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Joy Llewellyn-Beardsley

Research Assistant, Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences

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workRoom D19 Institute of Mental Health
Jubilee Campus
Wollaton Road
Nottingham
NG8 1BB
UK
work0115 74 84289
Joy.Llewellyn-Beardsley@nottingham.ac.uk

Biography

I joined the School of Health Sciences in 2017 as a researcher on the Narrative Experiences Online (NEON) study, investigating the effects of accessing online narratives of recovery from mental health distress on people's own recovery. My academic background is an interdisciplinary mix of English literature, community and youth studies, and sociological research methodologies, with a uniting focus on critical theory, social and structural inequalities and emancipatory practices.

Professionally, I worked with young people for 20 years within voluntary sector organisations and the NHS, developing services within the fields of sexual health, mental health and emotional wellbeing. I was the first director of Sheffield's LGBTQI+ youth service, SAYiT. I am passionate about the transformative potential of the arts, and co-founded Out Aloud, Sheffield's first LGBT+ choir. A continuous theme in my professional and academic life has been the role of sharing stories in challenging internalised oppression/shame and structural injustices.

Expertise Summary

Narrative approaches to research

Social constructivism

Critical constructivism

Mental health recovery

Research Summary

Recent Publications

LLEWELLYN-BEARDSLEY J, RENNICK-EGGLESTONE S, BRADSTREET S, DAVIDSON L, FRANKLIN D, HUI A, MCGRANAHAN R, MORGAN K, POLLOCK K, RAMSAY A, SMITH R, THORNICROFT G and SLADE M, 2020. Not the story you want? Assessing the fit of a conceptual framework characterising mental health recovery narratives Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology. 55, 295-308
RENNICK-EGGLESTONE S, ELLIOTT R, SMUK M, ROBINSON C, BAILEY S, SMITH R, KEPPENS J, HUSSAIN H, POLLOCK K, CUIJPERS P, LLEWELLYN-BEARDSLEY J, NG F, YEO C, ROE J, HUI A, VAN DER KRIEKE L, WALCOTT R and SLADE M, 2020. Impact of receiving recorded mental health recovery narratives on quality of life in people experiencing psychosis, people experiencing other mental health problems and for informal carers: Narrative Experiences Online (NEON) study protocol for three randomised controlled trials Trials. 21, 661
LLEWELLYN-BEARDSLEY J, BARBIC S, RENNICK-EGGLESTONE S, NG F, ROE J, HUI A, FRANKLIN D, DEAKIN E, HARE-DUKE L and SLADE M, 2020. Llewellyn-Beardsley J, Barbic S, Rennick-Egglestone S, INCRESE: Development of an Inventory to Characterize Recorded Mental Health Recovery Narratives Journal of Recovery in Mental Health. 3, 25-44
LLEWELLYN-BEARDSLEY J, RENNICK-EGGLESTONE S, CALLARD F, CRAWFORD P, FARKAS M, HUI A, MANLEY D, MCGRANAHAN R, POLLOCK K, RAMSAY A, SÆLØR KT, WRIGHT N and SLADE M, 2019. Characteristics of mental health recovery narratives: Systematic review and narrative synthesis. PloS one. 14(3), e0214678

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Current Research

I am currently a researcher on the NIHR-funded NEON study (Narrative Experiences Online), and am undertaking a part-time PhD funded by the School of Health Sciences. The PhD take a narrative inquiry approach to investigating "what makes a 'good' recovery narrative", exploring the potential benefits and harms of this genre for narrators and recipients, and exploring questions of power and what is 'allowed' to be told in given historical moments. It is being supervised by Stefan Rennick-Egglestone and Alison Edgley.

LLEWELLYN-BEARDSLEY J, RENNICK-EGGLESTONE S, BRADSTREET S, DAVIDSON L, FRANKLIN D, HUI A, MCGRANAHAN R, MORGAN K, POLLOCK K, RAMSAY A, SMITH R, THORNICROFT G and SLADE M, 2020. Not the story you want? Assessing the fit of a conceptual framework characterising mental health recovery narratives Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology. 55, 295-308
RENNICK-EGGLESTONE S, ELLIOTT R, SMUK M, ROBINSON C, BAILEY S, SMITH R, KEPPENS J, HUSSAIN H, POLLOCK K, CUIJPERS P, LLEWELLYN-BEARDSLEY J, NG F, YEO C, ROE J, HUI A, VAN DER KRIEKE L, WALCOTT R and SLADE M, 2020. Impact of receiving recorded mental health recovery narratives on quality of life in people experiencing psychosis, people experiencing other mental health problems and for informal carers: Narrative Experiences Online (NEON) study protocol for three randomised controlled trials Trials. 21, 661
LLEWELLYN-BEARDSLEY J, BARBIC S, RENNICK-EGGLESTONE S, NG F, ROE J, HUI A, FRANKLIN D, DEAKIN E, HARE-DUKE L and SLADE M, 2020. Llewellyn-Beardsley J, Barbic S, Rennick-Egglestone S, INCRESE: Development of an Inventory to Characterize Recorded Mental Health Recovery Narratives Journal of Recovery in Mental Health. 3, 25-44
LLEWELLYN-BEARDSLEY J, RENNICK-EGGLESTONE S, CALLARD F, CRAWFORD P, FARKAS M, HUI A, MANLEY D, MCGRANAHAN R, POLLOCK K, RAMSAY A, SÆLØR KT, WRIGHT N and SLADE M, 2019. Characteristics of mental health recovery narratives: Systematic review and narrative synthesis. PloS one. 14(3), e0214678
RENNICK-EGGLESTONE, S, MORGAN, K, LLEWELLYN-BEARDSLEY, J, RAMSAY, A, MCGRANAHAN, R, GILLARD, S, HUI, A, NG, F, SCHNEIDER, J, BOOTH, S, PINFOLD, V, DAVIDSON, L, FRANKLIN, D, BRADSTREET, S, ARBOUR, S and SLADE, M, 2019. Mental Health Recovery Narratives and Their Impact on Recipients: Systematic Review and Narrative Synthesis Canadian Journal of Psychiatry. 64, 669-679
SLADE M, RENNICK-EGGLESTONE S, BLACKIE L, LLEWELLYN-BEARDSLEY J, FRANKLIN D, HUI A, THORNICROFT G, MCGRANAHAN R, POLLOCK K, PRIEBE S, RAMSAY A, ROE D and DEAKIN E, 2019. Post-traumatic growth in mental health recovery: qualitative study of narratives BMJ Open. 9, e029342
MCGRANAHAN R, RENNICK-EGGLESTONE S, RAMSAY A, LLEWELLYN-BEARDSLEY J, BRADSTREET S, CALLARD F, PRIEBE S and SLADE M, 2019. The Curation of Mental Health Recovery Narrative Collections: Systematic Review and Qualitative Synthesis JMIR Mental Health. 6, e14233
RENNICK-EGGLESTONE S, RAMSAY A, MCGRANAHAN R, LLEWELLYN-BEARDSLEY J, HUI A, POLLOCK K, REPPER J, YEO C, NG F, ROE J, GILLARD S, THORNICROFT G, BOOTH S and SLADE M, 2019. The impact of mental health recovery narratives on recipients experiencing mental health problems: qualitative analysis and change model PLOS ONE. 14, e0226201
NG, FIONA, CHARLES, ASHLEIGH, POLLOCK, KRISTIAN, RENNICK-EGGLESTONE, STEFAN, CUIJPERS, PIM, GILLARD, STEVE, VAN DER KRIEKE, LIAN, BONGAARDT, ROB, POMBERTH, SCOTT, REPPER, JULIE, ROE, JAMES, LLEWELLYN-BEARDSLEY, JOY, YEO, CAROLINE, HUI, ADA, HARE-DUKE, LAURIE, MANLEY, DAVID and SLADE, MIKE, 2019. The mechanisms and processes of connection: developing a causal chain model capturing impacts of receiving recorded mental health recovery narratives. BMC psychiatry. 19(1), 413
SLADE M, RENNICK-EGGLESTONE S, BLACKIE L, LLEWELLYN-BEARDSLEY J, FRANKLIN D, HUI A, THORNICROFT G, MCGRANAHAN R, POLLOCK K, PRIEBE S, RAMSAY A, ROE D and DEAKIN E, 2019. Post-traumatic growth in mental health recovery: qualitative study of narratives. BMJ open. 9(6), e029342
NG F, CHARLES A, POLLOCK K, RENNICK-EGGLESTONE S, CUIJPERS P, GILLARD S, VAN DER KRIEKE L, BONGAARDT R, POMBERTH S, REPPER J, ROE J, LLEWELLYN-BEARDSLEY J, YEO C, HUI A, HARE-DUKE L, MANLEY D and SLADE M, 2019. The mechanisms and processes of connection: Developing a causal chain model capturing impacts of receiving recorded mental health recovery narratives BMC Psychiatry. 19, 143