Advisory Groups
Our Advisory Groups provide lived experience expertise to researchers looking for PPIE input.
Our Advisory Groups are groups of people with lived experience of mental health who have an interest in research. They support researchers by meeting with them and looking over their ideas, proposals and documents relating to research, and offering their viewpoint and feedback.
This is important to improve the research we carry out and helps researchers consider the patients’ perspective.
Find out more about the advisory groups we offer below, as well as how to become a member.
Or if you are a researcher, how to access their expertise.
In this section
Young People's Mental Health Advisory Group
A group of 16-25 year olds with lived experience of using mental health services, or caring for someone who has used these services.
Adolescent Mental Health Advisory Group
A group of 12 – 17 year olds with personal experience in mental health challenges or caring for someone with mental ill health.
Service User Advisory Group
The SUAG is a group of people with lived experience of mental illness, who have an interest in mental health research and give feedback to researchers about their work.
FAST-R Service
FAST-R offers fast advice from people with lived experience of mental health problems and their carers who have been trained to advise on participant-facing documentation and lay summaries of protocols.
CRIS - Data Linkage Service User and Carer Advisory Group
This is a group of people with lived experienced of mental health problems who advise on data linkages projects with CRIS.