About Mad Campaigns Lab
Mad Campaigns Lab is a monthly online meet-up for folks interested in campaigning around mental healthcare, Mad liberation, and Disability justice.
Free to join and open to all NSUN members, regardless of policy & campaigning experience.
Who is it led by?
The space is led by Courtney Buckler (she/they), Head of Policy and Campaigns and Kieran Lewis (he/him), Rights and Migration Policy Manager. We will also be joined by other members of the NSUN team to support with tech, moderation, and access.
2026 programme
Our 2026 programme focuses on issues that intersect with mental ill-health, distress, or trauma. The aim of the sessions are to:
- Expand understandings of issues which are connected to mental ill-health, distress, or trauma
- Develop a broader awareness of what ‘counts’ as mental health work
- Create spaces for knowledge sharing on mental health and Disability justice
- Design campaigning goals; identifying key players and strategies for change
How to sign up
Sign up links will open one month before the first session of a given topic. These will be advertised on the website’s News & Events page, in our Members’ Bulletin, and on our social media channels.
Next sessions: Climate justice as a mental health issue with Tori Tsui & Hannah Hunt (June 2026)
How are madness, the mental health crisis, and climate justice interlinked? What does it mean to say that climate justice is mental health care? What does solidarity look like between the Mad, Disabled, and climate justice movements? In part 1, we’ll be joined by two climate justice organisers working at the intersection of mental health (Tori and Hannah) for a panel discussion and Q&A, and in part 2 we’ll be identifying ongoing campaigns and building our own goals around climate justice and mental health activism.
- Part 1 – Panel & discussion: 10th June, 4.00-5.30pm
- Part 1 – Action session: 17th June, 4.00-5.30pm
July: Trans solidarity & mad liberation work
- Part 1 – Panel & discussion: 8th July, 4.00-5.30pm
- Part 2 – Action session: 15th July, 4.00-5.30pm
August: summer break – no session
September: Borders, migration, & mental health
- Part 1 – Panel & discussion: 16th September, 4.00-5.30pm
- Part 2 – Action session: 23rd September, 4.00-5.30pm
October: Care beyond the mental health system
- Part 1 – Panel & discussion: 14th October, 4.00-5.30pm
- Part 2 – Action session: 21st October, 4.00-5.30pm
Group agreement
By signing up you agree to:
- Follow NSUN’s online event conduct agreement.
- Maintain confidentiality by not sharing information about Lab members, actions, or campaigns beyond the meeting.
- Not share the Zoom link/joining instructions with anybody else. Our sign-up process helps us to track how many people will be joining, and to prevent (as best as possible) the unlikely event of folks joining in bad faith.
- The full group agreement, which was developed with members at our first meeting and will be shared during the sessions and updated as and when the group feels it is necessary.
If you would like the registration form in an alternative format or have any questions about the Lab, please email Courtney at courtney.buckler@nsun.org.uk.
Previous session recaps
- Recap: Big Tech and mental health with Mad Youth Organise (April 2026 Mad Campaigns Lab)
- Recap: Madness & Palestinian Liberation with Makan (May 2026 Mad Campaigns Lab) coming soon!