On 24 January 2019 Claudia represented the young leaders group of the Lancet Commission on Global Mental Health at the launch event of its Report in Lisbon, Portugal. She shares her experience below. "It was a truly amazing experience....
Clara, a member of our young people’s advisory group (YPAG), took part in work experience in the summer 2018 to gain a greater insight into bioethics research. Clara attends a local school and is studying towards the European Baccalaureate. During...
Earlier this year Jessica and Gabi in BeGOOD's blog 'Should young people get genetic testing?' examined the positive and negative implications of young people opting to undertake a genetic test. Here Lamis Hamdi looks at the NEUROSEC research that she's been...
By YPAG member Abigail Miller Ethics and politics are topics that effect the younger generation as well as the current generation. However, the younger generation has very little say in what’s currently happening; it’s important that that changes so we...
by Kristen Gillespie-Lynch, The City University of New York What do you really think autism is? When one autism researcher asked four other autism researchers this, our answers were strikingly different. Viewpoints on autism are as diverse as autism itself...
Since I was accepted for a DPhil at the University of Oxford, I have enjoyed people’s expression of surprise when they hear that I am based in the Department of Psychiatry – what is a philosopher doing in the Department...
When deliberating on the many claimed benefits for early intervention services a number of ethical questions arise: - Why should the government invest in early intervention programmes? - Why is early intervention ‘right’? - Why is early intervention ‘good’? These...
by Dr. Sarah Maxwell MA (Oxon) MB BS MRCPsych, Consultant Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist, Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation Trust, Honorary Senior Lecturer UEA School of Medicine, Winston Churchill Fellow 2016 I confess that I was asked to write a blog...
Truth of the matter was, stories was everything and everything was stories. Everybody told stories, it was a way of saying who they were in the world. It was their understanding of themselves. It was letting themselves know how they...
