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Talking About the Past and Reliving It: Colonial Violence, Diasporic Memory, and the Afterlives of Empire in Britain | King's College London This presentation will examine how historical events such as massacres illuminate the brutality of the empire and its lasting impact on postcolonial communities.

Sign up for the next Refugee Mental Health and Place seminar: Talking About the Past and Reliving It: Colonial Violence, Diasporic Memory, and the Afterlives of Empire in Britain

When: 24 March, 2pm
Sign up for free: www.kcl.ac.uk/events/talki...

The Alchemy of Involvement: Transmuting lived experience into experiential knowledge to enrich mental health research | King's College London In this interactive session, the value of experiential knowledge is celebrated, and the key attitudes, features and ways of organisational working that help realise it are identified, as are the obsta...

Interested in how lived experience involvement can enrich mental health research?

Sign up to our seminar on 11 March to hear our Lived Experience Advisory Board discuss their position paper: “Exploring the Value of Lived Experience in a Mental Health Research Centre"

www.kcl.ac.uk/events/trans...

Young people in coastal communities and mental health | King's College London Dr Murray will discuss the environments of English youth and their association with mental health.

Interested in the link between young people in coastal communities and mental health?

Join us next week for our seminar with Dr Emily Murray from the University of Essex, who will discuss the environments of English youth and their association with mental health.

www.kcl.ac.uk/events/young...

At the @kingscsmh.bsky.social, we learned about a new method: "Q Methodology".
➡️Want to learn more about it? Check out our new Research Methods Toolkit page to find out what it is, how it is done, and how it looks in action.
🔗 researchmethodstoolkit.com/more-approac...

Across three cohorts, including the E-Risk Study, a paper led by Dr Kyle Bourassa found that young people with lifetime PTSD show elevated suPAR at age 18, a marker of chronic inflammation.

A key insight into how trauma shapes long‑term health. 📚✨

@kingsioppn.bsky.social @kingscsmh.bsky.social

The number of adults seeking support for anxiety is rising. However, less than half of those who access treatment through NHS Talking Therapies reliably recover.

We are proud to be one of 30 organisations supporting UKCP's campaign calling for an urgent update to the NICE anxiety guidelines.

Immigration detention: A mental health crisis without borders Asylum-seekers and refugees are at high risk of mental health problems because of adverse experiences before, during, and after their journeys. Many of these individuals are placed in immigration…

Asylum-seekers and refugees are at high risk of mental health problems because of adverse experiences before, during, and after their journeys.

Read Reem Saifeldeen's recent blog for the Refugee Mental Health and Place Network at King's College London:

www.kcl.ac.uk/immigration-...

We’re delighted to announce that the E‑Risk Team has now interviewed over 900 twins! 👯✨

A huge thank‑you to all the twins who’ve taken part — we can’t wait to meet the rest of you! 💙

@kingscsmh.bsky.social @kingsioppn.bsky.social

We're proud to have supported Dr Gemma Knowles' first phase of her Bridging Divides project. We are incredibly  pleased to see Gemma win the Medical Research Foundation Emerging Leaders Prize, enabling her team to dive deeper into boys’ experiences of sexism within this project.

@hannakienzler.bsky.social @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social @kings-sga.bsky.social

Trauma-Informing the Asylum Process: Guidelines and Recommendations Co-developed with Young People Seeking Asylum | King's College London This presentation draws on empirical findings based on Albanian young people’s lived experience of the UK’s asylum process.

How can we develop trauma-informed recommendations for the asylum process?

Join the Refugee Mental Health and Place Network's seminar on how to create trauma-informed practice guidelines using participatory and co-production methods.

On 11 Feb 4pm

Free registration: www.kcl.ac.uk/events/traum...

Young people may temporarily withdraw from social media use on the day they self-harm | King's College London New research has examined the image-posting habits on social media of young people who self-harm.

Self-harm among young people is rising, particularly those with mental health difficulties. New research from the IoPPN, in partnership with Young Minds, examined the social media posting behaviour of those who self-harm.

www.kcl.ac.uk/news/young-p...

Come work with us!

We are looking for a Research Assistant to join our Evidence Development and Incubation Team, which partners with government departments, public bodies, charities and other organisations to understand the impact of their work

Apply by 16 February

➡️ www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/136005-...

We have unfortunately had to pull this advert for the time being. We sincerely apologise for any inconvenience caused.

Postdoctoral Research Associate in Work, Welfare & Mental Health at King's College London Apply now for the Postdoctoral Research Associate in Work, Welfare & Mental Health role on jobs.ac.uk - the leading job board for higher education jobs. View details.

Job opportunity - we need a fab new colleague to do quant research on work, welfare and mental health within
@kingscsmh.bsky.social (closes 8 Feb)

This is funded until Apr/28, but we'll support you in bids to extend it - please do circulate to suitable ppl!
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQD294/p...

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Social exclusion contributes to higher mortality in people with schizophrenia and bipolar disorders, study finds | King's College London New research from the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, supported by the Population Mental Health Consortium and ESRC Centre for Society and Mental Health, has found that social excl...

How can we prevent early deaths in people with severe mental illness?

New Centre-supported research has found that social exclusion in South London may be a contributing factor in higher mortality in those with schizophrenia-spectrum and bipolar affective disorders.

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💬 How we talk to our children matters, long after childhood.

New findings from the E-Risk Study show that maternal warmth and negativity at age 10 are linked to mental health in adolescence.

📽 Watch Dr Alice Wickersham explain more in this video.

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Will the Mayfield Review create pathways to work for disabled people? In this blog, Catherine explains why flexible working must sit at the centre of the employer-led approach to supporting people to remain in work and closing the disability employment gap. She…

Will the Mayfield Review create pathways to work for disabled people?

Catherine Hale explains why flexible working must sit at the centre of the employer-led approach to supporting people to stay in work.

www.kcl.ac.uk/will-the-may...

@catherinehale.bsky.social @kings-sga.bsky.social

🧡🇵🇸Join our next online Refugee Mental Health and Place seminar with Dr Abdullah Aldiwan on "Psychological Support for Palestinian Refugees Amid Genocide and Structural Injustice"
🗓️04 December 2025
⏲️16:00 - 17:30 GMT
Sign-up: www.kcl.ac.uk/events/psych...

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E-Risk Study Research Assistant | King's College London

🚨 We’re hiring!

Join the team behind the E-Risk Longitudinal Twin Study 🧬

📌 4 Research Assistant posts
🎥 Conduct online interviews with twins turning 30
🔗 Apply now: www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/131185-...
⏳ Deadline: Dec 10

@kingsioppn.bsky.social @kingscsmh.bsky.social

One week to apply!

Join us at the UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies @clscohorts.bsky.social and the #BridgingDivides team (www.bridging-divides.org) to lead research on the causes of the #gender gap in #YouthMentalHealth

Closes 1 December!

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPM357/r...

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The study, led by Thomas Canning and conducted at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, used data from nearly 2,000 participants from the @eriskstudy.bsky.social, a long-term study that’s been following its participants since their birth in 1994-95 across England and Wales.

Childhood exposure to particulate matter and nitrogen oxides and associations with mental health disorders in early adulthood: testing mediation by cognition in a UK longitudinal cohort study Background Little is known about the mechanisms underlying associations between air pollution exposure in childhood and mental health disorders in adulthood.Objective To examine the prospective associ...

How is air pollution in childhood linked to mental ill-health later in life?

We’ve supported recent research suggesting that policies to reduce children’s exposure to air pollution may help reduce depression in early adulthood.

Read the full publication here: mentalhealth.bmj.com/content/28/1...

The study, led by Thomas Canning and conducted at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, used data from nearly 2,000 participants from the @eriskstudy.bsky.social, a long-term study that’s been following its participants since their birth in 1994-95 across England and Wales.

As part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science, we shared new research into #loneliness and substance use in a #zine-making workshop, bringing together people with lived experience to create and connect.

www.maudsleybrc.nihr.ac.uk/posts/2025/n... @kingscsmh.bsky.social @kingsioppn.bsky.social

Children's Sensitivity to Facial Emotional Expressions: The Mediating Roles of Maternal Warmth and Home Environment - PubMed Children's ability to recognize emotions in the facial expressions of others is critical for their social functioning and self-regulation. Children exposed to adversity often show differences in their ability to recognize emotions. However, most prior research has relied on clinical or high-risk sam …

Curious about how home environments influence kids’ emotional skills? 🌱

Our recent paper led by Dr Helen Milojevich looks at family factors and children’s social–emotional growth.

Check it out 👉 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41058470/

@kingsioppn.bsky.social @kingscsmh.bsky.social

Online seminar at @kingscsmh.bsky.social: "Get to know us! Our lives with mental illness in the Palestinian community" - the journey of and lessons learned from our participatory action project.
📅 19 November, 14:30-15:30 GMT
Sign up: www.kcl.ac.uk/events/lesso...

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