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Dr Joy Llewellyn-Beardsley is a qualitative mental health researcher and member of the , based at the Nottingham Institute of Mental Health. She is currently the research fellow on the team, investigating interventions to support researchers who are dually qualified by their training and lived experience.
Her expertise is in the uses of narrative in mental health research and interventions, and placing lived experience at the heart of mental health research. She is experienced in critical approaches to qualitative health research, the effective use of qualitative research in clinical trials, and systematic reviews. From 2017-2023 she was a member of the , funded by the NIHR to evaluate whether having access to an online collection of lived experience mental health recovery narratives could help other people affected by mental health distress.
She gained her in 2023. A critical approach to the uses and abuses of narrative in mental health, it investigates the experiences of people from minoritised communities in telling their mental health stories, and explores how their narratives can both reinforce and disrupt the recovery framework.
Her publications can be found on her profile, including a widely-cited systematic review of characteristics of mental health recovery narratives.
Prior to research Joy was a community and youth worker, and has over 20 years' experience of management and development work in the voluntary sector. She was the founding director of the charity , Sheffield's LGBTQ+ youth service, and a co-founder of , Sheffield's LGBTQ+ choir. She is a practising Buddhist in the Triratna tradition, and lives in Sheffield with her wife and their spaniel.
Expertise Summary
Narrative approaches to health research
Uses of lived experience narratives in healthcare
Critical qualitative health research
Systematic reviews
Qualitative research in RCTs
Research Summary
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