SDRG Manchester

🚀 Exciting News! We’ve just launched a brand-new Blog Page on our SDRGManchester website! 🎉 Expect regular updates from across all our projects! 👉 Check it out: sites.manchester.ac.uk/socialdevelopm… #NewBlog

🤝 This stakeholder meeting focused on reviewing the status of child development screenings conducted by #AnganwadiWorkers- with special attention to sectors reporting lower screening numbers. 👏 Celebrating commitment, strengthening systems and advancing #ECS - together.

🌸 Aangan Baithak | Strengthening Child Development Together The NAMASTE Delhi team recently organized the 2nd edition of ‘Aangan Baithak’ with officials from the Department of Women and Child Development (DWCD), East District, Delhi on 11 December 2025 at the site office.

“🚀 NAMASTE, new home! Our project (Neurodevelopment and Autism in South Asia: Treatment and Evidence: NAMASTE) has just launched a website where you can read more on our research + follow news in real time: Take a look: namaste-ghru.com #NAMASTE @SangathIndia

✨Where collaboration becomes change and community becomes strength – the NAMASTE International Meet shines. ✨

🌍 Spanning three impactful days, The International NAMASTE Meet brought together partners, collaborators, and community-health workers from across the globe to reflect, learn, and strengthen our shared mission.

Throughout the sessions, participants engaged in discussions on innovative practices, emerging challenges, and opportunities for early childhood care researchers. Many of the conversations highlighted the power of community-led initiatives and acknowledge Non-specialist workers.

In this talk, Jonathan Green explores recent #GenomicResearch revealing distinct genetic architectures underlying #Neurodiversity & #Autism, & introduces a transactional developmental model showing how brain differences interact with environmental factors. bit.ly/49zc3P6

Join our research community! Recruitment for the E-LAB study is currently ongoing, and we’re actively seeking adolescents aged 13-17 years and their consenting parents or guardians to participate in this important research. To find out more, email: mhmpsych@manchester.ac.uk

👉 Check out our 1st blog post! Understanding early life adversity: the University of Manchester E-LAB study formed by Dr Dominic O’Connor + Prof Rebecca Elliott sites.manchester.ac.uk/socialdevelopm… @0Shrutigarg @OxHealthBRC @ManchesterBRC @FBMH_UoM

🗣️Calling all mainstream primary school teachers in England! We want to hear your views in supporting autistic students’ mental health. Voucher will be given as a thank you. Please share. @bsdr_busra @LeadbitterKathy #primaryschoolteachers #autism Signup:qualtrics.manchester.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_ef…

Improve your understanding of the concepts behind early parent-mediated care and pre-emptive intervention in #Autism development at the @acamh Jack Tizard conference on #Neurodiversity from Prof. Jonathan Green. Secure your place, register via bit.ly/4jujuJ6 to attend!

This moment belongs to every patient, partner, and teammate who believes that real change isn’t just needed—it’s already happening. 🎥 Watch live on 11 June from anywhere in the world: eu1.hubs.ly/H0jKgWd0 #MadewithPatientsAwards #PFMD #PEOF2025 #PatientEngagement

This award celebrates individuals driving meaningful change through patient-led collaboration, advocacy, and innovation—and to be recognised alongside others doing this work is deeply humbling.

🌟 Big news! Prof Jonathan Green @SDRGManchester + @TashaCullingham's Childhood Anxiety in Autism Managed by Parents Study: 'ChAAMPS' is a Finalist for the 2025 #MadewithPatientsAwards in the Champion category. 🎉 #Autism #ChAAMPS

Wonderful to hear from Prof Jonathan Green @FBMH_UoM CYP & Families Themed Meeting, chaired @0Shrutigarg & Dr Matthias Pierce. 🧠 ‘Re-imagining autism from the inside: neurodiversity, phenomenology and developmental science’ 🎧 Check out @acamh podcast: open.spotify.com/episode/5g6HwX…

🗣️Calling all Parents in the UK! When your child was a baby, were you concerned about #autism or #ADHD? We'd like to hear what types of support + strategies you'd have found helpful in our small focus groups. Contact m.w.wan@manchester.ac.uk or see link; forms.cloud.microsoft/e/czr85KzYLD

“It was great to be in Cambridge + see the strength of the CADRE team, as well as our colleagues in MerseyCare NHSFoundationTrust + the University of Birmingham who are also implementing this important work. We look forward to the emerging fruits from this innovative initiative.”

Prof Jonathan Green said: “This partnership between CADRE and the MH-TRC Mission represents a tremendous opportunity for us to develop an integrated digital infrastructure that could be transformative for child + young people’s mental health research and clinical outcomes.

Recently, children and young people’s (CYP) mental health researchers from the Children and Adolescents Data Resource (CADRE) network came together to discuss progress in building a national data platform for CYP health, to support new research and clinical pathways.