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Dr Stefan Rennick-Egglestone is a mental health researcher in the Nottngham Institute of Meantal Health, and the School of Health Sciences. He has substantial expertise in clinical trials, systematic reviews, and narrative research, including the use of lived experience narratives as an intervention to help others. He was the co-chair for the Refocus on Recovery 2023 conference, and is the chair for the Refocus on Recovery 2025 conference. All of his publications can be found on his Google Scholar profile, including a 2024 trial report in World Psychiatry, the world's most influential psychiatric journal. The list of publications below is out of date due to a technical problem with this profile.
Stefan coordinated the Narrative Experience Online (NEON) study, which was funded by the NIHR to evaluate whether access to a collection of online mental health recovery narratives can help people affected by mental health problems. He was an investigator on the KLIFAD study, funded by the NIHR to evaluate whether access to alcohol misuse recovery narrative can amplify the effects of alcohol treatment services. He has been funded by NHS England to examine how patient feedback describing positive experiences of health service treatment can support health service quality improvement. He is currently engaged with the Nottingham Biomedical Research Centre, developing work on mass public participation in mental health research. He has published a substantial number of papers on online study methodology, including a 25-year retrospective on the ethical and legal challenges inherent in evaluating digital mental health interventions.
Stefan has supervised completed PhDs with the following titles:
Enhancing collaboration between diverse team members (Dr Zenah al-Kubaisi, School of Computer Sciences, University of Nottingham).
Development of an asynchronous peer support intervention for men with unipolar depression, delivered by smartphone (Dr Sarah Brydges, School of Pharmacy, University of Nottingham).
"Not the story you want, I'm sure": Mental health recovery and the narratives of people from marginalised communities (Dr Joy Llewellyn-Beardsley, School of Health Sciences, University of Nottingham).
"The role of poetry in recovery from psychosis" (Dr Mark Pearson, School of Health Sciences, University of Nottingham)
He is currently supervising PhDs on trauma-informed care (Maria CasingCasing), and the mental health service experiences of people with intellectual disabilities (Madiha Majid).
He is an external advisor for PhDs in the Royal College of Music (UK) and Nord University (Norway).
His own PhD looked at how to tailor healthcare technologies to the individual needs of people who had experienced a brain injury.
Stefan was previously a Human-Computer Interaction Research Fellow in the School of Computer Science, where he led a module on inclusive technology design.
Expertise Summary
Systematic reviews
Online study methodology
Lived experience narratives in healthcare
Healthcare technologies
Design research methods
Teaching Summary
Stefan is an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
He regularly teaches on the MA Trauma Studies in the School of Education.
He was the module convenor for G53NMD New Media Design from 2013-2016. G53NMD focused on teaching inclusive design practices to BSc and MSc Computer Science students.
Stefan has supervised five MSc or BSc research projects.
Research Summary
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Recent Publications
HUI, A, RENNICK-EGGLESTONE, S, FRANKLIN, D, WALCOTT, R, LLEWELLYN-BEARDSLEY, J, NG, F, ROE, J, YEO, C, DEAKIN, E, BRYDGES, S, PENAS MORAN, P, MCGRANAHAN, R, POLLOCK, K, THORNICROFT, G and SLADE, M, 2021. Institutional injustice: Implications for system transformation emerging from the mental health recovery narratives of people experiencing marginalisation PLOS One. 16(4), e0250367 YEO C, RENNICK-EGGLESTONE S, ARMSTRONG V, BORG M, CHARLES A, HARE DUKE L, LLEWELLYN-BEARDSLEY J, NG F, POLLOCK K, POMBERTH S, WALCOTT R and SLADE M, 2021. The influence of curator goals on collections of lived experience narratives: Qualitative study Journal of Recovery in Mental Health. 4, 16-28
MCGRANAHAN R, JAKAITE Z, EDWARDS A, RENNICK-EGGLESTONE S, SLADE M and PRIEBE S, 2021. Living with Psychosis without Mental Health Services: A Narrative Interview Study BMJ Open. 11, e045661 RENNICK-EGGLESTONE S and MAWSON S, 2021. Homes of Stroke Survivors Are a Challenging Environment for Rehabilitation Technologies JMIR Rehabilitation and Assistive Technology. 8(2), e12029