Staff, Communities and Health Inequalities: Turning Commitment into Action

Reflections from a women’s lived experience advisory group

Drawing on reflections from a lived experience advisory group supporting research with imprisoned women with serious mental illness.

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Race & Ethnicity – Why is recovery so white?

This workshop shares co-produced research with minoritised ethnic communities in England and Scotland, exploring how mainstream recovery systems often fail to engage Black and Asian communities due to approaches that overlook culture, trust, and lived experience.

It introduces a practical framework for rethinking recovery, showing how lived experience can identify systemic gaps, highlight community-led solutions, and shape more equitable pathways.

Using real examples from community and policy work, the session encourages reflection on whose knowledge is valued, what outcomes matter, and how culturally led and peer-based approaches can inform future service design, commissioning, and workforce development.

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