Holly Bear
@drhollybear.bsky.social
🔬Researcher at University of Oxford
🧠 Evaluating mental health interventions, implementation & sustainability
🌍 Passionate about improving adolescent mental health
📍 Oxford, UK
🧠 Evaluating mental health interventions, implementation & sustainability
🌍 Passionate about improving adolescent mental health
📍 Oxford, UK
🚨 Interested in a fully funded DPhil at Oxford?
🌏 We’re recruiting for an MRC iCASE studentship on conversational AI for youth mental health.
Join an amazing team using youth voice to shape global digital health.
⏳ Deadline: 2 Dec 2025
💡 Get in touch to chat!
🔗 More info: tinyurl.com/4ua4j46h
🌏 We’re recruiting for an MRC iCASE studentship on conversational AI for youth mental health.
Join an amazing team using youth voice to shape global digital health.
⏳ Deadline: 2 Dec 2025
💡 Get in touch to chat!
🔗 More info: tinyurl.com/4ua4j46h
September 29, 2025 at 9:42 AM
🚨 Interested in a fully funded DPhil at Oxford?
🌏 We’re recruiting for an MRC iCASE studentship on conversational AI for youth mental health.
Join an amazing team using youth voice to shape global digital health.
⏳ Deadline: 2 Dec 2025
💡 Get in touch to chat!
🔗 More info: tinyurl.com/4ua4j46h
🌏 We’re recruiting for an MRC iCASE studentship on conversational AI for youth mental health.
Join an amazing team using youth voice to shape global digital health.
⏳ Deadline: 2 Dec 2025
💡 Get in touch to chat!
🔗 More info: tinyurl.com/4ua4j46h
📱 New paper out today in BJPsych Open asks: are financial incentives helping or hindering mental health app research?
📄 Read it here:
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
@minafazeloxford.bsky.social @oxchildpsych.bsky.social @oxfordpsychiatry.bsky.social
📄 Read it here:
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
@minafazeloxford.bsky.social @oxchildpsych.bsky.social @oxfordpsychiatry.bsky.social
Incentivising participation in mental health app research: lessons learned from a mixed methods randomised controlled trial | BJPsych Open | Cambridge Core
Incentivising participation in mental health app research: lessons learned from a mixed methods randomised controlled trial - Volume 11 Issue 3
www.cambridge.org
May 19, 2025 at 10:25 AM
📱 New paper out today in BJPsych Open asks: are financial incentives helping or hindering mental health app research?
📄 Read it here:
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
@minafazeloxford.bsky.social @oxchildpsych.bsky.social @oxfordpsychiatry.bsky.social
📄 Read it here:
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
@minafazeloxford.bsky.social @oxchildpsych.bsky.social @oxfordpsychiatry.bsky.social
Proud to be part of this work with @emmasoneson.bsky.social @minafazeloxford.bsky.social big thanks to BBC South Today & Radio Oxford for shining a light on young people’s mental health 💙
It's been a busy 48 hours for our senior postdocs @drhollybear.bsky.social & @emmasoneson.bsky.social, who were invited by BBC South Today & Radio Oxford to talk about the latest Oxfordshire Director of Public Health Annual Report on Children & Young People's #mentalhealth.
Links below👇
Links below👇
April 3, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Proud to be part of this work with @emmasoneson.bsky.social @minafazeloxford.bsky.social big thanks to BBC South Today & Radio Oxford for shining a light on young people’s mental health 💙
Reposted by Holly Bear
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.
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.
Our latest paper is now out in Current Psychology:
🔗 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Based on data from over 14,000 adolescents we found: It’s not just how much time young people spend online-it’s what they’re doing & what they’re exposed to that matters.
🔗 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Based on data from over 14,000 adolescents we found: It’s not just how much time young people spend online-it’s what they’re doing & what they’re exposed to that matters.
Isolation despite hyper-connectivity? The association between adolescents’ mental health and online behaviours in a large study of school-aged students - Current Psychology
Smartphone use has risen rapidly amongst adolescents over the last decade, as has the rates of common mental disorders. This has raised widespread concerns about direct links between adolescents’ gene...
link.springer.com
March 25, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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.
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.
Our latest paper is now out in Current Psychology:
🔗 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Based on data from over 14,000 adolescents we found: It’s not just how much time young people spend online-it’s what they’re doing & what they’re exposed to that matters.
🔗 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Based on data from over 14,000 adolescents we found: It’s not just how much time young people spend online-it’s what they’re doing & what they’re exposed to that matters.
Isolation despite hyper-connectivity? The association between adolescents’ mental health and online behaviours in a large study of school-aged students - Current Psychology
Smartphone use has risen rapidly amongst adolescents over the last decade, as has the rates of common mental disorders. This has raised widespread concerns about direct links between adolescents’ gene...
link.springer.com
March 25, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Our latest paper is now out in Current Psychology:
🔗 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Based on data from over 14,000 adolescents we found: It’s not just how much time young people spend online-it’s what they’re doing & what they’re exposed to that matters.
🔗 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Based on data from over 14,000 adolescents we found: It’s not just how much time young people spend online-it’s what they’re doing & what they’re exposed to that matters.
Reposted by Holly Bear
Lots of celebrations this week, incl.:
👉 a Secret Santa Sock Exchange 🔁🧦
👉 the Departmental Christmas Party (a screening of 'Paddington in Peru'!) 🐻🇬🇧
👉 a team murder mystery event at Oxford Castle 👀🏰
We also said 'bye for now' to Shona, our lovely group administrator who's off to go have a baby 👶
👉 a Secret Santa Sock Exchange 🔁🧦
👉 the Departmental Christmas Party (a screening of 'Paddington in Peru'!) 🐻🇬🇧
👉 a team murder mystery event at Oxford Castle 👀🏰
We also said 'bye for now' to Shona, our lovely group administrator who's off to go have a baby 👶
December 13, 2024 at 2:22 PM
Lots of celebrations this week, incl.:
👉 a Secret Santa Sock Exchange 🔁🧦
👉 the Departmental Christmas Party (a screening of 'Paddington in Peru'!) 🐻🇬🇧
👉 a team murder mystery event at Oxford Castle 👀🏰
We also said 'bye for now' to Shona, our lovely group administrator who's off to go have a baby 👶
👉 a Secret Santa Sock Exchange 🔁🧦
👉 the Departmental Christmas Party (a screening of 'Paddington in Peru'!) 🐻🇬🇧
👉 a team murder mystery event at Oxford Castle 👀🏰
We also said 'bye for now' to Shona, our lovely group administrator who's off to go have a baby 👶