Media
Matilda has discussed her research and policy analysis at a wide range of events and conferences, including at the House of Commons, the Battle of Ideas Festival Festival in London, the Centre for Parenting Culture Studies at the University of Kent, and the British Council’s Going Global Conference. She has spoken at client events in Mexico City, Washington DC, New Delhi, Kigali, Dhaka and Dubai, among others. Recent talks, articles and research coverage are listed below.
Podcasts, Talks and Debates
‘The Rising Prevalence of Mental Illness in Young Women’ – Panel Discussion for International Women’s Day
Royal College of Psychiatrists (6 March 2025)
‘Is There a Teenage Mental Health Crisis?’
Centre for Parenting Culture Studies (26 February 2025)
‘The Policy Environment for Schools Post-Cass’
Women’s Rights Network (19 February 2025)
‘Alison Jenner in conversation with Matilda Gosling: Teenagers, Gender Identity and the Workplace’
Liberal Voice for Women (10 February 2025)
‘Episode 124: How to be a good parent to teenagers, using evidence. An interview with Matilda Gosling’
Teenagers Untangled Podcast with Rachel Richards (29 January 2025)
Interviews on BBC local radio and Talk Radio Europe about Teenagers: The Evidence Base (week commencing 27 January 2025)
‘Episode 103: Evidence-Based Parenting with Matilda Gosling’
The Thinking Mind Podcast with Dr Alex Curmi (6 December 2024)
‘Episode 24: Building resilience – the power of healthy stress in teenagers with Matilda Gosling’
Just One Thing for Parents Podcast with Dr Bettina Hohnen (22 November 2024)
‘Declare your pronouns: is EDI fuelling the culture wars?’
Battle of Ideas Dublin (9 November 2024)
‘Episode 51: What is the existing state of research about lesbian lives? A chat with Matilda Gosling and Diane Stoianov’
The Lesbian Project Podcast (8 November 2024)
‘Letters on Liberty: Escaping the straitjacket of mental health’
Battle of Ideas Festival (20 October 2024)
‘Do schools need a reset for the anxious generation?’
Battle of Ideas Festival (7 October 2024)
‘Flash talk: Virtual listening tour on evidence-based parenting’
Human Flourishing Program at Harvard University (24 September 2024)
‘Women’s services – a sector silenced’
Cross-Party Meeting in the House of Commons (18 January 2024)
‘Gender, identity and parenting culture’
Centre for Parenting Culture Studies at the University of Kent (9 November 2023)
‘Andrew Tate and the lost boys’
Battle of Ideas Festival (29 October 2023)
‘Launch event: Running to Stand Still: Why decades of skills reform have failed to shift the dial on UK productivity and investment in training’
Royal Society of Arts (12 September 2023)
‘Teenagers and gender distress: what parents need to know’
Sex Matters Webinar (16 May 2023)
‘Child gender medicine: the evidence’
Sex Matters Webinar (23 February 2023)
Articles
‘Teenagers aren’t jam: when assigning labels undermines mental health’
Welldoing (6 February 2025)
‘I’m a scientist – here’s a parent’s guide to surviving the teenage years’
Netmums (28 January 2025)
‘Unintended consequences: are mental health programmes undermining well-being?’
Teach Secondary Magazine (15 November 2024)
‘The problem with EDI’
The Critic (8 October 2024)
‘Survivors of male violence need single-sex spaces’
The Critic (16 January 2024)
‘Unbaking the genderbread person’
The Critic (17 April 2023)
‘Children and gender distress’
The Critic (10 October 2022)
Research Coverage
‘Tips of the week… parenting teenagers | Matilda Gosling, the author of Teenagers: The Evidence Base, offers the best tips for handling those difficult teenage years.’
The Week Magazine (21 February 2025)
‘Understanding the inbetweeners: helping your teenagers escape the doom loop’
The Critic: review (17 February 2025)
‘Advice for parents of teens – don’t bang on about mental health: Teenagers: The Evidence Base by Matilda Gosling is a bracingly no-nonsense parenting guide’
The Times: review (8 February 2025)
‘How to be a good parent to teenagers – the expert’s guide’
The Times: interview (25 January 2025)
‘The myth of the teenager: adolescents suffer from an image problem. Matilda Gosling’s Teenagers: The Evidence Base looks at the facts to dispel unhelpful stereotypes.’
The New Statesman: review (15 January 2025)
‘Written intervention on behalf of Scottish Lesbians, The Lesbian Project and LGB Alliance’
Supreme Court of the United Kingdom: For Women Scotland and The Scottish Ministers (22 October 2024)
‘Written intervention on behalf of Sex Matters’
Supreme Court of the United Kingdom: For Women Scotland and The Scottish Ministers (22 October 2024)
‘HR responds: does DEI need to be reset?’
HR Magazine (9 October 2024)
‘Employers are backing away from EDI – a monster they cannot tame’
The Sunday Times (6 October 2024)
‘Kafkaesque nightmare… rape crisis centre ‘heresy hunt’ against a volunteer who stood up for the rights of victims to know the true sex of case workers’
The Daily Mail (25 May 2024)
‘Evidence-Based Parenting by Matilda Gosling review – the science of child-rearing’
The Times (20 January 2024)
‘JK Rowling backs call for ‘female only’ rape support in Scotland as report highlights ‘bullying’ of feminists’
Scottish Daily Express (16 January 2024)
‘Staff working in rape and trafficking centres are routinely subjected to bullying and intimidation for defending women’s rights, report warns’
Mail Online (15 January 2024)
‘Funders among those urged to support skills development in charities’
UK Fundraising (2 November 2023)
‘Running to stand still: why decades of skills reform have failed to shift the dial on UK productivity & investment in training’
FE News (13 September 2023)
‘Whitehall doesn’t know best – but devolution is harming skills policy’
FE Week (23 September 2023)
‘Two decades of skills policies haven’t improved prodictivity, says report’
FE Week (12 September 2023)
‘Project identifies lack of training opportunities for upskilling emerging leaders of smaller charities’
UK Fundraising (1 August 2023)