Vanessa Bennett (she/her)

Pleased to share our third co-produced paper with young people out today Important context and need for this and more research on - young people's online help seeking for emotional abuse and neglect Accessible summaries coming soon -🤞with young people onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ca…

Please do join us for this event - 8 project teams will be sharing their experiences of co-production and its evaluation #coproduction Appreciate many with lived experience are still using this or transitioning. eventbrite.co.uk/e/measuring-su…

📢 Call out to anyone in England aged 25 and under 📢 💙 Biggest ever NHS conversation with children & young people is happening this month! 🔗 Have your say on the NHS forms.office.com/pages/response… ℹ️ For workers/groups - resource hub sends.rcpch.ac.uk/t/cr/AQjopQsQ1… Please share!

Women’s rights are human rights. There is #NoExcuse for gender-based violence. Repost if you agree. buff.ly/4enNjsd @UN_Women

📢 COMING SOON: #16Days of activism against gender-based violence starts on 25 November.  There is #NoExcuse for gender-based violence. Not now. Not ever. 🤝 Let's UNITE to end violence against women. Learn more about this year's campaign: unwo.men/sXxc50TWR5t

Shifting over to Bluesky (nessbennett.bsky.social) and LinkedIn Lovely people come and join us! Not figured it all out but hope will be a good place to share stuff Only checking/posting here now and again

Slightly different (though familiar) content, context and focus to the usual these days (though that’s also quite diverse!). ✨Get in touch if you’d like to explore how to collaborate with myself and/or other EUPATI Fellows to put more of this into action!

learning & how patients can be meaningfully involved to create change across medicine R&D. Delved into… ✨Pharmacovigilance ✨Risk management planning ✨Patient labelling and information ✨Ethics ✨Health technology assessment - excited to see ‘co-production’ get a mention 💕

🎉 Fellow of the European Patients’ Academy! Final 4-day in-person training - EUPATI Patient Expert Training Programme - met fab folks committed to representing and/or involving patients with range of illnesses/diseases in medicines research & development. eupati.eu/about-us/

@ChloeSApter Bless you Chloe - you know where to find me!

@bennett_ness Forever grateful to have you in my life!

"You are not alone". But what if I feel utterly alone? "There is no shame in having mental illness". But what if I feel immense shame about having mental illness? "It's good to talk". But what if talking opens up a can of worms that I cannot close? #WorldMentalHealthDay

@ChloeSApter 💕

TW: medical procedure, sexual abuse Today - after avoiding it for years due to sexual abuse - I had my first cervical screening. I had a long phone call with the nurse beforehand who made me feel safe enough to try it. She let me put the speculum in & was endlessly kind.

@jen_preston1 @DerekCStewart @sammy_ainsworth @CRFalderhey @NIHR_UKCRFN @NIHRresearch @PMRUalderhey @LivUniHLS @LivuniILCaMS Thank you Jenny 🙏

@bennett_ness @DerekCStewart @sammy_ainsworth @CRFalderhey @NIHR_UKCRFN @NIHRresearch @PMRUalderhey @LivUniHLS @LivuniILCaMS Hi Vanessa unfortunately not, we as authors even have to purchase a copy of the book, I have requested a copy from our university library but I am not sure if I can share an e-copy? Leave it with me

Check out our new book chapter on children & young people and research in: ethicspress.com/products/meani… A pleasure as ever to co-write this with young people and @sammy_ainsworth @CRFAlderhey @NIHR_UKCRFN @NIHRresearch @PMRUalderhey @LivUniHLS @LivuniILCaMS

‘Fighting every step is so hard' Katie, 17, is autistic and has barely been to school since she was 13. She joined @BBCNuala to discuss her experience as a child navigating England’s Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) system, and how it has impacted her.

Come, hear about my PhD tomorrow & meet a Young Interview Assistant #PPI 🙌🏻 (Wed) 15.35 LT003 CYP #RCNResearch24 Presenting how our methods were designed to champion the voices of children & young people in eye and vision research #EBCD @Moorfields @MoorfieldsBRC @KingsNursing

@emily4993 @FREEDfromED Thanks so much for replying - I’ll DM you ☺️

@bennett_ness @FREEDfromED Happy to chat further and try and help

Help: exp of 18 yo in adult ED service going to uni/transfer care first term? On @FREEDfromED w MANTRA, awful CAMHS transfer, delay start, s depression, ADs, change therapist now improving, 10 sessions in, weight stabilising, start resocialise, thinking start to shift. Options?

@jamesldowns - any ideas who can help? National or local issue? After session today said feels like an inconvenience 😢. Touch and go even going Uni. Asked her to register with GP & start process - gap care poss - where is thinking & transfer of care? How many YP go through this?

@MariaLoades @pamelacjacobsen @Louca_Mai @NSFTresearch @topic_group @n_higsonsweeney @LAMPresearchUK Thanks - looks interesting and look forward to reading

@pamelacjacobsen @Louca_Mai @NSFTresearch @topic_group @n_higsonsweeney @LAMPresearchUK @bennett_ness