VERY excited to announce the @TheLancetPsych Commission on Lived Experience in Mental Health Research we’re co-leading w ⁦⁦Service User Research Enterprise (SURE)⁩ w support from ⁦⁦ESRC Centre for Society and Mental Health⁩, funded by ⁦⁦Wellcome⁩ 🥳 Join our global Advisory Board! 👇 livedexperiencecommission.org/get-involved

GET INVOLVED | Lived Experience Commission livedexperiencecommission.org/get-involved

Delighted to see the LE led @TheLancetPsych Commission on Lived Experience has launched this week. Led by Traumascapes ® and Service User Research Enterprise (SURE) and funded by Wellcome, this important commission is now recruiting LE Experts for the Global Advisory Board livedexperiencecommission.org/get-involved

📣Upcoming survivor researcher community gathering:
Celebrate the launch of a range of new survivor research resources survivorresearch.org

📅3rd May
⏲️ 11am-2pm
🏥 The Science Gallery London Science Gallery London

To attend please contact Angie Sweeney: [email protected]

Along with two brilliant women who have lived experience of care proceedings, we have created an ‘illustration of hope’ for mothers who have their children enter care.

Based on my PhD
Illustration by Traumascapes ®
Collab with Pause
Funding from ubel-dtp UCL Engagement Team

Super Early Bird Registration is now open for #ACOTS2024 !

Our conference is designed for practitioners, researchers, consumers, policymakers, and service developers and has a range of international and local experts.

Register now on our website: acots.org.au

📌ATTENTION Senior staff and decision makers tasked with leading Anti Racism efforts in their organisation📌

⏰Tuesday 8th August 10am-11am⏰
🔗Register here: antiracismleadercoaching.co.uk/webinar-6-the-…🔗

🚨Have you been tasked with leading Anti-Racism efforts, but don't feel confident or

The sad truth is that many children lose ‘innocence’ long before adulthood.

If I had known more, perhaps I would have been able to tell someone about the child sexual abuse I experienced in the family home.

According to the recent #IICSA 1 in 6 girls and 1 in 20 boys are

Please check out this creative arts-based project on values and principles for survivor research, led by trauma survivors. Siofra Peeren talked about it in her excellent lecture on Violence Against Women. There's even a board game! survivorresearch.org

Mental health is impacted by biological, psychological and social factors – but how do they interact?

To understand this, we need to build a more collaborative, coherent and focused field – and push the boundaries of mental health science in the process: wellc.me/3V7wxaP

📣We are still looking to interview Black adults who have experienced complex trauma and attempted to seek support. There is also an option of attending Black collective story telling groups. More info ⬇️

As part of my PhD I am working on the PATHWAY study looking to interview Black adults with histories of complex trauma to explore their journey accessing support following on from trauma and their experiences accessing and experiencing mental health services and support

“Mental Health Science: A Field Fit for Purpose?” Niall Boyce Sophie Chung & Kate Martin Wellcome open up discussions with energy, ambition and experimental tactics ⭐️

Looking for a new opportunity in the new year? We are recruiting for a Coordinator/Research Associate for our Lived Experience Advisory Board...

King's SSPP Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience MQ The Mental Elf

Parenting at Xmas brings ups and downs, depending on people's lives and circumstances.

We recently published a blog on research with parents with #mentalhealthneeds , providing insights into the challenges they face finding support.

Read more here 🔽
kcl.ac.uk/at-the-edge-of…

From Traumascapes ® - the first in a series of 12 works providing covers for @TheLancetPsych that explore what it means to be a trauma survivor.

Accompanying article introducing the Living Archive of Survivorhood of Trauma here: thelancet.com/journals/lanps…