Category: Blog
“When they hear the story I made, people were very happy and have hope” – Being part of the Making Positive Moves workshops
By: Susi Curzons and Pashtana Zormati This blog is the second in our co-production workshop blog series. If you want to read the first blog about how and why we ran the co-production workshops, click here. In this post, we want to share the experiences of those who attended our co-production workshops. This blog is […]
The why, what, and how of co-production workshops
By: Susi Curzons and Pashtana Zormati This is the first blog in the co-production blog series. The Making Positive Moves project aimed to find out what helps people with learning disabilities to live a happy and healthy life after leaving mental health hospitals. Through talking to people with learning disabilities we built a model called […]
Vision and values project
By: Koralia Bentivoglio In this blog, we would like to introduce you to the Vision and Values project. We want to tell you how this project was created, what it involved and what were the final outcomes. We would also like to talk to you about what it was like to do this project and […]
Making Positive Moves research findings update
By: Silvana Mengoni and Aiman Khattak Lots has been happening over the last couple of years for Making Positive Moves. In this blog post, we wanted to give you an update about the project and the results we have so far. What did we do in the research project? The “Making Positive Moves” research project […]
Patient and Public Involvement in Making Positive Moves
By: Derek Batten and Charlotte Haith In this blog post, we are going to explore how patient and public involvement (experts-by-experience) has been evaluated for the Making Positive Moves (MPM) project. We want to bring to you the views of the research team and the experts by experience who have been involved in the project […]
Project update on recruitment and data collection
By: Pashtana Zormati and Charlotte Haith In this blog we want to share an exciting update about the Making Positive Moves (MPM) project. We want to tell you about an important milestone we have reached in this project, what it involved, how long it took us and what were some of our challenges. Keeping reading […]
Social History of Learning Disability Conference
By: Louisa Rhodes Louisa, Silvana, Sam and Kirsty from Making Positive Moves all went to Day 1 of the Social History of Learning Disabilities conference at the Open University in Milton Keynes. We enjoyed going to a face-to-face conference and it was the first time all four of us had been together in person. The […]
Feeling responsible for change
By: Annabel Head When something has gone wrong in your life, have you taken responsibility for your actions? What about when things have gone well – do you like to take responsibility then? This article will be about our Making Positive Moves participants discussing when they have taken personal responsibility for where they are today […]
“And that’s how we are a good team, because we’re like a family”
By: Annabel Head For most of us, our first experiences of where we live take place within family homes. And after childhood, adults living as couples (with or without children) make up by far the most common type of household in the UK. These arrangements could, for most people, be called ‘a family’. For most of […]
Getting used to making my own decisions
By: Annabel Head What time did you get up this morning; what did you have for breakfast and what have you eaten (or are planning) for later meals? What about how you might spend your next bit of time off or leisure time? Do you feel you have quite a bit of choice, at least […]
