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25th Sep 2023 News

10 for 10 • Wellbeing

Wellbeing at work: what it means to us & a new podcast

The new resources for wellbeing at work from our 10 for 10 campaign - an infographic and a podcast on mentoring.
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25th Sep 2023 News

New McPin training programme this autumn

New to patient and public involvement or wanting to improve your practice? A new three-session online course aimed at researchers working in any field is now open for bookings.
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21st Sep 2023 News

Violence and abuse • Young people

Partnership helps young people take the lead against youth violence

The Peer Action Collective (PAC) is a network of young people across England and Wales, working hard to make their communities safer, fairer places.
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22nd Aug 2023 Blog

Lived experience

Valuing lived experience research: changing the publication process

McPin’s Head of Research and Involvement looks at barriers to publishing lived experience articles following the launch of a lived experience issue in a major journal.
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A virtual reality rendering of a doctor's waiting room
21st Aug 2023 News

Digital mental health • Interventions • Psychosis

Lived experience in gameChange: "The process felt very therapeutic"

Lived experience was heavily embedded in our recent project about virtual reality and psychosis – find out how and why we did it this way, and what it brought to the table.
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12 colourful icons created for McPin's 10 for 10 resources
9th Aug 2023 News

10 for 10 • Lived experience

McPin turns ten: Our 10 for 10 resources

For McPin’s tenth birthday we are sharing our learnings through ten resources that we hope will inform and inspire, as well as create discussion.
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25th Jul 2023 News

McPin

A new way to donate to mental health research

We now have a QR code which makes it even easier to donate to McPin, and support research that puts lived experience expertise at its heart.
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25th Jul 2023 News

Inequality • Mental health services

Calling on Government to reinstate the 10-year mental health strategy

We’ve been involved with the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on a Fit and Healthy Childhood’s paper asking the Government to reinstate the cancelled 10-year Mental Health Strategy.
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17th Jul 2023 Blog

Global mental health • Interventions • Psychosis

Sharing knowledge and expertise: perspectives from IEPA14

McPin Research Director Vanessa shares her take-aways from the early intervention in mental health network event in Switzerland this month.
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14th Jul 2023 Blog

COVID-19 • Young people

The mental health of children and young people before and during the COVID-19 pandemic

A new study found significant changes in the mental health of young people during the pandemic – we share what it says and recommendations moving forward.
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5th Jul 2023 Blog

Mental health services • Public mental health

The NHS@75: reflections on mental health research

As the NHS marks a significant birthday, McPin’s Research Director considers its relationship to, and impact on, mental health research – and what we hope will happen next.
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Front page of the PARTNERS2 Briefing, with the title in white text on a blue background: Working in community mental health systems supporting people with severe mental illness
29th Jun 2023 News

Interventions

New briefing paper: Developing support for people with ongoing mental health needs

New briefing paper launched on developing better ways of supporting people with ongoing mental health needs such as schizophrenia, bipolar or other psychoses, within GP practices.
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22nd Jun 2023 Blog

Employment • Inequality • Racial equity • Young people

Can research learn from inclusive practice in education?

Inclusion practitioner Aleem Nisar shares how different types of inclusion could be connected in order to benefit both research and education.
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12th Jun 2023 Blog

Loneliness

Loneliness Awareness Week: Connection and community in our work

As we begin writing up our findings for the Community Navigators study into loneliness, we ask some lived experience advisory panel members for their thoughts so far.
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1st Jun 2023 Blog

Mental health services • Physical health

The route to holistic mental and physical healthcare

A peer researcher studying severe mental illness and physical health shares why they think services should be person-centred and holistic.
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19th May 2023 Blog

Anxiety • Young people

The good things mental health issues have given me

Reflecting on anxiety, a McPin Young People’s Network member shares her experiences – and how she’s found ways to use them positively.
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18th May 2023 Blog

Anxiety • Trauma • Young people

How learning about trauma transformed my life

As Mental Health Awareness Week continues, a peer researcher shares how trauma-informed care and connections can support care leavers.
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17th May 2023 Blog

Anxiety • Community • Peer support

The dis-uniformity of anxiety: inspiring stories from a research study

A co-investigator from the Community Navigators study explains why reducing loneliness through community connections may be key to recovery from anxiety and depression.
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2nd May 2023 Blog

Peer research • Research methods

The 3 types of lived experience researcher & how to support them

A PhD student shares how her work into lived experience research ended up creating a framework that can lead to better research supervision and support.
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