If you're involved in training Public Involvement Contributors with lived experience for #Involvement in #research, you might find the findings of our new paper informative!

🚨 Publication alert!!

Absolutely delighted to say that our paper 'Evaluation of a 'Research Methods' Training Course for Novice Lived Experience Researchers' has just been published!

Please check out:
doi.org/10.1111/hex....

Thrilled to have trained another cohort of service users & carers in Research Methods! Thanks to @m-ricresearch.bsky.social for commissioning us again.

Also, super excited to announce our paper evaluating the training course has been accepted for publication!

Really thrilled to have this First Person Account published in Schizophrenia Bulletin!

'Moments of Regaining “Insight”—An Unrecognized Trauma'

#MentalHealth #Schizophrenia #psychosis #trauma

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Was absolutely thrilled to give a keynote this afternoon at the British Academy event at LSBU for Early Career Researchers on 'Disrupting power & privilege: strategies for change' using examples from @mentalhealthpru.bsky.social & from my own lived experience!

We desperately need media guidance on the reporting of homicide & #schizophrenia/#psychosis (as we do for reporting on #suicide).

#WorldSchizophreniaDay

The #media should contextualise reporting on incidents of violence/homicide & #schizophrenia & explain that statistically people with this diagnosis are rarely homicidal - they should have to make this VERY EXPLICIT to avoid stigmatising. #WorldSchizophreniaDay

The media play a huge role in perpetuating #stigma, especially news reporting about violence/homicide & #schizophrenia/#psychosis.

Lazy reporting causes real harm to those of us who live with this!!
#WorldSchizophreniaDay

🚨 Publication alert

Really thrilled to say that I've a new paper out on 'The traumas of hostile voice-hearing experiences in the context of acute psychiatric admissions: a lived experience testimony'

www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Really thrilled to be training another cohort of service users & carers in our '#Research Methods for Lived Experience & Public Involvement Researchers' course. Fantastic first day together!

Reminder that there's no independent research into the physical & psychological safety of digital observation or on the ethics & acceptability of its implementation.

'Filming me sleep on ward made my mental health worse'
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Peer support in mental health webinar
2.00-4.30pm GMT, Mon 20 Jan
Tickets going fast!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/peer-suppo...

With @soniajohnson1.bsky.social @acgrundy.bsky.social Steve Gillard, Una Foye, Ruth Cooper, Natasha Lyons & Members of the UCL Co-Production Collective.

Am getting this message out there early - Mon 20th Jan #BlueMonday (aka the most 'depressing' day of the year) is not only complete #pseudoscience, it also propagates a definition of #depression & its treatment that trivialises & thereby stigmatises it. IMHO activists should steer well clear of it!

Christmas can be tough. That's why it's important to know there's always someone you can talk to.

Introducing myself here, I'm Andrew, I wrote something of my 'backstory' in a book chapter, giving some insight into my own lived experience & my position as a Lived Experience Researcher.

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