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News
- ‘A citadel of restless souls’: have your say on sleep and mental health
- ‘Best practice’ for co-production: Does clashing trump consensus?
- ‘GOT NOWT LEFT’ – the impact of inequalities on public mental health
- ‘How can I get a good night’s sleep?’ & more sleep questions answered
- ‘I wish I had known this then’: have your say on sleep and mental health
- ‘It’s a vicious cycle’: sleep and mental health survey
- ‘Just’ a lived experience practitioner: awakening the force of mental health experiences
- ‘We shouldn’t have to choose between mental and physical health’
- ‘Peer research can be profoundly moving’: Evaluating a maternal mental health service
- “A position of constant anxiety”: How I started living in the present
- “Being a lesbian in a homophobic world contributed to the psychotic condition I developed aged 14”
- “Being lonely is the opposite of the uni experience we hoped for”
- “Good Work” and good mental health
- “I belong here as much as anyone else, having lived my field of expertise 24/7 for 17 years”
- “It can be hard to admit that my self is not enough”
- “It gave me a totally different perspective”: a researcher on receiving young people’s feedback
- “It gives people a voice”: The benefits of Advance Choice Documents in mental health
- “It has shown us how humans can adapt”: Life in a time of Covid-19
- “It was a real lifeline”: evaluation of MumsAid shows the value of specialist perinatal care
- “It’s fun and enabled me to identify and express my needs”: how gameChange compares to other therapies I’ve tried
- “Sharing is brave”: Reflections on how to connect
- “Somehow, I have found a strength that I never knew existed”
- “The question is not if patients should be remunerated, but how”
- “We need to see lived experience as a strength rather than a risk”
- “Who will support my son when I am gone?”: What needs to change for carers
- “With my healthy strategies for coping unavailable, how was I supposed to manage?”
- “Wrestling some power back”: My experiences researching medication decision-making in pregnancy
- “By sharing small bits of myself, interviewees may have opened up more”
- “It was transformative to go from feeling invisible to doing research that would help others”
- #KindnessMatters, but is it enough?
- #MentalHealthResearchMatters – launching our campaign report
- #MentalHealthResearchMatters – week one round-up!
- #MentalHealthResearchMatters – Yes it does!
- 10 things we learnt working at the interface between VR, involvement & mental health research
- 2021: Mental health, inequality and the role of research
- 2022: Peer research, partnership working and young people
- 4 things I learnt running a social group for people with psychosis
- 4 ways to find lived experience advisory opportunities in mental health research
- 5 things I learnt from working with the Violence, Abuse and Mental Health Network
- 7 ways to improve wellbeing at work
- A new area of work for the McPin Foundation – mental health sciences
- A new way to donate to mental health research
- ADHD & Me: My lesser-known symptoms led me to champion research
- Adult ADHD in Women: How I finally found out why I am how I am
- Anger & chronic diagnosis: “An anger I hadn’t experienced before”
- Announcing the official launch of the CONNECT study
- Anti-racism and mental health: “All the researchers I’ve worked with have been White”
- Applying common sense to show the benefits of relevant lived experience
- Appreciating kindness a whole new way
- Awareness alone isn’t going to solve the mental health crisis
- Baby Loss Awareness Week: “You never think it will happen to you”
- Being part of the Right People, Right Questions Young People’s Advisory Group
- Bipolar research: Working together to decide which outcomes matter
- Black Thrive: Becoming a Community Peer Researcher
- Black Thrive: Researching the impacts of Covid-19 on Black people in Lambeth
- Black Thrive: The benefits and challenges of having a dual role in research
- Calling on Government to reinstate the 10-year mental health strategy
- Can being in nature really boost our mental health?
- Can research learn from inclusive practice in education?
- Celebrating Neurodiversity: ‘Learning to hug my brain’
- Co-production in Research: Barriers and Solutions
- Co-Production, Commoning, and Community Empowerment
- Cognitive Behaviour Therapy and Insomnia
- Commissioning research, creating a legacy
- Conservatorships & their impact on mental health
- Contemplations from Copenhagen: “Just ask young people” and other key thoughts from a youth mental health conference
- Conversations on co-production
- Could training young people in peer support empower them during Covid-19?
- COVID LIFE: Expressions of our experiences
- Creating while waiting: enhancing experiences of waiting for mental health support
- Depression: Let’s talk (about how we talk about it)
- Developing peer support in the community: a toolkit
- Digital inclusion must now be a priority for involvement
- Elevating lived experience voices in academia
- Endometriosis and mental health: exploring intersecting lived experiences
- Equitable engagement: how I amplified the voices of under-heard parents
- Expert by experience: how shaping research kick-started my career in mental health
- Finding my voice: hacks for neurominorities in meetings
- First of its kind virtual reality therapy approved for use in NHS mental health care
- Forgotten or ignored? Safety research in community mental health services
- gameChange trial shows VR therapy helps people regain confidence to get back into the world
- Getting started with the Peer Action Collective – reflections from our team of young people
- Happiness at Work Week 2022: A diary of intention
- How can the next government improve young people’s mental health?
- How does research benefit from a lived experience perspective?
- How learning about trauma transformed my life
- How lived experience can help revamp mental health tools
- How Time To Change got me started as a lived experience researcher
- How to become an anti-racist mental health researcher
- How to break down power structures in co-produced research
- How to give young people agency in mental health
- How to make partnership working across sectors effective
- Imposter syndrome & eating disorders
- Imposter syndrome and Public Involvement: How to make it easier to speak up
- Influencing the debate – peer research in academic journals
- Inspiring new film: Typist, Artist, Pirate, King
- Introducing the SUN RISE project
- Involving peers can enrich research when it’s done right
- It’s time to close the mental health gap that autistic women experience
- Lived experience in gameChange: “The process felt very therapeutic”
- Lived experiences in research – opportunities and problems
- Loneliness & Mental Health: How research can help find solutions
- Loneliness Awareness Week: Connection and community in our work
- Macmillan Peer Evaluator Training
- Making conferences more inclusive for people with lived experience
- Managing stress: It’s personal
- McPin 2020: Looking back and looking forwards
- McPin responds to the Autumn Statement
- McPin team reflections on 2023
- McPin turns ten: Our 10 for 10 resources
- McPin’s response to Shout crisis service sharing data with researchers
- Mental health & gender: “It’s the only way to be comfortable with your identity”
- Mental health & the cost-of-living crisis
- Mental Health Act reform announced in King’s speech
- Mental Health and Money Advice shows impact of joined up thinking
- Mental health reflections from the All Party Parliamentary Group for Children
- Mental healthcare and Covid: “At a time when services were needed most, the onus was on us to find other ways to access support”
- Mental illness: a view from inside and outside
- Mindfulness and Mental Health – opening Pandora’s Box?
- My action plan to stay well while working at home
- My experience of the Lived Experience Advisory Panel for SINAPPs
- Myth-busting through art: Designing a mental health audio tour for the National Gallery
- Neurodiversity in Women – International Women’s Day
- New briefing paper: Developing support for people with ongoing mental health needs
- New charter provides framework for Public Involvement & Engagement
- New McPin training programme this autumn
- New resources aim to help people make key mental health decisions
- New resources available: PPI and Research Involvement Groups
- Our minds, our rights: World Mental Health Day 2023
- Overcoming imposter syndrome as a peer researcher
- Partners Sublime: How working together can open hearts as well as minds
- Partnership helps young people take the lead against youth violence
- Peer research at Hive: thriving, creative & juggling many identities
- PMDD awareness: “It isn’t easy to talk about”
- Poacher turned gamekeeper: using lived experience in research
- Power, Capital & Control: Co-production in research
- Principles tell us what good peer support for new mums looks like
- Putting involvement in research on the curriculum
- Reflections from 10 years of service user and survivor research event
- Reflections from my research placement
- Refugee and migrant inclusion in community mental health project evaluation
- Remembering our dear friend and trustee – Professor Clair Chilvers
- Research and the frontline: Comments on the Yew Trees hospital abuse
- Schools and researchers – strange pairing or recipe for success?
- Screen time, involvement and what it means for young people to be involved in research
- Sharing knowledge and expertise: perspectives from IEPA14
- Sharing power in a complex mental health research programme
- Sleep and mental health: ‘I learnt to overcome these problems’
- Smoking cessation: “The future is a difficult place to contemplate”
- Social Anxiety: more than shyness
- Stop attacking disabled people, we want to live in a kind and compassionate society
- Stories & insights from a 6-year study into antipsychotic medication
- Successfully co-producing research!
- Supporting mental health carers: will it get easier to roll out digital NHS interventions?
- Tackling stigma and discrimination: What we now know and what next
- The 3 types of lived experience researcher & how to support them
- The dis-uniformity of anxiety: inspiring stories from a research study
- The genetics of schizophrenia
- The good things mental health issues have given me
- The importance of involving people in digital mental health research
- The importance of the storyteller’s identity in mental health narratives
- The Inflamed Mind
- The mental health of children and young people before and during the COVID-19 pandemic
- The NHS@75: reflections on mental health research
- The PARTNERS2 pandemic data collection challenge
- The route to holistic mental and physical healthcare
- The screen time spider web & why it’s important to understand its impact
- The status quo needs disrupting but the road to systems change is rocky
- The wisdom, privilege, and challenges of peer academic researchers in mental health research
- Therapy ‘out and about’ helps people feel safer outside their home
- Time for Change: Action Not Words (Black History Month 2022)
- Time to Change is ending, so what next?
- Together we call on political parties to build a mentally healthier nation
- Uni Mental Health Day: ‘I forgot it’s OK to take time for myself’
- User-testing VR for psychosis: Making a safe space for people to gain confidence
- Using a peer research approach to evaluate women-led peer support
- Using kids’ TV to help explain mental health
- Using lived experience in evaluating mental health peer support
- Valuing lived experience research: changing the publication process
- Visualising Public Mental Health
- We are concerned about the mental health of PhD students
- We asked survivors of abuse to set the research agenda…are we willing to listen?
- We know exercise is good for mental health… so why aren’t we doing it?
- We need a wider lens on equality in science than gender alone
- We often discuss why lived experience improves research quality but what about the ‘how’?
- We want to hear your voice in mental health research
- Wellbeing at work: what it means to us & a new podcast
- What is Eco-Anxiety and what can we do about it?
- What research questions would you like answered about paranoia?
- What women’s peer support projects teach us
- What’s next for mental health funder Words That Carry On?
- When taking part in research is your service
- When two cultures collide: The reality of being British Asian
- Who are the ‘experts by experience’ in mental health research?
- Who do you involve when researching public mental health?
- Who is a peer anyway?
- Whose idea is it anyway? Using research infrastructure to turn people’s ideas into projects
- Why collaboration is the key to the future of mental health research
- Why Mental Health Research Matters…to me
- Why peer support could play a role in tackling unemployment
- Why recognising good service user and carer involvement in research is so important
- Women Side by Side has helped raise awareness of mental health in a BAME community
- Women Side by Side shows what can happen if women are given the space to grow
- Young people’s empowerment at TRIUMPH Fest
Research Opportunities
- Circadian Mental Health Network
- Participate in a trial for people who have bipolar and are currently experiencing depression
- Pendolum Project: Decoding mood instability in mood and anxiety disorders
- Share your experiences of bereavement of a parent to help researchers better improve understanding and support for young people
- Share your experiences of bereavement of a parent to help researchers better improve understanding and support for young people
- The Perceived impact on the Mental Health of Young Women from their Experiences of Sexting
Projects
- Active ingredients: understanding remote measurement technologies to improve depression in young people
- AD-CARE
- Agency
- Agency-in-Practice
- ARIADNE
- ASCEnD
- Birth Companions
- Black Thrive Employment Project
- Blueprint
- Bridging the Gap
- Care Partners Research Programme
- Centring Young People in Mental Health Research
- CHOOSE Study: Youth mental health and Covid-19
- Common Measures in Mental Health Science Initiative
- Community Navigators2
- Community Transformation Programme
- Complex Emotions Hub
- CoRAY
- Creating a tool to help young people say how they’d like their therapy to be
- Crisis Care Concordat evaluation
- Decisions about medication in pregnancy
- E-Risk@30 Study
- Evaluation of Crisis’ psychology services
- Experience Based Co-design of Psychosis Centered Integrated Care Services for Ethnically Diverse People with Multimorbidity (CoPICS)
- EYE-2
- Feeling Safe
- Feeling Safer
- gameChange
- How and why does ADHD lead to depression in young people?
- Hub for Metabolic Psychiatry
- IAPT for severe mental illness
- Immune Mechanisms of Antipsychotic Treatment Response
- IMPART
- Inequalities and their Impact on Public Mental Health
- KCL’s Centre for Society and Mental Health
- Keep Cool
- Let’s Talk
- LifeSim Project
- Maternal mental health services
- Maudsley Charity: Living Well with Psychosis
- Mental health and justice
- Mind Supported Self Help Evaluation
- My Story: Our Future
- My Support Broker
- Narrative Experiences Online (NEON)
- National Clinical Audit of Psychosis
- National Gallery audio tour
- Partnership with WWEICSC
- Peer Action Collective (PAC)
- PEOPLE Study
- PHILM
- Phoenix Virtual Reality for Self-Confidence
- Public Mental Health
- RADAR
- RAISE: Recovery And resilience: Social dEterminants
- RAPID (Remote Approaches to Psychosocial Intervention Delivery)
- Researching Public Mental Health
- RESOLVE
- Right People, Right Questions
- SASH
- Screen Time: research priorities for screen time and young people’s mental health
- Searching, Unpacking, Naming: Research Into Subjective Experiences Study (SUN RISE)
- Side by Side
- SINAPPS: Immunotherapy for psychosis
- Sleep and Circadian Science network
- Sleep Well: Sleep and mental health support for young people
- Sleep Well: Young people and psychosis
- SPPaRO
- SUCCEED Africa
- Successful Treatment of Paranoia (STOP)
- The CONNECT Study
- The influence of influencers
- The Psychosis Metabolic Risk Calculator Project
- TYPPEX Study
- UK LGBTQ Youth Mental Health Survey
- Understanding remote access to services (ETHOS)
- Universal School Interventions
- Viewpoint Survey
- WHOLE-SMI
- Work Well
- Young adult mental health experiences
Resources
- #MHRM campaign report
- #MHRM Inequalities Webinar
- #MHRM Lived Experience Webinar
- #MHRM Multidisciplinary Webinar
- #MHRM Partnerships Webinar
- 10 for 10: Co-production at McPin
- 10 for 10: Involving young people in research work
- 10 for 10: Public involvement in mental health research
- 10 for 10: Research Involvement Groups Recruitment Plan Checklist
- 10 for 10: Research Involvement Groups Reflections and learnings over 10 years
- 10 for 10: Using lived experience in the workplace
- 10 for 10: Wellbeing at Work
- 10 for 10: Wellbeing at Work podcast
- 10 for 10: Working as a co-researcher
- A gameChange case study: Lived experience involvement
- A life more ordinary
- A lived experience perspective on the results of the RADAR trial
- A qualitative exploration of family members’ perspectives on reducing and discontinuing antipsychotic medication
- A qualitative study exploring the benefits of involving young people in mental health research
- A qualitative study of experiences of NHS mental healthcare workers during the Covid-19 pandemic
- A Safe Place to Learn
- A service user evaluation of the IAPT for SMI demonstration sites
- A service user evaluation of the IAPT for SMI demonstration sites summary
- Acute day units in non-residential settings for people in mental health crisis: the AD-CARE mixed-methods study
- An analysis of views about supported reduction or discontinuation of antipsychotic treatment among people with schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders
- Anti-psychotic medication decision making during pregnancy
- Antibody mediated psychosis booklet
- Antipsychotic dose reduction and discontinuation versus maintenance treatment in people with schizophrenia and other recurrent psychotic disorders in England (RADAR)
- Automated virtual reality therapy to treat agoraphobic avoidance and distress in patients with psychosis (gameChange)
- Black Thrive Good Work Report
- Black Thrive Researching the Impacts of Covid
- Black Thrive: An Equitable Recovery from Covid-19
- Camden VoiceAbility Peer Mentoring Programme Evaluation
- Centring young people in mental health research: creating safe spaces
- Centring young people in mental health research: ensuring diversity & inclusivity
- Centring young people in mental health research: youth-led approach
- CHOOSE: What can clinicians do?
- CHOOSE: What can parents do?
- CHOOSE: What can teachers do?
- CHOOSE: What can young people do?
- Cognitive bias modification for paranoia infographic
- Combined support for money and mental health issues
- Communication in youth mental health clinical encounters: Introducing the agential stance
- Community Health Networks Report
- Comparison of a theoretically driven cognitive therapy (the Feeling Safe Programme) with befriending for the treatment of persistent persecutory delusions
- Conceptual Framework for Public Mental Health
- Considering a Personal Budget
- Crisis Care Concordat implementation evaluation
- Crisis Care Concordat implementation infographic
- Crisis Care Concordat implementation summary evaluation
- Developing a Theory of Change for the SLaM ‘Wheel of Wellbeing’
- Developing peer support in the community toolkit
- Development and external validation of the Psychosis Metabolic Risk Calculator (PsyMetRiC)
- Discrimination against people with a mental health diagnosis
- Driving Change: Experiences of non-governmental organizations in the provision of mental health services across the world
- England’s Time to Change Anti-stigma Campaign
- Evaluating the Side by Side peer support programme
- Evaluation of a model of individual placement support delivered through DWP employment services
- Evaluation of a model of individual placement support delivered through DWP employment services (short report)
- Evaluation of a primary care-based collaborative care model (PARTNERS2) for people with diagnoses of schizophrenia, bipolar, or other psychoses
- Evaluation of Birth Companions’ Community Link Service
- Evaluation of Birth Companions’ Community Link Service exec summary
- Evaluation of the Mental Health & Money Advice Service
- Everywhere and everyone included? Research in NHS Mental Health Trusts in England
- Experiences of discrimination among people using mental health services in England 2008-2011
- Exploring patient and public involvement (PPI) and co-production approaches in mental health research: learning from the PARTNERS2 research programme
- EYE-2: Myth-busting information – social groups
- Feasibility of a supported self-management intervention for relatives of people with recent-onset psychosis
- Growing Great Working Groups: Lessons from Black Thrive
- How can we improve school life for LGBTQ+ young people?
- How do we improve mental health research?
- How to do great research with schools
- How to do great research with schools podcast
- How to give young people agency in mental health podcast
- How to give young people agency in mental health podcast
- How to give young people agency in mental health poster
- How your research can become more inclusive and tackle inequalities
- Impact on public attitudes of a mental health audio tour of the National Gallery in London
- Improving mental wellbeing in Kent project concept mapping report
- Improving mental wellbeing in Kent project concept maps summary
- Improving mental wellbeing in Kent report
- Improving mental wellbeing in Kent: Evaluation of Mental Health First Aid
- Improving mental wellbeing in Kent: Evaluation of the Kent Sheds project
- Improving mental wellbeing in Kent: Evaluation of the primary care link workers service
- In conversation: Why mental health research matters to Paul Farmer, former CEO at Mind
- Inflammation and mental health booklet
- Information and psychosis participant summary
- Intravenous immunoglobulin and rituximab versus placebo treatment of antibody-associated psychosis
- Involving young people in research work
- Is a Personal Budget right for you?
- Journal Digest – PARTNERS2 study
- Lessons from the Black Thrive Lambeth Employment Project
- Liquidity and uncertainty: digital adaptation of a complex intervention for people with severe mental illness during the COVID-19 lockdown
- Lived experience in mental health research podcast
- Medication and pregnancy strength in the face of uncertainty and distressing dilemmas
- Mental distress among young people in inner cities: the Resilience, Ethnicity and AdolesCent Mental Health (REACH) study
- Mental Health Peer Health Coaching Initiative evaluation
- MumsAid Evaluation
- My Story Our Future: A storytelling project about psychosis
- My Story Our Future: A storytelling project about psychosis podcast
- My Story Our Future: Resource pack for practitioners
- My Story Our Future: Storytelling workbook
- My Support Broker Evaluation Volume 1
- My Support Broker Evaluation Volume 2
- PARTNERS2 Briefing Paper
- Partners2: Approach to delivering PPI
- Patient and Public Involvement in Research, Why Not?
- Peer Support Employment Group Project Evaluation
- Peer support principles for maternal mental health project
- Perceptions of the key components of effective, acceptable and accessible services for children and young people experiencing common mental health problems
- Personal Budgets – reaching goals and moving on
- Personal Budgets – checking your progress
- Personal Budgets in mental health – a guide for families and carers
- Planning your support – how to use your Personal Budget
- Priorities for Future Research about Screen Use and Adolescent Mental Health
- Psychological support for fears about other people
- Putting young people, schools and communities at the heart of research
- QUAHRC Methods Podcast: Co-producing research with young people with lived experience
- Qualitative study of candidacy and access to secondary mental health services during the COVID-19 pandemic
- RADAR: Experiences of reduction and discontinuation of antipsychotics
- Randomised controlled trial of gradual antipsychotic reduction and discontinuation in people with schizophrenia and related disorders
- Randomised controlled trials: The straitjacket of mental health research?
- Refining a model of collaborative care for people with a diagnosis of bipolar, schizophrenia or other psychoses in England
- Regional evaluation of the London pilot of Maternal Mental Health Services
- Remote care for mental health
- Research priorities for children and young people’s mental health infographic
- Research priorities for children and young people’s mental health supplementary report
- Research priorities for children and young people’s mental health: Interventions and services
- Reviewing a Personal Budget
- Right People Right Questions: How did we get to the top 10?
- Screen use and young people’s mental health project findings
- Side by Side: Early research findings
- Side by Side: Early research findings summary
- Side by Side: What we found
- Status of primary and secondary mental healthcare of people with severe mental illness
- Supporting your client through the process of a Personal Budget
- Telling a story of mental health experiences: A guide (B&W printable version)
- Telling a story of mental health experiences: A guide (Colour)
- Ten asks of the next government 2024
- The Black Thrive Lambeth Employment Project report
- The Early Youth Engagement in first episode psychosis (EYE-2) study
- The effectiveness of a primary care-based collaborative care model to improve quality of life in people with severe mental illness
- The McPin Young People’s Advisory Group (YPAG)
- The shape of meetings with neurodivergence in mind
- Thinking about outcomes: effective support planning for a Personal Budget
- Thrive London: Experiences of people with serious mental health problems in obtaining employment
- Through the eyes of the observed: re-directing research on psychiatric drugs
- Top tips for co-production in research
- Using peer research to find out about experiences of inequality in Lambeth and Harrow
- Using peer research to understand people’s experience of a new virtual reality therapy
- Violence, Abuse and Mental Health Network: Survivors’ priority themes and questions for research
- Wellbeing networks and asset mapping
- What to do if you think you might have a mental health problem
- What to expect at a Young People’s Network Zoom meeting
- Wheel of Wellbeing theory of change evaluation
- Why does mental health research matter to young people?
- Why does mental health research matter?
- Women’s Side by Side Evaluation
- Women’s Side by Side Evaluation – Welsh version
- Women’s Side by Side Executive Summary
- Work Well Evaluation
- Working with families on a Personal Budget
- Young people’s ground rules and meeting tips
- Your Experience in Mind
- Your Experience in Mind: Survey champions model
