Sophia Fedorowicz

Housing and Health Stoke-on-Trent 🏠 | Expert Citizens CIC Housing and Health Stoke-on-Trent 🏠 The Housing and Health Stoke-on-Trent public engagement project worked with people with lived experience of homelessness and insecure housing to grow understandin...

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On the contribution of health care service provision to reducing health inequalities - Gerry McCartney, 2025

A powerful editorial journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

A picture of Sophia smiling in the sun. It has rained so the ground is wet, there is a road, patch of grass and railings behind her. She is wearing a black puffer coat and a blue scarf. Her hair is in bunches and she is wearing round glasses. Sophia is ginger with rosy cheeks, and no make-up.

📢 Time to reintroduce myself! 👋

I'm a qualitative researcher interested in how people experiencing suicidal thoughts, feelings and behaviours experience primary care.

I like participatory, applied work that aligns with critical suicidology theories and works with people with lived experience.

Power is the word! I rarely see a space where academia lets go of the reigns.

The Expert Citizens CIC membership have been co-creating a creative public engagement project exploring housing and health 🏠 Today we met with researchers from Keele University, University of Staffordshire, and MPFT to explore the next steps and think about creating impact #teamworkmakesthedreamwork

Epistemic Justice in Mental Healthcare This open access book features chapters from clinicians, psychologists, and philosophers to explore issues about epistemic justice in mental healthcare.

link.springer.com/book/10.1007... Our edited volume, Epistemic Injustice in Mental Healthcare, has now been published and is free to download. I made a very small contribution - excellently edited and led by @lisabortolotti.bsky.social and supported by Wellcome

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Is there independent qual researcher blue sky?

Building trust and inclusion with under-served groups: a public involvement project employing a knowledge mobilisation approach - Research Involvement and Engagement Background Certain groups are commonly under-served by health research due to exclusionary models of research design/delivery. Working in partnership with under-served groups is key to improving inclu...

In love with key findings from our latest publication:

🙌 Creating sustainable, inclusive public partnerships is likely to require systemic changes, such as weighting of fundings schemes to projects that prioritise inclusion throughout the research cycle 🙌

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Community shapes healthcare engagement for people with multiple long-term conditions in areas of poverty. 
High-quality person-centred care should be prioritised in this population group doi.org/10.3399/BJGP...

Excellent! Thanks for sharing this it's a great paper 👍

Thank you!

Are there any conferences or learning events that are led by lived experience in health research?

#PPI #LivedExperience #Involvement #PublicEngagement

Excellent piece of work!

I'm doing a lot of reading about community-led suicide prevention projects - has anybody worked with a community to produce peer reviewed papers in relation to those projects?

#community #collaboration #suicideprevention

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Hello everyone!

I have missed this so much!

I love opening this app and seeing flourishing academic chit-chat with papers, theories, and all kinds of interesting cool stuff that people are doing.

Diagram showing the stages of the research cycle and how young people can contribute to every part of the process

🆕This new diagram explains how young people can get involved in research.
Co-designed by our amazing public contributor @louiseting.bsky.social and our Young People's Advisory Group, we hope it helps young people understand the contribution they can make.
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Trish Greenhalgh: Towards an institute for patient-led research  - The BMJ “More powerful than the march of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come”  – Victor Hugo  The intellectual legacy of Rosamund Snow Rosamund Snow was a social scientist [...]More...

We had an idea, but then the pandemic happened. Resurrecting the idea now. Who wants to fund it? (Will be costly but also I think massively cost-effective in the long run).

"Towards and Institute for Patient-Led Research".

@bmj.com

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