COLIVE-MH CAMHRA Lived Experience Fellow

CAMHRA seeks to recruit a Lived Experience Fellow with a background in medical humanities and / or anthropology to contribute to the lived experience and ethnographic workstreams of COLIVE-MH.

COLIVE-MH (Collaborative Living Evidence Platform for Common Metrics in Mental Health) is a two-year international initiative funded by the Wellcome Trust, designed to establish an up-to-date, open access evidence synthesis platform on the psychometric properties of four widely used mental health measures:

PHQ-9 - Patient Health Questionnaire (adult depression)

GAD-7 - Generalized Anxiety Disorder questionnaire (adult anxiety)

WHODAS-12 - World Health Organization Disability Assessment Schedule (adult functioning/disability)

RCADS - Revised Child Anxiety and Depression Scale (child and youth anxiety and depression)

The platform is designed to support the global harmonization of mental health measurement tools, with a strong emphasis on transparency, co-production, and equity.

The COLIVE-MH project includes:

Co-production with people with lived experience and international partners to ensure relevance, inclusion, and global usability.

Conduct of three parallel systematic reviews focused on the PHQ-9, GAD-7, and WHODAS, respectively, within the METHODS team (a fourth review focused on the RCADS will be conducted externally by project partners)

Display of the results on a website interface

We seek an excellent candidate who has experience of working on mental health research projects with successful lived experience involvement.

The post holder will work with the Co-Investigator and COLIVE-MH CAMHRA Postdoctoral Researcher to ensure effective inclusion of lived experience voices in the design and development of the COLIVE-MH platform. They will also work with the Co-Investigator and COLIVE-MH Postdoctoral Researcher to provide mentorship and pastoral care to lived experience experts involved with the development of COLIVE-MH in Canada, the UK and LMIC countries.

We would strongly welcome applications from candidates with lived experience of mental health service use, and those from underrepresented groups.

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We would particularly welcome applications from candidates from working class, first generation Higher Education, Black, Asian, other minority ethnic and underrepresented groups from within the UK and beyond. All appointment decisions will be made on merit, following a fair and competiti