🌟 Team creativity in action! At our Lived Experience Researcher away day, we focused on connection, creativity & co-production 💬 We even designed tote bags together 🎨 — a small but meaningful reminder of how lived experience shapes what we do💡 #LivedExperienceResearch #MentalHealthResearch

🗣️ "I learned that those who had been where I was could transmit life-saving hope in the darkest moments." Peer support workers reflect on how their role has impacted mental health services, and how we can best mobilise & support this new workforce: tinyurl.com/rmfcc7u9 @mentalhealthpru.bsky.social

⚠️ Crisis and acute mental health care saves lives. But provision is patchy and inconsistent, and experiences of coercive care can be re-traumatising. We explored what's needed to deliver inpatient care which is timely, compassionate and effective: tinyurl.com/yt2cn8y9 @mentalhealthpru.bsky.social

⚠️ Mental health crisis care saves lives. But too many people struggle to get timely support, and experiences of inpatient care can be re-traumatising. @centreformh.bsky.social @mentalhealthpru.bsky.social explore what's needed to deliver care that's effective & compassionate: ➡️ tinyurl.com/yt2cn8y9

Off the back of our successful Peer Support Webinar & Mental Health Question Time events - our excellent speakers have expanded on their experiences in a blog post with the wonderful @centreformh.bsky.social 🎉 Please do give it a read to hear more about the future of #peersupport 🔗 #MentalHealth

🚨 New Published Paper - the relationship of Every Mind Matters campaign with health service use and association with symptom management Amazing work from Paul McCrone & Claire Henderson on this project! 📎Read in full - www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #MentalHealth

⚠️ Inpatient mental health care is under fire. Many concerns about coercion, restrictive practices & staff relationships. A study from @mentalhealthpru.bsky.social mapped 65 alternative service models to standard care. Discover what they found 👇🏽 buff.ly/InGhKPn #MentalHealth #Alternatives

Was absolutely thrilled to give a keynote this afternoon at the British Academy event at LSBU for Early Career Researchers on 'Disrupting power & privilege: strategies for change' using examples from @mentalhealthpru.bsky.social & from my own lived experience!

🚨 New Published Paper - Understanding barriers and facilitators to delivering peer support effectively: a qualitative interview study Proud to share our latest research, led by academic and lived experience researchers. 🔗 Read in full: bmcpsychiatry.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... #PeerSupport

💡 Interesting paper out from the OPAL study To explore carers’, patients’, and professionals’ views on accessible, feasible and helpful one-to-one peer support interventions for those treated under the Mental Health Act doi.org/10.1186/s128... #MentalHealth #PeerSupport

Great work in our newly published paper on approaches for self-harm and suicide risk. 📊 We identified a range of promising relational care approaches and highlighted key gaps in the evidence base. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #InpatientCare #MentalHealth

Great to see this out. Fab collaboration and paper @mentalhealthpru.bsky.social Quantitative Evidence for Relational Care Approaches to Assessing and Managing Self-Harm and Suicide Risk in Inpatient Mental Health and Emergency Department Settings: A Scoping Review www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Check out a Mental Elf blog covering our review on adapted and bespoke treatments for autistic adults. Enhancing mental health care for autistic people: practical adaptations, ready to go - Written by a group of UCL MSc students #MentalHealth www.nationalelfservice.net/learning-dis...

🔴 Newly published paper - Alternative approaches to standard inpatient mental health care: development of a typology of service models 📄 Published in the International Journal of Mental Health Systems, this study, led by Jess Griffiths, maps a range of alternatives to standard #inpatientcare.

An interesting paper critiquing ‘complex emotional needs’ as a label to individuals given a diagnosis of a personality disorder ⬇️ #MentalHealth #research www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

We were honoured to share our recent work on Peer Support at two MHPRU events this year! 🫲🏽🫱🏿 Over 250 people joined us across a webinar and live panel event — and now the video series is live! 🎥 Huge thanks to @thementalelf.bsky.social for bringing it all together 💙 #PeerSupport #MentalHealth

📢Out now - our Together in Research Spring newsletter - includes: 🔸A blog on the real-world consequences of inadequate research inclusion 🔸 Involvement & other opportunities 🔸 Details of our Knowledge Exchange Event 🔸News, blogs, events + more 👉 mailchi.mp/a74d05266e21...

Interesting article by The Guardian referencing our systematic review findings on Digital Surveillance. It gives a great overview of Oxevison and the concerns over its effect on patients theguardian.com/society/2025... #inpatient #mentalhealth

Our own Bryn Lloyd-Evans was 1 of 3 experts at an all-Peer Session presenting evidence on racial disparities in use of the Mental Health Act at the House of Lords. A great impact to inform amendments to the MHA Bill moving through parliament bills.parliament.uk/bills/3884 #MentalHealthAct #MHA

Brief admission during crisis for people diagnosed with borderline personality disorder buff.ly/fvfmDZt #BPD #Crisis #BriefAdmission #SystematicReview #BorderlinePersonalityDisorder 🧵 THREAD

Our wonderful MHPRU deputy director @acgrundy.bsky.social gave a keynote speech on 'Lived Experience Research Leadership' at the Mental Health Implementation Network's (MHIN) PPI celebration event last month! Read a blog about the event⬇️ arc-sl.nihr.ac.uk/news-insight... #livedexperienceresearch

The Minister for Patient Safety, Women’s Health and Mental Health, Baroness Merron, referenced the MHPRU's Evaluation of Early Support Hubs in a new statement. Findings of the hubs outcomes and successes will be shared soon. #CYPResearch #mentalhealth hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2025...

'Mental health disparity between teenage boys and girls ‘not inevitable’ - study' Headline in The Independent today based on @knowlesg42.bsky.social Dr Gemma Knowles's paper that looks at the trajectories and symptoms in young people in London and Tokyo. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

ℹ️ Strategies to improve mental health care for autistic people - research summarised into this clear, accessible infographic. Co-produced with researchers, lived experience individuals, and experts in the field. Check it out ⬇️ #Autism #MentalHealth #Neurodiversity

🛑 Surveillance technologies in inpatient mental health wards: What does the evidence say? Our systematic review published in BMC Medicine examines: 🔹 How tech is implemented 🔹 Experiences of patients, carers, and staff 🔹 Whether they achieve their aims bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Some of our current Phase Two MHPRU projects include; ☑️ Evaluation of Early Support Hubs ☑️ Digital Surveillance in Inpatient Settings ☑️ Relational Care Approaches to Self-Harm Check out these projects and our Phase One research on our website ⬇️ www.ucl.ac.uk/psychiatry/r... #MHPRU #Research

We are very excited to now have a BlueSky account! Please follow us for updates on our latest projects and findings in mental health policy research. #MentalHealthResearch #BlueSky #MHPRU