Ola Demkowicz
@olademk.bsky.social
Researching adolescent mental health mechanisms & inequality | Mixed methods | Senior Lecturer, Psychology of Education | University of Manchester | She/her | 🐝🌱📚🏳️🌈🐈
Returning from leave to officially start my sabbatical!
Mostly working on paper edits today to get in before a deadline, but also starting the day with some bell hooks in the sun…
… and a grant rejection to really kick things off on the right note 🫠
Mostly working on paper edits today to get in before a deadline, but also starting the day with some bell hooks in the sun…
… and a grant rejection to really kick things off on the right note 🫠
August 26, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Returning from leave to officially start my sabbatical!
Mostly working on paper edits today to get in before a deadline, but also starting the day with some bell hooks in the sun…
… and a grant rejection to really kick things off on the right note 🫠
Mostly working on paper edits today to get in before a deadline, but also starting the day with some bell hooks in the sun…
… and a grant rejection to really kick things off on the right note 🫠
As of today I am officially on research sabbatical for a year! I’ll miss teaching but am excited to have a year to read, write, and think…
August 1, 2025 at 8:06 AM
As of today I am officially on research sabbatical for a year! I’ll miss teaching but am excited to have a year to read, write, and think…
A qualitative research question!
Often the methods I’ve used necessitate recording & verbatim transcripts
We’re planning work with professionals in many roles to map systems in practice, & I wonder if field notes might suffice?
Also looking in literature but I’m keen to hear people’s reflections!
Often the methods I’ve used necessitate recording & verbatim transcripts
We’re planning work with professionals in many roles to map systems in practice, & I wonder if field notes might suffice?
Also looking in literature but I’m keen to hear people’s reflections!
June 24, 2025 at 2:40 PM
A qualitative research question!
Often the methods I’ve used necessitate recording & verbatim transcripts
We’re planning work with professionals in many roles to map systems in practice, & I wonder if field notes might suffice?
Also looking in literature but I’m keen to hear people’s reflections!
Often the methods I’ve used necessitate recording & verbatim transcripts
We’re planning work with professionals in many roles to map systems in practice, & I wonder if field notes might suffice?
Also looking in literature but I’m keen to hear people’s reflections!
An energising trip this week to Cardiff to give a talk on declining youth mental health at @wolfsoncentre.bsky.social and spend time exploring public health lenses and opportunities with Rhiannon Evans at @deciphercentre.bsky.social
Heading off to make copious notes and explore grant pathways!
Heading off to make copious notes and explore grant pathways!
June 19, 2025 at 11:43 AM
An energising trip this week to Cardiff to give a talk on declining youth mental health at @wolfsoncentre.bsky.social and spend time exploring public health lenses and opportunities with Rhiannon Evans at @deciphercentre.bsky.social
Heading off to make copious notes and explore grant pathways!
Heading off to make copious notes and explore grant pathways!
In Cardiff for a couple of days this week to give a talk and spend some time with collaborators. Was pleasantly surprised by the view from my hotel!
June 18, 2025 at 8:26 AM
In Cardiff for a couple of days this week to give a talk and spend some time with collaborators. Was pleasantly surprised by the view from my hotel!
Someone who I shall not name just deleted half an email by trying to chase the sunshine ☀️
June 2, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Someone who I shall not name just deleted half an email by trying to chase the sunshine ☀️
A clearly very serious discussion with @margaritap.bsky.social on various mental health research plans at our @educationuom.bsky.social away day yesterday
May 14, 2025 at 6:14 AM
A clearly very serious discussion with @margaritap.bsky.social on various mental health research plans at our @educationuom.bsky.social away day yesterday
Apparently my stack of notes and various desk items are a great sunny nap spot for this very rude colleague 🌞
April 25, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Apparently my stack of notes and various desk items are a great sunny nap spot for this very rude colleague 🌞
Winding down teaching and dissertation support this year feels odd as I prep for research sabbatical next academic year. Felt sentimental in final office hours this aft, then dropped and broke a cup I bought for my office when I started as a lecturer. Annoyed with myself but felt weirdly fitting?
April 11, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Winding down teaching and dissertation support this year feels odd as I prep for research sabbatical next academic year. Felt sentimental in final office hours this aft, then dropped and broke a cup I bought for my office when I started as a lecturer. Annoyed with myself but felt weirdly fitting?
Five years on from the start of the pandemic we’re seeing lots of media reflections - I chatted to Christina Hopkinson for her piece in The Telegraph, where she weighs up ways of thinking about what happened for young people’s mental health during that time: www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/03...
April 1, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Five years on from the start of the pandemic we’re seeing lots of media reflections - I chatted to Christina Hopkinson for her piece in The Telegraph, where she weighs up ways of thinking about what happened for young people’s mental health during that time: www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/03...
Great to see our recent piece on advancing mixed methods in mental health research featured in last week’s round up from @nboyce.bsky.social. Have a read of the full article here: doi.org/10.1136/bmjm...
March 14, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Great to see our recent piece on advancing mixed methods in mental health research featured in last week’s round up from @nboyce.bsky.social. Have a read of the full article here: doi.org/10.1136/bmjm...
First half marathon run this weekend in Paris! A much shorter weekend than planned with the Eurostar disruptions but at least it included a running tour of the city🏃♀️
March 10, 2025 at 10:56 AM
First half marathon run this weekend in Paris! A much shorter weekend than planned with the Eurostar disruptions but at least it included a running tour of the city🏃♀️
Great to see our recent paper featured in @nboyce.bsky.social’s latest Friday newsletter
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February 12, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Great to see our recent paper featured in @nboyce.bsky.social’s latest Friday newsletter
thoughtformation.substack.com/p/what-do-ad...
thoughtformation.substack.com/p/what-do-ad...
Calling education professionals working in and with Greater Manchester schools and colleges! Join us online to connect with UoM researchers and other local professionals to hear about some recent work that shaped NICE guidance for school wellbeing provision! Sign up: forms.office.com/e/PR6Atnxvdc
February 12, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Calling education professionals working in and with Greater Manchester schools and colleges! Join us online to connect with UoM researchers and other local professionals to hear about some recent work that shaped NICE guidance for school wellbeing provision! Sign up: forms.office.com/e/PR6Atnxvdc
Filled my second no reward chart! This final sticker today was for carving out and actively preserving proper time to make progress with something very exciting (represented pleasingly here with the tenth cat’s little ball of wool). Time to think up a reward!
January 29, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Filled my second no reward chart! This final sticker today was for carving out and actively preserving proper time to make progress with something very exciting (represented pleasingly here with the tenth cat’s little ball of wool). Time to think up a reward!
An email I forgot I sent to myself in amongst late night thoughts about a project…
A good reminder to revisit this one page piece on the importance of stupidity in scientific research: web.stanford.edu/~fukamit/sch...
A good reminder to revisit this one page piece on the importance of stupidity in scientific research: web.stanford.edu/~fukamit/sch...
January 28, 2025 at 8:33 AM
An email I forgot I sent to myself in amongst late night thoughts about a project…
A good reminder to revisit this one page piece on the importance of stupidity in scientific research: web.stanford.edu/~fukamit/sch...
A good reminder to revisit this one page piece on the importance of stupidity in scientific research: web.stanford.edu/~fukamit/sch...
New research project proposal mapping means a new notebook (and trusty pastel highlighters) - having a day dedicated to beginning to map out my thoughts on paper… 🖊️
January 17, 2025 at 11:11 AM
New research project proposal mapping means a new notebook (and trusty pastel highlighters) - having a day dedicated to beginning to map out my thoughts on paper… 🖊️
Maus and I battling through this British cold by pinning ourselves against the nearest heat source to snooze and read, respectively 😺
December 10, 2024 at 10:00 AM
Maus and I battling through this British cold by pinning ourselves against the nearest heat source to snooze and read, respectively 😺
Just one puffy cat sticker to go on my “saying no” reward card - a practice borrowed from @smhall.bsky.social as one of many efforts to find a good work/life balance!
November 29, 2024 at 1:52 PM
Just one puffy cat sticker to go on my “saying no” reward card - a practice borrowed from @smhall.bsky.social as one of many efforts to find a good work/life balance!
Happy Caturday! Maus is of course happy to find a new and improved audience over on BlueSky 🦋
November 23, 2024 at 8:17 AM
Happy Caturday! Maus is of course happy to find a new and improved audience over on BlueSky 🦋
Sniffing that fresh Bluesky air
November 15, 2024 at 7:08 PM
Sniffing that fresh Bluesky air
Maus is on board 👋
November 15, 2024 at 6:40 PM
Maus is on board 👋
Ha, I’d like to say it was for my hot takes on youth mental health but it was almost certainly my embroidery 🪡
November 12, 2024 at 10:53 PM
Ha, I’d like to say it was for my hot takes on youth mental health but it was almost certainly my embroidery 🪡
Right back atcha 🖍️
November 11, 2024 at 8:08 PM
Right back atcha 🖍️
We still have spaces available on Thursday at our online event, on social and emotional learning in schools!
🧑🏫 Hear from researchers, charity representatives, and policymakers
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🧑🏫 Hear from researchers, charity representatives, and policymakers
💻 Online event
🗓️ Thursday 7th Nov 5-6.30 GMT
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November 5, 2024 at 5:05 PM
We still have spaces available on Thursday at our online event, on social and emotional learning in schools!
🧑🏫 Hear from researchers, charity representatives, and policymakers
💻 Online event
🗓️ Thursday 7th Nov 5-6.30 GMT
✍️ Sign up forms.office.com/pages/respon...
🧑🏫 Hear from researchers, charity representatives, and policymakers
💻 Online event
🗓️ Thursday 7th Nov 5-6.30 GMT
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