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Emma Chubb

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PhD student at University of Bath, exploring digital, self-help interventions for LGBTQ+ youth mental health 🏳️‍🌈🧠🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🌱 Interests: mixed methods, coproduction, intervention implementation/dissemination

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Emma Chubb @emmachubb.bsky.social · Jan 28

Funded by the GW4 BioMed2 DTP, I will be exploring whether LGBTQ+-tailored intervention content and dissemination strategies are more effective at reaching and supporting LGBTQ+ youth mental health. I’ll be using mixed methods and a series of co-design work to develop strategies and materials

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Maria Loades @marialoades.bsky.social · Mar 5

🌟 Exciting News! Our study on our method of Gillick Competence assessment in online, anonymous surveys is published! Empowering 13-15-year-olds to self-consent could overcome barriers to low risk, impactful mental health intervention research. Learn more: bmjopen.bmj.com/content/15/3...

Consenting for themselves: a qualitative study exploring a Gillick Competence assessment to enable adolescents to self-consent to low-risk online research

Background Providing digital mental health interventions online could expand access to help for young people, but requiring parental consent may be a barrier to participation. We therefore need a meth...

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Emma Chubb @emmachubb.bsky.social · Feb 13

wow Nina massive congratulations - big celebrations for you!

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Emma Chubb @emmachubb.bsky.social · Feb 11

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

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Dr Nina Higson-Sweeney @nhigsonsweeney.bsky.social · Feb 7

Excited to share a pre-print of the latest paper from the Can We Connect study, where we explore young people’s attitudes towards single session interventions.

Despite all the available literature on SSIs, this seems to be the first in-depth, qualitative study! Feedback welcome 👇🏽

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SANE | Changing mental health for good @sane.org.uk · Feb 6

Digital mental health technologies guidance launched to help manufacturers and safeguard users

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Digital mental health technologies guidance launched to help manufacturers and safeguard users

New guidance helps manufacturers navigate medical device regulations and protect users of digital mental health technologies.

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Emma Chubb @emmachubb.bsky.social · Feb 7

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

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Emma Chubb @emmachubb.bsky.social · Feb 7

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!

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Emma Chubb @emmachubb.bsky.social · Feb 7

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

Emma Chubb @emmachubb.bsky.social · Feb 7

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?

Emma Chubb @emmachubb.bsky.social · Feb 6

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

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Emma Chubb @emmachubb.bsky.social · Feb 6

We are looking for new members for our Young Person's Advisory Group - please share to anyone who might be interested (and here's the link to sign up: bit.ly/LAMP-ypag)

Join our young person’s advisory group to help our research on online mental health support for young people.

We are researchers in the SpotLight on Adolescent Mood Problems (LAMP) research group at University of Bath. We aim to improve access to early help for young people’s mental health.

We are looking for young people aged 13 - 25, based in the UK to join our group. You don’t need any experience of mental health problems to contribute. We are interested in hearing from everyone. We are particularly looking for: young people aged 19 - 25, LGBTQ+ young people aged 13 - 25, Ethnic minority young people aged 13 - 25.

As a YPAG member, you will join our mailing list and be contacted about opportunities to share feedback on our research studies. You can provide your input by email, through surveys or by joining online meetings.

If you are interested in joining, or finding out more, visit bit.ly/LAMP-ypag or scan the QR code

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Emma Chubb @emmachubb.bsky.social · Jan 31

Very very excited to attend this - I'm part of INQYR's student training network and am yet to meet everyone in person!

Would also be a fab opportunity to share some of my PhD plans, as I'll have launched my first qual study with LGBTQ+ young people by then

Sebastián Córdoba @scordoban.bsky.social · Jan 27

Delighted to announce that the INQYR UK symposium focused on LGBTQ+ health & well-being will be held in Birmingham on May 22nd - in time for Birmingham Pride! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Call for abstracts now open:
🔗 Submission: tinyurl.com/INQYRUK-2025
🗓️Deadline: Feb 28, 2025

Symposium registration will open soon!

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Emma Chubb @emmachubb.bsky.social · Jan 31

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

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Emma Chubb @emmachubb.bsky.social · Jan 31

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

Emma Chubb @emmachubb.bsky.social · Jan 31

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

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The absent, the hidden and the obscured: reflections on “dark matter” in qualitative research - Quality & Quantity

Qualitative research literature generally ignores the voids that are created and the materials that are suppressed during data analysis and the writing phase. Qualitative studies are usually based on ...

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Emma Chubb @emmachubb.bsky.social · Jan 31

@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

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(PDF) Co-developing an Autism Research Funding Application to Facilitate Ethical and Participatory Research: The Autism from Menstruation to Menopause Project

PDF | Within Autism research, many studies fail to meaningfully involve Autistic people. In this chapter, we report on the co-development of a... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on Res...

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Emma Chubb @emmachubb.bsky.social · Jan 31

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

Emma Chubb @emmachubb.bsky.social · Jan 31

@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

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Emma Chubb @emmachubb.bsky.social · Jan 31

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)

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Emma Chubb @emmachubb.bsky.social · Jan 31

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)

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Is replication possible in qualitative research? A response to Makel et al. (2022)

There has been much debate in recent years about how open research practices, which have been promoted in efforts to improve research robustness, may (not) be appropriate for qualitative methodolog...

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Emma Chubb @emmachubb.bsky.social · Jan 31

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

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Emma Chubb @emmachubb.bsky.social · Jan 31

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)

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Emma Chubb @emmachubb.bsky.social · Jan 31

I’m going through my notes from the wonderful 2-day #QRS2025 and wanted to share some of my key takeaways - I’m so glad I attended this event so early in my PhD as I’m currently preparing for my first qual study and can now act on a lot of the advice and guidance shared in these sessions

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Centre for Qualitative Research @cqr-bath.bsky.social · Jan 31

An extraordinary week spent discussing Openness, Transparency and Rigour at #QRS2025! Thank you to everyone for creating an incredibly inspiring, and friendly conference! Check out our great summary vid including our keynotes @maddipow.bsky.social and Sarah Neal 💪 What did you learn from QRS 2025?

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Emma Chubb @emmachubb.bsky.social · Jan 29

Waking up in Bath today for #QRS2025 to talk all things qual and open research

It’s so nice to explore my city of study, as I usually commute from Cardiff

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