Ahead of our national webinar this afternoon, OxWell PI Mina Fazel summarises some of the key areas we're looking into & how we're amplifying young voices to lead to real-world change.

Scenes from our booth today at the Westgate! Great to meet so many #OxWellStudents, families, and teachers; share some early 2025 results & hear what they think we should be doing with the findings.

#research

*New research* from team members @emmasoneson.bsky.social, @minafazeloxford.bsky.social, Puneetha Goli & @simonrwhite.bsky.social on adolescents' concerns about taking part in health & well-being research.

Full text here: www.jahonline.org/article/S105...

#mentalhealth #research

We were really pleased that this report engaged so thoughtfully with our findings, making sure #youthvoice really is central in everything we do in children & young people's #mentalhealth.

Watch/listen/read to see what @drhollybear.bsky.social & @emmasoneson.bsky.social made of the report ⬇️

What teens see and do online matters.

New research from our team looks at how digital experiences relate to mental health & what we can do about it.

A must-read for parents, educators, and mental health researchers and policymakers.

Great to see Lea Satala presenting her OxWell findings at the @nihr.bsky.social Undergraduate Internship Programme Celebration Event in London this morning!

Lea undertook an 8-wk internship with @oxchildpsych.bsky.social last summer & did some really impactful work around adolescent self-harm.

With the fantastic Gaby Illingworth, Tanya Manchanda, @drskripka.bsky.social, @minafazeloxford.bsky.social & Felicity Waite!

Social jetlag = the mismatch between social & biological time ✈️😴

Our new @oxwell.bsky.social study of ~20K #children & #adolescents shows an average jetlag of ~2 hrs 🕑 .

⬆️ jetlag was associated w/ weekend bedtime setting 🛌, & #socialmedia use 📱 and #gaming 🎮 before #sleep

Read more below 👇

Young people have given insights into what mental health support they prefer and what does not work for them or meet their needs, as part of a new study.

The findings used data from nearly 24,000 people aged between 11-18 who participated in @oxwell.bsky.social survey⬇️
www.ox.ac.uk/news/2024-12...

w/ @simonrwhite.bsky.social, @emmasoneson.bsky.social & @minafazeloxford.bsky.social and many other stakeholders along the way

Implications for designing systems that meet young people's needs & expectations incl.

👨‍👨‍👦 'supporting the supporters' = informal networks YP turn to most

💷 thinking carefully about how we allocate limited resources

🏳️‍⚧️ designing support for & with groups not optimally served by current systems

We found that #adolescents are accessing multiple types of support across informal, semi-formal, and formal spheres w/ substantial variability in perceived helpfulness.

New @oxwell.bsky.social study out today puts the #youthvoice centre stage in understanding the availability, accessibility & acceptability of #mentalhealth support in the UK.

PRESS RELEASE ➡️ www.psych.ox.ac.uk/news/radical...

ARTICLE ➡️ www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Today marks @oxwell.bsky.social Programme Manager Shona's last day for a little while... 🐣

Our study wouldn't be the same without her, and we are so grateful for everything she's done over the past few years 🫶

Best of luck in this new adventure, Shona!

Today @minafazeloxford.bsky.social & @emmasoneson.bsky.social journeyed to London to join colleagues from around the country for a meeting of the Adolescent Health Study.

Our team is excited to help shape this major study & ensure it keeps #mentalhealth at its heart!

In our first Bluesky 🦋 post, we want to share our Perspective paper just out in @bmj.com BMJ Mental Health on how to inclusively & accurately measure gender in adolescent health research, with lessons we've learnt over the past few years of OxWell 👇

mentalhealth.bmj.com/content/27/1...