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Career Development Award

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Doriane Mignon - University of Manchester

Project Title: Patients with mental health conditions in a pressured primary care context: access, experience and inequalities

Brief Summary: TBC

Start / end dates: 01.04.25 - 30.09.25

Contact email: doriane.mignon@manchester.ac.uk

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Kausiki Sarma - Newcastle University

Project Title: Mental health needs of Honour based abuse victims

Brief Summary: TBC

Start / end dates: 01.03.25 - 30.11.25

Contact email: kausiki.sarma@newcastle.ac.uk

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Wagner Silva-Ribeiro - The London School of Economics and Political Science

Project Title: A living systematic review approach to identify the most effective psychotherapies and psychotherapy components to treat child and adolescent anxiety and depression

Brief Summary: TBC

Start / end dates: 01.04.25 - 31.12.25

Contact email: W.Silva-Ribeiro@lse.ac.uk

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Sophie Wilson - Birmingham Voluntary Service Council

Project Title: “AM I READY FOR THIS?” Early experiences of Peer Support Workers starting employment in voluntary sector frontline services

Brief Summary: In recent years a plethora of job roles have emerged across the VCFSE and public sector that explicitly request lived experience (LE) of multiple disadvantage (mental health, substance misuse, homelessness and criminal justice). These roles are often situated in the ‘front-line’ workforce providing direct support to people accessing services. Recent UK Department of Health workforce policy and mental health strategies increasingly advocate the use of LE workers. The recognition of how people with LE can apply their knowledge to inform service delivery and support another person’s recovery is becoming more prevalent and it is widely agreed that the deployment of people based upon “experience rather than professional expertise” provides a distinct contribution to service delivery. Individuals with LE are found to act as ‘beacons of hope’, offering empathy and understanding, relatability, experiential knowledge, common life experiences, and a non-pathologizing approach which builds mutual relationships based on trust, reciprocity and equality and which supports the de-stigmatization of service users. However, limited research exists on how PSWs experience these roles. My study explores this by foregrounding LE experiences over a sustained period, providing nuanced, cumulative evidence to build upon the existing evidence. The findings aim to inform organisations employing LE staff for frontline service delivery roles, ensuring that PSW’s experiences are safe, supported and effective while addressing barriers they face to enable them to undertake their roles more effectively.

Start / end dates: 01.01.25 - 31.03.26

Contact email: sophiew@bvsc.org