Dave Griffiths

Social capital, interconnected with tight-knit bonds within marginalised groups, could deter help-seeking. Knowledge and attitudes towards help, shaped by past experiences and network cultures, influenced help-seeking & contributed to a cautious and selective approach. 4/4

Social/relational influences identified included: fear of losing social capital, the risks of high bonding capital, service providers as social capital, selective help-seeking, trust and network culture. 3/4

New BMJ Open paper out on 'Relational influences on help-seeking for mental health and substance use problems among people experiencing social marginalisation: a scoping review' with @DrCConnell, @JessicaGreenha6 & Richard Kjellgren 1/4 bmjopen.bmj.com/content/15/6...

The actual title of this should be 'Pizza Hut making efficiency savings after successful trial', or 'business does what it intended to regardless of budget changes'. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

The next (Summer) Olympics are in Trump's America, four months before the next election. I wonder if it will be in the opening ceremony or the closing ceremony that he stands on top of the Olympic podium and awards himself a gold medal as best president ever.

Amazingly, there isn't any deeper meaning to this story. It's literally just that Helen Mirren is upset that Kurt Cobain never lived long enough to have a phone with GPS on it. theguardian.com/culture/2024/o…

The right-wing conspiracy theorists are saying a deadly weather issue is man-made, but climate change scientists are saying it isn't and its just normal weather patterns. That's not how I would have predicted those opinions to go. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

It sounds like the rumours of Oasis reforming might be true.

Best shows from the latter half of my #edfringe were @robinboot's rock-based comedy and @JokesWithMark's excellent one-liners.

Best show I've seen at #edfringe so far is Family Fortunes for very bad people - great fun and great questions tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/famil…

Fully-funded (with bursary) PhD studentship at @StirUni, supervised by Prof. Richard Simmons and myself, using #SocialNetworkAnalysis to examine a local water basin partnership findaphd.com/phds/project/o…

The @TeamGB athletics vest has serious @IronMaiden vibes.

Can we just act like Y2K is real and pretend the last 24 years never happened? It's great being 23 again.

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Grant Shapps would still have lost his seat even if he'd got all of Michael Green's votes

How can you cut away from Neil Kinnock when he's passionately slagging off George Galloway.

If you want to get the results for a constituency during the gap between the candidates being told and the result being officially announced, just check on the change in bookmakers odds to find out the winner.

@DrGrantGibson That's predicting the Scottish Tories will beat the SNP. I wonder how much the exit poll has been able to capture postal votes given most people with kids are on holiday this week.

Without the Partygate journalists, such as @PippaCrerar, Johnson would have won a large majority by now. A big thank you to everyone who exposed what was going on.