Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Notes on contributors
- Preface and acknowledgements
- one Sociology and survivor research: an introduction
- two Mental health service users’ experiences and epistemological fallacy
- three Doing good carer-led research: reflecting on ‘Past Caring’ methodology
- four Theorising service user involvement from a researcher perspective
- five How does who we are shape the knowledge we produce? Doing collaborative research about personality disorders
- six Where do service users’ knowledges sit in relation to professional and academic understandings of knowledge?
- seven Recognition politics as a human rights perspective on service users’ experiences of involvement in mental health services
- eight Theorising a social model of ‘alcoholism’: service users who misbehave
- nine “Hard to reach”? Racialised groups and mental health service user involvement
- ten Individual narratives and collective knowledge: capturing lesbian, gay and bisexual service user experiences
- eleven Alternative futures for service user involvement in research
- twelve Brief reflections
- Appendix Details of the seminar series
- Index
Appendix - Details of the seminar series
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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Notes on contributors
- Preface and acknowledgements
- one Sociology and survivor research: an introduction
- two Mental health service users’ experiences and epistemological fallacy
- three Doing good carer-led research: reflecting on ‘Past Caring’ methodology
- four Theorising service user involvement from a researcher perspective
- five How does who we are shape the knowledge we produce? Doing collaborative research about personality disorders
- six Where do service users’ knowledges sit in relation to professional and academic understandings of knowledge?
- seven Recognition politics as a human rights perspective on service users’ experiences of involvement in mental health services
- eight Theorising a social model of ‘alcoholism’: service users who misbehave
- nine “Hard to reach”? Racialised groups and mental health service user involvement
- ten Individual narratives and collective knowledge: capturing lesbian, gay and bisexual service user experiences
- eleven Alternative futures for service user involvement in research
- twelve Brief reflections
- Appendix Details of the seminar series
- Index
Summary
Researching in mental health: sociological and service user/survivor perspectives: a joint seminar series between the Survivor Researcher Network and the British Sociological Association Sociology of Mental Health Study Group
Organised by: Lydia Lewis, Angela Sweeney, Ruth Sayers and David Armes
Edited version of the report presented to the Foundation for the Sociology of Health and Illness, July 2009
The aim of this seminar series was to bridge the gap between academic sociologists of mental health and service user/survivor mental health researchers, providing opportunities for learning from one another. In this respect, it was groundbreaking and was an extremely worthwhile and successful initiative, as evidenced by the feedback reported later. In fact, the aim was more than met, with each event attracting an average of around 40 attendees spread across different organisational backgrounds, including survivor/service user organisations, academia and mental health practice. The seminars provided for attendance from all over the UK, including Scotland, and internationally, with one presenter travelling from Germany and delegates attending from France and Ireland.
Five seminars took place in total (the February seminar was cancelled due to bad weather) between January and June 2009. They were hosted free of charge at the British Library in London on the first Monday of each month, from 6pm to 8pm, and all were extremely well attended. The series began with a panel session to get debate going and then featured between two and three presentations at each, with a combination of survivor/service user and sociological presentations on each occasion (see programme, outlined later). This made for lively debate and stimulating discussion at each event. This continued informally on each occasion in order to maximise benefits for participants, including networking opportunities, and opportunities to bridge divides between delegates working in different sectors and to encourage collaborative links. This aspect of the series was particularly successful, as the feedback reported later demonstrates.
In addition to oral presentations and discussion, the seminar series encompassed the display of work from two survivor organisations: the Survivor History Group and Recovery. This element of the series was well appreciated and added additional opportunities for dissemination and interest for delegates.
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- Mental Health Service Users in ResearchCritical Sociological Perspectives, pp. 175 - 180Publisher: Bristol University PressPrint publication year: 2013
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