wow Nina massive congratulations - big celebrations for you!

@wolfsoncentre.bsky.social @thencmh.bsky.social @deciphercentre.bsky.social @thementalelf.bsky.social @mhrincubator.bsky.social please share with your networks!

It will be really important to address this scepticism head on as we work on embedding SSIs into existing provision, so this doesn’t become a barrier to engagement - and appropriately positioning SSIs; they might not work for everyone but it’s adding another route to support

my favourite part of this paper is capturing young people’s scepticism - that SSIs seem too good to be true, and is something I encounter a lot when I talk to people broadly about SSIs!

from lived experience, it can be almost scary to consider who you are without your mental health label (when that’s been such a formative part of your identity) - and this blog highlights that putting things online casts this identity in stone even more, and can make it harder to shake

the part about identity is something I’ve always been interested in - when your mental health struggles become intertwined with your identity, especially as a teen when your identity/sense of self is developing, what impact does this have on recovery later on?

a really interesting piece - I’ve heard people discussing that increased openness = increased vulnerability, so it’s good to see someone addressing that! and interesting distinction between engaging in reflexivity but not needing to broadcast the intimate details of such a private process

massive thanks to @cqr-bath.bsky.social for organising this event – they managed to create the most supportive and stimulating environment and I met lots of lovely people that I hope to stay in touch with and hear more from

and some workshops on using AI in qual research (for analysis and data collection), by Causal Map – it really got me thinking how these tools could be especially useful with LGBTQ+ young people who may have concerns about anonymity in the research process

www.causalmap.app

Dr Will Mason discussed omission in qual research, how we decide what to leave out of data and how we should increase transparency of that decision making process – what really struck me was the power that researchers have in what they choose to include and omit

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

@draimeegrant.bsky.social shared reflections on the reality of funder-mandated open data practices, providing a worked example where these requirements were challenged and renegotiated to meet the needs of autistic participants

www.researchgate.net/publication/...

the talk raised some big questions to address – such as what questionable research practices (QRPs) are for qual (rather than just applying the same rules from quant), and whether qual research should forge its own ‘open science’ movement

@maddipow.bsky.social questioned what open science is doing to research culture – creating a hostile, ‘bropen’ environment where we are encouraged to catch out each other's mistakes, how openness increases researcher vulnerability without psychological safety

journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

some open science practices can be useful, but serve a different purpose e.g. data sharing/prereg support training/pedagogy (a point beautifully illustrated by MSc student Jazmine Parrott, where she shared that it’s hard for ECRs to use new methods when published papers don’t report enough detail)

open science assumes that all research is quant research, and efforts to push for ‘rigour’ in qual undermine the fundamental underpinnings of the methodology (where reflexivity is an active part of the research process)

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

as you can see from all of my scribbled notes, I learned a lot! some of her ‘hot takes’ were that open science isn’t new, academics (mostly women) have been commenting on the state of ‘science’ for decades but have been largely ignored

My absolute favourite talk was from @maddipow.bsky.social on the role of Open ‘Science’ in qual research (the use of taylor swift lyrics in her presentation really captured my heart)