Natalia Concha
nataconar.bsky.social
Natalia Concha
@nataconar.bsky.social
Qualitative sociocultural psychologist working on child, youth, maternal, and family health research, community and participatory approaches.
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Day 2 @ #NewScientistLive! and we're having an amazing time 🦠🥙 The brilliant @centreofthecell.bsky.social are playing Microbe Trumps and @qmul-ceg.bsky.social are tackling improving Free School Meals.
October 19, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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We had a fabulous time meeting everyone at #NewScientistLive this week – children, teens, adults and dinosaurs! Thank you to everyone who stopped by to talk about school meals and play ‘balance the budget’ with us. @qmul-wiph.bsky.social @engageqm.bsky.social @qmulfmd.bsky.social
October 20, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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In chapter nine, our team foreground children’s voices from school food environments in Bradford and Tower Hamlets, arguing that research and policy can benefit immensely from children and young people’s perspectives and experiences around free school meals. Now available via @uclpress.bsky.social
September 24, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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✨Urban Childhoods: Growing up in Inequality and Hope. Our child health team have contributed to a new publication that compiles research on housing, play and food to consider what creates the best start for children growing up in England’s inner-city areas uclpress.co.uk/book/urban-c...
Urban Childhoods
Urban Childhoods puts children’s and families’ voices centre stage while investigating ways of bringing children’s wellbeing to the fore in planning for urban life. The book explores themes that start...
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September 24, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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What a setting to engage with science! We enjoyed discussing our research with members of the public at Barts Pathology Museum this week. Natalia Concha @nataconar.bsky.social & Marta Wilk presented studies into school food & household overcrowding. More on these topics: www.qmul.ac.uk/ceg/research/
March 28, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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CEG’s Professor Carol Dezateux speaks to Barts Life Sciences about using health data to address inequalities, and our collaborative effort to unlock valuable information from tissue samples, imaging and genomics: bartslifesciences.org/harnessing-h...
Harnessing health data to address health inequalities in North East London - Barts Life Sciences
Professor Carol Dezateux is a leading expert in Clinical Epidemiology and Health Data Science at Queen Mary University of London. With expertise in paediatrics and population health, Professor Dezateu...
bartslifesciences.org
February 10, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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Sandra Jovchelovitch & co-authors examined perspectives on mental health, emotional distress & wellbeing among conflict-affected communities in Colombia. The findings offer valuable insights for enhancing community-based mental health & primary care services.

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Resisting epistemic violence in global mental health: Listening to local understandings of mental health and emotional distress among victims and ex-guerrilla members in Southern Colombia
While there is consensus that local knowledge is important to build better mental health responses, integration of this knowledge into mental health s…
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January 8, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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A reminder about this free online seminar that may be of interest. Pls do share! Addressing #Loneliness in #Schools
Addressing #loneliness in #schools - free online seminar, 6 February 2025 4-5PM UK. A brief guide to loneliness among young people and children at school: Why it matters and what schools can do about it. Info and sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/addressing...
Addressing loneliness in schools
A brief guide to loneliness among young people and children at school: Why it matters and what schools can do about it.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
January 7, 2025 at 10:37 AM