🚨 NEW JOB POSTING 📢

We are looking to recruit a new Hastings Fellow to join Institute for Social Marketing and Health - UoS at University of Stirling to work on alcohol, vaping, and other commercial determinants of health.

🌐 Advert: stir.ac.uk/9vs

📅 Deadline: 3rd June 2024.

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The Double Invisibility of Long Covid in children - our new paper just published in Soc Sci & Medicine

sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Children with LC encounter double invisibility due to low social currency of LC and their age

Kate Hunt Alice MacLean Sue Ziebland
Long Covid Kids - #LongCovidKids

📣Recruiting now to study about impact of Long COVID on frontline public sector organisations📣
Please share with #teachers #nurses #paramedics and #policeofficers based in Scotland.
For further information contact [email protected]

Our Institute for Social Marketing and Health - UoS colleagues Dr Megan Cook, Rachel O'Donnell & Nathan Crithlow, along with Sarah MacLean, have a new publication in the Health Promotion International journal!

You can access it for free here: academic.oup.com/heapro/article…

Do consider participating in my student's PhD project to understand work transitions of neurodivergent young adults and please share widely with your networks #PhD #neurodiversity #autism #dyslexia #dyspraxia #ADHD #work #employment

Our new study looking at what having Long Covid is like for people working in demanding frontline occupations will be looking for volunteers to participate from Jan 2024. See thread here for details.

Children with long Covid in Scotland 'dismissed and ignored' bbc.in/3FJ2xcf

🧵1. Today we finally get to share #ResearchForEveryone23 with you! We believe everyone has the right to meaningful health information. We co-created animations, podcasts & infographics with self-advocates to make health research easier to understand. bit.ly/Research4Every1

A massive congratulations to our director Professor Niamh Fitzgerald delivering such a fascinating Inaugural Lecture today

Here’s to you and your wonderful achievements and career to date!

Problem - #LongCovid
Children & young people tell us they want to be at school but symptoms make it difficult.

Solution - #LCKEducationalToolkit
4 videos and a handbook for schools to increase awareness, understanding & provide solutions.

#LongCovid Kids University of Derby SAPHNA

📢 New open access (£0) publication! 📢

Our Alice MacLean and Kate Hunt with colleagues OxPrimaryCareSci Cervantée Wild found that long Covid has a significant impact on the lives of young people, including their education as they went back to school.

Read more 👇

New #research is shining a spotlight on the profound effect #LongCovid can have on children and young people’s school experience and wider lives: 📰 👉brnw.ch/21wCPux

Institute for Social Marketing and Health - UoS OxPrimaryCareSci NIHR Research University of Aberdeen

First paper from our study of Long Covid on children, young people and families published today in BMJ_Open focusing on schooling and education

Led by Alice MacLean
Funded by NIHR Research

OxPrimaryCareSci

bmjopen.bmj.com/content/13/9/e…

Important NEW Research

'Impact of Long Covid on the school experiences of children and young people: a qualitative study'
Alice MacLean Cervantée Wild Kate Hunt Sue Ziebland

bmjopen.bmj.com/content/13/9/e…
#LongCovid Kids #LongCovid #teachertwitter
Children's Commissioner for England Gillian Keegan MP

Now advertising: an *open-ended* full-time Research Fellow/Senior RF position in @ISMH_UoS to support our international ALCOHOL POLICY research. With core funding from University of Stirling, this is a rare and exciting opportunity to join our lovely team!
#JobAlert tinyurl.com/Alcoholresearc…

Know any young men aged 16-24 in Scotland? Please share 🙏

We're looking for 12 young men to join Men Minds Project - to share their views and help us design better mental health research and services

No skills needed
Time/expenses reimbursed

👀More info tinyurl.com/2p88nxdh

Every year I retweet this piece on how to spot drowning. Last year someone replied saying they’d read my RT the previous year and later rescued a kid. TL;DR: drowning kids usually don’t scream or splash about. slate.com/technology/201…

📺 | Survivors of domestic abuse contribute to powerful new film

Researchers have released a powerful short film featuring testimonies from survivors of domestic abuse and stalking.

Full story:
📲 gcu.ac.uk/aboutgcu/unive…

#WeAreGCU

The first #LongCovidAwarenessDay coincides with the launch of a module on Healthtalk.org focusing on Long Covid in families - children, teenagers, young people and parents.

Hear their stories: healthtalk.org/Family-experie…

NIHR Research OxPrimaryCareSci Dipex Charity

📢New Healthtalk📢

Hear about the experiences of people with Long Covid in their own words, in new Healthtalk from our Kate Hunt and Alice MacLean and OxPrimaryCareSci. With thanks to all participants who shared their stories.

Check it out👇
healthtalk.org/Long-Covid-In-….