🌿 NEW BLOG: Exploring Nature-Based Interventions for Parents and Caregivers

Discover insights from a groundbreaking one-day conference on how nature can transform parenting and caregiving.

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We’d like to hear from young dads (aged 16-25) who can share their experiences to help influence policy and support practice for the benefit of young parents.

Please share with any young dads who might be interested in participating, or with your wider networks!

Full details below 👇

Read @ruthndwrites.bsky.social insightful report on how we can stop perinatal loneliness. It highlights the need for family friendly professional support in the perinatal period.

How can we stop perinatal loneliness? Read our report about ways we can address the crisis in loneliness - we need more professional support, a family friendly society, greater parental leave and social groups designed with parents #loneliness #endloneliness #perinatal

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@bpsofficial.bsky.social @bapmofficial.bsky.social @perinatalresearch.bsky.social @thementalelf.bsky.social @rcpsych.bsky.social @kingsioppn.bsky.social

New parents are at high risk for loneliness. 💔

@ruthndwrites.bsky.social has led researchers, practitioners and people with lived experience to write a consensus statement exploring what we know about loneliness, and directions for research, policy and practice: bmjopen.bmj.com/content/bmjo...

Are you an academic mental health researcher with lived experience? Come along to our friendly and supportive network meeting to hear from Dr Veenu Gupta, Assistant Professor in Lived Experience Research. We'll also be discussing teaching with lived experience. Sign up to the event below!

THIS WEEK's #CPCCGWebinar ⤵️

👩‍💻 @profatarrant.bsky.social will discuss findings from the @ukri.org @followingyff.bsky.social study on how young #fathers navigate their romantic and intergenerational relationships over time in the context of early #parenthood

Register: www.cpc.ac.uk/activities/f...

Join us (in person or online) to rethink support for families involved with children’s social care in the first 1001 days of their child's life. Hear from people with lived experience, practitioners and policymakers at this important event. 👇

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Proud to share our new BMJ Open paper on perinatal loneliness—featuring leading researchers + community voices from the UK and beyond. A topic taken seriously in the UK, and still overlooked in the US.
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#PerinatalMentalHealth #Loneliness

@nihrspcr.bsky.social @nihr.bsky.social @nihrarcs.bsky.social

#loneliness #naturebased #perinatalmentalhealth @sarah-blower.bsky.social @familywellbeinguoy.bsky.social @uoysbs.bsky.social @ruthndwrites.bsky.social

What are the benefits of nature-based interventions in the early years? What are the future directions for research and practice? This amazing graphic summarises the reflections of 30 academics and practitioners who met at our conference! We will be sharing a blog soon, but enjoy this for now!

Have you learnt anything new from hearing about/reading about my perinatal loneliness research? Has this translated into differences in your practice/research/personal experiences? If so, i'd be so grateful if you could complete this form: forms.gle/K6hh2z7VM3Xf...

Great article in The Guardian about the success of the JU:MP programme in Bradford.

This is what place-based working is all about - co-creating solutions with local people ⬇️

Physical activity increasing by 70 minutes on average per week 🙌

#ActivePartnerships

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Day 2 of the NIHR School for Social Care Research Conference and I’m excited to present the findings and outputs from the Coproducing Solutions to Perinatal Loneliness Project with lived-experience public contributor Amy Chidley

@nihr.bsky.social @nihrspcr.bsky.social @uoysbs.bsky.social

Today (part of) our team presented our ongoing study that aims to improve perinatal support for young mothers and birthing parents at the NIHR School for Social Care Research Conference. What a treat to meet in person on a sunny day! #nihrsscr #nihr #perinatalmentalhealth

A rare in person meeting for (part) of the research team co-designing a perinatal walking group for Muslim mothers to reduce loneliness 🌳

#perinatalmentalhealth #nature-based #nature #muslimparents

We are looking for UK-based professionals or organisations that support Muslim parents, and/or deliver nature-based interventions to any parent. We need support for research to codesign a perinatal walking group for Muslim mothers. Meetings online between June-December 2025. Please share!

Empowering parents, and those around them, with mental health knowledge before, during and after pregnancy.

New #PerinatalMentalHealth resources. Due date: 5 May 2025.

#ItStartsWithAwareness #MMHAW25

Fun day today with one of my favourite collaborators @zoedarwin.bsky.social filming a piece about our research evaluating BDCT’s Ready to Relate intervention @familywellbeinguoy.bsky.social #parentinfantrelationships #infantmentalhealth #perinatalmentalhealth #readytorelate

Joining the 1st LENS (Lived Experience Network for Scholars) meet-up today - a space for UK researchers with lived experience of #mentalhealth or #addiction

Proud to be here as a PhD student, survivor & academic

Join us for the next session ⬇️⬇️⬇️

#LENSnetwork #PhD #researchers #livedexperience

We're sharing this call-out from Uni of York, led by @ruthndwrites.bsky.social so you can share your documents about the incredible work YOU do with young mothers & birthing parents during the perinatal period. Submit to [email protected] & find out more at perinatalsupport.co.uk