TEAM News, Events & Blog

TEAM bids a fond fairwell to partner lead Prof Miranda Wolpert.  Prof Wolpert will be leaving TEAM consortium member Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families (AFNCCF) to take up a new post at the Wellcome Trust from May 2019.

On the 26th April 2019, TEAM researcher Darragh McCashin joins others to discuss Pesky gNATs and digital health issues at a Digital Health Behaviour Change Research meeting at Dublin City University.

International Women's Day 2019 takes place today (8th March) and this year's theme is Balance for Better. The #Betterforbalance is a call-to-action to drive gender balance across the world.

Even though my blog post anxiety has slightly improved since my last blog post -  I moved on to seeing it as just another uncomfortable activity that is part of my life now - I still wonder, who the hell wants to know about my life or even worse my past year as an Early Career Researcher         (Why? Well, you tell me!)

As a medical doctor I have not had a lot of technical training during my education and clinical residency. But I have had a lot of training in medical conditions and gained experience in communicating with patients and doing clinical assessment. These are skills that many technically trained researchers lack.

Children’s data – everyone has an opinion, but what does the research say? A brief report from Professor Sonia Livingstone’s public lecture

I left the halls of the university to embark on an unexpectedly exciting journey. I was a bit nervous but mostly excited to experience the building of an app. This marked the start of my secondment at Create Health.

Not every road is the right one to take. But, be sure that eventually every wrong road leads you, at some point, to the right one. So, you then just have to choose to "walk". Which I did and which I do and, as I walk, this makes me a pilgrim. And a pilgrim accepts the occurrence of a wrong road, as getting lost, somehow, helps.

TEAM ITN researchers at the Marie Curie Alumni Association Conference and General Assembly will lead a mental health workshop for early stage researcher on the 24 February in Vienna, Austria.

Problematic use of the internet (PUI) and its impact on the health and wellbeing of European citizens is a primary focus the PUI Cost Action.  Problematic behaviours relating to bullying, social media and gaming is become a growing concern across all age groups.  This represents an emerging challenge for mental health research.