Jack Andrews
@drjackandrews
@WellcomeTrust Early-Career Fellow @OxExpPsy | JRF @UnivOxford | Social influence, mental health & adolescence | (he/him)
**We are recruiting** Seeking a postdoc to work on a Wellcome-funded cohort study focusing on social-cognitive processing in typically developing children and adolescents (aged 8-18 years) and children and adolescents with 22q11.1 deletion syndrome. jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49291/
🌟New publication alert🌟 Our article "Social connection as a key target for youth mental health," is out in Mental Health & Prevention! 📄✨authors.elsevier.com/a/1kQLZ7t6PR-2… @proftimslade @alizaws @lilydavidson0 @drjackandrews @TheMatilda_USyd #YouthMentalHealth #SocialConnection
How do you change the behaviour of the world? Psychology found its way into Covid policy in several ways. But did it work? @drjackandrews looked at the research… bps.org.uk/psychologist/h…
Very excited to share our new pub where we ran 7,680 unique models exploring associations between adolescent alcohol use and emotional problems! bit.ly/4gGIP1o @TheMatilda_USyd @PBCARMacSJHH @macnursing @proftimslade @DrMSunderland
How does where we live – urban, rural, or in-between – relate to our mental health? 🌆🏞️ In this cross-national study, we investigate the links between urbanicity, anxiety & depressive disorders in 500,000 adults across the UK, Norway, and New Zealand 🧵 doi.org/10.31219/osf.i…
New paper out now in Proceedings of the Royal Society B: 'A human working memory advantage for social network information'. @KarinaGrunewald @suschweizer royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs… Check our the blue place for a 🧵
Where to next for universal school-based mental health interventions? In our @acamh debate piece, @drlucyfoulkes and I argue that it's time to move towards more effective alternatives. acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ca… Follow on Bluesky for the thread!
📣Fully-funded ESRC studentship at Oxford focusing on youth trauma and sexual harm, with the brilliant Dr Alex Lau Zhu, Professor Lucy Bowes and Dr Carmen Chan. @topic_group Deadline to apply is Friday 3 Jan. granduniondtp.ac.uk/enhancing-earl…
New paper, and it only took two years 🫠! In this systematic review, we aimed to identify the mediators and moderators in the association of SES with EF, language ability, and academic achievement. Now published as an Annual Research Review in JCPP! acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.11…
Join us as a postdoc (up to 5 years) on this @wellcometrust funded project to study perinatal intrusive thoughts and anxiety! Find out more & apply here by 18 December 2024: external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au/cw/en/job/5294… The position will be based @UNSW @UNSWScience in Sydney.
Excited to share our new article w/@affectivebrain in @NatureHumBehav. Key finding: consuming more negative content online is tied to poorer mental health—and vice versa. 💻🧠 Article link: doi.org/10.1038/s41562… 🧵 Read on for more insights from the study
⚡️ In our new #OpenAccess paper, we provide an overview of frequently used and modern network analytic techniques for psychological science and the mental health field Out today at IJMPR, led by @giovbriganti, with this stellar team of co-authors: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/mp…
Our latest paper, published today in Royal Society Open Science (@RSocPublishing), found that being alone heightens 'threat alert' in teenagers—even when they're connected on social media. 🧠📲 doi.org/10.1098/rsos.2…
*NEW PUB: Making the most of imperfect gender data* Adolescent research must reflect today’s evolving gender landscape, especially for trans & gender diverse (TGD) young people. Our new Perspective outlines how to work with existing, imperfect data 🧵 mentalhealth.bmj.com/content/27/1/e…
Bullying is probably our most tractable public mental health risk factor; we know what to do & must implement these effective programmes
This #NIHRfunded study is the largest UK trial of its kind, implemented in 100+ primary schools in England & Wales, involving 11,000+ pupils. It reduced bullying incidents & was equally effective across socio-economically diverse schools, the study found. #PublicHealthResearch.
We're very excited to announce the launch of 'Turning Points', a new podcast presented by @HugoFleming_ and @_cmhood, and produced by @lukasgunschera. In each episode we interview a senior scientist about the pivotal moments in their career... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/tur…
A really important, and bold, perspective from @NicolaByrom & @theotherneil: 'An anthropological critique of psychiatric rating scales' 'To insist on the use of the PHQ-9 while advocating for PPI feels like gaslighting patients'
New paper out from @theotherneil and me and I’m ludicrously proud of this. I know it won’t really disrupt the process of psychiatric research… but it has been amazing to really pull my lived experience into an academic paper. cambridge.org/core/journals/…
🚀 NEW WEBINAR 🚀 Early intervention for depression for young people Experts from the @BESSTtrial share findings and next steps from this major @NIHRresearch funded study led by @KingsIoPPN eventbrite.co.uk/e/early-interv… @Jess_Deighton, @DrBenCarter, @sarahofholloway, @PeterFonagy
So 🙏to @wellcometrust to get to work on perinatal intrusions and anxiety across the 🌏 & species🐀with the most amazing team @BronwynM_Graham @globalpmh @Nichole_Fairbro @MichelleMoulds Nicole Reilly @Nathan_M_Holmes Richard Bryant @UNSW @NIMHANS_BLR unsw.edu.au/newsroom/news/…
New paper led by superstar @RVisontay!! Interested in enhancing causal inference in population-based neuroimaging datasets? Read all about it here: sciencedirect.com/science/articl… First paper out from our @NIAAAnews R01 with mPI Lindsay Squeglia 🥳 @TheMatilda_USyd @MUSCYouthCollab