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Category: Mental Health

How can network analyses help unpick complex systems of mental ill-health?

  • 27 August 2026

Dr Emma Bridger (University of Leicester) explores how network analysis and data from Understanding Society can help unpick the complex links between psychological symptoms and socioeconomic disadvantage.

Next Steps: Using linked UK longitudinal cohort data to examine unmet mental health needs

  • 23 July 2026

Corine Driessens discusses identifying the characteristics of the ‘missing middle’, young people experiencing mental health problems but not accessing services, using Next Steps data. 

Do nonstandard work hours influence children’s wellbeing through maternal mental health and children’s routines?

  • 8 July 2026

Chia Liu (University of St Andrews) uses Millennium Cohort Study data to investigate whether mothers working nonstandard hours affects young children’s socioemotional development and why this work matters.

What can the Millennium Cohort Study tell us about autism?

  • 9 June 2026

In the second of two blog posts by researchers from University College London, Ellie Roberts explores the advantages and challenges of using the Millennium Cohort Study to better understand the mental health of autistic young people. 

How can we bridge the gap between lived experience and scientific practice in autism research?

  • 4 June 2026

In the first of two blog posts, Reesha Zahir discusses the integral role of co-produced research questions in the Mental Health and Wellbeing of Autistic Young People (M-WAY) study.

What can population survey data can tell us about the eating problems experienced by young people?

  • 28 May 2026

Dr Benjamin Geers and Dr Tamsin Newlove-Delgado discuss how the Mental Health of Children and Young People in England surveys help researchers to support adolescents.

Family income and mental health in late adolescence

  • 26 May 2026

Gianmaria Niccodemi, from the University of Liverpool, uses the Millenium Cohort Study to analyse the relationship between family income trajectories and the development of socio-emotional behavioural problems at age 17.

Using 1970 British birth cohort data to explore the long-term consequences of ADHD

  • 19 May 2026

Joshua Stott (University College London) explores the relationship between childhood ADHD traits, health and well-being using the British Cohort Study.

The weight of the dataset: looking after yourself in secondary data research

  • 20 November 2025

Michaela Pawley, a UK Data Service Data Impact Fellow, reflects on the emotional challenges of working with sensitive secondary data and shares practical steps for researcher wellbeing.

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