‘And the activists tell us that meds are evil’: Polarised mental health politics and the struggle for ambivalence. A seminar by Konstantina (Dina) Poursanidou, PhD.
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Konstantina (Dina) is an independent Service User Researcher in mental health. Her doctoral and post-doctoral research has spanned a range of fields including mental health, education, child health, youth justice and social policy/social welfare. She has worked in a number of Universities in England as a Service User Researcher and held a 3-year Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Patient and Public Involvement and Improvement/Implementation Science at the Service User Research Enterprise in the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London. She is a member of Asylum, the radical mental health magazine editorial group, as well as one of the directors of the UK-based Survivor Researcher Network Community Interest Company.
Critical Voices Network Ireland | https://cvni.ie/
Institute for Social Science in the 21st Century (ISS21) | https://www.ucc.ie/en/iss21/ Asylum, The Radical Mental Health Magazine | https://asylummagazine.org/ Survivor Researcher Network (SRN), a Community Interest Company (CIC) | https://survivorresearcher.net/
