coalition members
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Nev Jones PhD
Nev is an assistant professor in the School of Social Work at the University of Pittsburgh, and an activist scholar committed to psychosocial disability/lived experience leadership, and attention to the social and structural underpinnings of conventional mental health practices and conceptualizations of 'psychopathology.' She has extensive personal experience of psychosis-focused mental health services and intersecting systems.
Her academic work spans specialized psychosis services, crisis systems, benefits and welfare policy, the peer workforce, and first order change in public sector mental health systems. She currently co-chairs the participatory research workpackage of the Lancet Psychiatry Commission on the Psychoses, and (with Keris Myrick) co-edits the Lived Experience Involvement & Leadership column at Psychiatric Services. Nev's publications can be accessed (most full text) at www.researchgate.net/profile/Nev_Jones |
Marie Brown PhD
Marie is a clinical psychologist, current Vice President of ISPS-US, and a co-founder of Hearing Voices Network NYC. She has lived experience of youth mental health services. Her scholarly interests include psychosis and the female fertility cycle (including postpartum and menopausal psychosis), spirituality, structural determinants, and transformative mental health praxis.
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Miriam Larsen-Barr DClinPsy
Miriam is a clinical psychologist with lived experience and strong roots within the service-user movement in Aotearoa, New Zealand and beyond. Her research explores transdiagnostic approaches to supporting recovery, and service-user experiences of taking and attempting to withdraw from antipsychotic medication. Miriam is passionate about service-user led research and service delivery, is advisor to several other service-user research projects, and is the co-founder of the recently formed Aotearoa Therapists with Lived Experience Network (ATLEN).
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David Mordecai
David (he and they) has been a volunteer in several projects involving mental health service users since 2014. He is committed to making space for those not commonly “in the room,” in this instance as a non-academic service user interested in research, and front of an endogenic, plural system of Caribbean origin.
As an out, gay undergraduate at Cornell University, David was a founding volunteer in one of the world’s first HIV peer education programs. He subsequently worked in front-line, and then leadership roles, for four non-profits offering peer-based programs and services. He now runs a small garden business that he founded in Toronto, Canada. He blogs at davidmordecai.com. |
Dina Poursanidou PhD
I have a background in psychology and education and have been a University-based social science qualitative researcher since 2000. My doctoral and postdoctoral research has spanned a range of fields, such as mental health, education, child health, youth justice, and social policy/social welfare. My main research interests and areas of expertise include depression in young people; sociology of mental health; the intersections of gender, physical health and mental health; violence in inpatient mental health care; workforce issues in welfare services; psychosocial aspects of long term medical conditions in young people; educational and social exclusion in young people; critical approaches to Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) in health/mental health research; service user-led/survivor research in mental health; theory and practice of qualitative research with a particular focus on narrative and biographical research; theory and practice of critical ethnography; ethics in qualitative health and social care research; the use of critical autoethnography in mental health research; andthe use of visual methods in research.
I started using mental health services in 1991. In the period 2010-2014, following a very severe and enduring mental health crisis between July 2008 and June 2010, I worked in two Universities in the north of England as a Service User Researcher. In the period February 2015-February 2018 I worked at the Service User Research Enterprise (SURE) in the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience at King’s College London where I held a 3-year Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) and Improvement/Implementation Science. During my time at SURE I carried out a process evaluation of a violence reduction programme on inpatient psychiatric wards using a service user-led critical ethnographic approach. Since 2010 I have been involved in mental health politics and I am a member of the Asylum magazine editorial group – Asylum, the radical mental health magazine, provides an open forum for critical reflection and debate of mental health issues. Since July 2017 I have also been a member of the UK-based National Survivor User Network (NSUN) and its Survivor Researcher Network (SRN) Working Group. |