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alivenational.bsky.social @alivenational.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Coming up next Thursday 25th September 2025 at 6pm – 7pm (AEST), Dr Veenu Gupta and Tanya Mackay will be speaking on the topic The SUNRISE Mental Health Study: Searching, Unpacking and Naming Research Into Subjective Experiences Research! Register here to join the conversation go.unimelb.edu.au/zd3p

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Durham Institute for Medical Humanities @durhamimh.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Such a privilege to collaborate with @mcpinfoundation.bsky.social and Alison Faulkner on this study exploring how subjective experience is integrated (or not) into mental health research. If you're a researcher working in mental health, we want to hear your views! www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/774USE/

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SUNRISE SURVEY

Please take the time to complete our survey. Your feedback is important.

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The Mental Elf @thementalelf.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

How do we value subjective experiences in mental health research? Are people’s experiences of depression, anxiety and psychosis properly integrated into mental health research? Not really. buff.ly/t5EyJzN 🧵 THREAD #MentalHealthResearch #SubjectiveExperiencesResearch #Phenomenology #SUNRISE

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LENS @lensmentalhealth.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Thanks to all who came to our second meeting today, and special thanks to @thetealtigeruk.bsky.social for such an interesting and thought-provoking talk. It's a real privelige to be part of these discussions and share space with others grappling with multiple facets of lived experience research.

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LENS @lensmentalhealth.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

We're looking forward to our second meeting this afternoon, with a talk from @thetealtigeruk.bsky.social and some community space with a focus on teaching and lived experience. See you at 13.00!

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Mental Health Research Incubator @mhrincubator.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

📢The next Lived Experience Network for Scholars (LENS) meeting is MON 23 JUNE, 1pm. Dr Veenu Gupta will explore the nature of lived experience roles & opportunities for growth. Plus: a discussion on teaching & lived experience. Interested? Sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lens-meeti...

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LENS @lensmentalhealth.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Our next meeting will be on 23rd June from 13.00 - 14.00. Sign up at this link: shorturl.at/3U5sB We hope to see you there!

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Ruth Naughton-Doe @ruthndwrites.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Are you an academic mental health researcher with lived experience? Come along to our friendly and supportive network meeting to hear from Dr Veenu Gupta, Assistant Professor in Lived Experience Research. We'll also be discussing teaching with lived experience. Sign up to the event below!

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Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership (HQIP) @hqip.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

🏆 Congratulations to the Service User and Carer Reference Group, NCAP @rcpsych.bsky.social, and Lisa Wilson from the Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust @mpftnhs.bsky.social – they are joint winners of the #CAAW25 Patient & Public Involvement Award! www.hqip.org.uk/news/ppi-her...

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The McPin Foundation @mcpinfoundation.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

So excited to announce we’ve won the Clinical Audit Hero Award in the Patient & Public Involvement category for our work on the State of the Nation report 2024! Massive congrats to the NCAP team including the fantastic service user & carer reference group, & our fellow nominees 👏 #CAAW25

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Dr Jay Watts @shrinkatlarge.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

TW Suicide Suicidal ideation isn't either impulsive or planned but often a weird back and forth between the two until one gives up and goes 'fuck it, ok'.

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David Woodhead PhD (he/him) @davidwoodhead.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Hate and its impacts on LGBTQ+ mental health. 🌈 How to combat the negativity and foster wellbeing. My latest blog post #LGBTQ #MentalHealth #Wellbeing @centreformh.bsky.social @literarti.bsky.social @durhamimh.bsky.social @andybell-centremh.bsky.social @aldersonday.bsky.social

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Women's appearance and behaviour is about to get even more highly policed in the UK, with a few people doubtless being emboldened to "take action". This whole billionaire-funded enterprise dials back gender equity by decades.

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Trans Legal Project @translegalproject.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Thread -please read all of it 1/8 An extraordinary day in London. Many thousands. The police seemed blindsided by the way we completely filled Parliament Sq & later the surrounding streets and then St James’ Park. And wow did we need it. But…

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Susan Brown @susanhypoluxo.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

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รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ @sloanelysbeth.northsky.social · 17/04/2025

lgbt labour speaks out once it's too late to stop the wheels in motion.

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Rob 🏳️‍🌈 @rotster.net · 16/04/2025

“They should have known that to deliver justice means hearing from both sides. They should have had some humility about the limits of their own knowledge.”

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Lady Revolution🏳️‍⚧️ @ladyrevolution.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Terfs are not real feminists. Nuff said. #transmemes #trans #transrights #lgbt

I see terf people. They don't even know they're not feminists.

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thaspook @tharook.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Every member of any marginalised group, not matter how vehemently transphobic, should be concerned by the precedent this sets: that the Supreme Court is willing to hear arguments to restrict the rights, freedoms, and protections of marginalised groups without any defence from that group.

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Tess Stenson-Childs @tessstenson.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

No trans people were consulted on this decision that only affects trans people. In fact trans people were actively barred from consulting on this decision that only affects trans people. But transphobic bigots? Oh they got consulted for days. Fucking grim. I'm absolutely fuming.

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Boo Mario @tomatograndpa.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

If your response to JK Rowling successfully throwing enough money at the UK courts to get them to take away basic human rights and personhood from trans women is "Well every creator is problematic at some point, I'm still reading Harry Potter," sincerely fuck off.

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Grim-TNT 🏳️‍🌈🇮🇪 @grim-tnt.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

The British economy has been hemorrhaging ever since Brexit, corruption rampant, and yet the UK government in all it's buffoonery has decided the best use of it's time and resources was to make the lives of 0.5% of their population a public debate for nearly half a decade making lives more miserable

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Prof. Virginia Braun (she/her they/them) @ginnybraun.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

“The Supreme Court can kid itself all it likes about this decision not being bad for trans people. Trans people know it is the latest savage blow against a community that is already reeling.” goodlawproject.org/the-supreme-...

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The Supreme Court ignored trans voices. I’m ashamed of what our law has become | Good Law Project

The Supreme Court’s decision to exclude trans voices has harmed trans people – and harmed the fairness of their ruling.

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FoRSe Study @forsestudy.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

📣 Research Participants Needed 📣 We are looking for people who have experienced psychosis in Scotland to take part in our Fear of Recurrence study. Participants will be compensated for taking part. Find out more and sign up at tinyurl.com/ckud5zsb Reposts appreciated 🙌 #Psychosis #PsychSciSky

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The McPin Foundation @mcpinfoundation.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

The National Clinical Audit of Psychosis has published its State of the Nation 2024 report based on bespoke audits from 2 cycles of data collection. This is a report series with a long history, building on Early Intervention in Psychosis set-up phases & expansion across Eng & Wales over 3 decades 🧵

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Angela Woods @literarti.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Very excited for this hybrid talk next Friday and that at long last I get to meet Gerald Jordan @imh-uob.bsky.social in person. Please join us!

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Durham Institute for Medical Humanities @durhamimh.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

🧠How do intergenerational inequities affect young people’s mental health and potential for recovery? Join us on 7th March for a hybrid seminar by Dr Gerald Jordan, as he shares about intriguing interdisciplinary, mixed-methods research. Register here:👇 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/transforma...

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Transformational forms of recovery and intergenerational injustice

A hybrid seminar by Dr Gerald Jordan on transformational forms of recovery from mental health challenges and intergenerational injustice.

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Awais Aftab @awaisaftab.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

There is a certain kind of person on social media (also, unfortunately, in the real world) who seems basically incapable of appreciating the heterogeneity of human experiences & approaches another person’s report of a different experience as annihilating their own.

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Ben Alderson-Day @aldersonday.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Well this was a blast. We couldn't hear anyone online so for the q&a I did this to hear them (it's really cool and will definitely catch on). The fake topic was LOVEJOY btw (well done to @mooresci.bsky.social for accurately predicting this)

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Dr Louise Creechan @louisecreechan.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Those rolled-up sleeves - he’s not a regular Professor, he’s a cool Professor… Inaugural ready @aldersonday.bsky.social

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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Reminder that disabled people have no obligation to consume assisted dying media. You don’t have to read posts about how someone would kill themselves if they were like you. You have no duty to be polite when they say we cost too much. Your mental health matters. Your life does too.

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Amy Chandler @amychandler.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

My team at the University of Edinburgh are hiring a Senior Research Fellow to join us on our Wellcome funded 7 year project 'Discovering Liveability: Co-producing Alternatives to Suicide Prevention' #academicjob #suicide #suicideprevention #qualitative elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

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Senior Research Fellow (Discovering Liveability)

Senior Research Fellow (qualitative methods) to join the Discovering Liveability: Co-producing alternatives to suicide prevention project, contributing to the leadership of innovative suicide research...

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Ben Alderson-Day @aldersonday.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

I'm doing my inaugural lecture on Friday at 1pm and it's going to be a hybrid affair. It will feature: Guess Who? HalfLife Taskmaster Lovejoy Wittgenstein Scarfolk Psychics Climbers Clangers Only one of those is fake. Tune in! Or even..come along! I accidentally asked for the big lecture theatre.

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Research Seminar - 29 November 2024 - Durham University

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Em @drem79.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

If you’re doing patient involvement for a mental health service and you are only listening to people who have been able to use the service, you risk an incomplete picture. You also need to listen to those who needed the service but were excluded from it, unable to access it, or ‘gatekept’ away.

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Steph Allan @eolasinntinn.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

I have created a starter pack for people who post about psychosis / unusual experiences. Follow if you are interested! Please suggest additions, or let me know if you want to be removed. go.bsky.app/2efkmxG

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Awais Aftab @awaisaftab.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Diversify your sources of self-worth… don’t just rely on one social media platform for validation, use multiple! 🙃

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Steph Allan @eolasinntinn.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

I am sharing a recent pre-print written with @thetealtigeruk.bsky.social + colleagues (who I am not sure are here) on the ableist assumptions which have come to (perhaps needlessly?) underpin "rich" qualitative data when working with people who experience psychosis. osf.io/preprints/ps...

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The International Consortium on Hallucinations Research @theichr.bsky.social · 29/10/2024

Our chair @aldersonday.bsky.social was quoted in this Guardian Long Read on AVATAR old and new. Congratulations to #ICHR members Tom Craig, Tom Ward, Amy Hardy & @mruscalafell.bsky.social! Amazing work

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Dr Veenu Gupta (She/Her) @thetealtigeruk.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

open.spotify.com/show/0sBh58h... Would highly recommend the Empire podcast if you want to learn of Britain’s colonial history and the stories you never heard of in school even though it’s a part of British History

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Empire

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Angela Woods @literarti.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Still buzzing from last night’s “Landmarking! A Research Cabaret” brilliantly conceived & hosted by @louisecreechan.bsky.social @durhamimh.bsky.social. Arial gymnastics! Broadway hits! Opera! Ghost stories! Stand up poetry! On themes of masking, trolling; birthing; flourishing & much more. 💫

Louise Creechan sings on stage at a research cabaret

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Angela Woods @literarti.bsky.social · 05/09/2024

How is research on the subjective experiences of #depression, #anxiety & #psychosis conducted & valued in #mentalhealth science? Delighted to collaborate on the Wellcome SUNRISE study with the McPin Foundation, Alison Faulkner, @aldersonday.bsky.social & Veenu Gupta mcpin.org/introducing-...

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Introducing the SUN RISE project - The McPin Foundation

We will be exploring how research into the subjective experiences of depression, anxiety & psychosis is conducted & valued within mental health research.

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The Mental Elf @thementalelf.bsky.social · 30/10/2024

🎧 NEW PODCAST 🎧 The Evolution of #LivedExperience Roles in #MentalHealth Research. Dr Veenu Gupta speaks to Douglas @dbadenoch.bsky.social from the Mental Elf in the run up to the #NRSMH24 conference in Edinburgh youtu.be/sChnCy0gkvk?...

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Dr Veenu Gupta - The Evolution of Lived Experience Roles in Mental Health Research #NRSMH24

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Dr Veenu Gupta (She/Her) @thetealtigeruk.bsky.social · 12/12/2023

My sister and I graduated with our PhDs today. Doctors Gupta and Gupta pictured with proud parents. #PhDone #LivUniGrad

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