Our study will codesign a perinatal walking group for Muslim mothers. The study will run from April 2025-December 2025. We will then apply for funding to see how the walking group works in practice and with what outcomes. Read more here. Read more

We are so pleased to share our event taking place on May 13th in Sheffield 10-3pm.   UK CONFERENCE on nature-based interventions for parents & children (0-5)! Join researchers, practitioners & families to share knowledge on forest schools, walking groups, forest-bathing & more.  May 13, 2025  Sheffield Full programme in March. Register here : https://tinyurl.com/36ashuk8 Read more

It is not often you get photographed whilst doing what you love the most at work! I ran a workshop on perinatal loneliness at the excellent Thrive At Five conference in January that launched their work in Redcar, Cleveland and Middlesborough. Loneliness among parents of children under 5 has been identified as a huge issue… Read more

I’m delighted to announce that our new study that aims to develop evidence informed recommendations on how best to support perinatal young mothers and birthing parents finally has its own website. The study is a follow on project from the Perinatal Loneliness study. The idea for the new research came about through chatting to service… Read more

🤩 New paper announcement 🤩 What interventions might work to prevent or reduce perinatal loneliness? Our review found six types of intervention and identified five common mechanisms that positively impacted social outcomes. We argue that more research is needed to explore interventions for fathers, LGBTQ+ parents, and neurodiverse parents, among many others. We argue interventions… Read more

We now have a YouTube channel sharing all of the videos from the perinatal loneliness project. We will also be uploading recorded presentations. Please follow this link: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRYJV9xL0Dm8O6cc88ChyMA Read more