McPin Foundation – A New Vision for Mental Health

We often discuss why lived experience improves research quality, but what about the ‘how’?

Author: Editorial 8th January 2021 0 Comments

This article has been written by Rachel Temple (Public Involvement in Research Manager at the McPin Foundation). It begins: “When I first discovered the ‘Trainee Researcher’ job vacancy at McPin back in 2017, I was immediately attracted. I’d been on the…
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experts by experience, lived experiences, McPin Foundation, Rachel Temple, Research, young adults

My Story, Our Future: a storytelling project about living with psychosis

Author: Editorial 9th December 2020 0 Comments

“There was not a single ‘typical’ story that emerged. Instead we found people navigating through their lives in a variety of ways. People talked about specific challenges, individual skills, abilities and strengths, and held different hopes and aspirations for the…
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first-person stories, lived experiences, McPin Foundation, narrative, personal narrative, psychosis, Research