Dr Theresa Betancourt shares why she believes researchers should be doing their highest-quality work in the lowest-resource settings.
10 tips on collaborative research with community partners
Are you a researcher looking to make the most of community partnerships? Researchers from the MARCH network share their top tips.
The wisdom, privilege, and challenges of peer academic researchers in mental health research
Dr Ruth Knight and Richard Knight are academic researchers with lived experience of subjects they have studied. They discuss how researchers like them provide a unique viewpoint.
Co-Production, Commoning, and Community Empowerment
Georgia Gardner makes the case for non-hierarchical collaborative research that benefits both the researcher and experts by experience.
Expert by experience: how shaping research kick-started my career in mental health
G shares how using their personal experience of mental ill-health to shape research opened up new career opportunities, landing them a job at a leading mental health charity. They talk about how they came across lived experience involvement opportunities, what they involved and how G contributed. I turned my experience of mental ill-health into a...
4 ways to find lived experience advisory opportunities in mental health research
Interested in finding out how you can share your personal experiences of mental health challenges to inform mental health research?
The role of interdisciplinary studies in mental health research
Interdisciplinary studies are essential in order to paint a holistic picture of mental health and offer support that works for everyone.
Mental wellbeing doesn’t exist in isolation and mental health research shouldn’t either
Promoting a collaborative approach to research is at the heart of the Mental Health Research Matters campaign, with the eight research networks bringing together people from the technology, health, medicine, humanities and environmental science fields. We spoke to Masuma Mishu, who is a researcher and lecturer in public health and previously worked as a clinical...
Mental health research is a team sport
Dr Sarah Knowles, Knowledge Mobilisation Research Fellow at the University of York, and Gordon Johnston, peer researcher and Closing the Gap steering committee member, and Mental Health Research Matters steering group member write about the many benefits of multidisciplinary approaches to mental health research Working across disciplinary and professional boundaries encourages researchers to think bigger...
Identity and Mental Health: University Muslim students’ experiences of Mental Health
Dr Arif Mahmud, Senior Lecturer in Educational Practice at the University of Roehampton, writes about the barriers Muslim students face in accessing mental health services. There is an estimated 330,000+ Muslim students in UK Higher Education (UKHE) (Bridge Institute, 2018). However, limited research has explored how Muslim student identity impacts on their mental health, wellbeing...