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.
You can read more about the SRN on our About Us page
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Featured News and SRN events
Crafting Contention through MadZines
Crafting Contention through MadZines - recording of the presentation at our April 2022 Discussion and Support Group H.Spandler gave an overview of the MadZines project, a 3 year research project...
The Survivor Researcher as Trickster – experiential knowledge in research
‘The survivor researcher as ‘trickster’? Critical reflections on the role of experiential knowledge within academic research in mental health’ We are posting a video recording of the presentation...
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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...
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...
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...
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...