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For a moment, I stop taking notes. My office melts away in my periphery and the participant’s voice echoes in my head.

Lessons Learned for Successful School Collaborations It’s 8:30 am. The morning bell rings, signalling the start of another busy school day. Students shuffle in, some bleary-eyed from oversleeping, and others won’t make school today due to illness. My key school contact—essential to the day’s research activities—has been pulled away to manage a student crisis. The room we were scheduled to use has been taken over by a teacher in need of extra space. To top it off, exam season

This article has been co-written by Jemima Dooley, Florence Sargent, and Jay Bate Sometimes when I walk across my university campus, I stop and think: what on earth is this place? I’m in a place of learning and teaching, but it’s also a place where tens of thousands of people live, shop, eat, work out, and socialise. It’s a huge employer, there’s an on-site nursery, an award-winning grounds team, an open-air swimming pool, bars, laundry and transportation services. It’s a cit

How Working with Experts by Experience Transforms Academics' Perspectives Photo by Syed Ali on Unsplash Researchers working with “experts by experience” often talk about the benefits of this for research outputs, such as results that are more relevant for the people the research intended to help. I am a research assistant on a programme pioneering a new model for participatory research on autism and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Participatory research ensur

Key takeaways from organising a science communication workshop series When we think about research, we often imagine a clean laboratory with people in white coats who work with fancy equipment. While some research might actually look like this, research in the field of mental health is sometimes harder to picture and more complicated to explain. There are many ways we can collect information and engage with the topic we are studying, and we are continuously trying to improve