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Mike Slade

Professor of Mental Health Recovery and Social Inclusion, Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences

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Biography

Mike is Professor of Mental Health Recovery and Social Inclusion at University of Nottingham. His main research interests are recovery-focused and outcome-focused mental health services, including Recovery Colleges, lived experience narratives, citizenship, wellbeing, needs assessment and developing measures, e.g. INSPIRE, Camberwell Assessment of Need, Threshold Assessment Grid. He has written over 350 academic articles and published 15 books, including Personal Recovery and Mental Illness (2009), Partnering for Recovery in Mental Health (2014), Positive Psychotherapy for Psychosis (2017), Wellbeing, Recovery and Mental Health (2017) and Camberwell Assessment of Need, 2nd edition (2020). His 15 free booklets include Making Recovery a Reality (2008), REFOCUS: Promoting recovery in community mental health services, 2nd edition (2011), 100 Ways to Support Recovery, 2nd edition (2013), The empirical evidence about recovery (2015) and The Business Case for Recovery (2017), all downloadable at researchintorecovery.com.

Research Summary

Mike is Professor of Mental Health Recovery and Social Inclusion at University of Nottingham. His main research interests are recovery-focused and outcome-focused mental health services, including… read more

Recent Publications

  • KOTERA Y, DARYANANI R, SKIPPER O, SIMPSON J, TAKHI S, MCPHILBIN M, INGALL B, NAMASABA M, JEPPS J, KELLERMANN V, BHANDARI D, OJIO Y, RONALDSON A, GUERRERO E, JEBARA T, HENDERSON C, SLADE M and VILAR-LLUCH S, 2025. Applying Critical Discourse Analysis to Cross-Cultural Mental Health Recovery Research JMIR Formative Research. 9, e64087
  • ÅSBØ G, HAAVIND H, KRUSE S, WOLD K, HEGELSTAD W, ROMM K, SLADE M, UELAND T, MELLE I and SIMONSEN C, 2025. Taking what you get or getting what you need: a qualitative study on experiences with mental health and welfare services in long-term recovery in first-episode psychosis Community Mental Health Journal. 61, 350-364
  • KOTERA Y, NEWBY C, CHARLES A, NG F, WATSON E, DAVIDSON L, NIXDORF R, BRADSTREET S, BROPHY L, BRASIER C, SIMPSON A, GILLARD S, PUSCHNER B, KIDD S, MAHLKE C, SUTTON A, GARY L, SMITH E, ASHMORE A, POMBERTH S and SLADE M, 2025. Typology of mental health peer support work components: systematised review and expert consultation International Journal of Mental Health & Addiction. 23, 543-559
  • JENSEN R, BRAND S, HOLM T, SLADE M and THOMSEN D, 2025. The Impact of Life Story Work during Peer Worker Training: Identity Reconstruction, Social Connection and Recovery Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal. 48, 13-22

Current Research

Mike is Professor of Mental Health Recovery and Social Inclusion at University of Nottingham. His main research interests are recovery-focused and outcome-focused mental health services, including Recovery Colleges, lived experience narratives, citizenship, wellbeing, needs assessment and developing measures, e.g. INSPIRE, Camberwell Assessment of Need, Threshold Assessment Grid. He has written over 350 academic articles and published 15 books, including Personal Recovery and Mental Illness (2009), Partnering for Recovery in Mental Health (2014), Positive Psychotherapy for Psychosis (2017), Wellbeing, Recovery and Mental Health (2017) and Camberwell Assessment of Need, 2nd edition (2020). His 15 free booklets include Making Recovery a Reality (2008), REFOCUS: Promoting recovery in community mental health services, 2nd edition (2011), 100 Ways to Support Recovery, 2nd edition (2013), The empirical evidence about recovery (2015) and The Business Case for Recovery (2017), all downloadable at researchintorecovery.com.

School of Health Sciences

B236, Medical School
Queen's Medical Centre
Nottingham, NG7 2HA

telephone: +44 (0)115 95 15559
email: mhssupport@nottingham.ac.uk