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The Oxford Psychological Interventions for Children and adolescents (TOPIC) Research Team is a multi-group team based in the
Depts of Experimental Psychology & Psychiatry, University of Oxford
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New year new job? Come and work with us as the manager for the Mental Health in Development theme of the @oxhealthbrc.bsky.social.
Post available 60% fte until 31/3/28.

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December 30, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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🎄❄️Happy holidays! ❄️🎄

Wishing you and your loved ones a great holiday season and a happy New Year! 🌟

We're on leave until January but can't wait to show you what's in store for the MHR Incubator 2026! See you in the new year 👋
December 19, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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Happy Holidays from the STAR-CAT team!

As the year comes to an end, we want to say a big thank you to all of the families and clinical services who have been involved in the study so far! 🌟

We hope everyone has a relaxing break over the festive period 🎄⛄
December 19, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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"My career path has been winding, but my motivation has never wavered."

💼 Dr Simona Skripkauskaite reflects on variety - both in her career path as a #mentalhealth #researcher, and in her day-to-day.

To read about Simona's experience & other researchers', click below 🔎
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December 16, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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Dr Rhiannon Barker reminds us of the importance of involving a wide range of stakeholders in #mentalhealth #research, in her case study.

Read more about her experiences inside (and outside) of academia, and how that shaped her research path. 👇

📖 mentalhealthresearch.org.uk/case-studies...
December 1, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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🌟 New research assistant job🌟

We are looking for a research assistant post to join a project to develop and validate a self-report measure of anhedonia in young people, and contribute to wider ongoing activities in our team.

Ad closes 17th December

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPR584/r...
Research Assistant at University of Oxford
Apply now for the Research Assistant role on jobs.ac.uk - the leading job board for higher education jobs. View details.
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December 3, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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Last day to sign up to receive the next newsletter from the Parent Carer Research Network!
Some great information coming up on how to get involved in youth mental health research along with lots of interesting news of research success stories - don't miss out, your voice matters!
oxhealthbrc.bsky.social NIHR Oxford Health Biomedical Research Centre @oxhealthbrc.bsky.social · Nov 18
Parents & carers your voice matters!
Join our Parent Carer Research Network and help shape mental health research.
We especially welcome foster/adoptive parents, fathers, and diverse communities.

Sign up by 27 Nov for the next newsletter:
tinyurl.com/2s7tyy95
November 26, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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Finding it difficult to work on that #mentalhealth fellowship application? Tired of endless emails hindering your #addiction research paper? ⏳

Our fully funded #WritingRetreats are the perfect opportunity for focus & progress! 🌳 🎯

Be the first to know when 2026 applications open: buff.ly/xQp8J4G
November 28, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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📢 The MQ Fellows Award supports early-career #mentalhealth #researchers (3-7yrs post doc), encouraging them to ask challenging questions to advance mental health research. Up to £250,000 is available.

Interested? Learn more & express your interest:
www.mqmentalhealth.org/our-work/res...
MQ Fellowships | MQ Mental Health Research
The MQ Fellows Award supports early-career scientists globally, encouraging them to advance mental health research. The aim is to retain top talent and increase diversity within the field.
www.mqmentalhealth.org
November 12, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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Prof Cathy Creswell (@cathycreswell.bsky.social) from University of Oxford is delivering her keynote on ‘Taking digital interventions for youth from research to practice’   

How can we learn from the success of OSI (Online Support & Intervention for Children)?  

Let’s dive in 👇 #DigitalYouth
Slide introducing Cathy Creswell’s talk, titled “Taking digital interventions for youth from research to practice”
November 13, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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📢📢 We are recruiting a children and young people's involvement and engagement manager for our new Oxford Centre for Emerging Minds Research. Could it be you? For more info see my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru... (closes 8/12)
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November 11, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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A fantastic opportunity for healthcare professionals seeking to combine a clinical and academic career in mental health research!

Fully-funded PhD @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social starting in Oct 2026

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Fully-funded PhD in Mental Health Research for Health Professionals at KCL – apply now – Mental Health Research
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October 27, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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We’re very excited to welcome researchers from our GROW & PeCo programmes, writing retreats, internships & more to the 2025 MHR Incubator Gathering! Have a really great day everyone! 😁
November 4, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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Excited to share our new publication out in Depression and Anxiety! A network analysis of dimensions of anhedonia, depression symptoms, and social anxiety symptoms in university students 🧵

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Differential Associations of Anticipatory and Consummatory Anhedonia With Depression and Social Anxiety Symptoms: A Network Analysis of University Students
Background Depression and social anxiety are frequently co-occurring conditions that significantly impact young people. Anhedonia may be important to consider in early interventions for these condit...
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October 31, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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We are recruiting a communications and engagement manager for the new Oxford Centre for Emerging Minds Research.
Applications close 1/12
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November 8, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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📢📢 Come and work with us! New research coordinator post to support Wellcome Trust funded research to sustain and scale our digital parent led CBT programme in diverse global settings. Closes 21/11 my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
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November 8, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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Could you be the Deputy Director of our new Oxford Centre for Emerging Minds Research? Exciting (permanent) opportunity to push forward research that has a meaningful impact on children, adolescents and families
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

@oxexppsy.bsky.social @oxfordpsychiatry.bsky.social
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October 22, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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Since their inception 6 years ago, ARCs have:

🔎 carried out over 3,300 research projects
📰 published over 9,000 papers
🤝 collaborated with 627 partner organisations
💰 leveraged about £1 billion in external funding!

👉🏿 Explore a selection of our work:
mailchi.mp/nihr/nihr-ar...

💫 #ARCimpacts
October 31, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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In the past 6 years, ARCs have worked with over 2,500 public contributors and have recruited over 810,000 study participants
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Thank you to everyone who has made this important applied health & care research possible
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Find out more about our work: mailchi.mp/nihr/nihr-ar...

💫 #ARCimpacts
October 22, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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This Developing Child UK Priority Setting Partnership is run with the James Lind Alliance and is an exciting opportunity to hear from you about what you want to know about babies' and children's social and emotional wellbeing.

Find out more & complete the survey:

mhid.org.uk/survey-the-d...
Survey: The Developing Child UK Priority Setting Partnership - Mental Health in Development
Tell researchers what you want to know about babies’ and children’s social and emotional wellbeing
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October 23, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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One of our Liverpool partners has published a paper on the lasting consequences of socioeconomic disadvantage on child mental health

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Revealing lasting consequences of socioeconomic disadvantage on child mental health - Mental Health in Development
Research funded by the Oxford Health Biomedical Research Centre (OH BRC) has found that socioeconomic inequalities in children’s mental health are evident by age five and persist throughout childhood ...
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October 23, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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So the Mental Elf blogged about our paper where we examine the relationship between intolerance of uncertainty and generalised anxiety at preschool age, and trajectories across childhood. Have a read!
#Anxiety #Uncertainty #IntoleranceOfUncertainty #MentalHealthResearch
thementalelf.bsky.social The Mental Elf @thementalelf.bsky.social · Oct 24
Preschoolers who find uncertainty hard to handle may be more prone to anxiety later in life, but it’s not that simple.

New research explores how intolerance of uncertainty at age 4 links to anxiety, depression & behaviour problems up to age 10.

#ChildMentalHealth #Anxiety #Uncertainty

🧵 THREAD
October 25, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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Could you be the Deputy Director of our new Oxford Centre for Emerging Minds Research? Exciting (permanent) opportunity to push forward research that has a meaningful impact on children, adolescents and families
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October 22, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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📢📢 We are recruiting a postdoctoral researcher with strong qual and quant skills for an exciting new project to increase access to a digital intervention for child anxiety problems in Thailand, the Philippines, Chile, Pakistan and Japan! Closes 14 Nov. my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
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October 15, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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In this paper we examined how the mental health of parents and offspring related to each other over time during the #COVID19 pandemic. TLDR: It differs markedly with child age doi.org/10.1002/jcv2...

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JCPP Advances | ACAMH Child Development Journal | Wiley Online Library
This study found that parent internalising symptoms predicted internalising symptoms in younger children, with no evidence of child-driven effects. Among adolescents, mental health symptoms showed bi...
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October 22, 2025 at 7:35 AM