Senior researcher and RNutr @MRCLHA @Afn. Lifecourse epidemiologist #EpiTwitter interested in inequalities and mechanisms to healthy ageing. Own views.
Further congratulations to Jean @JeanStafford_ for being promoted to Senior Research Fellow @MRCLHA
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being awarded a prestigious @AlzSocResearch 4-year fellowship that will begin next year
excitements galore!!!🎉🌟💫🍾🤩
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This was such a big team effort as part of @COVID19_LHW and it is really great to see the effort, important topic/findings and methods innovation recognised in this way
co-led by @di_gessa@_JaneMaddock@EllenJoT @EMcElroy_90 @green_mjg
thank you @TheBJPsych 💜💙💚
🎉massive congrats to @JeanStafford_ 🎉
@MRCLHA
Winner of 2023 @IPA_Online Junior Researcher Award for her paper ‘Social health and subsequent cognitive capability: examining the potential mediating roles of depression symptoms and inflammatory biomarkers’
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Our paper looking at neighbourhood safety and physical activity using MCS data has been published today! https://t.co/23AE46WHld @pravpatalay@_JaneMaddock@urban_formation
Our paper on associations between social health and cognitive decline led by @samtani_suraj in the SHARED consortium https://t.co/nZ9JKSY8Pg is now out in Lancet Healthy Longev followed by a brilliant commentary by Dr. Adam Roth at @OkStateSocio https://t.co/QVbG4IG4u3
Do people experience poorer mental health and wellbeing after COVID-19 infection? We explored this & other questions in our latest @COVID19_LHW study published OA today in @TheLancetPsych.
https://t.co/kLZnDY7QUc
🧵of RQ&As below (1/9)
🚨🚨🆕Going on furlough did not lead to increased smoking, vaping or alcohol consumption. Quick 🧵 on our new article in @BMCMedicine 1/n 👇
https://t.co/k7BTQ5klOg
🚨🚨Going on furlough was associated with worse mental health in the UK, but not so much as becoming unemployed. Quick 🧵 on our 🆕 article in @socscimed 👇
https://t.co/2BqqDIy0Po
New publication from the #COVID19LHW Collaborative using data from 25,092 participants from eight UK longitudinal studies, shows that #furlough did not make people inactive or unhealthy. https://t.co/xyOQRTBxoY
We have a short-term vacancy (approx. 12 months) for a post-doc to work with me on a project examining social differentials in allostatic load using @tilda_tcd. (details below) Retweets appreciated. https://t.co/3h7L9NoyYl
Our Chart of the Week shows that while the Government's social care reforms are a big improvement on the current system (a very low bar...) they're now more about insuring the rich, then levelling up. (THREAD)
🚨🆕pre-print🚨
With data from 8 @COVID19_LHW longitudinal population studies, we found little evidence that UK furlough scheme impacted on smoking, vaping or alcohol use (short 🧵):
https://t.co/wRESpe5gY2
This new @COVID19_LHW preprint uses data from our 4 cohort studies to examine how the furlough scheme was associated with participants’ smoking, vaping and alcohol consumption behaviours in the early stages of the pandemic.
The @The_MRC National Survey of Health and Development is the oldest British birth cohort study. NSHD has data from birth on the health and social circumstances of 5362 men and women born in March 1946. Find more information here https://t.co/ewnP4EFkCW #COVID19LHWcohorts
How did mental health in the UK change across the COVID-19 Pandemic? Read our new pre-print exploring social inequalities in 11 longitudinal studies from the @COVID19_LHW to find out more! https://t.co/dnr3ktFGzT
Explainer thread below🧵👇:
🚨New job🚨
Interested in young people's #mentalhealth ?
Post-doctoral post @MRCLHA@CLScohorts as part of a large multidisciplinary consortium aiming to better understand and prevent adolescent mental health difficulties...
Please RT & share!
https://t.co/6M8iucGCvi