Ruth Knight
@ruthknight.bsky.social
Psychologist interested in social identity, marginalisation, and mental health. Senior lecturer at York St John. Also to be found turning off all the big lights. Autistic + EDSetc.
Supervision meetings with every PhD student today. Very much enjoyed the variety of activities (coffee in a cafe, sitting on the floor sketching out the next semester, laughing about weird papers). Realized that supervision is often the highlight of my job, because these students are just so fab.
October 29, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Supervision meetings with every PhD student today. Very much enjoyed the variety of activities (coffee in a cafe, sitting on the floor sketching out the next semester, laughing about weird papers). Realized that supervision is often the highlight of my job, because these students are just so fab.
Happy that the last chapter of my PhD is published. We explored the different effects that of viewing the same fitspiration images in the lab or on Instagram. Instagram seems to be especially potent in terms of body image, particularly for those who already have some disordered eating.
September 30, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Happy that the last chapter of my PhD is published. We explored the different effects that of viewing the same fitspiration images in the lab or on Instagram. Instagram seems to be especially potent in terms of body image, particularly for those who already have some disordered eating.
New paper!! Excited to share our new piece outlining an ECR perspective on children and young people's mental health research. We offer suggestions around funding, research practice, and institutional governance and processes to support a more socially just, equitable, and rigorous science.
www.cambridge.org
July 21, 2025 at 10:17 AM
New paper!! Excited to share our new piece outlining an ECR perspective on children and young people's mental health research. We offer suggestions around funding, research practice, and institutional governance and processes to support a more socially just, equitable, and rigorous science.
Thoroughly enjoyed a day at the Institute for Health and Care Improvement's research showcase yesterday. Had the chance to share some findings and lessons from a current project with @ercaldwell.bsky.social, meet new people, and learn about the range of coproduced projects across disciplines here.
July 16, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Thoroughly enjoyed a day at the Institute for Health and Care Improvement's research showcase yesterday. Had the chance to share some findings and lessons from a current project with @ercaldwell.bsky.social, meet new people, and learn about the range of coproduced projects across disciplines here.
Here in beautiful Utrecht for the first time at #BRNet2025, ready to present our poster on co-production in body representation research today!
July 3, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Here in beautiful Utrecht for the first time at #BRNet2025, ready to present our poster on co-production in body representation research today!
Hosted the first meeting of the Yorkshire Eating Disorder Research Network today. Despite a heavy dose of imposter syndrome-induced nerves earlier, it was great to share discussions about challenges, facilitators, and priorities with others who understand the challenges of working in this area.
June 24, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Hosted the first meeting of the Yorkshire Eating Disorder Research Network today. Despite a heavy dose of imposter syndrome-induced nerves earlier, it was great to share discussions about challenges, facilitators, and priorities with others who understand the challenges of working in this area.
A great lab day out yesterday to present some research with @gburton221.bsky.social and @ercaldwell.bsky.social at a @tewv.bsky.social research event. Brilliant to hear about the projects being done through the trust and their ongoing commitment to real coproduction. Also got to see some ducklings!
June 18, 2025 at 8:21 AM
A great lab day out yesterday to present some research with @gburton221.bsky.social and @ercaldwell.bsky.social at a @tewv.bsky.social research event. Brilliant to hear about the projects being done through the trust and their ongoing commitment to real coproduction. Also got to see some ducklings!
Looking forward to our next meeting in a few weeks!
Our next meeting will be on 23rd June from 13.00 - 14.00. Sign up at this link: shorturl.at/3U5sB We hope to see you there!
June 5, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Looking forward to our next meeting in a few weeks!
Reposted by Ruth Knight
Just out! Our peer-reviewed critique of the Cass Review has been published by BMC Medical Research Methodology. Please read and share. We show that the Cass Review is fatally flawed and should not be the basis for policy or practice in transgender healthcare.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
May 10, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Just out! Our peer-reviewed critique of the Cass Review has been published by BMC Medical Research Methodology. Please read and share. We show that the Cass Review is fatally flawed and should not be the basis for policy or practice in transgender healthcare.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Day two in Edinburgh; looking forward to hearing about the incredible research that is being done across the Eating Disorder Research Network. Any conference with @edaceatingautism.bsky.social branded fidget spinners gets my vote!
May 9, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Day two in Edinburgh; looking forward to hearing about the incredible research that is being done across the Eating Disorder Research Network. Any conference with @edaceatingautism.bsky.social branded fidget spinners gets my vote!
A great first day in (sunny!) Edinburgh at the Eating Disorder ECR Network event. So valuable to share conversations about the context we're in, especially around funding and coproduction. It can be a lonely space and these events really help to combat that isolation.
May 8, 2025 at 5:01 PM
A great first day in (sunny!) Edinburgh at the Eating Disorder ECR Network event. So valuable to share conversations about the context we're in, especially around funding and coproduction. It can be a lonely space and these events really help to combat that isolation.
Being on a two and a half hour long train journey is a really good time to completely dismantle an article. Just cut about six pages and it's already all the better for it. @harrietbarratt.bsky.social we are doing The Thing and it's strangely liberating!
May 7, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Being on a two and a half hour long train journey is a really good time to completely dismantle an article. Just cut about six pages and it's already all the better for it. @harrietbarratt.bsky.social we are doing The Thing and it's strangely liberating!
Getting excited for the #BRNet conference in July! Will be presenting work around coproducing body representation research with @gburton221.bsky.social + @ercaldwell.bsky.social and get to travel with brilliant collaborators like @cejpreston.bsky.social + @annacrossland.bsky.social. Can't wait!
May 6, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Getting excited for the #BRNet conference in July! Will be presenting work around coproducing body representation research with @gburton221.bsky.social + @ercaldwell.bsky.social and get to travel with brilliant collaborators like @cejpreston.bsky.social + @annacrossland.bsky.social. Can't wait!
Absolute joy to be bringing this network together with @ruthndwrites.bsky.social!
First LENS meeting today was so good! 32 academic mental health researchers with lived experience of mental ill health, all supporting each other and reflecting on our shared joys and challenges. More of that please! Thanks @mhrincubator.bsky.social for funding this @lensmentalhealth.bsky.social
May 1, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Absolute joy to be bringing this network together with @ruthndwrites.bsky.social!
I've come away from our first meeting feeling such a wave of appreciation for community, solidarity, and the bravery and wisdom of everyone who is trying to disrupt the professional-personal binary in mental health research. Looking forward to next time very much!
Thankyou so much to all those who came along to our first meeting this afternoon. It was such a supportive and affirming space, with challenging topics and thought-provoking conversations. Places of solidarity are so important for us all. Watch out for details of our next meeting soon!
May 1, 2025 at 2:14 PM
I've come away from our first meeting feeling such a wave of appreciation for community, solidarity, and the bravery and wisdom of everyone who is trying to disrupt the professional-personal binary in mental health research. Looking forward to next time very much!
Are you interested in marginalization and how this influences eating disorders? We have space for 3 more group members to contribute to a research project on these issues. We have funding to pay for attendance at four meetings; the role can be as involved as you wish. Get in touch for more details!
April 28, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Are you interested in marginalization and how this influences eating disorders? We have space for 3 more group members to contribute to a research project on these issues. We have funding to pay for attendance at four meetings; the role can be as involved as you wish. Get in touch for more details!
For me, so much of doing coproduction with young people can be summed up in this photo. We hear alot about outputs, impact, publications, but less about this: hanging out and eating a takeaway. I do really believe, though, that this is the foundation for the rest of it. (1/n)
April 9, 2025 at 7:11 AM
For me, so much of doing coproduction with young people can be summed up in this photo. We hear alot about outputs, impact, publications, but less about this: hanging out and eating a takeaway. I do really believe, though, that this is the foundation for the rest of it. (1/n)
Happy to have a chapter in upcoming collection on double empathy, coauthored with @drlornaham.bsky.social - we consider double empathy in the HE classroom drawing on our experience and inclusive approaches. pavpub.com/health-and-s...
The Double Empathy Reader - Pavilion Publishing
The Double Empathy Reader: Exploring Theory, Neurodivergent Lived Experience and Implications for Practice brings together a substantial collection of work from leading researchers, theorists and prac...
pavpub.com
April 8, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Happy to have a chapter in upcoming collection on double empathy, coauthored with @drlornaham.bsky.social - we consider double empathy in the HE classroom drawing on our experience and inclusive approaches. pavpub.com/health-and-s...
Reposted by Ruth Knight
Late to the party due to forgetting BlueSky exists but! I'm super proud of this piece and look forward to taking this train of thought further in the future
TL;DR of it: BMI should be used with careful and specifc consideration, nuance, and contextual acknowledgement
#BMI
TL;DR of it: BMI should be used with careful and specifc consideration, nuance, and contextual acknowledgement
#BMI
New #ECR blog posts! 🔥
Georgie Burton @gburton221.bsky.social dives into the (in)appropriateness of Body Mass Index (#BMI), exploring its history, its role in discrimination, and whether these measures should even be used. Read her thought-provoking analysis here: shorturl.at/sPq7y
Georgie Burton @gburton221.bsky.social dives into the (in)appropriateness of Body Mass Index (#BMI), exploring its history, its role in discrimination, and whether these measures should even be used. Read her thought-provoking analysis here: shorturl.at/sPq7y
March 27, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Late to the party due to forgetting BlueSky exists but! I'm super proud of this piece and look forward to taking this train of thought further in the future
TL;DR of it: BMI should be used with careful and specifc consideration, nuance, and contextual acknowledgement
#BMI
TL;DR of it: BMI should be used with careful and specifc consideration, nuance, and contextual acknowledgement
#BMI
Reposted by Ruth Knight
"If lived experience is mediated, edited, and filtered to fit institutional needs, does it still belong to those who lived it?"
@projectsoulstride.bsky.social unpacks the increasing sanitisation of lived experience, and calls for a fundamental shift in the movement.
www.nsun.org.uk/lived-experi...
@projectsoulstride.bsky.social unpacks the increasing sanitisation of lived experience, and calls for a fundamental shift in the movement.
www.nsun.org.uk/lived-experi...
Lived Experience is Not Enough: the Illusion of Inclusion in Mental Health Spaces
The lived experience movement is at a crossroads. We can either allow it to be diluted into another form of institutional tokenism, or we can demand more accountability, more inclusion, and ultimately...
www.nsun.org.uk
March 19, 2025 at 10:49 AM
"If lived experience is mediated, edited, and filtered to fit institutional needs, does it still belong to those who lived it?"
@projectsoulstride.bsky.social unpacks the increasing sanitisation of lived experience, and calls for a fundamental shift in the movement.
www.nsun.org.uk/lived-experi...
@projectsoulstride.bsky.social unpacks the increasing sanitisation of lived experience, and calls for a fundamental shift in the movement.
www.nsun.org.uk/lived-experi...
Reposted by Ruth Knight
Sign up to learn about the new Lived Experience Network for Scholars (LENS). Alongside presentations from organisers Dr Ruth Naughton-Doe and Dr Ruth Knight, McPin will be sharing advice on managing lived experience disclosure. 1st May 1pm-2.30pm #research
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lived-expe...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lived-expe...
March 11, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Sign up to learn about the new Lived Experience Network for Scholars (LENS). Alongside presentations from organisers Dr Ruth Naughton-Doe and Dr Ruth Knight, McPin will be sharing advice on managing lived experience disclosure. 1st May 1pm-2.30pm #research
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lived-expe...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lived-expe...
Sign up link here!
🙌Very excited to share our new support network for mental health and/or addiction research academics with lived experience. We have called it LENS (Lived Experience Network for Scholars). Read more and sign up on Eventbrite for our 1st online meeting in May: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lived-expe...
Lived Experience Network for Scholars (LENS) Online Meet-up
An support and information network for academic mental health and addiction researchers with lived experience
www.eventbrite.co.uk
March 6, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Sign up link here!
Super excited about an upcoming project with @ruthndwrites.bsky.social (kindly funded by @mhrincubator.bsky.social) If you're a mental health researcher with lived experience, watch this space!
March 6, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Super excited about an upcoming project with @ruthndwrites.bsky.social (kindly funded by @mhrincubator.bsky.social) If you're a mental health researcher with lived experience, watch this space!
Reposted by Ruth Knight
Come and be part of a really important project investigating how changing the recruitment, relationships and redeployment of early career researchers could improve research culture
Research Associate or Assistant Action Research on Research Culture (Fixed Term) - Job Opportunities - University of Cambridge
Research Associate or Assistant Action Research on Research Culture (Fixed Term) in the Cambridge Research Office at the University of Cambridge.
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk
February 20, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Come and be part of a really important project investigating how changing the recruitment, relationships and redeployment of early career researchers could improve research culture
Reposted by Ruth Knight
Romana and I were delighted to be interviewed for @acamh.bsky.social about our recent scoping review about Patient and Public Involvement methods in child and adolescent mental health. You can listed to the podcast here!
acamhlearn.org/Learning/No_...
acamhlearn.org/Learning/No_...
No decision about me, without me: Collaborating with young people in mental health research
acamhlearn.org
February 20, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Romana and I were delighted to be interviewed for @acamh.bsky.social about our recent scoping review about Patient and Public Involvement methods in child and adolescent mental health. You can listed to the podcast here!
acamhlearn.org/Learning/No_...
acamhlearn.org/Learning/No_...