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Peer research at Hive: thriving, creative & juggling many identities
In March, McPin joined over 120 people at the Hive conference to talk about peer research. Here are a few things we took away.
Peer research • Research methods
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“By sharing small bits of myself, interviewees may have opened up more”
Alex Kenny talks about disclosure, empowerment and the need for breaks while working as a peer researcher on a virtual reality project.
Digital mental health • Peer research
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Using Lived Experience in Evaluating Mental Health Peer Support
Researchers share how their lived experience of mental health issues and peer support shaped and strengthened the Side by Side evaluation.
Peer support
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Using a peer research approach to evaluate women-led peer support
This is the final blog in our series this month looking at the value of collaborative working and peer research in the evaluation of the women-led peer support programme, Women Side by Side.
Lived experience • Peer research
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Who is a peer anyway?
A Lived Experience researcher reflects on the nature of the 'peer' in peer research in the latest in a series of personal reflections by McPin researchers.
Peer research
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Why peer support could play a role in tackling unemployment: the Peer Support Employment Groups Evaluation
There are no easy solutions to long-term unemployment but peer support could help, says Dan Robotham.
Employment • Peer support
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Our team
From research to operations, communications and public involvement, we’re united by a passion for mental health research and a mission to help put lived experience at its heart. Meet the team.
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What women's peer support projects teach us
From being gender responsive to trauma-informed, we discover what we can learn from a member of the Women's Side by Side project team.
Peer support
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Overcoming imposter syndrome as a peer researcher
This is the second of four blogs in our series this month looking at the value of collaborative working and peer research in the evaluation of the women-led peer support programme, Women Side by Side.
Peer research
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Could training young people in peer support empower them during Covid-19?
A McPin Young People's Network member shares her experiences of the Covid peer support project.
COVID-19 • Peer support
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The wisdom, privilege, and challenges of peer academic researchers in mental health research
Dr Ruth Knight and Richard Knight discuss how researchers provide a viewpoint that can improve research but address the privilege that comes with being a peer researcher with an academic background.
#MentalHealthResearchMatters • Lived experience
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Women Side by Side has helped raise awareness of mental health in a BAME community
This is the third of four blogs in our series this month looking at the value of collaborative working and peer research in the evaluation of the women-led peer support programme, Women Side by Side.
Peer research • Peer support
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Principles tell us what good peer support for new mums looks like
What does good peer support for new mums look like? How can support from people with shared experiences meet the unique needs of mothers and babies?
Maternal mental health • Mental health services
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Developing peer support in the community: a toolkit
We have a new toolkit to use, launched in early December by Mind based upon work carried out by an evaluation team for the Side by Side project.
Peer support
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Peer Action Collective (PAC)
Growing youth lived-experience leadership, undertaking research driven by experiential knowledge, and carrying out social action that results in on-the-ground change in Haringey, London.
Young people's mental health
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Influencing the debate – peer research in academic journals
We reflect on the importance of experts by experience being named as authors, and why they are so often absent from peer reviewed journal articles.
Lived experience • Research methods
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Macmillan Peer Evaluator Training
Reflecting on our second successful three-day training for Peer Evaluators with Macmillan cancer support.
Coproduction • Peer research
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How to make partnership working across sectors effective
A senior peer researcher shares what they learnt about how to work in partnership from our evaluation work on Women Side by Side.
Inequality • Trauma
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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.
Mental health services • Peer research
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Involving peers can enrich research when it's done right
McPin speaks to a researcher from Women's Side by Side on her lived experience and what it was like working on the project.
Peer research • Research methods