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 are seeking funding to continue to develop the SRN as a network for survivor researchers together with undertaking research, and offering mentoring, training and consultancy.
This is a developing website which aims to provide opportunities for discussion, survivor research resources, articles, and news. We welcome feedback.
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Featured News and SRN events
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...
Latest from News and Views
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...
Lectureship in User Led Research
Service User Research Enterprise (SURE) is advertising for a lecturer in user led research: 'The primary role will be to i) contribute to the strategic leadership and direction of SURE ii) develop a...
Covid-19 and Co-production
Covid-19 and Co-production in Health and Social Care Research, Policy and Practice - editors, Peter Beresford, Oli Williams, and others Two open access books available free to download."This...
Uncovering the emotional labour of involvement and co-production
Article exploring ‘the emotional labour of involvement and co-production in mental health research as experienced by service user/survivor researchers and research managers.” by Alison Faulkner...