News and Views
All the news items and blog articles are listed here in chronological order – latest a the top. Each post needs two categories – one to indicate what type of post it is, and the other relates to subject matter. Posts of certain types are also displayed elsewhere on the website – eg srn news other news, blog articles.
SRN Discussion and Support Group – Tuesday 29 June
The next meeting of our Discussion and Support group is at 17.30 - 19.30 on Tuesday 29 June. This is a space for people with lived experience of mental distress to discuss survivor research ideas and text, and issues and barriers we face in doing...
SRN Discussion and Support Group – Intersectionality
At the last SRN Discussion and Support Group on 18 May, Jacqui Lovell led a discussion on intersectional approaches to research. The presentation was entitled 'Intersectionality: and the research process from lived experience perspectives" and can...
Social Inequalities and Justice – Social Power and Mental Health conference
CRASSH | Social Power and Mental Health, online conference held in April 2021 Session 3: Social Inequalities and Justice. Speakers: Rianna Walcott, Peter Beresford, Helen Spandler, Dorothy Gould The conference information stated that the conference...
Mental Health Research is racist, so what are we going to do about it?
Mental Elf #MHQT event with UCL Psychiatry, Black Thrive and Lancet Psychiatry, “… Asian and minority ethnic communities have been disproportionately affected by the pandemic: ‘dual viruses’ of racism and COVID-19. Mental health research fails to...
Service user participation within research in USA
'Deepening Engagement of Service User Participation Within Research and the Mental Health System' Marie Brown, Ph.D., and Nev Jones, Ph.D. discuss “steps to build a pipeline of researchers with significant psychiatric disabilities and intersecting...
Paying people for lived experience – Canadian research
'The Political Economy of Peer Research: Mapping the Possibilities and Precarities of Paying People for Lived Experience' – MaKinnon, Guta, Voronka and others Article in British Journal of Social Work reporting on research into ‘socio-material’...
Impact of research partnership with service providers on involvement
'A limpet on a ship: Spatio‐temporal dynamics of patient and public involvement in research' by Stan Papoulias and Felicity Callard. - article in Health Expectations journal on how expectations that research is undertaken in partnership with health...
Covid-19, whiteness and making black mental health matter
'From Preproduction to Coproduction: COVID-19, whiteness, and making black mental health matter' – by Colin King and others Short article in Lancet Psychiatry: “We remain in tribal zones and cultural camps that rarely share the power of racialised...
Participatory Ideology: From Exclusion to Involvement
New book by Peter Beresford - 'Participatory Ideology: From Exclusion to Involvement' - and book launch video. "This book examines for the first time the exclusionary nature of prevailing political ideologies. Bringing together theory, practice...
Online Film Festival – 19-25 April
The Social Power and Mental Conference is staging an online Film Festival from 19 to 25 April, alongside its conference The films highlight issues regarding mental health and amplify the voices of mental health survivors, challenging stereotypes...
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