We are delighted to be kicking off our Arts Health Research Intensive in the beautifully sunny Britten Pears Arts ☀️

Joining us are nearly 50 delegates from a dozen countries who will be learning together throughout the week 🗺️

#AHRI24 #ArtsInHealth

Excited to be at #ECO2024 in Venice - had a fantastic day 1 and looking forward to a fab week! 🇮🇹

Catch me presenting Gemini Study UCL findings 3-minute thesis style tomorrow at the poster area @ 16:20! 🌟

We're excited to take part in London Arts and Health #CreativityandWellbeingWeek !

Together w/ Arts Play Health Community, we're hosting an online discussion exploring how to foster community in the interdisciplinary field of arts, play & health. 👥

More info 👇
shorturl.at/aCLS8

Poster for UCL Population Health Sciences PhD symposium🗣️

Mine summarises my first PhD study, exploring how adolescent social connections influence adiposity📈

Thanks to all collaborators Yvonne Kelly Harry Tattan-Birch, PhD Dr Daisy Fancourt Martin N. Danka Eleonora Iob & Liam Wright

Behavioural Science & Health UCL UCL IEHC

🎉 Congrats to Prof Abi Fisher on your well-deserved short-listing for the @UCL Student Choice Award for brilliant research-based education!

Your dedication to research and teaching in Behavioural Science & Health UCL UCL IEHC is truly inspiring 👏

#studentchoiceaward

I am so pleased to finally share my chapter 'Tobacco addiction and nicotine dependence', out from October in this text us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/the-…
So proud to be among a rock star line up of addiction specialists.

Thank you proof readers 🙌🙌

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Thanks Suze Berkhout for the opportunity to co-present at the Canadian Association for Health Humanities conference. We shared insights from the EC3R project (@UCL_SBB University of Toronto) - a range of activities establishing ECR Capacity, Connection & Collaboration sbbresearch.org/projects/ec3r/ Laura Wright Saoirse Finn

New paper finds a steady decade-long decline in the average number of cigarettes consumed each day by smokers in England has plateaued since late 2019.

People have increasingly shifted away from manufactured cigs towards cheaper hand-rolled tobacco.

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academic.oup.com/ntr/advance-ar…

So excited to announce the US deal for my forthcoming book with Celadon Books Macmillan Publishers! Very busy writing...

After a long gestation, I’m delighted that our analysis with
Eileen Graham, PhD
and others of changes in loneliness with age has appeared in Psychological Science. Very strong detailed work.
English Longitudinal Study of Ageing
doi.org/10.1177/095679…

Peer review is a time consuming and often underappreciated task.

Great to see UCL_Tobacco_Alcohol’s Jamie Brown recognised for his efforts 👏🏻

Jamie Brown

It was great to have so much participation at our Behavioural Research UK webinar today, thanks from me and the BRUK team, plus Marcus Munafò Harry Tattan-Birch, PhD

Today was just a primer on the subject, we’ll be back with more 🙌🏼

Follow Behavioural Research UK for updates and future webinars

Smoking among middle-class women in England up by 25% in 10 years – study theguardian.com/society/2024/a…

🧠 Interested in pursuing a career in applied child & adolescent mental health research?
💡 Want to work with our team?

Anna Freud Evidence Based Practice Unit are recruiting motivated individuals who are underrepresented in mental health research for their Internship Scheme!

Find out more 👇

#Sexinequality in #bladdercancer diagnosis may be due to differences in #haematuria frequency and onset between men and women.
YoryosLyratzopoulos Fiona Walter Jianhua Wu Wolfson Institute of Population Health Cancer Screening, Prevention and Early Diagnosis

More in our new BJUI Compass paper: doi.org/10.1002/bco2.3…

Our newsletter has landed! 📨

It features:
📰 #SocialPrescribing guide for #CAMHS & The National Academy for Social Prescribing webinar recording
🏫 Call for schools to participate in research
🗓️ Our plans for Creativity & Wellbeing Week
⭐️ CreativeBrainWeek highlights & more!

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New paper finds smoking prevalence appears to have risen by ~25%* over the past decade among more advantaged women aged 18-45 in England.

*From 11.7% [95%CI 10.2–13.5%] in Oct 2013 to 14.9% [13.4–16.6%] in Oct 2023

bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

New paper shows there has been an increase in people trying to stop smoking because it’s too expensive since 2020.

~1 in 4 quit attempts by adult smokers in England are now motivated by cost

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bmjpublichealth.bmj.com/content/2/1/e0…

Delighted that the analysis with bia sena de santana on the experience of socially isolated people during the pandemic has been published in PNAS. An unusual perspective on pandemic wellbeing, with some unexpected findings. Behavioural Science & Health UCL English Longitudinal Study of Ageing. doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2…

📰 Our collaboration with UF Center for Arts in Medicine was recently featured in The New York Times!

Discover how we're contributing to the development of an evidence base for social prescribing in the US 🇺🇸👇

Full article🔗shorturl.at/aeyN9