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.
You can read more about the SRN on our About Us page
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SRN Feedback Survey
Please complete our feedback survey. In 2022, the SRN was awarded a small amount of funding from the National Lottery Fund 'Awards for All' scheme to promote survivor research, and provide mentoring...
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...
January 2023 Discussion and Support Group
Developing research methods resources - democratising research Our January meeting is at 5.30 pm on Wednesday 18th January, via Zoom. You can register here. These online meetings offer a...
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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...