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 600 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:
- You have read and commit to the principles in the Survivors’ Voices Charter for good survivor involvement.
- The study has involved survivors in co-production, at least to level 3 – survivors as advisers – of the Involvement Ladder.
- Participants’ time and contribution will be recognised with some form of appropriate recompense.
- You will offer active support for all participants who wish it, more than just a list of helplines.
- You will recruit carefully and sensitively, signposting anyone excluded to other opportunities (e.g. our activist community).
- You have thought about how to reach under-represented groups.
- You have access to support yourself, which can include our Researcher Community.
The Linking Service offers the following:
- A review of your application, with constructive feedback where appropriate, with the aim to provide assurance that your project meets the criteria of the Survivors’ Voices Charter.
- A space on the website to share recruitment information (see here).
- Listing in our monthly mailings to potential participants (2,000+ agencies & individuals, and 600+ abuse survivor members), and social media channels (Instagram, LinkedIn, X, Facebook).
- Introductions to other groups and agencies that may assist with recruitment from particular communities and under-represented groups.
- Peer support communities are also available for both survivor researcher(s) and participants, including the Researcher Community and Changemakers Community
- Findings can also be shared in these groups and in our mailings.
- A comprehensive curated list of sources of further support for participants and survivor researchers.
The following charges apply:
- Universities: £650
- Charities/not-for-profits: £325
- Individuals (e.g. students): £150
If your project is unfunded and you are not able to meet these costs please be in touch; 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 and Shelley Trower at research@survivorsvoices.org.
In addition, further services are available, for which we welcome enquiries and can outline fees, including:
- One-to-one peer support for researchers and research participants
- Research collaborations
- Participatory and creative workshop facilitation
- Consultation with people with lived experience on research questions and study design
- Lived Experience Advisory Group (LEAG) recruitment and facilitation
- Writing up research for dissemination with survivor communities
- Consultancy and training in trauma-informed research, survivor involvement and PPI.
- Assistance with dissemination and impact activities
- Design, editing and publication of findings, zines, research creative outputs through Survivors Voices Press
