Latest member blogs

New ways of supporting child abuse & sexual violence survivors in relation to the ‘personality disorder’ construct

Jodie Ellison

28 April 2022

The NSUN team are now undertaking eight weeks of internal strategic work

Amy Wells (NSUN)

1 February 2022

Not a naughty child: people’s experiences of service responses to self-injury

Alison Faulkner with Rachel Rowan Olive

27 January 2022
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Latest news

Open letter: ‘managed migration’ from ‘legacy benefits’ to Universal Credit

NSUN has signed an open letter alongside other UK charities to the Secretary of State for the Department of Work… more

9 May 2022

Tributes: Peter Campbell (1949-2022)

We are saddened this week to hear of the death of Peter Campbell, a pioneering survivor activist, writer, and poet…. more

26 April 2022

Mental health, racial justice & migration: pitch us

NSUN (The National Survivor User Network) is a membership organisation of people and grassroots groups with lived experience of mental… more

25 April 2022
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Latest research and publications

What Do User-Led Groups Need? (2020)

This research looked to understand what challenges user-led mental health organisations face, and to explore what might help user-led organisations… more

Lived Experience Leadership – Mapping the Lived Experience Landscape in Mental Health (2021)

About the report This report is the result of our Mapping Lived Experience Leadership project. Terminology The report uses the… more

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