- Ethical, political & methodological dilemmas in doing survivor research in mental health

Institute for Social Science in the 21st Century (ISS21)

Dr Konstantina (Dina) Poursanidou

18 November 2022, 11am-1pm

CACSSS Seminar Room, O'Rahilly Building, UCC (Please register by emailing: m.scanlon@ucc.ie)

In this seminar, adopting an autoethnographic approach and drawing on my personal experiences as a service user researcher in English Universities, I will seek to throw light on the unremitting identity and other (ethical, political and methodological) struggles implicated in the task of constructing and negotiating my double/liminal identity as an academic researcher and a mental health service user; a task involving immense complexities, challenges, paradoxes, contradictions and ambivalence. In discussion with the audience, my aim will be to interrogate crucial concerns that have dominated my conversations with other service user/survivor researchers in academia over the years.