Alex Lloyd
@dralexlloyd.bsky.social
Research Fellow @UCL | Developmental Science and Mental Health | Trustee at Dragon Hall Trust | (he/him)
In the ReSET Project we have taken a new approach to preventing mental health problems in adolescence. Read more about our school-based intervention in a new BOLD blog post co-authored with Laura Lucas
“Emotions and social relationships are closely interlinked, and the interaction between them can positively or negatively impact mental health.”
Alex Lloyd & Laura Lucas share a new approach that teaches at-risk adolescents social and emotional skills and strategies. boldscience.org/can-teen-men...
Alex Lloyd & Laura Lucas share a new approach that teaches at-risk adolescents social and emotional skills and strategies. boldscience.org/can-teen-men...
Can teen mental health problems be prevented in school?
A new approach teaches at-risk adolescents social and emotional skills and strategies
boldscience.org
January 28, 2026 at 4:29 PM
In the ReSET Project we have taken a new approach to preventing mental health problems in adolescence. Read more about our school-based intervention in a new BOLD blog post co-authored with Laura Lucas
Reposted by Alex Lloyd
📣 New Blog is live on @boldinsights.bsky.social ! @dralexlloyd.bsky.social and Laura Lucas discuss the promise of school-based interventions to preventing teen mental health issues.
#schools #mentalhealth #adolescents #intervention #research
boldscience.org/can-teen-men...
#schools #mentalhealth #adolescents #intervention #research
boldscience.org/can-teen-men...
Can teen mental health problems be prevented in school?
A new approach teaches at-risk adolescents social and emotional skills and strategies
boldscience.org
January 27, 2026 at 1:17 PM
📣 New Blog is live on @boldinsights.bsky.social ! @dralexlloyd.bsky.social and Laura Lucas discuss the promise of school-based interventions to preventing teen mental health issues.
#schools #mentalhealth #adolescents #intervention #research
boldscience.org/can-teen-men...
#schools #mentalhealth #adolescents #intervention #research
boldscience.org/can-teen-men...
I'm delighted to have received a junior faculty grant from The Huo Family Foundation to investigate mechanisms linking social media use to mental health outcomes in young people.
huofamilyfoundation.org/news/updates...
huofamilyfoundation.org/news/updates...
Huo Family Foundation Awards $17.6M for Groundbreaking Research on the Impact of Digital Technology on Young People – Huo Family Foundation
The Huo Family Foundation is pleased to announce the award of 20 major multi-year research grants, totalling $17.6 million, through its inaugural Science Programme on the Effects of the Usage of Digit...
huofamilyfoundation.org
January 22, 2026 at 11:05 AM
I'm delighted to have received a junior faculty grant from The Huo Family Foundation to investigate mechanisms linking social media use to mental health outcomes in young people.
huofamilyfoundation.org/news/updates...
huofamilyfoundation.org/news/updates...
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🎙️ RESET Podcast Ep 2: Supporting Emotional Skills
Why do adolescent brains experience emotions so intensely but struggle to regulate them? (Developmental mismatch: amygdala fully online, prefrontal regions still developing)
#Neuroscience #SchoolMentalHealth
@resetproject.bsky.social
🧵 THREAD
Why do adolescent brains experience emotions so intensely but struggle to regulate them? (Developmental mismatch: amygdala fully online, prefrontal regions still developing)
#Neuroscience #SchoolMentalHealth
@resetproject.bsky.social
🧵 THREAD
January 20, 2026 at 8:15 AM
🎙️ RESET Podcast Ep 2: Supporting Emotional Skills
Why do adolescent brains experience emotions so intensely but struggle to regulate them? (Developmental mismatch: amygdala fully online, prefrontal regions still developing)
#Neuroscience #SchoolMentalHealth
@resetproject.bsky.social
🧵 THREAD
Why do adolescent brains experience emotions so intensely but struggle to regulate them? (Developmental mismatch: amygdala fully online, prefrontal regions still developing)
#Neuroscience #SchoolMentalHealth
@resetproject.bsky.social
🧵 THREAD
Reposted by Alex Lloyd
On your marks, get set...GROW! 🌱
Applications for our GROW 2026 Researcher Development Programme for #mentalhealth and #addiction early career researchers are now open. 💫
APPLY NOW 👇
mentalhealthresearch.org.uk/grow/
Applications for our GROW 2026 Researcher Development Programme for #mentalhealth and #addiction early career researchers are now open. 💫
APPLY NOW 👇
mentalhealthresearch.org.uk/grow/
January 19, 2026 at 10:06 AM
On your marks, get set...GROW! 🌱
Applications for our GROW 2026 Researcher Development Programme for #mentalhealth and #addiction early career researchers are now open. 💫
APPLY NOW 👇
mentalhealthresearch.org.uk/grow/
Applications for our GROW 2026 Researcher Development Programme for #mentalhealth and #addiction early career researchers are now open. 💫
APPLY NOW 👇
mentalhealthresearch.org.uk/grow/
Interested in how to deliver support for mental health in schools? Then this is the podcast for you!
Hear from the experts about how we can best support young people’s wellbeing 🧠👥
Hear from the experts about how we can best support young people’s wellbeing 🧠👥
🎙️ RESET Podcast Episode 1 is live!
Universal or targeted mental health interventions in schools? The evidence is clearer than you might think.
Featuring Pasco Fearon, Lucy Foulkes, Roslyn Law, and school staff who've implemented these approaches.
@resetproject.bsky.social
🧵 THREAD
Universal or targeted mental health interventions in schools? The evidence is clearer than you might think.
Featuring Pasco Fearon, Lucy Foulkes, Roslyn Law, and school staff who've implemented these approaches.
@resetproject.bsky.social
🧵 THREAD
January 13, 2026 at 8:58 AM
Interested in how to deliver support for mental health in schools? Then this is the podcast for you!
Hear from the experts about how we can best support young people’s wellbeing 🧠👥
Hear from the experts about how we can best support young people’s wellbeing 🧠👥
Reposted by Alex Lloyd
Interested in applying to the next GROW and Peer Coaching (PeCo) programmes? ⏳
Hoping to attend one of our fully funded #WritingRetreats to develop your next paper or application? 🌳
Be the first to know when 2026 applications open: buff.ly/xQp8J4G
Hoping to attend one of our fully funded #WritingRetreats to develop your next paper or application? 🌳
Be the first to know when 2026 applications open: buff.ly/xQp8J4G
January 12, 2026 at 3:50 PM
Interested in applying to the next GROW and Peer Coaching (PeCo) programmes? ⏳
Hoping to attend one of our fully funded #WritingRetreats to develop your next paper or application? 🌳
Be the first to know when 2026 applications open: buff.ly/xQp8J4G
Hoping to attend one of our fully funded #WritingRetreats to develop your next paper or application? 🌳
Be the first to know when 2026 applications open: buff.ly/xQp8J4G
Reposted by Alex Lloyd
⚠️ Job Alert ⚠️
I'm recruiting a postdoc to work with me and Professor @jonroiser.bsky.social on an exciting new project examining the link between young people's decision-making on social media and their mental health.
I'm recruiting a postdoc to work with me and Professor @jonroiser.bsky.social on an exciting new project examining the link between young people's decision-making on social media and their mental health.
January 5, 2026 at 9:16 AM
⚠️ Job Alert ⚠️
I'm recruiting a postdoc to work with me and Professor @jonroiser.bsky.social on an exciting new project examining the link between young people's decision-making on social media and their mental health.
I'm recruiting a postdoc to work with me and Professor @jonroiser.bsky.social on an exciting new project examining the link between young people's decision-making on social media and their mental health.
⚠️ Job Alert ⚠️
I'm recruiting a postdoc to work with me and Professor @jonroiser.bsky.social on an exciting new project examining the link between young people's decision-making on social media and their mental health.
I'm recruiting a postdoc to work with me and Professor @jonroiser.bsky.social on an exciting new project examining the link between young people's decision-making on social media and their mental health.
January 5, 2026 at 9:16 AM
⚠️ Job Alert ⚠️
I'm recruiting a postdoc to work with me and Professor @jonroiser.bsky.social on an exciting new project examining the link between young people's decision-making on social media and their mental health.
I'm recruiting a postdoc to work with me and Professor @jonroiser.bsky.social on an exciting new project examining the link between young people's decision-making on social media and their mental health.
Stellar work from @ritikac.bsky.social pulling together a huge amount of evidence for this review! Great to see this out ☺️
V excited to have 1st study from my PhD out as a preprint. We looked at whether interpersonal adversity in childhood is associated with changes in trust, mentalizing, agency and interpersonal emotion regulation and in turn, with mental health. All feedback much appreciated :) osf.io/preprints/ps...
OSF
osf.io
December 1, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Stellar work from @ritikac.bsky.social pulling together a huge amount of evidence for this review! Great to see this out ☺️
Reposted by Alex Lloyd
Wondering what the conference looked like? Well, here it is! ✨
Hosted at Anna Freud for the day, the event delved into the ReSET Project and our results, as well as touching upon school-related topics such as developmental language disorder, social networks and bullying.
Hosted at Anna Freud for the day, the event delved into the ReSET Project and our results, as well as touching upon school-related topics such as developmental language disorder, social networks and bullying.
November 10, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Wondering what the conference looked like? Well, here it is! ✨
Hosted at Anna Freud for the day, the event delved into the ReSET Project and our results, as well as touching upon school-related topics such as developmental language disorder, social networks and bullying.
Hosted at Anna Freud for the day, the event delved into the ReSET Project and our results, as well as touching upon school-related topics such as developmental language disorder, social networks and bullying.
Reposted by Alex Lloyd
📣Exciting announcement below!📣Curious to know what we're all about? ReSET is a novel indicated preventative intervention to improve the mental health of UK adolescents, by teaching strategies to support emotion regulation and social relationships🥰 (See more...⬇️)
November 4, 2025 at 10:45 AM
📣Exciting announcement below!📣Curious to know what we're all about? ReSET is a novel indicated preventative intervention to improve the mental health of UK adolescents, by teaching strategies to support emotion regulation and social relationships🥰 (See more...⬇️)
Reposted by Alex Lloyd
First up is Dr Alex Lloyd @dralexlloyd.bsky.social who is going to talk about The Development, Pilot and Feasibility Study of a Preventative, Transdiagnostic Intervention for Mental Health Problems in Adolescence: Building Resilience Through Socioemotional Training (ReSET) #ReSETMentalHealth
November 4, 2025 at 10:13 AM
First up is Dr Alex Lloyd @dralexlloyd.bsky.social who is going to talk about The Development, Pilot and Feasibility Study of a Preventative, Transdiagnostic Intervention for Mental Health Problems in Adolescence: Building Resilience Through Socioemotional Training (ReSET) #ReSETMentalHealth
Reposted by Alex Lloyd
👋 Good morning everyone, and a very warm Mental Elf welcome to the @resetproject.bsky.social conference in London.
You can follow along all day at
🌟 #ReSETMentalHealth 🌟
We are going to be talking about Relationships, Emotions & Adolescent Wellbeing.
I'm André - hello!
🧵 THREAD
You can follow along all day at
🌟 #ReSETMentalHealth 🌟
We are going to be talking about Relationships, Emotions & Adolescent Wellbeing.
I'm André - hello!
🧵 THREAD
November 4, 2025 at 9:51 AM
👋 Good morning everyone, and a very warm Mental Elf welcome to the @resetproject.bsky.social conference in London.
You can follow along all day at
🌟 #ReSETMentalHealth 🌟
We are going to be talking about Relationships, Emotions & Adolescent Wellbeing.
I'm André - hello!
🧵 THREAD
You can follow along all day at
🌟 #ReSETMentalHealth 🌟
We are going to be talking about Relationships, Emotions & Adolescent Wellbeing.
I'm André - hello!
🧵 THREAD
Reposted by Alex Lloyd
Looking for a PhD? Interested in cognitive computational neuroscience, motivation and decision-making? See our project listed in the BBSRC MIBTP competition for funding for a 4-year PhD in the @msnlab.bsky.social in the @thechbh.bsky.social. Deadline 27/11. More info: tinyurl.com/5d5vz8m7
The computational and neural dynamics of human motivation and cognitive control at University of Birmingham on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - The computational and neural dynamics of human motivation and cognitive control at University of Birmingham, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
October 23, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Looking for a PhD? Interested in cognitive computational neuroscience, motivation and decision-making? See our project listed in the BBSRC MIBTP competition for funding for a 4-year PhD in the @msnlab.bsky.social in the @thechbh.bsky.social. Deadline 27/11. More info: tinyurl.com/5d5vz8m7
New preprint from the @resetproject.bsky.social! Here we identify profiles of socio-affective functioning in adolescents at heightened risk for mental health problems 👇
Transdiagnostic Profiles of Socio-Affective Functioning in Adolescents At-Risk of Poor Mental Health: https://osf.io/839nr
October 10, 2025 at 2:16 PM
New preprint from the @resetproject.bsky.social! Here we identify profiles of socio-affective functioning in adolescents at heightened risk for mental health problems 👇
Reposted by Alex Lloyd
We just posted our very first TikTok to raise awareness for #YouthMentalHealthDay 🧠💛 We decided what better way to discuss the topic of youth mental health than to talk to the youth themselves? Let us know what you think! #MentalHealth #Wellbeing #UCL www.tiktok.com/@reset.proje...
It’s #YouthMentalHealthDay today. So Josh and I thought we would talk to students at @UCL and get their thoughts about the rising cases of mental health disorders in young people aged 8-25. What do y...
TikTok video by ReSET
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September 19, 2025 at 11:41 AM
We just posted our very first TikTok to raise awareness for #YouthMentalHealthDay 🧠💛 We decided what better way to discuss the topic of youth mental health than to talk to the youth themselves? Let us know what you think! #MentalHealth #Wellbeing #UCL www.tiktok.com/@reset.proje...
Reposted by Alex Lloyd
Today is Youth Mental Health Day with the theme “Shared Support” highlighting the power of connection.
Peer support is vital during adolescence, reducing depression and anxiety.
The takeaway? Be that person for someone you know! More info below...
#YouthMentalHealthDay #ShareSupport
Peer support is vital during adolescence, reducing depression and anxiety.
The takeaway? Be that person for someone you know! More info below...
#YouthMentalHealthDay #ShareSupport
September 19, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Today is Youth Mental Health Day with the theme “Shared Support” highlighting the power of connection.
Peer support is vital during adolescence, reducing depression and anxiety.
The takeaway? Be that person for someone you know! More info below...
#YouthMentalHealthDay #ShareSupport
Peer support is vital during adolescence, reducing depression and anxiety.
The takeaway? Be that person for someone you know! More info below...
#YouthMentalHealthDay #ShareSupport
How do we work with young people to develop new mental health interventions that draw on different disciplines? In this new paper, we outline our approach in developing the @resetproject.bsky.social programme, a new transdiagnostic preventative intervention for young people 👇
lnkd.in/eYkuaHZB
lnkd.in/eYkuaHZB
Co-producing an interdisciplinary, preventative mental health intervention: development of the building resilience through socioemotional training (ReSET) programme
Adolescence is a developmental period of increased susceptibility to mental health problems. In response to rising rates of psychopathology in this age group, there have been calls to develop new o...
www.tandfonline.com
September 19, 2025 at 7:31 AM
How do we work with young people to develop new mental health interventions that draw on different disciplines? In this new paper, we outline our approach in developing the @resetproject.bsky.social programme, a new transdiagnostic preventative intervention for young people 👇
lnkd.in/eYkuaHZB
lnkd.in/eYkuaHZB
Reposted by Alex Lloyd
🙌 Team Spotlight! 🙌 Our post-doc @dralexlloyd.bsky.social presented his research on Transdiagnostic Approaches and Socio-Affective Risk factors at the FLUX conference in Dublin last week 🎉 A link to the poster can be found here: drive.google.com/file/d/1g6pw... #MentalHealthResearch #ReSETproject
September 17, 2025 at 12:04 PM
🙌 Team Spotlight! 🙌 Our post-doc @dralexlloyd.bsky.social presented his research on Transdiagnostic Approaches and Socio-Affective Risk factors at the FLUX conference in Dublin last week 🎉 A link to the poster can be found here: drive.google.com/file/d/1g6pw... #MentalHealthResearch #ReSETproject
Reposted by Alex Lloyd
Does young people's decision-making impact their wellbeing?
We just posted a blog offering a deep dive into an exciting new project led by @dralexlloyd.bsky.social that looks at how the 'Explore-Exploit paradigm' relates to young people's mental health. Click to find out more! buff.ly/KZHlafL
We just posted a blog offering a deep dive into an exciting new project led by @dralexlloyd.bsky.social that looks at how the 'Explore-Exploit paradigm' relates to young people's mental health. Click to find out more! buff.ly/KZHlafL
New Project: ‘Explore-Exploit’ Paradigm and Mental Health in Adolescents – The ReSET Project – Building resilience through socio-emotional training
Building resilience through socio-emotional training
buff.ly
September 15, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Does young people's decision-making impact their wellbeing?
We just posted a blog offering a deep dive into an exciting new project led by @dralexlloyd.bsky.social that looks at how the 'Explore-Exploit paradigm' relates to young people's mental health. Click to find out more! buff.ly/KZHlafL
We just posted a blog offering a deep dive into an exciting new project led by @dralexlloyd.bsky.social that looks at how the 'Explore-Exploit paradigm' relates to young people's mental health. Click to find out more! buff.ly/KZHlafL
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🧠 We're hiring a computational postdoc!
3+ years with me & @mitulamehta.bsky.social on @wellcometrust.bsky.social funded social cognition/paranoia research at the IoPPN.
Lead & develop computational work, collaborate with experimentalists on psychosis/THC data.
DM for details! lnkd.in/eCMy9Jf5
3+ years with me & @mitulamehta.bsky.social on @wellcometrust.bsky.social funded social cognition/paranoia research at the IoPPN.
Lead & develop computational work, collaborate with experimentalists on psychosis/THC data.
DM for details! lnkd.in/eCMy9Jf5
September 3, 2025 at 7:13 AM
🧠 We're hiring a computational postdoc!
3+ years with me & @mitulamehta.bsky.social on @wellcometrust.bsky.social funded social cognition/paranoia research at the IoPPN.
Lead & develop computational work, collaborate with experimentalists on psychosis/THC data.
DM for details! lnkd.in/eCMy9Jf5
3+ years with me & @mitulamehta.bsky.social on @wellcometrust.bsky.social funded social cognition/paranoia research at the IoPPN.
Lead & develop computational work, collaborate with experimentalists on psychosis/THC data.
DM for details! lnkd.in/eCMy9Jf5
Reposted by Alex Lloyd
Our 2025–2026 Seminar Series is ready to begin 🎓✨
We’re kicking off on 1 October with a fantastic line-up of speakers from across the UK and beyond.
Join us on Wednesdays from 1–2 PM at Birkbeck. Light refreshments provided ☕️🥐
Here’s the full programme 👇 @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social
We’re kicking off on 1 October with a fantastic line-up of speakers from across the UK and beyond.
Join us on Wednesdays from 1–2 PM at Birkbeck. Light refreshments provided ☕️🥐
Here’s the full programme 👇 @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social
September 1, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Our 2025–2026 Seminar Series is ready to begin 🎓✨
We’re kicking off on 1 October with a fantastic line-up of speakers from across the UK and beyond.
Join us on Wednesdays from 1–2 PM at Birkbeck. Light refreshments provided ☕️🥐
Here’s the full programme 👇 @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social
We’re kicking off on 1 October with a fantastic line-up of speakers from across the UK and beyond.
Join us on Wednesdays from 1–2 PM at Birkbeck. Light refreshments provided ☕️🥐
Here’s the full programme 👇 @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social
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New paper! Excellent work by @bignardi.bsky.social and @minafazeloxford.bsky.social, who leads the Oxwell study
The prevalence of food insecurity and its relationship with wellbeing in a large, cross-sectional study of children and young people in England
Out soon. Preprint:
osf.io/preprints/ps...
The prevalence of food insecurity and its relationship with wellbeing in a large, cross-sectional study of children and young people in England
Out soon. Preprint:
osf.io/preprints/ps...
OSF
osf.io
August 31, 2025 at 10:54 AM
New paper! Excellent work by @bignardi.bsky.social and @minafazeloxford.bsky.social, who leads the Oxwell study
The prevalence of food insecurity and its relationship with wellbeing in a large, cross-sectional study of children and young people in England
Out soon. Preprint:
osf.io/preprints/ps...
The prevalence of food insecurity and its relationship with wellbeing in a large, cross-sectional study of children and young people in England
Out soon. Preprint:
osf.io/preprints/ps...
Reposted by Alex Lloyd
Another exciting new job opening at @uclpals.bsky.social with Niko Steinbeis and Essi Viding - www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... #neurojob #computationalpsychiatry
UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
www.ucl.ac.uk
August 18, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Another exciting new job opening at @uclpals.bsky.social with Niko Steinbeis and Essi Viding - www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... #neurojob #computationalpsychiatry