Moray Wellbeing Hub
Explore the use of digital tools to support peer researchers and create mental wealth
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Location
Highlands and Islands
Moray Wellbeing Hub (MWH) is a well-established CIC working with communities across Moray, a large rural area. Their initial Ideas Fund project was supporting parents who have lived experience of perinatal and infant mental ill-health. It was a joint project run by three specialist organisations in Moray, including those with lived experience. They built a supportive community and involved previously underrepresented groups, with training provided to peer researchers to identify existing evidence and capture qualitative lived experiences. By hosting wellbeing events and connecting with researchers, the project built a supportive community and equipped them with the skills to embed a long-lasting support network, as well as raising a greater awareness in the community of perinatal mental health.
Challenging self-stigma as non-academics is possible when trust and connection is fostered through flexible funding in research ... we have created space within ourselves and those we offer resource to empower, to be open to being curious and seeing research as something we all own and have rights to deliver through.
The Evidence Building Grant proposal builds on their work to create peer research capacity as a resource to support Moray Wellbeing Hub’s overarching aim of creating mental wealth for their communities. They intend to increase the ambition of their work in this area and also to explore the use of digital tools to support this. They will incubate a cohort of peer researchers who can intersect with a range of other opportunities that Moray Wellbeing Hub is involved in, including their role as lead for one of the UKRI/Young Foundation Community Research Networks .
Find out more about the work of Moray Wellbeing Hub