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Crafting Contention through MadZines – Wednesday 6 April
For our next Discussion and Support Group meeting at 17.30 - 19.00 on Wednesday 6th April via Zoom, we have two speakers. Helen Spandler will give an overview of the MadZines project, a 3 year research project exploring the role of zines in...
Mental Health Act Reform: Analysis from professional and lived experience
Online event on Wednesday 9th March, 09.30 - 16.30 - UK Mental Health Act reform: Can it deliver racial justice and ensure the rights and wellbeing of people with mental health problems? All day online event sponsored by Garden Court barristers...
SRN February Discussion and Support Group
Our next SRN Discussion and Support Group meeting is on Wednesday 23 February at 17.30-19.00. This is a space for people with lived experience of mental distress to discuss survivor research concepts and texts and the issues and barriers we face...
Service User Researcher/Academic: A lived contradiction?
We are publishing this blog article by Dina Poursanidou introducing her presentation: Dina writes: Back in 2021 I was invited to lead a symposium session at the 6th Authenticity to Action Conference which sought to celebrate Public and Patient...
Routledge International Handbook of Mad Studies
New collection edited By Peter Beresford and Jasna Russo. "By drawing broadly on international thinking and experience, this book offers a critical exploration of Mad Studies and advances its theory and practice. Comprised of 34 chapters written by...
SRN session at NSUN 2021 agm
A recording of our session at the NSUN 2021 AGM is now available. The session was entitled Survivor Researchers: What do we bring? After a short introduction to SRN, Dina Poursanidou delivered a presentation drawing on mental health service user...
SRN Discussion and Support Group 13 January
Our next SRN Discussion and Support Group meeting is at 17.30-19.30 on Thursday 13th January 2022. This is a space for people with lived experience of mental distress to discuss survivor research concepts and texts and the issues and barriers we...
SRN given Awards for All funding
Survivor Researcher Network C.I.C. has been awarded £10,000 funding from the Community Fund. This Awards for All grant will enable us to develop our Discussion and Support Group with regular monthly meetings in 2022, and offer some individual...
Ambivalence in accounts of involuntary hospitalisation
The price of ‘safety’? Ambivalence in mental health service user interview accounts of involuntary hospitalisation (‘sectioning’) in England SRN director, Dr Dina Poursanidou, delivered a joint presentation about this research which she worked on...
Survivor Researchers: What do we bring?
SRN is running a session at the NSUN 2021 AGM at 2-3pm on Wednesday 1st December After a short introduction to SRN, a presentation by Dina Poursanidou will draw on mental health service user interview accounts of involuntary hospitalisation...
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