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
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...
Renewed funding for our network
SRN has obtained further funding from Community Fund Awards for All through to June 2026. This funding will allow us to resume regular online Discussion and Support Group meetings for people with...
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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...