🔥The 9th Round of Easy Loan, Earn $40 Reward is in progress❗️ ⏰ Promotion Period: January 15th - Feburary 15th, 2025 👉 Register now and check more details at gate.io/campaigns/358

Just published! Our new article presents general and method specific criteria for qualitative research in psychology. Open access, with Jo Brooks, William Day, Simon Goodman 🍉, Dr Anastasia Rousaki, Ruby-Granger,V., Sarah Seymour-Smith journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/16…

Looking forward to our Autumn Wellbeing Meeting this Saturday where we'll be hearing from both Carers NI and the wonderful Prof Helen Coleman 🙌 If joining us please register in advance via [email protected] or phone 07568157450.

A very inspiring morning joining the OGCancerNI patient wellbeing meeting. A privilege to share our group’s research updates including NI Cancer Registry statistics & audit, our Science and Innovation at Cancer Research UK on Barrett’s and the new All Ireland Cancer Network (AllCaN) Oesophageal Network on all Ireland oesophageal cancer research

Superb article on the secret sauce of team science, in Nature Biotechnology: It takes two to think ‘Morale thrives on the encouragement we get from the feedback of someone who understands our work & it’s motivations’ Great read nature.com/articles/s4158…

⏱️ Be flexible 🧑‍🤝‍🧑Recognise that carers are people first ➡️ Involve carers at all stages These are just a few #TuesdayTips for researchers when involving carers in research. Take a look at all our pointers in this graphic: learningforinvolvement.org.uk/content/resour… #CarersInResearch

How can we measure existential loneliness? 💭🔎🏝️ Our new paper presents the Brief Scale of Existential Loneliness: a valid, reliable, 6-item measure which we developed + refined via qualitative research, expert feedback, and psychometric evaluation. 🔗 doi.org/10.1007/s12144…

Community, collaboration, courage, care ⁦OGCancerNI⁩ and ⁦Oesophageal Cancer Fund⁩

A fantastic infographic by the BPS DHP showing the different routes into #HealthPsychology Thanks to Julia Allan for the high resolution version

Today we reflect on the heaviness of the world. Tomorrow we act. Join us tomorrow 5pm to discuss fostering critical thinking in young people, and raising the voice of the next generation. Details below 👇 #Esrcfestival ESRC Festival NI Templeton World Charity Foundation Eva Grew @CorbettBethany

Fix the care first. Fund palliative care properly. Give dying people the best possible chance of living well - please. And then - once we’re confident people aren’t being driven by lack of care into premature suicide - revisit assisted dying in parliament with confidence. Ends/

Anyone with experience or views on palliative care in NI has an opportunity to be heard and inform the outcomes of this Inquiry. Please consider responding and share,share, share...

Call to fix palliative care before assisted dying bbc.com/news/articles/…

Invitation: if you are a UK based researcher or clinician conducting palliative care research, please complete our brief survey to help funders understand what is needed to sustain and grow palliative care research in the UK. Closes on Sunday 12 Jan. app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/edinburgh/uk…

We're excited to annouce #PHM2025 will be held Riddel Hall. This brings together those from health psychology and related fields from across Ireland and further afield. Keynotes are Prof Martin Dempster & Prof Professor Susan Michie. Abstract submission open! bit.ly/4fNFUD7

📢We have published new research today into the financial and employment impacts of unpaid end of life caring, carried out by The University of Sheffield. This research provides the first population-level estimates on the numbers of unpaid carers caring for a loved one with a terminal illness.

So far, I have really enjoyed speaking to six professionals who work with young people when their parent has cancer including therapists and support workers. We would love to speak to 4-6 more professionals so please share with someone or repost! 🎓

Are you living with cancer or caring for someone with cancer? We'd like to hear from you. Come to the workshop & tell us how cancer care & research can be more inclusive & accessible to all. Register👉 forms.office.com/e/VQgm5kVjWi 📅 20th Feb 🕙10am-1pm 📍Clayton Hotel, Belfast

Myself and Dr Elida Cena are hoping to organise a workshop on use of open-source equivalents to Nvivo software for qualitative analysis. Do I know anyone who might like to facilitate and would like a trip to Belfast? Recommendations also very welcome!

Only 30% of pall care is NHS funded. Given today's vote, Keir Starmer, will you least commit to dramatically increasing palliative care provision so that patients don't "choose" to end their lives because we don't give them the care that might make life worth living?

MPs voted in favour of passing the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill for E&W to the next stage of the Parliamentary process. We are still concerned that the Bill does not currently require a holistic assessment of unmet need See our response shorturl.at/SRwr9