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Marita Hennessy
@maritahennessy.bsky.social
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Researcher | PhD | Ireland

#PregnancyLoss #ReproductiveHealth #ReproductiveJustice #WeightStigma #MensHealth #CDoH #COI #PublicHealth #SDoH #ImpSci #KnowledgeTranslation #GraphicMedicine
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Marita Hennessy @maritahennessy.bsky.social · Dec 9
Our commentary on commercial influences on patient & public involvement is out today @healthpromint.bsky.social as part of special issue on the #CDoH. We hope to stimulate discussion & debate (& hopefully meaningful action) in this area

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@jameslarkin13.bsky.social
Commercial influences on patient and public involvement: a renewed call for research and action
Abstract. Patient and public involvement is increasingly advocated in health policy, research and practice. Patients and people with lived experience, care
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📖 Interpretive Description: Qualitative Research for Applied Practice (3rd edition, 2025)

✍️ By Sally Thorne

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Interpretive Description | Qualitative Research for Applied Practice |
Interpretive Description: Qualitative Research for Applied Practice has established itself as the key resource for novice and intermediate level researchers in
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November 9, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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"We suggest that ‘underserved’, much like ‘diversity’, obscures historically rooted injustice..."

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Hannah Cowan, @davidwyatt.bsky.social, Sven Smeets
‘Hell No!’—Exploring Scepticism in UK Health Research Since COVID‐19 Amongst Communities Who Have Been Labelled ‘Underserved’
Healthcare research globally has seen a renewed shift to increase diversity in research participation. People previously excluded from the production of biomedical knowledge, and often labelled ‘unde...
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November 9, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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Speaking Out | Under pressure: Becoming the good enough academic

Milena Tekeste

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Under pressure: Becoming the good enough academic - Milena Tekeste, 2025
Early Career Researchers (ECRs) often face enormous pressures in academia, particularly in the relentless pursuit of being perceived as a “good” academic. Drawi...
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November 9, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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Power, Benefits, and Visibility in Qualitatively Driven Mixed Methods Research

David Morgan

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November 7, 2025 at 7:13 AM
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Delighted to be launching the Feminist Miscarriage Project! Please see our new website and we'll be updating on news and events soon: feministmiscarriageproject.org
The Feminist Miscarriage Project
A new collaboration led by two feminist academics, Victoria Browne and Susie Kilshaw, promoting intersectional approaches to miscarriage, grounded in bodily autonomy, social justice, and solidarity ac...
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September 24, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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Conference alert! Thursday 18th-Friday 19th June, 2026, London campus of Loughborough University. Online day: Monday 22nd June, 2026. Please see Call for Papers here:

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Conference — The Feminist Miscarriage Project
Information on the conference 'New Directions in Miscarriage Research: Intersectional, Interdisciplinary and Full-Spectrum Perspectives', Loughborough University London Campus, June 2026.
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October 6, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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Our position statement rejecting the use of GenAI for reflexive qualitative research can be found here

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<span>We reject the use of generative artificial intelligence for reflexive qualitative research</span>
We write as 416 experienced qualitative researchers from 38 countries, to reject the use of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) applications for Big Q Qu
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November 4, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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Global Heart Hub's (an Alliance of Patient Organisations) Unite Annual Summit brought to you by Bayer, Novo Nordisk & others 😏

Unsurprising given the organisation's supporters (globalhearthub.org/about/our-su...)

#COI #CDoH #HeartHealth #WomensHealth

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Unite Annual Summit
Global Heart Hub’s 5th Unite Annual Summit from 2-4 November 2025 in Dublin, Ireland!
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November 5, 2025 at 5:35 AM
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🎙️ Listen Back | The role of a workplace in dealing with pregnancy loss

🗣️ @keelinodonoghue.bsky.social speaking with @seanmoncrieff.bsky.social on @newstalkfm.bsky.social

🔗 www.goloudplayer.com/episodes/the...

#PLRG_PLACESproject @ucc.ie @uccresearch.bsky.social @infantcentreucc.bsky.social
The role of a workplace in dealing with pregnancy loss
University College Cork has become the first Irish university to introduce paid leave to employees who have experienced pregnancy loss. It follows extensive work carried out by the university’s Pregn...
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November 4, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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Call for papers - Special Issue of Social Science & Medicine

🔎 Overdiagnosis, Medicalization, and the Consequences of Too Much Medicine

Guest editors: Alexandra Ryborg Jønsson, Cindi SturtzSreetharan

📆 Submission deadline: 31 May 2026

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Social Science & Medicine | ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier - Social Science & Medicine | ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier
Read the latest articles of Social Science & Medicine at ScienceDirect.com, Elsevier’s leading platform of peer-reviewed scholarly literature
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November 4, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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View/download our free toolkit for workplaces & book #PLRG_WordsAtWork here: www.ucc.ie/en/pregnancy...

#PLRG_PLACESproject #PregnancyLoss #Work

@keelinodonoghue.bsky.social @seanmoncrieff.bsky.social @newstalkfm.bsky.social
November 4, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Website Content and Funding of Officially Recognized Disease Awareness Campaigns

Minna Johansson, Loai Albarqouni, Mary O’Keeffe, Karsten Juhl Jørgensen, Steven Woloshin

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#Pharma #COI #CDoH #DiseaseMongering
Website Content and Funding of Officially Recognized Disease Awareness Campaigns
This study examines the content, including mention of benefits and harms of testing and treatment, and funding of disease awareness campaign websites recognized by major noncommercial institutions.
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November 4, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Tune in to @seanmoncrieff.bsky.social Show @newstalkfm.bsky.social today to hear @keelinodonoghue.bsky.social speak about pregnancy loss at work

🎙 www.newstalk.com/shows/moncri...

#PLRG_PLACESproject: www.ucc.ie/en/pregnancy...

@ucc.ie @uccresearch.bsky.social @infantcentreucc.bsky.social
November 4, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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Here's a paper we wrote about how it's actually very bad that a "context of constrained funding has incentivised... providers of adult education, sports, arts and community services to demonstrate ancillary wellbeing benefits." pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40447986/
Reading as therapy: medicalising books in an era of mental health austerity - PubMed
In the UK, a range of everyday activities are being re-framed as interventions to promote public mental health. Drivers of this include the rising burden of mental ill-health and constrained funding for community-based arts and educational provision, in the context of austerity. A consequent interes …
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October 29, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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Considerations for Preparing High-Quality Peer Reviews of Mixed Methods Manuscripts

Vicki Plano Clark and Timothy C. Guetterman

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Considerations for Preparing High-Quality Peer Reviews of Mixed Methods Manuscripts - Vicki L. Plano Clark, Timothy C. Guetterman, 2025
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November 4, 2025 at 6:47 AM
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The elephant in the room: Arguments against horizontalized line-by-line coding in qualitative research

Helen Damon and Russel Ayling

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November 4, 2025 at 6:44 AM
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Inventor Masculinity: Innovation, Competition, and Male Privilege in Academic Science

Timothy Sacco

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November 4, 2025 at 6:42 AM
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Pregnancy Loss Research Group: New resources for workplaces | @activelink.bsky.social

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#PLRG_PLACESproject #PLRG_WordsAtWork #PregnancyLoss #Workplace #Work
Pregnancy Loss Research Group: New resources for workplaces
The Pregnancy Loss Research Group at University College Cork has developed a range of resources to help create more compassionate workplaces for people who experience pregnancy loss. We encourage work...
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November 3, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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Thinking of Eileen O'Sullivan on her third anniversary ❤️

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‘There was bonkers stuff. I was told negative energy contributed to my cancer’
Bill to regulate advertisement of so-called alternative treatments introduced in Dáil
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November 3, 2025 at 6:57 AM
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At Uisneach, the sacred centre of Ireland, 2,500 people gather to scatter Manchán Magan’s ashes
At Uisneach, the sacred centre of Ireland, 2,500 people gather to scatter Manchán Magan’s ashes
Month’s memorial hears world will be a less kind, generous, curious and gentle place with the writer’s passing
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November 1, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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"When history judges us, it won’t ask how “agile” we were.

It will ask who we housed, who we fed, who we sheltered, who we lifted up when the lift got stuck.

That’s the only kind of fast that matters."

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Colin Sheridan opinion piece in Examiner, opening section.
November 1, 2025 at 7:56 AM
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The far right will eventually kill someone or lots of someones if our pathetic government does not act now to stop them … first step would be for politicians, including Government ministers, to stop repeating far right racist rhetoric #speirgorm
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Firefighters rescued five people, including three children under ten, from the top floor of an Ipas centre in Drogheda last night after a major fire.

Gardaí have preserved the scene while the cause of the blaze is investigated.

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Emergency services tackle major fire at Ipas centre in Drogheda
Arson has not been ruled out.
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November 1, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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All political leaders will sincerely condemn this outrage. Some should weigh more carefully the impact of their public statements about policies and practices for which they themselves are responsible.
November 1, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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Women’s views about the use of gendered Corporate Social Responsibility strategies by harmful industries.

Our new paper with @simonemccarthy.bsky.social Monique Murray, @hannahpitt.bsky.social @gracearnot.bsky.social

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Women’s views about the use of gendered Corporate Social Responsibility strategies by harmful industries - Globalization and Health
Background Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiatives are part of a suite of marketing and promotional strategies used by industries whose products and/or practices may be harmful to health and...
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October 31, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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Our sincere congratulations to Dr Elizabeth Riordan Coppin, who yesterday received an honorary doctorate from South East Technological University in Waterford.

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A photograph of Dr Jennifer O'Mahoney, Prof Katherine O'Donnell, Dr Elizabeth Riordan-Coppin, Dr Maeve O'Rourke, Dr Claire McGettrick born Lorraine Hughes and Dr Kate McCarthy. Everyone is wearing colourful academic robes.
October 31, 2025 at 2:01 PM