What if the hidden cost of night shifts isn’t burnout but social desynchronisation? Among 809 NHS employees, more frequent night work was associated with greater #loneliness. Work-life balance & social fulfilment showed the clearest signals.@LonelinessStudy researchsquare.com/article/r…

We talk about building communities, but who gets to belong? Our INTERACT study of 135,725 volunteers in England found disability is associated with higher #Loneliness & lower #SocialCapital. A postcode puts you in a neighbourhood, but what makes you belong? Are we building communities everyone can be part of? @LonelinessStudy @ImperialSCARU @Imperial_PCPH @ImperialSPH @imperialcollege @ISFglobal @BMC_GPH @marmaladetrust @EndLonelinessUK doi.org/10.1186/s44263-026-0…

The @SelfCareForum & @ImperialSCARU are collaborating on a Fact Sheet to support people in navigating key aspects of loneliness & social connection - taking insight from the @LonelinessStudy. Meanwhile I'm really pleased our blog is posted here: selfcareforum.org/2026/08/24…

How lonely is England & what can 135,725 people tell us about where loneliness is concentrated? This first paper in a series form the #INTERACT @LonelinessStudy maps #loneliness, social connection & social capital at national scale, highlighting important patterns across people & place. @ImperialSCARU @Imperial_PCPH @ImperialSPH @imperialcollege @ImperialNHS @BMC_GPH @Azeem_Majeed 👇 link.springer.com/article/10…

Our pilot study across 2 secondary schools found that a co-designed dance intervention was feasible & increased young people's enthusiasm for dance while strengthening social #connection & adolescent #wellbeing. A promising foundation for future research 👇journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…

Great interview with Marc Ewan of Embrace Mental Health 365 (emh365.com/) to consider new ways to engage with people who are experiencing deep #loneliness. How would you do it? @EndLonelinessUK @LonelinessStudy

Loneliness is widely discussed, but how well do we actually measure it? Our new study applies Rasch psychometrics to data from >134K NHS patients, mapping #loneliness & social connection on a single continuum. @ImperialSCARU @Azeem_Majeed @Imperial_PCPH👇 emp-open.de/uploads/3/263_pd…

Loneliness is a growing public health concern, but measuring it reliably is harder than it seems. In our new study we analyzed data from 134K NHS patients to test a loneliness & social connection scale to capture data at population level @ImperialSCARU 👇 emp-open.de/uploads/3/263_pd…

Do you work in the @NHSuk? Please help us strengthen the evidence base on workforce health, wellbeing & system pressures by participating in this brief anonymous, confidential & policy-relevant @LonelinessStudy survey 👉imperial.eu.qualtrics.com/jf… @ImperialNHS @Imperial_PCPH

Looking at data from 43K Brits who participated in the @LonelinessStudy, @kopka_sci is finding that people who completed the survey late at night reported higher loneliness. Perhaps when someone engages online is a behavioural marker of social connection? @Imperial_PCPH @ARC_NWL

This year @ImperialSCARU is celebrating Loneliness Awareness Week by submitting 5 papers on #loneliness inc. the first trilogy from the @LonelinessStudy, the largest global study on loneliness with over 168K ppt. Stay tuned for preprints ♥️ @BMC_GPH @Imperial_PCPH @Sami_Altalib

Thank you @ResearchHumber for your invitation to present our interim findings form the @LonelinessStudy. Delighted to see how our data from the world’s largest study on #loneliness is coming together in heat maps produced by @Valen10Francois @ukonward @ImperialSPH

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