Participants wanted for a study exploring lived experiences leading up to suicide attempts in adults across the UK

The Department of Psychological Sciences and Health at the University of Strathclyde is looking for participants for a qualitative research study exploring lived experiences leading up to suicide attempts. The study is being conducted by Hardik Ahuja, a PhD researcher at the University of Strathclyde, under the supervision of experienced academic researchers in suicide and mental health research.

Exploring wellbeing and social group attendance in UK caregivers of people with severe mental illness (SMI)

Currently there is very little research on how to improve the wellbeing of people who are supporting someone with a severe mental illness (SMI). Help researchers from the University of Oxford Department of Experimental Psychology fill this gap. They are exploring whether wellbeing is related to attending different kinds of social groups (e.g. support groups, clubs and group activities), or not.

Smoking, Vaping and ADHD

Nicola Lindson is a researcher at the University of Oxford. She is developing a research project about smoking, vaping and ADHD and would like people’s views to help shape it. This will help Nicola to be sure that she is doing research that is important to people and that is likely to be most useful. She has developed a short survey that it would be great if people with relevant experience could fill in.

Oldham Mental Health Lived Experience Forum member

North West

The Oldham Lived Experience Forum is a group of people with mental health lived experience that want to actively contribute to the quality of support, prevention and recovery services across Oldham in the Living Well partnership and make them more inclusive, diverse and accessible.

Oxfordshire Domestic Abuse Lived Experience Advisory Group

East of England

The Oxfordshire Domestic Abuse Lived Experience Advisory Group (LEAG) is a group of survivors of domestic abuse in Oxfordshire.

Macmillan Cancer Support Innovation Community

National

The Innovation Community, a health initiative by Macmillan Cancer Support, brings together a diverse group of people living with or affected by cancer, sharing their experiences, skills and knowledge enabling Macmillan to shape their Innovation services and products.  

Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership (HQIP) – Service User Network (SUN)

National

Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership hosts a Service User Network (SUN) for people who are interested in contributing to improving the quality of healthcare services.

The EPUT Buddy Scheme (Delivered by the Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust

East of England

The EPUT Buddy Scheme is a learning opportunity for students in any discipline to learn from lived or living experience of mental health.

Does my body count? Exploring disordered eating in the trans community.

National

This is a fifteen minute online questionnaire about your body image, body dissatisfaction, and eating and exercising behaviours and how gender might influence these.

Cancer Screening, Prevention and Early Diagnosis research at Queen Mary University of London – can you help?

National

Queen Mary University of London are looking for people to get involved in their Cancer Screening, Prevention and Early Diagnosis research. The Centre for Cancer Screening, Prevention and Early Diagnosis (CCSPED) research themes include existing screening approaches, potential early detection technologies, interventions to reduce cancer risk, psychological impact(s) of screening participation, and screening-related inequalities.

Looking for researchers with lived experience of psychosis

National

If you are a researcher with lived experience of psychosis, please consider taking part in this study. It is a qualitative study by the University of Bath investigating a psychosis social identity.

Are you partially sighted or blind? Do you live in the UK?

National

The Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) Connect Voices network is a UK-wide online group hosted on Facebook.