Thanks so much! 😊

Key findings:
🔹 ~50% of adolescents connected to a friend who reported self-harm.
🔹 Who adolescents are friends with (having friends who self-harm) and how they are connected in school (over- and under-integration in peer-networks) linked to self-harm.
🔹 Patterns similar for boys and girls.

New publication! ✨

"Peer-friendship Networks and Self-harm among Adolescents from Inner-city Schools: A Social Network Study"

Published as part of my PhD research at the ESRC Centre for Society and Mental Health (@kingscsmh.bsky.social).

📄 Full paper here 👇
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

'Mental health disparity between teenage boys and girls ‘not inevitable’ - study'

Headline in The Independent today based on @knowlesg42.bsky.social Dr Gemma Knowles's paper that looks at the trajectories and symptoms in young people in London and Tokyo.

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Where to next for universal school-based mental health interventions?

In our @acamh.bsky.social
debate piece, @lucyfoulkes.bsky.social and I argue that it's time to move towards more effective alternatives.

acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

It would be great to be added to this, thanks for creating! 😊 (Look forward to meeting you soon!)

Haha, hello Lucy! Thanks very much :)

Hi! I'm new to Bluesky 👋 I'm a postdoc at Oxford researching adolescent mental health and social networks. Excited to connect with others in the field and follow similar accounts ✨
While I figure out Bluesky (any tips welcome!), here's a pic of my family dachshund, Pig 🐶