Dr Andrew Grundy PhD (acgrundy.bsky.social)

🚨 See my recent work: 'Backstory' researchgate.net/publication/38… The traumas of hostile voice-hearing in the context of acute psychiatric admissions: a lived experience testimony researchgate.net/publication/39… Moments of regaining 'insight' - an unrecognised trauma researchgate.net/publication/39…

Thrilled to have trained another cohort of service users & carers in Research Methods! Thanks to the Mental Health Research for Innovation Centre for commissioning us again. Also, super excited to announce our paper evaluating the training has been accepted for publication!

Charities say planned Universal Credit changes fail to account for progressive or fluctuating conditions. I stand in solidarity with those opposing the bill. #DisabilityBenefits theguardian.com/society/2025/j…

🚨 Publication alert Really thrilled to have this First Person Account published in Schizophrenia Bulletin! 'Moments of Regaining “Insight”—An Unrecognized Trauma' #MentalHealth #Schizophrenia #psychosis #trauma academic.oup.com/schizophreniab…

Was absolutely thrilled to give a keynote this afternoon @LSBU @BritishAcademy_ event for Early Career Researchers on 'Disrupting power & privilege: strategies for change' using examples from @MentalHealthPRU & from my own lived experience!

We desperately need media guidance on the reporting of homicide & #schizophrenia/#psychosis (as we do for reporting on #suicide). #WorldSchizophreniaDay bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Why are positive representations of people with a #schizophrenia diagnosis/label so hard to find in the media? #WorldSchizophreniaDay

Off the back of some of the issues raised in my most recent paper... I'm really thankful to have been offered another round of clinical psychology sessions in secondary care, which started today, to hopefully help process some of these traumas. #MentalHealth #trauma #therapy

🚨 Publication alert Really thrilled to say that I've a paper out on 'The traumas of hostile voice-hearing experiences in the context of acute psychiatric admissions: a lived experience testimony' researchgate.net/publication/39…

Important read: 'People with severe mental illness twice as likely to be disconnected by utility companies' bigissue.com/news/social-ju… #DisabledLivesMatter #MentalDisability #DisabilityBenefits

Really important read: 'It Costs More to be Disabled, Whatever the Government Says.' recoveryinthebin.org/2025/02/27/it-… via @RITB_ #DisabilityBenefits #DisabledLivesMatter #MentalDisability

Found this really insightful 'Disability, Work and Starmer’s Cruel Cuts' madintheuk.com/2025/03/the-di… via @MITUKTeam #DisabilityBenefits #DisabledLivesMatter #MentalDisability

So excited to be giving a keynote on 'The Promise & Pitfalls of Lived Experience Research' at the #MentalHealth Student Conference up in Manchester today! The day's theme is on 'The role of lived experience in mental health research'. @UoM_MHRG @NMSWResearch @OfficialUoM

Really looking forward to delivering my keynote on Lived Experience Leadership at the NIHR Mental Health Implementation Network's PPI celebration event today! @MentalHealthPRU

🚨 Publication alert: Really honoured to have supervised this mixed methods systematic review on the impacts of antipsychotics on eating-related outcomes. Big well done to @Rasha_Alkholy and the whole @SUSTAIN_MH team! researchgate.net/publication/38…

Really thrilled to be training another cohort of service users & carers in our '#Research Methods for Lived Experience & Public Involvement Researchers' course. Fantastic first day together!

Reminder that there's no independent research into the physical & psychological safety of digital observation or on the ethics & acceptability of its implementation. 'Filming me sleep on ward made my mental health worse' via @BBCNews bbc.com/news/articles/…

Really looking forward to this #MentalHealth Question Time event on the theme of peer-support. The MHPRU have done some fantastic research in this area!