# Event Details - **Event Name**: Young people, social media and new understandings of mental distress - **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 09 Jul, 2026 at 09:30 am – Fri, 10 Jul, 2026 at 05:30 am (+01:00) - **Event Description**: This conference explores how young people’s understandings of mental health are changing in the context of a youth mental health crisis.About this Event bring together scholars and specialists from around the world to explore themes related to health and wellbeing.This conference brings together an outstanding interdisciplinary group of scholars, alongside activists and NGOs working on youth mental health to discuss the ways in which everyday understandings of mental health and distress are changing. In the context of a widely documented mental health crisis among young people, we are interested in new ways of understanding psychological distress including the apparent de-stigmatisation of mental ill health and, a growing attachment to diagnostic labels, alongside yet simultaneous resistance to psychological/psychiatric expertise, and novel emerging vernaculars for representing mental distress from the ‘crying selfie’ to the playful, cuteness-informed language of the ‘menty b’.Through expert presentations, conversations and creative workshops we ask: how are young people making sense of mental health today? What role do digital platforms and social media play in shaping new understandings of psychological distress? How are young people’s understandings situated in relation to critiques of medicalisation and the ‘psy-complex’ – is there a mismatch between everyday understandings of mental ill-health and those rooted in medical models? And do they reinforce or challenge inequalities related to race, gender, sexuality, class and disability?Conference convenorProfessor Rosalind Gill, FBA, Goldsmiths LondonProfessor Sarah Riley, Massey University of New ZealandSpeakersAdrienne Evans, Coventry UniversityAnn Phoenix, University College LondonAnna Bailie, University of York, Artist and Founder, Riot Soup CollectiveChristina Scharff, Kings College LondonDavid Harper, University of East LondonEmma Sheppard, Aberystwyth UniversityFredrika Thelandersson, Lund UniversityHolly Avella, University of MarylandJazza JohnLisa Backman, Goldsmiths UniversityMichael Hough, Senior Public Affairs, Mental Health FoundationNia Sullivan, Abo AkademiNikolas Rose, University College LondonOlly Parker, Head of External Affairs, Young MindsRachel O’Neill, London School of EconomicsRuth Page, University of Birmingham, writer and educatorZeena Feldman, Kings College LondonZoe Glatt, London School of EconomicsConvener BiographyRosalind Gill, FBA is Professor of Inequalities in Media, Culture and Creative Industries at Goldsmiths, University of London. Her work focuses on power, inequalities and the relationship between culture and subjectivity. She is author or editor of numerous books including Gender and the Media, Aesthetic Labour: Beauty Politics in Neoliberalism (with Ana Elias and Christina Scharff), Mediated Intimacy: Sex Advice in Media Culture (with Meg-John Barker and Laura Harvey), Confidence Culture (with Shani Orgad), and, most recently, Perfect: Feeling Judged on Social Media. She is currently researching everyday understandings of mental health and illness among young people.Hybrid conference, booking required.Ticket Prices (per day)In-person: £40 standard | £20 concession (students, early career researchers, disabled, unwaged/retired)Online: £10 standard | £6 concessionFor more information about the accessibility of the British Academy, please email events@thebritishacademy.ac.uk, or consult our accessibility guide.Image credit: Zane Statz, Upsplash. - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/london/young-people-social-media-and-new-understandings-of-mental-distress/100001982350536819 - **Event Categories**: health-wellness, Art, Workshops, literary-art, Contests, Sports - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 6.97, max: 43.18, currency: GBP ## Event venue details - **city**: London - **state**: EN - **country**: United Kingdom - **location**: The British Academy - **lat**: 51.5063758 - **long**: -0.1312456 - **full address**: The British Academy, 10-11 Carlton House Terrace, London, United Kingdom ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: Young people, social media and new understandings of mental distress - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events7/banners/5fd5d9ada0bbc9b42215bdfde8cd9031c14654600c40d85f47846f461715b991-rimg-w1200-h1469-dcedefed-gmir.jpg?v=1771120018 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is Young people, social media and new understandings of mental distress being held? - **A:** Young people, social media and new understandings of mental distress takes place on Thu, 09 Jul, 2026 at 09:30 am to Fri, 10 Jul, 2026 at 05:30 am at The British Academy, 10-11 Carlton House Terrace, London, United Kingdom. - **Q**: How much do tickets cost for Young people, social media and new understandings of mental distress? - **A:** Ticket prices for Young people, social media and new understandings of mental distress range from GBP 7 to GBP 43 depending on the ticket type. 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