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Our group's (the Social Mental Health Lab) work focuses on peer influences on adolescent mental health problems, school-based interventions and social cognition. We use a number of different approaches, from analysing big data and running behvaioural experiments to randomised controlled trials.
Social Mental Health Lab Members
Principle Investigator: Dr Jack Andrews; Postdoctoral Researchers: Dr Delfina Bilello, Dr Holly Crudgington & Dr Jospeh Newton; Graduate students: Caroline Wunn (Erasmus MSc Cognitive Neuroscience), Jay Bate (MSci Experimental Psychology), Tamsin White (MSci Experimental Psychology).
Our group also works closely with a number of other researchers. In particular, Dr Lucy Foulkes and Prof Lucy Bowes at Oxford, A/Prof Susanne Schweizer at UNSW, Sydney, Dr Sarah Malamut at the University of Turku in Finland, and we also have strong links to the Matilda Centre for Mental Health and Substance Use Research at the University of Sydney, where we have a number of ongoing collaborations.
Peer influences on adolescent mental health
Key papers:
Andrews, J. L., Foulkes, L., & Blakemore, S. J. (2020). Peer influence in adolescence: Public-health implications for COVID-19. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 24(8), 585-587.
Andrews, J. L., Foulkes, L. E., Bone, J. K., & Blakemore, S. J. (2020). Amplified concern for social risk in adolescence: Development and validation of a new measure. Brain sciences, 10(6), 397.
Andrews, J. L., Khin, A. C., Crayn, T., Humphreys, K., & Schweizer, S. (2022). Measuring online and offline social rejection sensitivity in the digital age. Psychological Assessment, 34(8), 742.
School based interventions for mental health
Key papers:
Andrews, J. L., Birrell, L., Chapman, C., Teesson, M., Newton, N., Allsop, S., ... & Slade, T. (2023). Evaluating the effectiveness of a universal eHealth school-based prevention programme for depression and anxiety, and the moderating role of friendship network characteristics. Psychological Medicine, 53(11), 5042-5051.
Andrews, J. L., & Schweizer, S. (2023). The need for functional assessments in school-based mental health intervention research. JAMA psychiatry, 80(2), 103-104.
Andrews, J. L., & Foulkes, L. (2025). Debate: Where to next for universal school‐based mental health interventions? Time to move towards more effective alternatives. Child and Adolescent Mental Health, 30(1), 102-104.
Foulkes, L., Andrews, J. L., Reardon, T., & Stringaris, A. (2023). Measuring and reporting potential harm from universal school-based mental health interventions: Research recommendations for an ethical issue. Nature Mental Health
Social cognition and social networks
Key papers:
Andrews, J. L., Ahmed, S. P., & Blakemore, S. J. (2021). Navigating the social environment in adolescence: The role of social brain development. Biological psychiatry, 89(2), 109-118.
Andrews, J. L., Grunewald, K., & Schweizer, S. (2024). A human working memory advantage for social network information. Proceedings B, 291(2036), 20241930.
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