Linking Service

If you are working on a research study and are seeking researchers to co-produce the project, be part of a Lived Experience Advisory Group (LEAG) or are looking for participants to interview or survey, our trauma-informed Linking Service is available now.

Survivors’ Voices have a community of around 500 abuse survivors, and a mailing list of over 2000 survivors and agencies, some of whom may wish to participate in your study.

If you choose to engage in the Linking Service, Survivors Voices will wish to check that your project offers participant safety and good and ethical survivor participation. Most of these requirements will be covered in your ethics application.

Survivors’ Voices asks you to confirm these criteria are embedded in your study:

  1. You have read and commit to the principles in the Survivor’s Voices Charter for good survivor involvement.
  2. The study has involved survivors in co-production, at least to level 3 – survivors as advisers – of the Involvement Ladder.
  3. Participants time and contribution will be recognised with some form of appropriate recompense.
  4. You will offer active support for all participants who wish it, more than just a list of helplines.
  5. You will recruit carefully and sensitively, signposting anyone excluded to other opportunities (e.g. our activist community).
  6. You have though about how to reach under-represented groups.
  7. You have access to support yourself, which can include our Researcher Community.

The Linking Service offers the following: 

  1. A space on the website to share recruitment information (see here)
  2. Listing in our monthly mailings to potential participants, and all our social media channels.
  3. The offer of peer support groups to participants who wish to engage during their period in the study. 

We make a small charge for the Linking Service to cover staff, website and admin costs: if your project is funded we ask for a £100 fee. If your project is unfunded we can discuss an appropriate sum for the linking service. 

Further information and the application form are HERE. If you have further questions please email Arti Naithani.