We had our second annual conference on September 18th 2024. The full conference programme with presentation slides are available to download below. A video will be uploaded soon but it is currently being edited.

Digital live scribe – images from the day below – thanks to Boy Oh Boy Designs https://www.boyohboydesigns.co.uk

Brought to you by the NIHR Yorkshire and Humber Applied Research Collaboration (ARC), Sheffield Centre of Health and Related Research (SCHaRR), and the School for Business and Society, University of York:

Tackling parental loneliness in the first 1001 days Dr Ruth Naughton-Doe

Overview of findings from the Perinatal Loneliness Project

Presentations Session 1.

(A) Creative and cultural approaches to reducing loneliness

Lindsay Hunter– Journalling

Nicola Wallis – Museums

Louise Platt and Anna Powell – Mobilities

Ruth Naughton-Doe- Walking groups

(B)Loneliness and seldom heard populations

Sarah Shemery – Refugee and Migrant parents

Florence Gaughan – Young mothers

Funmilayo Fabiyi – Black African Immigrant mothers

( C) Mixed session

Rae Halstead – Breastfeeding and loneliness

Deborah Tetteh – First-time mothers’ activities and their daily mood and experiences of loneliness, stress, and boredom.

Julie Weissova – First time mothers – solitude and aloneness

Sian Drinkwater – Maternal Mental Health Alliance – Amplifying Maternal Voices Toolkit

Presentations Session 2

(A)Fathers and non-birthing parents

Gareth Wall – Fathers project

Rosie Martin, Suzanne Hodgson, Amy Jenkin – Father inclusive practice in perinatal mental health

Kieran Anders – Fathers project

Ruth Naughton-Doe – LGBTQ+ experiences

(B) Perinatal Mental Health and loneliness

Kate Adlington – Perinatal mental health and loneliness

Hannah Moore – evaluation of perinatal mental health peer support

Charli Headley – Mums Matter intervention