Mental health knowledge built by service users and survivors
Welcome to the Survivor Researcher Network (SRN)
The Survivor Researcher Network is a UK based user-controlled network for mental health service users and survivors with an interest in research.
Previously hosted by NSUN, we are now an independent network and Community Interest Company. We continue to to develop the SRN as a network for survivor researchers and others with lived experience of mental distress who are interested or involved in research. We also seek funding to undertake research, and offer mentoring, training and consultancy.
This is a developing website which aims to provide survivor research resources, articles, and news. We welcome feedback.
You can join our network and receive our Survivor Researcher Network newsletter here.
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Featured News and SRN events
June 2025 Discussion and Support Group
Our next SRN Discussion and Support Group meeting is at 17.30 BST on Tuesday 17th June. These meetings provide a space for people with lived experience of mental distress to discuss research related...
Local social care support research advisory group
The role of local area support and amenities in reducing inequalities in unmet need for care and improving access to social care support (CAPE 2.0). Lived experience advisory group – paid...
May 2025 Discussion and Support Group
Our next SRN Discussion and Support Group meeting is at 17.30 BST on Tuesday 20 May. We have presentation at this meeting: 'Expanded I poems': a participatory data analysis and co-inquiry process,...
April 2025 Discussion and Support Group
Our next SRN Discussion and Support Group meeting is at 17.30 BST on Tuesday 15th April. These meetings provide a space for people with lived experience of mental distress to discuss survivor...
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Labour exploitation in mental health research
Article by Stan Papoulias and Felicity Callard - Material and epistemic precarity: It's time to talk about labour exploitation in mental health research. "The conditions under which people labour in...
Peer Support Research – ENRICH study
The article reporting on quantitative research in the ENRICH Study on peer support for people being discharged from inpatient mental health, published in Lancet Psychiatry, has received a critical...