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To mark the beginning of Neurodiversity Celebration Week, Abbey Rowe discusses her PhD on how secondary schools affect the mental health and wellbeing of neurodivergent… Read More »Meet the researcher: Abbey Rowe on neurodiversity in secondary schools

Wales welcomed its new Curriculum for Wales last autumn, including changes to the way learners and schools are assessed, and changes to the way educators are trained… Read More »A curriculum for children’s health and wellbeing

Rebecca Anthony, Research Associate at DECIPHer and Wolfson Center for Young People’s Mental Health, discusses her new paper Young People’s Online Communication and its Association… Read More »How does online communication affect young people’s mental well-being?

What’s it like completing a summer research internship at DECIPHer? Five Cardiff University students discuss their experiences.

Henry Amery looks back on his 12-week placement at DECIPHer, which he undertook as part of his MSc Psychology Conversion. My time at Cardiff University… Read More »From music to methodology

Research Assistant Safia Ouerghi feeds back on ‘Development, Evaluation, Adaptation and Implementation’, which took place in June 2022. After joining DECIPHer in September 2021, I… Read More »Safia: My take on the DECIPHer short course

Alice Porter discusses her PhD research on age-appropriate portion sizes for preschoolers and reflects on her placement with DECIPHer Portion size is the amount of… Read More »What’s the right amount of food for preschool children?

Rakel Kavena Shalyefu (known as Kavena) is an Associate Professor in Lifelong Learning and Community Development at the University of Namibia, and one of the… Read More »Meet the Namibian Fellows: Kavena Shalyefu

The six Namibian Fellows are now ten weeks into their visit to DECIPHer. In blog four, Dr Rachel J Freeman explains how their experience reflects… Read More »Meet the Namibian Fellows: Dr Rachel J Freeman

The Phoenix Project has arranged for DECIPHer to host six mid-career Namibian professionals to collaborae with out researchers. Here, in blog three, we ask Ndinelago… Read More »Meet the Namibian Fellows: Ndinelago (Dina) Shilongo

DECIPHer is currently hosing six mid-career Namibian professionals, in a scheme arranged by the Phoenix Project. The Fellows are spending three months collaborating with our… Read More »Meet the Namibian Fellows: Cynthy K. Haihambo

Senior Public Involvement Officer Sophie Jones was recently interview by Emma Yhnell for Health and Care Research Wales for their latest Where Would We Be… Read More »The 25-year-old championing young people’s voices in research

DECIPHer is currently hosting six mid-career Namibian professionals, in a scheme arranged by the Phoenix Project. The Fellows are spending three months collaborating with our… Read More »Meet the Namibian Fellows: Ayesha Wentworth

New statutory guidance was introduced by Welsh Government in 2021, requiring all schools in Wales to embed a whole school approach (WSA) towards mental health and emotional wellbeing… Read More »Assessing the whole school approach to mental health and wellbeing

Lorna Stabler discusses her research into the experiences of an under-recognised group: sibling carers. What is the issue? Most people know that families are not… Read More »Siblings raising siblings: the ‘invisible’ kinship families

As DECIPHer prepares to move into its new home sbarc | spark, Sally O’Connor explains how innovation and ideas will thrive in this creative hub. A… Read More »Join us in society’s new ‘Superlab’

Research Associate Hayley Reed explores co-production in a school setting What is the issue? Attempts to change young people’s health through schools has relied on running standard programmes with… Read More »How can secondary school stakeholders inform health programmes?

Sophie Jones, 24, is the new Senior Public Involvement Officer at DECIPHer and is a long -running member of the ALPHA team. Here she tells… Read More »A catch-up with DECIPHer’s new Senior Public Involvement Officer

A researcher has joined the Wolfson Centre for Young People’s Mental Health, working in partnership with the DECIPHer Centre at Cardiff University. Dr Rebecca Anthony… Read More »Meet the researcher: Dr Rebecca Anthony

It is with great sadness that we note the death of our valued colleague Dr. Heather Trickey. Heather joined DECIPHer in January 2012, completed her… Read More »Remembering Heather Trickey

In 2022, Wales welcomes a new school curriculum prioritising young people’s health and wellbeing. Dr Sara Long’s Welsh Government fellowship is informing and evaluating this major… Read More »Wales’ new curriculum: Findings so far

PhD student Amy Simpson examines the methods we use to support and grow education research As part of a six-month internship at the Welsh Government, I conducted an evidence review titled Developing… Read More »How does DECIPHer build its research capacity?

Molly Burdon, a second-year Psychology student at Cardiff University, looks back on her seven-month placement at DECIPHer I was delighted to be offered the opportunity to… Read More »My DECIPHer work taster

March 11 2021 saw the launch of the independent evaluation report of the Pathfinder project, conducted by Cardiff University. The project was the first systems-change… Read More »On the right path

On 18th March 2021, Dr Kelly Morgan attended the International Public Policy Observatory on COVID-19 roundtable discussing summer support programmes for schoolchildren. She reports back… Read More »What support do children need this summer?

To mark International Women’s Day 2021, our colleagues at the Social Science Research Park (SPARK) interviewed staff from a range of different roles and research… Read More »International Women’s Day: Interview with Dr Sara Jones

Bethan Pell discusses the practical activities helping children and young people express themselves during sensitive research In December 2020, I was awarded an Early Career Researcher Bursary from… Read More »When research is child’s play