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Excellent couple of days in Belfast last week as organiser of rcpsych GAP meeting, thanks for a warm welcome and great contributions from local leaders and visiting stars! And a personal first that I managed to recruit a speaker in the pub for a panel the following day!

If you have lived experience of bipolar, pls join our Bipolar UK Research Community to hear about opportunities for research & lived experience advisory involvement. Pls share widely and RT & thanks if you've already joined! bipolaruk.org/research-partn…

New 3-year research fellow role at UCL Psychiatry! Come work with Dr Gemma Lewis and me on eating disorders and depression research. Any questions, please just get in touch with us 😊. More details on team, project, and role below 👇 ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/se…

For some strange reason the first reading of the new Mental Health Act bill yesterday didn’t get coverage. But it is a milestone- 6 years after our Review, interrupted by Covid and elections, paused to consider the Nottingham tragedy, we are finally here theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

In a time of major social divisions, social connection is vital. Really proud of this report, based on The Matilda Centre Prof Maree Teesson AC collab with the UCL Policy Lab - and incredible minds Sonia Johnson @PeterFonagy Anthony Costello Campaign to End Loneliness Marc Stears Local Trust and many others!

The Mental Elf Dr Gary Lamph PhD @walkamileuk @Girl_Interrupt_ The Power Threat Meaning Framework Prof Linda Gask Mind Platfform Ewan Hilton @ewanhilton.bsky.social Sonia Johnson Una Foye Joe Tracini

Great to talk about the research done as part of my UCL Mental Health Sciences MScs UCL Psychiatry Loneliness & SI in Mental Health research network Sonia Johnson #perinatalloneliness

How can we help young people feel less lonely? buff.ly/3ORlXQN Lauren Turner explores young people’s views on the acceptability and feasibility of youth loneliness interventions. @eagersharon Sonia Johnson Alexandra Pitman Manuela Uribe Dr Eiluned Pearce

We're delighted that 22 of our academics have been identified in Clarivate’s annual ‘Highly Cited Researchers List’ 2024, recognising authors of the most influential research papers around the world. 🔗bit.ly/3ZARQ4R

Research shouldn't be a competition, but flattering to make it onto this international list for the first time! Congratulations to all my colleagues, collaborators and student who did most of the work!

🚨 We're Hiring: Post-Doctoral Research Associate in Mental Health Policy Research 📍 Location: King’s College London 📝 Contract: Full-time, fixed-term 31 Dec 2028 ⏰ Apply By: 02 January 2025 💼 More: bit.ly/3Di39Yo Sonia Johnson Alan Simpson 💙 #MentalHealthResearch

We are recruiting for a research assistant to join us at HSPRD IOPPN as part of the Mental Health Policy Research Unit team. We conduct research to inform national mental health policy. All the details are here: kcl.ac.uk/jobs/102531-re…

⭐️ Peer Support in Mental Health ⭐️ Webinar 2:00-4:30pm Mon 20 Jan 2025 Evidence, Experiences & Insights NIHR Policy Research Unit in Mental Health event. Steve Gillard, Una Foye, Ruth Cooper, Natasha Lyons, Sonia Johnson & Andrew Grundy. eventbrite.co.uk/e/peer-support…

Tickets for our #PeerSupport in #MentalHealth webinar are selling FAST! Get in quick to avoid disappointment 👇🏽 Looking forward to hearing from Mental Health Policy Research Unit Chairs Sonia Johnson & Dr Andrew Grundy PhD (acgrundy.bsky.social), & speakers Steve Gillard, Una Foye, Ruth Cooper, Natasha Lyons & Co-Production Collective

Thrilled to share our new paper on the experience of #loneliness among individuals with #psychosis: Loneliness & SI in Mental Health research network and led by the brilliant Winky Lee as part of her MSc in Clinical Mental Health Sciences journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…

Peer support interventions delivered by paid peer & family workers buff.ly/4iEITAt Magenta Simmons & Belle Boland blog an umbrella review led by Ruth Cooper Mental Health Policy Research Unit on the effectiveness & implementation of #PeerSupport interventions in #MentalHealth.

🎙️ Join our In-Person Mental Health Question Time – Exploring Peer Support in Mental Health 🗓️ Date: Monday, January 27, 2025 ⏰ Time: 6:15 PM – 8:30 PM GMT 📍 Location: London eventbrite.co.uk/e/mental-healt… #MentalHealth #PeerSupport #MentalHealthResearch #MentalHealthQuestionTime

Many congrats to my & Alexandra Pitman's brilliant PhD student Dr (almost) Sarah Ikhtabi for breezing through her viva for her PhD on Loneliness & Complex Emotional Needs, and to v kind & insightful examiners Andy Gumley and Hélène Joffe! #proudsupervisor UCL Psychiatry Loneliness & SI in Mental Health research network

Congratulations to the BRC-supported researchers who have been appointed or re-appointed as National Institute for Health and Care Research Senior Investigators in the 2025 round of awards, Prof Jonathan Schott, Prof Sonia Johnson, Prof Henry Houlden & Prof Rob Heyderman 🔗uclhospitals.brc.nihr.ac.uk/news/brc-resea…

🚨 New Published Paper - Understanding barriers and facilitators to delivering peer support effectively: a qualitative interview study Proud to share our latest research, led by academic and lived experience researchers. 🔗 Read in full: bmcpsychiatry.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11… #MentalHealth