TEAM News, Events & Blog

I’m about 15 months into my PhD but I am also a runner and about 9 weeks away from a marathon. I enjoy that running gives me a release from my academic work but I can also see a lot of similarities between the two pursuits.

Darragh McCashin and Gianluigi Riva attended a two-day satellite event dedicated to the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Action (MSCA) community.  This event, held on the 7th & 8th July 2018, saw 200 MSCA fellows gather in Toulouse, France ahead of the EuroScience Open Forum (ESOF). 

Recently I had the opportunity to visit in the 9th European Conference on Positive Psychology (ECPP) in Budapest. It was a 4-day event under the motto "Positive Psychology for a Flourishing Europe in Times of Transition" with 729 participants from 66 countries.

In June I visited Open Lab in Newcastle and presented my TEAM project to the research group. Open Lab is a cross-disciplinary research group in interaction design and ubiquitous computing. I met Janis Meissner and Reem Talhouk at prior conferences. As my research fits well with some of their projects, they suggested to visit them in Newcastle.

The Universtiy of Glasgow played host to the TEAM Summer School 2018 which coincided with the TEAM Mid-Term Review Meeting.

TEAM ITN research, Claudette Pretorius, MSCA Fellow at University College Dublin illustrates her project and the issues at hand for young people seeking online mental health information in Ireland.

TEAM ITN researcher Pegah Hafiz, MSCA Fellow at the Technical University of Denmark presents her research in this quick video. 

This is the second year Falling Walls Lab invites MSCA fellows to participate in the science contest where researchers pitch their projects to a distinguished jury in three minutes. 

Last week, I attended the 3rd Suicide and Self-harm Early and Mid-Career Researchers‘ (EMCR) Forum in Glasgow, organized by Dr. Rory O’Connor and the Suicidal Behaviour Research Lab. There, I presented a poster of my ongoing study which aims to explore how technology could support young people who self-harm. While the study site is in Vienna, at my host institution, I now temporarily live in London to do a secondment at the Anna Freud Centre.

The first Digital Child Mental Health (DCMH) conference will take place on the 23rd May 2018, hosted by the Anna Freud Centre and TEAM Innovation Training Network in London, UK.