Annie Walsh

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We’re at Peckham levels for Voices of Experience, an @nihrmaudsleybrc.bsky.social event breaking mental health stigma and celebrating lived experience, with contributions from students, research and lived experience experts. #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek

University of Birmingham celebrates Research Impact awards - University of Birmingham University of Birmingham celebrates Research Impact awards

www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2025/un...

Congrats @benjaminperry.bsky.social on the @unibirmingham.bsky.social ECR Impact Award! 🎉

It was an honor for @mcpinfoundation.bsky.social to be invited & welcomed on to the stage with you as a collaborator, & fantastic to finally meet & celebrate in-person!

Here’s what Annie, one of our Public Involvement in Research Managers, had to say about being part of a community. #mentalhealthawarenessweek #MHAW

@kathaschmack.bsky.social @mcpinfoundation.bsky.social @natureportfolio.nature.com @britsocimm.bsky.social

To celebrate #WorldImmunologyDay, the @wellcometrust.bsky.social funded Immune Mechanisms of Antipsychotic Treatment (IMAT) Lived Experience Advisory Group is off for a curry followed by the @crick.ac.uk public event on the immune system and your brain 🧠 www.crick.ac.uk/whats-on/wor...

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Co-Production Collective is looking for someone to manage our projects with partners. If you are interested in co-production in research, policy and service development, we would like to hear from you!

Find out more about the role and how to apply in our blog: shorturl.at/AAPln

#coproduction

Our Public Involvement in Research Manager @awalsh9890.bsky.social shares her story of antipsychotic meds & weight gain as the RESOLVE study draws to a close with a conference today!

Read her blog here 👉 bit.ly/440iV5j

And hear advice from a lived experience group member 👇

@drjohowe01.bsky.social

celebrating the third anniversary of the shared commitment to public involvement

We’re a partner with other leading orgs on the #SharedCommitment to Public Involvement initiative, which turns 3 today!🎈

@vanessapinfold.bsky.social shares why it's important work, helping drive up standards in health & social care research 👉 bit.ly/4hnVTs6

@nihr.bsky.social @hralatest.bsky.social

Bluesky, we've landed at last! 👋

We are the young people's team at the @mcpinfoundation.bsky.social

Follow us for:
•youth involvement in mental health research
•involving youth in your own research
•new involvement opportunities for young people

#youthinvolvement #mentalhealthresearch

Amazing stuff, please can I be added to inclusive involvement and co-production, thanks!!

Venn diagram with three intersecting circles: children and young people's health, inclusive public involvement and co-production and children's rights and youth participation

In an effort to build/rebuild online networks I've set up 3 starter kits in my main areas of research interest:
Links in the posts which follow - reply to be added.
And if you're in the intersecting areas, especially the middle bit, and we don't know each other already - do say hello 😊

Thanks Elves, much appreciated! 😄