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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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6th Apr 2023 Blog

Anxiety • Depression • Physical health

PMDD awareness: "It isn’t easy to talk about"

To mark PMDD awareness month, our blogger shares their experiences of the condition to emphasise the need for more research and more accommodating working environments.
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15th Mar 2023 Blog

Maternal mental health • Mental health services • Peer research

‘Peer research can be profoundly moving’: Evaluating a maternal mental health service

One of the peer researchers evaluating the pilot service describes the impact this ‘life-changing’ but overwhelmed service had on women, staff, and beyond.
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14th Mar 2023 News

#MentalHealthResearchMatters • Public mental health

#MentalHealthResearchMatters - launching our campaign report

We created a report to share some of the highlights and successes from the #MentalHealthResearchMatters campaign.
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8th Mar 2023 Blog

Inequality • Neurodiversity

Neurodiversity in Women - International Women’s Day

To mark International Women’s Day, a McPin staff member, and three of her neurodivergent female colleagues, write about neurodiversity in women, mental health and the changes we are seeing.
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7th Feb 2023 Blog

Racial equity

Equitable engagement: how I amplified the voices of under-heard parents

If support services routinely fail to reach ethnically diverse parents, can they be classed as universal? A inclusion practitioner shares insights on connecting with diverse caregivers.
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19th Jan 2023 Blog

Digital mental health • Paranoia

“It was transformative to go from feeling invisible to doing research that would help others”

Becoming a lived experience advisor on gameChange was a turning point for Eva Roberts, rebuilding confidence and opening up a new career path.
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13th Dec 2022 Blog

Mental health services • Peer research • Peer support • Young people

2022: Peer research, partnership working and young people

As 2022 draws to a close, McPin Research Director Vanessa shares some of her highlights from the last year, and some things she’s excited about for the next.
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1st Dec 2022 Blog

#MentalHealthResearchMatters • Inequality

#MentalHealthResearchMatters – Yes it does!

Vanessa Pinfold, McPin’s co-founder and research director, draws together our learning over the seven-week campaign that aimed to get people talking about why mental health research matters.
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24th Nov 2022 Blog

Inequality • Stigma

The importance of the storyteller’s identity in mental health narratives

Mental health stories are important – but so is the identity of the storyteller. Following a new study on mental health storytelling, an Equality, Diversity and Inclusion consultant shares why.
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21st Nov 2022 Blog

Community • Peer research • Research methods

Partners Sublime: How working together can open hearts as well as minds

Working in partnerships with groups outside of academia can create lasting relationships that ensure mental health research has real-world impact.
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15th Nov 2022 Blog

#MentalHealthResearchMatters • Peer research • Research methods

Why Mental Health Research Matters…to me

Dr Emma Harding, clinical psychologist and ‘Expert by Experience’, writes about how the intricate blend of method and insight can inform mental health research.
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15th Nov 2022 Blog

#MentalHealthResearchMatters • Peer research • Research methods

How does research benefit from a lived experience perspective?

McPin trustee, Naheen Ali, writes about the value of bringing your lived experience to mental health research.
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10th Nov 2022 Blog

Young people

Young people's empowerment at TRIUMPH Fest

Hemlata Pant, a member of our Young People's Advisory Group, reports on two days of community, connection and learning at TRIUMPH Fest.
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10th Nov 2022 Blog

#MentalHealthResearchMatters • Peer research

When taking part in research is your service

#MentalHealthResearchMatters and is a force for good, writes Thomas Kabir, McPin’s head of Public Involvement in Research.
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