Peer Support
13 2022
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
Collaborating with people with lived experience
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Suicide “postvention”: what do we know about social support?
To mark World Suicide Prevention Day, researcher Hannah Scott shares the benefits and challenges of social support after a loss to suicide. 
Collaborating with people with lived experience
Read More30 2021
A lifeline in limbo but what will become of it?
It doesn’t take much to foster a sense connection and hope but after years of funding cuts and more to come this feels fragile, says Lisa Couperthwaite
6 2021
Imposter syndrome and work – it’s not a ‘you’ problem
A McPin senior researcher discusses how imposter syndrome is related to discrimination in employment systems, and how peer support and lived experience could counteract it
Collaborating with people with lived experience
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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
Collaborating with people with lived experience
Read More8 2020
Could training young people in peer support empower them during Covid-19?
What impact would training young people to support their peers during the pandemic have on their own wellbeing? Members of McPin's Young People's Network have helped develop a study to find out
Children, young people and families
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Using a peer research approach to evaluate women-led peer support
Peer research not only enriched the findings from the Women Side by Side evaluation, but it also brought mutual benefits to everyone involved, says Tanya MacKay
Collaborating with people with lived experience
Read More16 2020
Women Side by Side has helped raise awareness of mental health in a BAME community
Evaluating and facilitating a women-led peer support programme as a peer meant that Fozia Haider was able to experience the benefit of the approach first-hand
Collaborating with people with lived experience
Read More9 2020
Overcoming imposter syndrome as a peer researcher
Our blogger reveals how her experiences of observing women-led peer support groups during the Women Side by Side evaluation helped dispel fears of feeling like a fraud
Collaborating with people with lived experience
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Women Side by Side shows what can happen if women are given the space to grow
Naima Iqbal shares her experiences of evaluating a women-led peer support programme, including how spending time with the women helped her own confidence to grow
Collaborating with people with lived experience
Read More8 2020
Involving peers can enrich research when it’s done right
What factors are important for peer researchers to have in common with research participants? We asked Sarah Markham, an advisory group member, about her involvement in the evaluation of Women Side by Side
Collaborating with people with lived experience
Read More3 2019
Principles tell us what good peer support for new mums looks like
Putting lived experience at the heart of a project about perinatal peer support has been key to its success, says Laura Wood
16 2019
What can women’s peer support projects teach us about being gender responsive and trauma-informed?
Andreja Mesaric, the project lead at McPin, outlines how we are evaluating a peer support programme for women who experience multiple disadvantage
7 2019
This Time to Talk Day, take time to time to listen
When someone opens up about their mental health difficulties, my personal experience and McPin's research into peer support, has taught me that the most valuable thing is to listen, says Rose Thomson
Topics
- TRIUMPH
- #MentalHealthResearchMatters
- Therapies
- ADHD
- Mental Health Research Matters
- Imposter syndrome
- Eating disorders
- Awards
- Cost-of-living crisis
- Peer research
- Paranoia
- Mental Health Services
- University Mental Health Day
- Neurodiversity
- Mental Health & Justice
- Podcast
- Youth Mental Health Day
- London Marathon 2021
- Inequality
- Air pollution
- Data Science
- Mental Health & Loneliness
- Mental Health Awareness Week
- Mental Health & Nature
- Mental Health & Sport
- Doctorate opportunity
- PhD
- Employment
- Young People's Network
- LGBT+
- Anti-racism
- Storytelling
- Psychosis
- Words That Carry On
- Screen Time
- Covid-19
- Working from home
- Austerity
- Personality disorder
- Autism
- Women
- Money
- Violence and abuse
- Trauma-informed
- Trauma
- Public mental health
- Maternal mental health
- Digital mental health
- Carers
- Coproduction
- Power
- Mental Health
- Time to Talk Day
- Peer Support
- Children, young people and families
- Improving mental health support
- Fundraising
- Inclusion and combating stigma
- Mental Health Policy & Strategy
- Mental Health Science
- Public Involvement
- Research methods
- Wellbeing and connectedness
Bloggers
- Agnes Hann
- Alison Faulkner
- Amy Meadows
- Amy Peabody
- Andreja Mesaric
- Anjie Chhapia
- Ben Gray
- Dan Robotham
- Daryl Sweet
- Dolly Sen
- Evan Champion
- Harminder Kaur
- Helen Casebourne
- Humma Andleeb
- Ian Bradshaw
- Jackie Hardy
- Jennie Parker
- Jessica Bond
- Johanna Frerichs
- John Gibson
- Julie Billsborough
- Karen James
- Kat Berry
- Katrina Heyman
- Kirsten Morgan
- Laura Hemming
- Lucy Power
- Madeleine Musgrove
- McPin Foundation
- Megan Rees
- Naomi Clewett
- Nhung
- Rachel Temple
- Raj Hazzard
- Richard Currie
- Roger Smith
- Rose Thompson
- Ruth Sayers
- Ryan Freeman
- Sarah Gibson
- Sarah Hamilton
- Susanne Gibson
- Thomas Kabir
- Tilda Simpson
- Tillie Cryer
- Vanessa Pinfold
- Vanessa Yim
