Join our MQ-Wellcome study exploring collaboration and early career support for PhD students and post-doctoral researchers working in mental health research within academia or industry. Only a 2-hour remote focus group, reimbursed for time.

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📣Upcoming survivor researcher community gathering:
Celebrate the launch of a range of new survivor research resources survivorresearch.org

📅3rd May
⏲️ 11am-2pm
🏥 The Science Gallery London Science Gallery London

To attend please contact Angie Sweeney: [email protected]

I recommend this documentary, 'SHaME: Stories of Survival': shame.bbk.ac.uk/blog/shame-sto…. A survivor-led documentary film co-produced by Sexual Harms + Medical Encounters & filmmaker Sophie MacCorquodale. Spread the news! SurvivorsUK Survivors Voices Birkbeck, University of London BirkbeckPsychosocial Southall Black Sisters WOW - Women of the World

📣New systematic review out now in the Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology on the prevalence of sexual violence victimisation in mental health service users
Read the paper here: link.springer.com/article/10.100…
or the UKPRP Violence, Health and Society Consortium blog summarising the key findings here: vision.city.ac.uk/news/prevalenc…

This UKPRP Violence, Health and Society Consortium consultation has been extended until the 22nd April. Share your thoughts in the link below 👇

📣 Amy Pearson from Durham Psychology has led a project supported by Violence Abuse and Mental Health Network to develop a guide to help autistic people spot the signs of an unhealthy relationship 👉 brnw.ch/21wIxxC

#WAAW24 #ActuallyAutistic #DUResearch

TheAutisticAdvocate Monique Botha is actually they/them 🤷🏻‍♀️ Sarah Douglas

🔗 This #AutismAcceptanceWeek we (Monique Botha is actually they/them 🤷🏻‍♀️ TheAutisticAdvocate Sarah Douglas Dr Felicity Sedgewick are thrilled to launch our Autistic Guide to Healthy Relationships, as part of our work on autistic experiences of intimate partner violence, funded by the Violence Abuse and Mental Health Network

durham.ac.uk/research/insti…

📣Brilliant new blog with VAMHN lead Dr Sian Oram where she discusses the recent creative workshops we ran on coercive control. Read below 👇

Our friends at UKPRP Violence, Health and Society Consortium are running this consultation on the need for a VAWG data dashboard. If you have used the ONS dashboard then please spare a few minutes to respond - but be quick, it’s closing 31 March.

📣📣New VISION consultation to assess the need for a VAWG data dashboard. If you have used the ONS VAWG dashboard we are interested in hearing your thoughts. cityunilondon.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_eG…

Do you work with survivors of violence against women & girls in a paid capacity (including frontline workers, managers, administrators)? Can you complete a 15 min survey about your experiences doing this work? If yes please follow 👉 uos.questionpro.eu/t/AB3u1BiZB3vr… & please share widely

I'm asked at the end, in my 'own words' to talk about something that excites me.

'I’m really excited about the global community that we’ve been building...there’s something really powerful in working together - we are creating a movement for change.'

Watch this space!

📢Call for participants📢. I would like to hear neurodivergent-led orgs views on making DA perpetrator programs more inclusive. No expertise on domestic abuse needed. This builds on my previous two projects (see thread) with autistic and/or ADHD men & DA program providers.

New paper from VISION on pros and cons of researching violence using national emergency care, primary care, and linked health and police data. mdpi.com/2076-0760/13/3…