In this audio interview Professor Til Wykes Professor of Clinical Psychology and Rehabilitation at King's College London discusses her part in championing the active role of mental health service users in psychological research that led to her receiving the British Psychological Society’s 2014 Award for Promoting Equality of Opportunity.
Throughout her career Professor Wykes has sought to involve mental health service users as active members of research – not just as research participants or consumers. This drive led to the establishment in 2001 of the Service User Research Enterprise (SURE) at King’s College London. SURE undertakes research to test the effectiveness of services and treatments from the perspective of people with mental health problems and their carers. It aims to involve service users in a collaborative way in the whole research process: from design to data collection, through to data analysis and dissemination of results.
You can read an article about Professor Wykes award in our monthly magazine, The Psychologist http://thepsychologist.bps.org.uk/volume-27/december-2014/award-promoting-equality-opportunity
Interview date: January 2015
Interviewer: Wendy Barnaby
Other interviews in this series http://www.bps.org.uk/psychology-public/sharing-our-science/bps-audio-interviews/british-psychological-society-audio-inter