Good communication, developing a culture that was honest, authentic & transparent, building trust, & ensuring projects that members were advising on were of interest & engaging to them were also all raised as essential for PPI work. Find out what else came up here 👉 rdcu.be/ezDE1

In young people’s grps, 17 papers shared how they created safe spaces to ensure group members were in an environment that was physically, emotionally, socially & mentally comfortable. 5 talked about creating space for youth leadership & minimising adult influence in the space.

Are you interested in getting involved in mental health research as a young person, or want to know how future patient & public involvement could be better? Our ‘emerging practice in PPI’ paper came up with recurring themes & recommendations for doing this work. Find out more 👇

📢 New paper 📢 Our protocol for the Supporting Adolescents with Self-Harm (SASH) trial is now published! The SASH trial is testing a brief strengths based intervention for young people presenting to A&E in crisis: bmjopen.bmj.com/content/15/9... @rachelred94.bsky.social @dennisougrin.bsky.social

Training announcement! 📢 Want to learn how you can use patient & public involvement (PPI) in your research in a more inclusive way? We’re running a course of 3 online PPI training sessions in Nov & Dec 2025. Don't miss out - find out more & register here 👉 www.mcpin.org/work-with-us/training/

Presentation complete! We enjoyed sharing our approach to dialogical co-analysis with young people with the Qualitative research community at @qmip.bsky.social thanks for having us! 😀 #QMIP2025

More positively, very excited for our team to also be talking about this at QMiP tomorrow - a coproduced new methodology for conducting co-analysis with young people collaborativeresearch.co.uk/dca

With McPin, we prepared a set of suggestions for supporting young people, based on our research on the Agency Projects. What do you think of our leaflet? www.canva.com/design... #YouthMentalHealth #EpistemicInjustice #philsky #philpsy

We're at the Qualitative methods in psychology conference - Another opportunity to share our approach to doing co-analysis with young people as part of our Agency-In-practice project 👌 Let's goooo! #QMIP2025

New podcast! My take on our agency projects. Spanning motivation, challenges, methods, outcomes, and future applications. #philsky #philpsy #epistemicinjustice open.spotify.com/episode/76Uf...

What are the do's and don't's when having a conversation with a young person about their mental health? Check out the cheat sheet leaflet for adults, designed by Philosopher @lisabortolotti.com with input from our Agency-in-practice Young People's Advisory Group mcpin.org/resource/age...

In 2024 we worked with young people to design a Trevor Project survey on the experiences of 9,600 LGBTQ+ young people ages 13 to 24 across the UK. Report now live 👇 www.thetrevorproject.org/survey-inter...

Epistemic Justice in Mental Healthcare: Free to download, 20% off for the hard copy with the code #epistemicinjustice #philsky #psychiatry #psychology #booksky #newbooks #openaccess @springernature.com

Enjoyed lunching in London with this lovely lot today as part of celebrating our Agency-In-practice project led by the incredible @ipanalysis.bsky.social great to see the YPAG in person. Next steps - disseminating our youth co-analysis methodology far and wide!

In this blog Tom, Young People's Advisory Group (YPAG) member and experienced co-researcher shares his takeaways. With advice on getting involved in and working with young people in research, as part of the EXCITE project. mcpin.org/youth-resear... #involvement @mcpinypnetwork.bsky.social

Yesterday we had our @mcpinypnetwork.bsky.social YPAG kickoff meeting for exploring the relationship between adverse childhood experiences and anxiety across UK and Brazil - led by University of Bristol. We'll also be training our Brazil colleagues in meaningful youth involvement practices 🌎

In May, 2 of our McPin team members along with 2 young people with lived experience spoke at an event, addressing the question "what makes an emotionally healthy school?". In this blog piece, they share their reflections from the event. Got 5 mins? Give it a read! 🙂 mcpin.org/what-makes-a...

Here’s what Annie, one of our Public Involvement in Research Managers, had to say about being part of a community. #mentalhealthawarenessweek #MHAW

What are the risks and benefits of social media influencers for youth mental health? Here in Birmingham for the youth jury event - let's gooo! 💪 #mentalhealth

You can read our commitments, and why we think the mental health sector should be doing more for trans rights, on the @nsunnews.bsky.social website 👉 bit.ly/4jbqrPB

Free on Friday afternoon & interested in young people's mental health? Come join 2 of our lovely team as they speak at the 'Emotionally Healthy Schools: Engaging the Therapy Professions' event! Date: Fri 25 April Time: 5-7pm Place: Online Cost: Free Find out more & register here 👉 bit.ly/42JqDhU

Next week, YP team members Eva and Emma will be sharing some of the insights we’ve learned across many of our projects about promoting mental health in schools. 🏫 Hear from them and many other experts about promoting positive wellbeing in schools. Tickets are free: onlinevents.co.uk/event/emotio...

Your first ever research conference can be scary - but it doesn’t need to be!😅 19 year-old @mcpinfoundation.bsky.social YPAG member Josh attended his first conference, as part of the Agency-in-practice project - led by @ipanalysis.bsky.social Read about Josh's experience mcpin.org/young-people...

Become a Midlands Youth Advisor! This opportunity can make a positive impact on the lives of young people and, we hope, the future of #MentalHealthResearch @unibirmingham.bsky.social @imh-uob.bsky.social

Our Public Involvement in Research Manager @awalsh9890.bsky.social shares her story of antipsychotic meds & weight gain as the RESOLVE study draws to a close with a conference today! Read her blog here 👉 bit.ly/440iV5j And hear advice from a lived experience group member 👇 @drjohowe01.bsky.social

⭐New YPAG opportunity⭐ Co-design youth involvement practices in mental health research and deliver training to our colleagues in Brazil Must have prior experience of being in a YPAG/co-researcher Please pass on the opportunity below to anyone who might be interested!

The McPin Foundation, in partnership with the Peace Alliance, run the London Peer Action Collective. As part of this project we need to reach 350 young people in London to gather their views on youth violence! Check out the survey here 👇 www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/PACLondon/ It takes 10 mins!

Ever wondered how to involve children & young people in a priority-setting partnership?🤝 We worked with other PSP teams to produce some guidance for @jameslindalliance.bsky.social based on our own PSP on CYP mental health: www.jla.nihr.ac.uk/documents/in... onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

‼️Calling all researchers to share your youth involvement opportunities with us ‼️ We send involvement opportunities to our Young People’s Network, who are made up of young people aged 13-28 who want to be involved in mental health research ⭐ tinyurl.com/2ch8ym2s

We're putting together a starter pack to link all those who work in mental health research and interested/working in youth involvement. Please share and invite people to our starter pack! If you'd like to be added to our starter pack, let us know 😊 go.bsky.app/EFACehf

Bluesky, we've landed at last! 👋 We are the young people's team at the @mcpinfoundation.bsky.social Follow us for: •youth involvement in mental health research •involving youth in your own research •new involvement opportunities for young people #youthinvolvement #mentalhealthresearch

@lisabortolotti.bsky.social finally got my copy! 😃 📖

@mcpinypnetwork.bsky.social wonderful you are here too

Huzzah! The McPin Foundation @mcpinfoundation.bsky.social are on Bluesky 🥳 We elves love your ethos and your work 👏🏽 Give this mental health research charity a follow if you care about lived experience, coproduction, equity and quality.

@mcpinfoundation.bsky.social and @mcpinypnetwork.bsky.social are on BlueSky! Welcome 🤗 #MentalHealth #PublicInvolvement #PPI #InvolveYoungPeople

On the #projectEPIC blog today is one part of two (because I do like to spoil you) on a report from the PHaR conference "Feeling and Being Understood". In the post, I summarise the incredible workshops we took part in: epistemicinjusticeinhealthcareproject.blogspot.com/2025/02/work...

Another great day in Birmingham meeting with @matthewbroome.bsky.social Carla, Eva and the Mental health mission gang - midlands translational centre. Some exciting work ahead on youth mental health in the midlands! 🎉

Really enjoyed presenting at Phenomenology of Health & Relationship conference yesterday, an event organised by Michael Larkin. This is new work with Rose McCabe on how to understand agency and responsibility in youth mental health. I loved the participants' engagement! #philsky #epistemicinjustice

Had a great time presenting at PHaR today with @ipanalysis.bsky.social Shioma-Lei and the Agency YPAGers! We shared our approach to co-analysis with young people, exploring data on youth mental health interactions. There were several 'key ingredients' to making our approach successful 👩‍🍳

Our CHOOSE team's new paper about how we involved young people, parents & carers in a project looking at mental health GP data of young people's experiences before & during the pandemic Members of our LEAP were also involved as co-authors of the paper: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

We recently ran a 'pilot' for our new 'Young People's Training Academy'. 🎓 We ran 5 online evening sessions which were open to all existing young people's advisory groups at McPin, where we offered training on research & lived experience in research. mcpin.org/training-aca...

Call for papers: rapid response required! #qualitative #phenomenology #interdisciplinary Come join us for our second PHaR conference in Birmingham, UK, February 6th and 7th 2025. Abstracts by 20th Dec 2024! Theme - 'Feeling and Being Understood.' astonphar.blogspot.com/2024/12/call...

We've currently got some really exciting youth & public involvement opportunities for people with lived experience of mental health issues! Please pass on to anyone you think would be interested! mcpin.org/get-involved...

So you have this great friend who is into justice and health and you don’t know what to get them for Christmas? Here’s the solution! £25 for hard copy and £0 for the ebook! link.springer.com/book/10.1007... let’s normalise exchanging links as presents 🎁🥳