health @mentalhealthpru.bsky.social · May 13
🚨 New Published Paper - Understanding barriers and facilitators to delivering peer support effectively: a qualitative interview study

Proud to share our latest research, led by academic and lived experience researchers.

🔗 Read in full: bmcpsychiatry.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

#PeerSupport
Understanding the barriers and facilitators to delivering peer support effectively in England: a qualitative interview study - BMC Psychiatry
Background Peer support roles within mental health services are rapidly increasing in number and scope in the UK and internationally. This paper explores the facilitators and barriers to delivering pe...
bmcpsychiatry.biomedcentral.com

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Alex Turner @dralexlturner.bsky.social · May 11
Loved Thunderbolts* but the best description I've heard was overhearing two teenage boys talking about it and one referred to it as "the one with the B-tec Captain America".

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · May 11
Our new report: local political parties are renting out office space to MPs — who claim the cost on expenses.

But in most cases, they pay no tax on that income — or on rent from local businesses.

We reviewed 630 sets of accounts. What we found is a systemic failure. 🧵

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Pew Research Center @pewresearch.org · May 1
Parents and teens who say they are at least somewhat concerned about teen mental health today were then asked to explain, in their own words, what they think most negatively impacts it. www.pewresearch.org/...
Chart shows that Among parents and teens concerned about teen mental health, what each group sees most negatively impacting teen mental health

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Daniel P. Moriarity @dpmoriarity.bsky.social · Apr 22
‼️ New paper @ Child Development discussing why it is inappropriate to use traditional common factor models to model adverse childhood experienced (ACEs) and other stressor inventories ‼️

Read full (brief) paper at srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

@srcdorg.bsky.social #PsychSciSky

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<em>Child Development</em> | SRCD Journal | Wiley Online Library
Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are highly impactful stressors that increase individuals' risk for a plethora of negative developmental and health outcomes. Furthermore, minoritized groups and u...
srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Ola Demkowicz @olademk.bsky.social · Apr 11
Great to see coverage of our work with adolescent girls understanding the gender mental health gap by @bpsofficial.bsky.social this week! www.bps.org.uk/research-dig...
Teenage girls explain mental health gender gap in new study | BPS
New paper draws on the lived experiences of UK-based girls to assess factors driving widening mental health disparity between boys and girls.
www.bps.org.uk

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Alex Turner @dralexlturner.bsky.social · Mar 26
www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopula...
Estimates of the population for England and Wales - Office for National Statistics
National and subnational mid-year population estimates for England and Wales by administrative area, age and sex (including components of population change, median age and population density).
www.ons.gov.uk

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Alex Turner @dralexlturner.bsky.social · Mar 26
Having looked at the report timelines they would have had to base the sampling and subsequent weights on the 2021 ONS data...which also happened to be the census year. Using the UK top line figures about 25.1% should be males aged 13-16. So about 250 given the reported sample size.

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Alex Turner @dralexlturner.bsky.social · Mar 26
It sounds similar in methodology to what's employed for The Good Childhood Report it'll be using the ONS Mid year population statistics for children...not sure about representativeness of parents though.

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Emiliano Mellino @mellino.bsky.social · Mar 25
The Employment Rights Bill has been called the biggest boost to worker rights in a generation,but huge gaps remain in enforcing these rights.

So we're investigating the barriers workers face when they seek justice at tribunals.

But we need your help!
www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...
Image of TBIJ article header. Title: Employment tribunals: can you help us with a major new project? Standfirst: We are investigating the barriers faced by workers trying to assert their rights. If you have tried to take your employer to tribunal, or have helped somebody who has, we want to hear from you

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National Centre for Social Research @natcen.bsky.social · Feb 13
The National Centre for Social Research (NatCen) has published a report in collaboration with ADR UK (Administrative Data Research UK) exploring children and young people’s experiences with social care.
NatCen has published a report in collaboration with ADR UK. The report pulls together administrative data from the four UK nations for the first time and the combined data reveals insights into the care experiences of children.

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Dr Lucy Foulkes @lucyfoulkes.bsky.social · Feb 10
Important new evidence published today: large-scale DofE trial (N=12,166) found that two universal MH awareness interventions, in secondary schools, led to an *increase* in emotional symptoms at long term (9-12 month) follow up

tinyurl.com/4ffday8y

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Department for Education. Effectiveness of school mental health awareness interventions Universal approaches in English secondary schools February 2025

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Ola Demkowicz @olademk.bsky.social · Feb 5
We talk a lot about why adolescent girls report more low mood and anxiety, and why this might be getting worse.

But what do girls themselves think might explain this? As you might have guessed, we don’t really know.

So, we asked them: doi.org/10.1186/s129...

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Adolescent girls’ explanations of high rates of low mood and anxiety in their population: a co-produced qualitative study - BMC Women's Health
Background From early adolescence, girls face greater risk of experiencing low mood and anxiety relative to boys, with recent evidence that this may be worsening. There is a paucity of mental health r...
doi.org

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PBE @pbe.co.uk · Jan 28
"Treasury guidance attaches a monetary value to wellbeing, and the economic value of claiming disability benefits is estimated to be around £12,300 per person."

@isabellamcrae.bsky.social covers our new report for the Big Issue: www.bigissue.com/news/social-...
Disability benefits system actually good for the economy, economists say
Disability benefits have a positive impact on people's wellbeing which outweighs the cost of administering them, economists have found.
www.bigissue.com

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Alex Turner @dralexlturner.bsky.social · Jan 22
Incredible news!!
beewelluk.bsky.social #BeeWell @beewelluk.bsky.social · Jan 22
We did it!

Thank you @munirawilson.bsky.social for championing the amendment to the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill, calling for national children and young people’s wellbeing measurement.

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#BeeWell @beewelluk.bsky.social · Jan 22
We did it!

Thank you @munirawilson.bsky.social for championing the amendment to the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill, calling for national children and young people’s wellbeing measurement.

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Dr Lucy Foulkes @lucyfoulkes.bsky.social · Jan 21
Which academics are conducting research into how to parent adolescents?

I get asked a lot about parenting advice, and it’s not really my area of focus (I am more interested in peer relationships)

I am keen to send people towards the right experts/papers. Who is conducting research in this space?

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Impact on Urban Health @impurbanhealth.bsky.social · Jan 20
📢 Calling all primary schools!

Our friends at @schoolfoodmatters.bsky.social are hosting a free webinar to help primary schools establish and run successful #BreakfastClubs serving tasty, nutritious food.

🗓️ When: 21 Jan 2025, 12-1pm
💻 Sign up: bit.ly/4aomNyx

#SchoolFoodMatters
Text, white and yellow on maroon background. School Food Matters Webinar, 21 January 2025 Better Breakfasts! Helping schools deliver tasty and nutritious breakfasts. [yellow School Food Matters logo]

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Alex Turner @dralexlturner.bsky.social · Jan 9
Investing in standardised data recording and reporting is not massively innovative and can face many issues but it would go a long way to begin to be able to identify the genuine scale of the issue.