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New Co-SPACE Report: Younger Children’s Mental Health Worse in the New Lockdown

Public Engagement Research

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100 Women of Oxford Medical Sciences

Department Event Public Engagement

It's International Women's Day and MSD launches project to celebrate 100 years since women were admitted as full members of the University.

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Matthew Rushworth granted a Wellcome Investigator Award

Award

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Parental Mental Health Worse Since New National Restrictions: New report from Co-Space Study

Impact Research

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Manuel Spitschan to lead new network of international early-career scientists

Award Research

Alex Hendry and colleagues team up with Home-Start Oxford to distribute outdoor clothing to disadvantaged local babies and toddlers

Public Engagement Research

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New website for the Life and Mind Building

Department General

A new website has launched for the Life and Mind Building (LaMB). LaMB – which will house EP and a new Biology Department – is the largest building project ever undertaken by the University.

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Return to school sees improvement in children's mental health

Impact Research

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Kate Nation awarded a prestigious ESRC Celebrating Impact Prize

Award

World-leading researchers in the science of reading, Kate Nation and collaborators, Kathy Rastle and Anne Castles, have been awarded this year's prestigious ESRC Celebrating Impact Prize.

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Pandemic makes EP's 3rd mental health talk, Managing Depression and Low Mood, even more timely

Event Public Engagement

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EP launches new EPICS website to coincide with Oxford’s Centenary of Women

Department General

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UK lockdown linked to widening disadvantage gap for babies and toddlers

Research

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Kate Nation elected to the Academy of Social Sciences

Award

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Cathy Creswell Awarded UKRI/NIHR Funding for Co-CAT Study

Award Research

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10 October is World Mental Health Day

Event General Research

How are EP researchers contributing to mental health efforts around COVID-19?

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Oxford University recognises 100-year anniversary of the formal admission of women

Alumni Event Public Engagement

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Ambitious Oxford initiative launched to address graduate under-representation

Award Outreach

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Children and young people from low income backgrounds show elevated mental health difficulties throughout lockdown

Research

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Impact of returning to school on adolescent mental health the subject of a new study

Public Engagement Research

Researchers from Department of Experimental Psychology have found that, during lockdown, teenagers mental health is struggling compared to their parents.

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Raised blood pressure and diabetes alter brain structure to slow thinking speed and memory

Research

In a new study, neuroscientists in EP and NDCN have found that raised blood pressure and diabetes in mid-life alter brain structure to slow thinking speed and memory.

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