Dr Veenu Gupta

Biography	Dr Veenu Gupta is Assistant Professor in Lived Experience Research, in the Department of Psychology within the Institute for Medical Humanities. Veenu has lived experience of psychosis herself and engages in work that integrates her own lived experiences into research to support clinical services to better meet the needs of service users. Veenu completed her BSc in Psychology in 2012 from Lancaster University, and then trained as a Mental Health Nurse and qualified in 2016, from City University of London before completing her MSc In Psychological Research Methods in 2018, University of Leicester. She has worked as a Service user Advisor to the National Clinical Audit of Psychosis from 2018-2024 to drive initiatives in early intervention in psychosis services. She then went on to do her PhD, exploring the identities of those in lived experience roles in mental health research from the University of Liverpool 2019-2023. She is supporting research at ReCoCo as part of the WellSpring Site in Durham's Discovery Research Platform.
Research Interests	Lived experience research. Epistemic Injustice Identity Reflexivity Participatory approaches Supervision Psychosis

Biography

Dr Veenu Gupta is Assistant Professor in Lived Experience Research, in the Department of Psychology within the Institute for Medical Humanities. Veenu has lived experience of psychosis herself and engages in work that integrates her own lived experiences into research to support clinical services to better meet the needs of service users. Veenu completed her BSc in Psychology in 2012 from Lancaster University, and then trained as a Mental Health Nurse and qualified in 2016, from City University of London before completing her MSc In Psychological Research Methods in 2018, University of Leicester. She has worked as a Service user Advisor to the National Clinical Audit of Psychosis from 2018-2024 to drive initiatives in early intervention in psychosis services. She then went on to do her PhD, exploring the identities of those in lived experience roles in mental health research from the University of Liverpool 2019-2023. She is supporting research at ReCoCo as part of the WellSpring Site in Durham's Discovery Research Platform.

Research Interests

Lived experience research.
Epistemic Injustice
Identity
Reflexivity
Participatory approaches
Supervision
Psychosis