Michaela Pawley wrote down her thoughts in her first blog post as a UK Data Service Impact Fellow. She reflects on her clinical and academic background, current PhD research, and future plans to expand her impact beyond academia.

Read more here: UK Data Service Data Impact Fellows 2025: Michaela Pawley – Data Impact blogLink opens in a new window

Hot off the press. A new paper - brilliantly led by @jennalgillett.bsky.social and Arman Rakhimov - validates the use of the Self-Compassion Scale Short-Form in chronic pain and exploring its initial relationships with pain outcomes.

🧪Open access: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/20494637241312070

On 8th Nov, Professor Matthew Broome, Director of the Institute for Mental Health, University of Birmingham, gave a seminar for the Warwick Health Spotlight.

Missed the talk? Don't worry, we have the recording of the talk archived on the Health Spotlight's Mental Health and Wellbeing webpage for references.

Our lab's PhD student, Laura Chandler, has just published a paper in Education Sciences about mental health symptoms during the pandemic and university study completion. It's Open Access - do take a look!

Do Mental Health Symptoms during the Pandemic Predict University Non-Completion in a Sample of UK Students? A Prospective StudyLink opens in a new window

Our PhD student, Laura Chandler, has published her systematic review and meta analysis in Sleep Medicine. Feel free to click this link Link opens in a new windowto read the paper in full.